If it was me, I would just remove the entire list of songs and do a full PC search again.

theres lots of ways to do it
get some kind of file explorer that does dupes
like beyond compare or some such thing
or what's that other one? tree explorer or something?

or enqueue them all into winamp
organise by artist or filename or somthing
and just go through them and stop when you spot duplicates.

Wow, that's a lot of copies of Bear Force 1

there is just tooo many to manually go through... there is 45000 tracks.. itunes separates all teh dupes but you need to go through them... it sucks.. found 1 program which will do it but it will cost me 39 buks and it will remove 12000 dupes (it thinks i ran the simulate because i couldnt run the real thing)

called tidysongs

Wow, that's a lot of copies of Bear Force 1

Hahahaha. Get on it.

there is just tooo many to manually go through... there is 45000 tracks

Im sorry, but why would you need 45000 songs?

You could listen to 12 tracks a day for the 10 years, without repeating a single one.

Even once you de-duplicate you would have 33000, thats 9 tracks a day for 10 years.

why the 9 tracks a day limit?

it wasnt a limit, it was 33000/3560 days.

or 90 tracks a day for a year.

My point is why would you need that much music? would someone seriously need to listen to 90 DIFFERENT songs every day for a year.

Or more importantly, it's a collection built up over time. It's not like you decide one day "I need 45000 songs". You buy music, and you don't get rid of it, so it builds up.

i would just get me some active perl and write a simple script to clean up your mp3 directory