How do I prevent purchase of duplicate songs?

I'm new to iTunes and have purchased mostly singles. There was one time where iTunes
gave me a pop-up saying i already had the selected song in my Library
and asked if I wanted to purchase again. So I know there is SOMETHING
thatiTunes has that scans my previous purchases.
Yesterday I purchased two iTune Essentials albums. There were two songs that were duplicated, but iTunes didn't catch those.
My questions are:
Do I end up paying for those duplicated items (purchases)?
Is there a setting I can select that allows iTunes to find and prevent duplicate purchases?
Thank you for any assistance.
nvs4u

The iTunes store should warn you automatically if you are purchasing duplicated songs, however, I don't think it picks up on it you purchase 2 different albums that happen to contain the same song. Reason being, on that song's track information, I'm willing to bet the album name is different, which may lead iTunes to not realize that the songs are in fact one in the same.
If you purchase by the album, you'll pay full price for each album, even if both albums have 1 or 2 of the same songs. One way to get around this is purchase the albums by song, and just leave out the songs you already have. The only problem with this, is that the song won't appear with both albums in iTunes or on an iPod. (You could get around this with playlists if willing to do so).
Hope this is helpful
CG

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