My itunes is showing duplicates of songs when there is no actual double.

Heck it show triple also. Is there an easy way to fix this instead of going through and clicking on every single one ( it would take me weeks lol) I uninstalled and reinsatlled itunes and it still happned. any ideas guys?

Hello JonathanWolf,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2905
Best of luck,
Mario

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Hello JonathanWolf,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2905
Best of luck,
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Tune Core often places the song at multiple music retailers (iTunes, Amazon, etc.) so you should check if the same thing happened at the others.
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