Moved music from PC to my new Mac, duplicated al the songs?

I just moved my music (I use iTunes) from my PC to my brand new iMac and all the songs show up twice in iTunes on my Mac. I copied the music folder (which contained three folders - downloads from Amazon, some general mp3's that I have, and, of course, iTunes music) and drag and dropped the file into iTunes on the Mac. These was following some general instructions on the Apple Help on how to do this. How do I get rid of the duplicates? Yes, I know how to get them to show, etc. inside of iTunes, but the create date is all the same. How do I tell if I have the files twice or they just show up listed twice? This is the one bad thing about iTunes - duplicates! I now have thousands of them...

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