ITunes Duplicate Song Deleting

How do I DELETE DUPLICATES ( EVERY SONG IN LIBRARY IS DUPLICATED somehow ON THE SONG PLAYLIST ) in iTunes WITHOUT DELETING MY ENTIRE 1500+ song library.
When I click "SHOW DUPLICATES" EVERYONE IS!
Itunes 11.1.1.11 on a HP Laptop windows 7 OS

it does not show "delete duplicate items

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I have an iPhone 5 with the latest iOS (I check for updates weekly). I sync the phone to my iMac (2014 model).
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How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
Posts by turingtest2 about different types of duplicates and techniques - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3555601 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/16042406 (Note: The DeDuper script is for Windows).
May 2014 post on iCloud duplicates - https://discussions.apple.com/message/25867873
Show exact duplicates (Mac and Windows) - https://discussions.apple.com/message/16951281
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php (commercial)
iTunes Duplicate Song Manager - http://sourceforge.net/projects/itunesdsm/
http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru_me/
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/tunesweeper/index.php
http://www.araxis.com/find-duplicate-files (commercial, free trial) - finds duplicate files on computer, not specifically iTunes
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Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - Apple Support
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you aren't missing this. Show duplicates is NOT a tool to allow to simply select all and hit deleted. It is showing you the duplicates, one beside the other, to allow you to discriminate two songs having the same name but that may not be duplicate. For exemple, they may be two different version of a same song and that you want to keep them. For this reason, automated process are somehow risky to loose also song that you want to keep.
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Hi, if this is in regards to your library simply open up itunes and do the following steps:
Click File
Scroll down to "show duplicates"
A list will then appear of your duplicate song titles.
Be sure to CAREFULLY review each song to make sure it is a duplicate ( as I have some music that is the same song but live, acoustic etc...)
Proceed to manually delete each song from the list and leave alone any song that you wish to keep.
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