Large Collection, Re-Adding Music Folder . . . Best Practice?

My wife and I have a very large collection of music that we have been trying to incorporate into a single library for our laptops to use. I think I have it mostly figured out for sharing a library (found an article about using synctoy in Windows to essentially mirror the libraries from a shared network drive while using the same physical copy of music files on a network drive. This seems to be working so far, but...
In the process I have been moving from having a mirrored copy of music on each laptop (via an external USB drive on each laptop) to consolidating that into one music folder on the networked drive. I've got it just about complete but I ran an xcopy script again to ensure all music files from those drives really made it in entirety to the networked drive AFTER adding folder to library in iTunes. Now of course iTunes doesn't know those new files are there and they are all over the place, not in just one directory.
Now the question, if I select add folder to library in iTunes again selecting the entire music folder so it will pick up those new files, will it create duplicate entries in iTunes? Or should this work ok?
Is there an easier way to do this?

I think it will not add duplicates. It might if you also tell iTunes to add music to the iTunes library as well. Here is my tip and what I do.
I make a music library folder called "Music Library", in there I store my music via artists (each in their own folder), and then albums in sub folders. I name the folders exactly as they are embedded in the mp3. I know this is not necessary but that's just me. For my compilation music I have a folders called compilations and again the albums are stored in sub folders named after the album.
I also name every file with the track, artist and title (I use mp3Tag for this) so every track on my system looks something like this
"01 The Who - I'm A Man.mp3"
Now I use iTunes to get encode and get track info but that's it, I then do the renaming manually.
Now that I have all this done and backed up on DVD's I can move, reload etc etc when I want to. I have it all on external hard drives as well.
So finally I ensure that my iTunes default library folder is always empty, that way whenever I delete all or part of "My" library iTunes does not ask me if I want to delete them from the hard drive.
Manually adding the top level folder to iTunes does not duplicate anything. I regularly delete my library and reinstall it. This does not take long, I also save playlists and import them back as well.
Letting iTunes organise your music is OK for some but not me, for one thing it does not add the artist to the actual filename, crazy if you ask me, specially if you want to do other things with the files. Of course Apple does not want you to do other things with your music.
If you look on this forum at posts relating to iTunes has deleted my music, or all my files are missing or iTunes can't find my music, I bet that the people all let iTunes manage their music library and turn on the sync function. I used to have some of these issues but not anymore. I deleted files from my hard drive twice by accident, and I'm an experienced computer user. Now I'm 100% trouble free thanks to doing things manually and making my own music folder.
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