ITunes syncing all music as duplicates

I have recently had to transfer my music library from one laptop to another and this went smoothly. After everything was transfered I went through my iTunes and deleted any duplicates there may be and added all album art that went missing over the transfer, well when I decided to sync my iPad to my new laptop iTunes went through and made every song, some 2000 or so, a duplicate so when I view the song list there are two of every song I have. I thought there was a problem with my iTunes so I went through it, but everything on there is single copy and perfectly fine it is only through the sync that I have gained doubles of everything. Is there anyone that's having the same kind of problem and can help?

I have a completely untested & unconfirmed hypothesis that "something" changed in the last iOS update with the way iTunes keeps track of which items are on the device. My guess is that it has something to do with being able to identify the same track whether on the device, in your library or in the cloud. Whatever the cause I found I needed to manually delete a bunch of albums on my iPad that were showing as dupes or without artwork which didn't get resolved by syncing. Since I deleted them and resynced it has all been fine.
Add the above to the fact that you have transferred the library in a way which duplicated it and then manually deduped and the chances are that iTunes isn't housekeeping the media properly.
Try deleting all the music from the device, by syncing with a single empty playlist for example, to see if you can clean out the media. Then add back what you want.
If all else fails backup and then restore the device.
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