My iTunes has songs in duplicates that are not actually duplicates.

How do I get it to stop showing those songs?

Hi,
Would you please expand on your problem. Duplicate usual refers to the exact same track - same artist / same song name although live versions would be shown as duplicate with studio version. I usually have to add "live" to track title.
Jim

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