What is the easiest and faster way to organize my itunes library

I've been building my itunes library for many years and for many reasons this library has become a complete chaos. I have around 50,000 songs, which 10,000 of those I can't locate the file in my hard drive maybe for the following reasons:
- the incomplete transfer of data from my old imac to the new one (besides loosing music files, I lost a ton of pictures and docs)
- the internal hard drive got full and had to delete all the storaged data
- change of location for my backup files. Locations were first the internal hard drive and after that the external 3T hard drive
- unknown computer behavoir. The computer changed the location within the external hard drive
Also, duplicate files that need to be deleted, those are around 2,000 more and less
I thought about just coping all my media files to an external hard drive, clean my itunes account of all those files down to cero and reload the media files into my account making sure all those files are located and stay in only one place.
All of this is time consuming which i don't have and I would like to see if there's a better wayt to organize it either using an external software or any other way I'm nopt aware of.
Any ideas?.......

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