iTunes Duplicate Tracks

Okay, my wonderful iTunes has decided that I should have multiple copies of many of my tracks. I found many wonderful programs to scan for and remove said copies in a clean efficient manner. And the developers of the programs that I have found would like me to pay them a wonderful $35 for a program I will most likely fire up once a year. Not worth the money in my opinion.

Short of going through all of my songs (and there are many) individually, is there any free program or efficient manner by which I can remove all the duplicate and dead songs?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Rychord

If it isn't an overwhelming number of tracks, there's a show duplicates option in the file menu. This will give you all tracks that have the same name and artist, and each copy of said track will be presented to you. But, as I've said this will only be useful if there aren't too many duplicates.

More than 15k songs, which means literally hundreds of duplicates :S

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

I use a program called Reasonable Noclone to do that sort of stuff. There is a free version you can try, although the lovely Internet has found me a free version of the Enterprise edition

That solves a completely different problem I was having, but what the programs I found do is actually go in and modify your iTunes library. As far as I now there is only 1 copy of each song on the hard disk, but because of iTunes errors it thinks there are multiple.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hmmm...I could merge my current library with my slightly outdated backup one, then use Zerg's suggestion and reimport it. That would be perfect. I'll try that.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.