I recently switched to a new PC and when I transferred the songs, I got a lot of duplicates (~4000). I'm really tired to clicking on the duplicates now and was wondering if there was a faster/easier way to do this?

Hi
Like the question said,
I really don't want to click on 4000 songs to delete...
I tried, but now my arm is just sore.
Is there an easier/faster way to do this?
Thanks!

I have a script called DeDuper for clearing duplicates from the iTunes library. See this thread for background.
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