How can i get rid of a lot of duplicate songs?

Hi,
after the transfer of an itunes librairy on my new imac, my teenaged boy have done the same with his own itunes librairy, but there are a lot of duplicate (more than a thousand). I want to sent them to the trash, but manually it's a tiring and boring job, automator doesn't have this kind of command, and i'm not educated in using applescript.
I need HELP for this purpose;
A lot of thank for the one(s) who will be able to help me
Sincerely yours
Pierre MINTZ

Well, this is probably not free but the utility called "Spring cleaning" has a module which automatically deletes duplicate files ... assuming they have the same name ?
Maybe this helps ?

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