How do I eliminate duplicated songs?

I recently cleaned out my computer so I transfered my itune songs to an external hard drive and when I transferred the music back to my computer and set up the itunes I know have duplicated songs. How do I eliminate them?

Depending on the amount of music you have, you can just hold control and click the tracks you want to delete and then click Edit > Delete (or press delete/backspace on the keyboard). You can also select a track, hold shift and press the up or down arrow to select multiple grouped tracks.
If there are too many, you can use the iTunes File > Display Exact Duplicates option.
You can also try one of the scripts or suggestions here -> how to delete duplicated songs all at one time?

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    Apple removed that option. You need to wait for them to release an update which returns it(if they do) or delete them manually.
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