Multiple Copies of Songs on Iphone

I searched the boards and couldn't find a solution. I recently got an Iphone 4S and have several playlists set to automatically sync to my phone. When they sync a copy of the same song that is on multiple playlist is copied there for each playlist that the song is found on. I've tried to remove all playlist then set the automatically sync but it still copies the songs multiple times taking up unnececcary space on my phone. Any tips that or links that can help would be appreciated.

I don't know what happens but it stopped putting multiple copies on the iphone. Yesterday when i expanded the iphone and clicked on music and looked at the songs only one copy of the songs where on there instead of it being 3 or 4.

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Hi, everyone.
I've seen many versions of this question, but mine has some key differences.
The problem is that my iPhone 4S has multiple copies of almost every song that I've selected to copy from iTunes. The easy answer is to delete all the music from the phone and then re-sync from the iTunes library, except that I don't sync, I manually manage, because I have a 9000 song iTunes library. According to iTunes on my laptop, I have 835 songs on my phone, but there are actually over 2000 on the phone due to the duplicates. The fact that the duplicates do not show up in the iTunes library means I also cannot use the "Show Duplicate Items" tool.
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