ITunes duplicates random songs when importing

I recently just reorganized my music library to get rid of some of the duplicate songs, but when I deleted, then reimported my songs, itunes randomly duplicated probably about 1k songs, and I don't know why. Is there a way to prevent Itunes from doing that or do I just have to go through and manually take them out?

If you are in a country where re-downloading is possible (iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match Availability by Country - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5085), delete the track (and the original file) and download again (Downloading [using iOS or computer] past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519). See tips on downloading in https://discussions.apple.com/message/19097773, especially unchecking the "Allow Simultaneous Downloads" box in the downloads tab of iTunes.
Select the store on the left side of iTunes.
Click on Purchased on the right side under Quick Links.
You can re-download your available previous purchases.
If you cannot download a second time, contact iTunes Store support staff through the report a problem links in your account history or,
iTunes Customer Service Contact - http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact.html > Get iTunes support via Express Lane > iTunes > iTunes Store
Incomplete playback seems to be reported several times a day here. I don't recall this happening before iTunes 10. I would suggest posting feedback to Apple so they aware of an issue.
iTunes application feedback - http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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Hi, before this last version of itunes (8.0.2) when i tried to add new songs and if this songs where already in my playlist appeared an box asking what i wanted to do "omit the songs that is already in my play list or duplicate". Now with this version doesn't ask anything, just add more duplicated songs!! Thats very bad, cause i put the new songs i have on a folder than, just import all the new folder so the new songs can appear on my playlist.
Does anyone knows why this version doesn't show this message to omit the repeated songs when importing new? Is something that i have to do to habilitate this ?
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I was just about to ask the same question, I have it set to organize and make a copy to library, which i understand, that just stores the song in an itunes folder, and changes the track names but why does it make 2, sometimes 3 of the same track in the same folder? These are labeled the same in the folder with a 1 or 2 after them.
It makes copies of some songs but not all. The CD I just dragged and dropped, disc one of the new Big Star set, it did it with every song but track 1.
This has been happening as long as I can remember and seems to happen in surges. Very annoying to check every other song and delete them. Any fixes?
Even when doing one album this is time consuming and untrustworthy, but inserting a large collection, no matter if you define that as 100 or 100,000 albums would be impossible to manage this.
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ITunes for Windows freezes when importing a library. I have a large but not huge library of mostly iTunes purchased music on two authorized computers and would like to sync the files, export the library as a playlist, and import it on the other computer.

I am running iTunes for Windows 10.2.2 on Windows 7 Home. I have my iTunes library on both this computer and another authorized machine running Windows 7 Professional. I have a large but not enormous library, as I'm one of those people who doesn't pirate, use torrents, borrow from a dozen friends, or whatever other shades of gray you might imagine. It's mostly iTunes purchases with my old CD collection imported. I have started using the following technique to sync my libraries between my two authorized computers, an ability which you can probably all agree should one day be added to iTunes -- that would be different from Home Sharing, because the music would be stored locally and thus available on the road. With the added benefit of the entire library being backed up on the other machine in real-time. Anyway, when I switch from my desktop to laptop and vice versa, I use the following technique:
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Right-click "Library.xml" where it's been saved, and open another file that has two lines in it: The root path of the iTunes library on one machine and the root path of the iTunes library on the other machine.
Do a find/replace all in Notepad to make the library XML file point to where the files will be saved on the "Inactive" machine.
Run Microsoft SyncToy to synchronize the files between both music libraries; the most recent files win. This avoids copying the entire multi-gigabyte library over the network.
Open iTunes on the "Inactive" machine.
Go to Music, Select All, Delete. Keep files.
Do the same for Movies, Music Videos.
Go down to Playlists, select the top one, hold down the delete button until they're all gone.
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The "Inactive" computer is now the "Active" computer. I can now play my library, it has all my playlists and metadata from the other machine.
Delete all the duplicate playlists named "Music," "Genius," "Purchased," and "iTunes DJ."
Well, I just upgraded to iTunes 10.2.2 a few days ago and tried to do this again like I've done it dozens of times before. Now, iTunes just goes unresponsive after the library import. It got through the "Importing library" bar to the long wait and stopped. I can still multiprocess and use other programs, but iTunes is hovering back there not responding to clicks. Task Manager doesn't seem to think iTunes is using my CPU, and I don't see my hard drive rattling. Any thoughts on why iTunes might hang up when importing a large library?
... Also, please help lobby Apple to come up with a network sync tool built into iTunes for a user with multiple authorized computers. Something different than Home Sharing so I can pull my laptop off the network and still have the synced library with me. And all my metadata changes will sync. The technique I use seems a little kludgey, don't you think?

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