How to delete duplicate music in itunes

I have been downloading a lot of my old CD's and have found I have a lot of duplicate songs from a variety of my album sets...how can I delete them so I only have one of each one?
thanks!
Jan

Dupin may be what you need. If you have the same song as part of different albums then, in my opinion, these aren't really duplicates. Personally I wouldn't throw away some of the tracks on the Beatles "White Album" because I also have them on the "Blue Album".
For some more thoughts, including tips on how to manually delete duplicates if you have the patience, see this post. It's written from a PC perspective so you may need to use Option or Cmd instead of Shift or Ctrl.
tt2

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