Mulitple songs

itunes has created mulitple copys of all my songs...anyone know why? how do I fix it? I have my music on external hd "F" the duplicates are all in the same music folder. ex: songs you know by heart has wind song then wind song1 and wind song 2 so there is three copies of that song.
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Choose Edit > Preferences, click Advanced, and then click General.
Does this setting have a checkmark?
"Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library."
If so, then every time you added that song to your library, it made another copy.
To fix it, take a close look at how those duplicates are named. Usually they are in this format
song.mp3
song[1].mp3
song[2].mp3
If so, use Windows explorer and search for files with [1], [2] in the name and delete them.

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