How do I get rid of multiple songs on my phone?

Hi,
I'm getting a bit feed up with my music library on my phone.
There are quite a few "double ups" of tracks and often the extra track has artwork from a completely different album! ***!
When I go to iTunes I can't see any double ups.
I tried to delete all music of my phone in general settings/usage/music and re sync but they all came back.
I also tried to remove all tracks from my phone using iTunes in the "on this iphone" category but I couldn't delete any tracks.
I also used the funbox program to go into my iPhones "raw data" where I deleted all music. As soon as I synced the double ups returned. (Although they are know showing with a cloud and downwards arrow on them).
I'm running iTunes on a PC.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Remove the songs from the iTunes library itself. It's inevitable that you must spend time to find the duplicates and delete them from the iTunes library itself.

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I started this thread because I know I not the only person who has this problem.
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Thank you,
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