ITunes duplicates

I have multiple duplicates in my iTunes library. Is there a way to delete all the duplicates at once, and why did I get all the duplicates in the first place

Yes, I need to know, too. I have uninstalled iTunes 2x and installed 3x (along w/quicktime, etc.) and still the duplicates are there. With my dupes, one copy says "the original could not be found" and there's an mark in the first column beside the dead copy. It's driving me nuts because I have huge number of tunes and don't have a week to delete every. single. dupe. If I could light up all the marks in the first column and select/delete them that would be ideal.
Is it because I used Windoze Media Player? And do I have to delete the library from that program? Boy, what a PITA this is becoming...

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Highlight a track, then press command+R to see to which file it points. Are they all the same file?
Look at the "kind" column. Are they all the same format? If you import a CD as one format, then convert it to another it will result in two copies of the same track with each format.

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If you are on Version 11.0.1 rather than 11 Apple put it back in
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Has anyone ever heard of this issue?
It started when I clicked on my iTunes, got this weird message that something was up with that and I now have to go to iTunes duplicate...I don't know what I'm doing, so I clicked okay. It was blank, no songs that I had downloaded. Then heard my hard drive making the weird whirring noises. After I did the force shut down...tried to click on iTunes again, it came up, again blank, no songs, and then this really weird clear dark blind started coming down, top to bottom, on my monitor, like pulling the shades in a window but you could see through it, and then this other weird message came up saying that iTunes - sorry.
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Hello People,
I´m wondering if anybody knows a better way to make two user share the same itunes library without duplicate it... ´couse My Wife and I become to a point where we decided to have diferent account session... but the topic about the shared content it´s drive me crazy! I Got a MacBook, with very limited H.D space...
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I have over 10K worth of iTunes duplicates!

Okay, folks, this is pretty ridiculous.
Using the latest iTunes I imported my new, cleaned up library on my new computer into it and now I have over 10K worth of duplicates -- true duplicates, not duplicate files, not duplicate songs in other albums, just duplicated songs that iTunes somehow creates (but Media Monkey handles correctly). Frankly, I'd dump iTunes in a hot NY minute if I didn't need it to sync to my phones and iPads, but since I do I need to figure out how to get it to work right.
I've deleted all the songs and tried relinking them without success. My next bet is to try letting iTunes copy them over to the library and manage the music itself (which I'd rather not do but will if anyone thinks it will solve the problem). This is pretty obviously a bug but one I suspect is not unique -- how are folks handling this?

Hi Mike.
The key word here may be "imported". If you move the library between computers properly then everything should be in place when you open iTunes with no need to import anything. Depending on what has been done it may be easier to move over the library again in a way that doesn't create issues. See this migrate iTunes library post for more details and strategies for when the library isn't in the usual layout. Otherwise read on...
Apple's official advice on duplicates 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. (What you're calling real duplicates and I call logical duplicates.)
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 should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
tt2

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Hello all!
I'm having some problems with iTunes for a while now. I'd like to use the feature that all my imported songs are automatically positioned in the iTunes folder i've specified and that iTunes then renames those files and neatly puts them in folders. This seems to work just fine.
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Simoultaneously I've noticed that from some albums that are still intact on my iPod (I sync manually...) suddenly some songs seem to dissapear! For example on some albums I'd suddenly miss song 3, 6, 7, 9 and 11 out of 13.
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Rule 2. Don't ignore Rule 1.
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tt2

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Dragging over the old files if they are outside the designated iTunes Media folder is usually seen as a request to make local copies inside the iTunes Media folder.
Make sure you have updated to iTunes 11.0.1 (or later).
Enable the menu bar with ctrl-b if needed
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Smart Playlists allow you to add tracks from the library to the playlists, according to rules. If the track is not in the library, Smart Playlists will not do anything with it. They do not help iTunes to notice that new files have been added to folders.
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