Too many files in Music and ITunes folders

I'm backing up my computer and found that the Music folder had 80gb of music. Theres my space issue I've been trying to solve.
In our home we have two iPod Touches and two iPhones. We have three different libraries and two different apple accounts.
It has a copy of the music in all the different libraries along with the original in the Music folder.
I need help simplifying my folders. Does it have to copy each file to each library? What files can I delete without causing issues? The iTunes library ones?
And once these folders are trimmed down, how can I prevent this from happening again?

I'm not having an issue sharing the music, that's already set up. The problem is that everyone's own pod/phone has it's own folder with the music files in it that itunes saves to when we add songs. At some point I must have checked it to "organize" albeit make lots of copies of the same files.
For instance, I'll have an album by Tom Petty.
That file will be in my Public/Music folder, as well as Public/Music/Itunes Library 1, 2, and 3. Cause my iphone/ipod has it's own sync/set up, as do the others in the family.
I want to delete this excess, but all of the files in my itunes library are pointing to those specific libraries (within the public music folder), so if I went in and deleted, it looks like I'll bjork my library.
But I don't want to have the Tom Petty albums saved four times on my pc. I want to keep our own libraries, I'm not interested in having all the Camp Rock soundtracks on my phone, but I don't want the music saved so many times.
How would I do this? And begin to remove all these files to a more reasonable folder size?

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