I borrowed a hard drive from a friend that contains many thousands of songs. Somehow when tranferring these to iTunes I managed to get several copies of each song. How can i do a bulk delete of all the copies leaving just one version of each song?

I need help please. I borrowed a hard drive from a friend which contains many thousands of songs. When adding them to my iTunes library I somehow managed to make multiple copies of each song. Is there a way to do a bulk delete of all the duplicates? If I have to go one by one it will take a lifetime.

I have the same problem. I keep backups on a home server and this is where my library pointed to. I changed it to the local drive and now I have two copies in the library. I need to either bulk delete or clear the library (without deleting the files) and then rebuild. How do I do either of these things?

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