ITunes duplicates song titles

Hello,
I have an iPhone 5 with the latest iOS (I check for updates weekly). I sync the phone to my iMac (2014 model).
What I notice is that for several albums, the songs are listed twice. But for many of the duplicates, the title of the song is not the actual track it should go with. These are all from albums I've purchased from the iTunes store, or uploaded from my CD library.
Does anyone know how to correct this? Syncing in iTunes doesn't seem to rectify the problem.
Thanks

Bill:
There is a wonderful AppleScript: Delete iTunes Dupes.
This script will examine your iTunes Library for duplicates based on one or more vectors that you select (you'll get a dialogue box with a list, you command+click to select multiple categories). This way, if you have a track with the same name, from the same artist, but from different albums, that track will not come up as a duplicate. If you import CDs at a high bitrate or in an uncompressed format, then re-encode for different uses, you can select bitrate and kind as additional vectors for distinguishing what is and what is not a duplicate.
The script will create a playlist called "Dupes" and will put both copies of the track into it, and you can command+click to select which tracks you want to delete. To remove them from the Library as well, hold down the option key when deleting. The script itself takes some time to complete - you'll get a spinning b&w beachball until it's done (but that won't interfere with iTunes loperations).
Hope this helps.
Lita

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