Some of my songs cannot play. while some are duplicated

some of my songs cannot play. while some are duplicated

In iTunes or on your device?
If the songs that won't play are missing and show up with an exlamation mark then...
This happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes
.If they are there, but just won't play then it could be a permissions issue or file corruption.
Once you've fixed any broken links I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
If the problems are on the device, back it up, then restore it.
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