Itunes, duplicates, and symlinks?

Hello,
I have a rather large iTunes collection and am dealing with more of an annoyance than anything else. I was wondering if there was a fix I wasn't aware of. Let me set the scenario:
I have every Album by "Band A", including their greatest hits, which contains an unreleased track. Now, several of the tunes on the greatest hits are also on their studio albums. I now have a lot of duplicates. I don't want to have incomplete albums, but I would rather not have duplicates as well.
Does iTunes handle anything like symlinks? I would love to be able to have each duplicate reference the same track on a different album. Instead of maintaining duplicate copies, a symlink-style file would be ideal. That way, I can have 10 albums that may contain the same track, but 9 of those 10 are symlink
Is this possible?

Does iTunes handle anything like symlinks?
No. Usually it ignores them. Other times it doesn't find the right link

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