How do I get rid of the duplicate songs without getting rid of the mp3 version of the song?

I have a library of CDs in several years back I downloaded them into my hard drive on another computer into Windows media player. For whatever reason Windows media player continued to duplicate songs and there's a great deal of space being taken up on my hard drive by songs that I want to identify as duplicated and remove while at the same time keeping at least one copy in MP3 format. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

First see this thread on getting Windows Media Player to play nicely with iTunes.
Next use iTunes Folder Watch to add in any disconnected media files that are still in your media folders.
Now use my script DeDuper to remove all but one copy of each duplicated file.
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