Will iTunes select all exact duplicate songs and delete each duplicate?

I have about 20K exact duplicates and would like to have iTunes select and remove one dulicalte of each song to avoid manually selecting ever other song and removing. Possible?

Itunes will not do that. You can check third party utilties such as Dupin (Duplin?). I would not trust any utilty to automatically delete duplicates. There's a few tracks I have on albums where they are given the identical name but are not identical. A tool would not tell that.
iTunes will find duplicates, but then it's up to you to decide if they truly are. Be careful. Occasionally an item somehow gets listed twice and if you delete the "duplicate" plus file it deletes the orginal too. I always hand sort duplicates.

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yea... i faced this problem many a time... have run apple sceipts to delete these songs....
you download these scripts from the link below.... jus follow thw instructions... and you are free from duplicates
http://dougscripts.com/apps/dupinapp.php
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