IPhone is duplicating voice memos

I have thousands of very important voice notes on my phone. I'm a comedian and I use the voice memos to record joke ideas as well as record my performances.  Lately ITunes has been duplicating them with every sync. It would literally take me days to go through and sort through all the duplicates at this point and try to delete them manually. It's also filled up my entire phone with memos as well as utilized all my backup space. It's essentially made my IPhone useless. From what I can tell this problem has been going on for more than a year and Apple hasn't fixed it. Is there a solution to this problem? Is it an automated solution that can deal with thousand of voice notes and tens of thousands of duplicates?

Hi,
I found a solution.
Maybe it helps, if anybody has the asme issue.
Download iBrowse (http://www.ibrowseapp.com), and the recordings will be accessible, even those hidden by iTunes.
I could export my recordings with that software.
This is definitely a bug of iTunes or IOS, and if Apple reads this, they might want to fix it.

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