Tool to clean out iTunes Match duplicates

I have ~3000 songs in my library and all of these songs have been imported into iTunes from a CD.
Some albums have multiple disks and after importing them, iTunes Match thinks that the album "Now 80: ... Disk 1" and Now 80: ... Disk 2" are two different albums. It has joined the those two albums into one album called "Now 80" but it has kept the "Now 80: ... Disk 1" and Now 80: ... Disk 2" albums as well. Unfortunatley, this has happened to quite a few albums.
My question is this: does you know a way or a tool that can clean up this problem?
Thank you.

Sounds like you may need to do some editing of the metadata. For example, is the "album" tag the same for both discs, or is it different? Do you have any data entered in the "sort album" field?

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