Is there a way to "purge" muliple copies of the same song?

Hi, I lost my iTunes library after connecting my iPhone (don't know how or why or even if that was the cause). The library had around 20 songs total in it after disconnecting the iPhone - down from several thousand. I did have a few older copies of the Library in different places which were not identical so I imported each of them which resulted in many duplicates or triplicates. I thought I could easily purge - i.e. delete all but the most recent copy but I have not been able to find a way to do this. It would take forever to delete them one at a time. Can anyone please tell me how to accomplish this? Thanks - Dave

Apple's official advice is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created.  If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and copes sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
tt2

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