How to import from CDs without duplicating...

Hi all -
Finally have the time to upload "complete" CDs of music - holdover from back in the day when my hard drive wasn't big enough.
What's the best way to do this so I don't duplicate? SKIP duplicate songs? I thought that's what I did but still ended up with some duplicates. Is iTunes Match being turned on to blame?
I'm sure this has been covered before but before I spend hours doing it.
(ie say back in 2003, I imported 4 of 10 songs from Cd "A". Load CD "A" in 2015 and say skip duplicates? Or does it import and replace?). Whatever I started doing - still ended up getting duplicate songs....
thanks.

I have never done this. Does it offer to skip duplicates? If it doesn't then you may have to select with the checkmarks which ones it imports. If you don't it likely won't overwrite but would create a duplicate.

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