Why are there 2 versions of same song in Itunes folder

Hi,
Itunes is not showing double songs in the player, but when I go to the folder where the .m4a files are located there is both a "song.m4a" and a "[00g.....]song.m4a". Some folders have this and some don't. Why? Also, some folders have "AlbumArt_{2DE.....}_Large.jpg", "AlbumArt_{2DE....}_Small.jpg", and "AlbumArtSmall.jpg".
All these duplicate files take up a lot of space. What are they for?
Thanks.

Depending on the way you add music to iTunes and the setting of "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" it is possible for it to create duplicates of files you have imported on a previous occasion. You can clear these type of duplicates up with a script I wrote recently. See this thread for more info.
The album art images you refer to are are created by Windows Media Player. Generally they are not a problem, but if your files get rearranged because you edit the tag data then iTunes won't move the artwork when it moves the files which can leave orphaned artwork hanging around in otherwise empty folders. I have a script here which can clean up orphaned art.
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