Hide unchecked songs in Library

I have substantially more disk space on my laptop than I have on my iPod 30GB. I transferred my entire collection, and now I have a lot of duplicates. I have manually unchecked the songs after using Show Duplicate Songs method.
I have synched my iPod now, and as desired there was a reduction in the number of songs. However, the number of songs in my Library and on the iPod no longer match. I would prefer not to delete the duplicate songs from my library.
Is there a method to hide the unchecked songs in the Library?
Dell Laptop Windows XP Pro

... sort of ...
try creating a smart playlist that displays only checked songs in your library.
this rule is fairly easy:
Size is greater than 0 MB
and make sure to check "Match only checked songs".
then you can navigate about in the smart playlist rather than the main library window.
How to create a Smart Playlist with iTunes
love, b

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Click Hide Song(s), it is what you wanted to do...
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Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
iTunes match is intended for your Music library.
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Any help appreciated. If I uncheck in each playlist
it doesn't update the ipod to which that playlist is
desired. Only if I uncheck in the library! which then
unchecks each playlist, which is a frustration if you
want a track in one playlist but not another as it
Okay. If you don't want a song in a playlist, right click and choose 'clear' and the song will be gone from the playlist. It will NOT be removed from other playlists OR your library.
appears to uncheck all playlists where that song
exists. I have the prefs set to only update checked
songs for each ipod. I need to do this as we have one
pc but two ipods, some tracks are shared on playlists
others are not...it looks like only unchecking in
library works, but then it unchecks the track in all
playlists...Can I uncheck and update playlists that
are created for each ipod? Hope this makes sense
(Jake aged 9)
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