How to delete duplicate music files

I just reloaded iTunes back on to my computer, and it duplicated all of my music. I have 2 or 3 copies of each song, but then a lot of those songs are missing files. So that gives me more than 4000 songs with doubles.
I was wondering if anybody knew how to fix this. I know i can go through and delete each one individually, but i would rather not take a couple of hours and do that.
So if anybody has any suggestions it would be much appreciated

i tried to download that script but it has a trojan in it.
the easiest way i found was to delete the itunes folder from my music (backup all podcasts and games etc first of course,
this will delete the library XML files.
then restart your pc and reopen itunes and copy your my music folder back in, this will reproccess everything from scratch minus duplicates.
then put your podcasts etc back in and restart itunes again.
Done.
This took about ten mins with 3000+ songs and a couple of hundred podcasts and videos.
may want to do it overnight if you have a bigger library.
TM

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