topic Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs in Desktop (Windows)

No more warning when adding duplicate songs

Vossy1995 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:11:33 GMT

I used to get a warning when adding duplicate songs. This is no longer displayed in the Windows app. Unfortunately, I can't find a setting to reactivate this.
Is this a bug or Works as Designed?

Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs

Maria — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:41:47 GMT

Hey @Vossy1995,

Thanks for posting on the Community!

Hope you don't mind us moving your post, as it fits better here. A popup message that the song already is in the playlist should appear if you're using the desktop.

Just to check, does clearing stored cache make any difference? Once it's done, try signing out from the app and back in again. Completing these actions should resync your account info.

Another option is to try a clean reinstall, as this will clear cache too, as well as make sure that you're running the latest version.

If that doesn't do the trick, can you let us know the model and operating system version of your device, along with the Spotify version?

Let us know how you get on.

Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs

Vossy1995 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:29:34 GMT

Hi Maria, I have uninstalled the app and also deleted the registration. The message only appears when I go to the search and click on "Add to playlist". However, if I use the "Find more" function directly in the playlist, the message does not appear.

Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs

Joan — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 11:50:32 GMT

Hi there @Vossy1995,

Thanks for the reply. Is this only on the desktop app? Is this with all playlists? If you haven't already, try using the webplayer on the same device and see if that works.

Let us know how it goes.

Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs

Vossy1995 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:59:09 GMT

Hello Joan,
No, also in the web player. The function is not available in the Andorid app and therefore cannot be tested.
Yes, it is the case for all playlists.

It's about the function directly in the playlist.

Go to a playlist > click on "Find more" at the bottom right > now enter an existing song in the search field = no message.

Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs

Yordan — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:09:50 GMT

Thanks for the additional info @Vossy1995!

Our tech folks will look further into this. In the meantime, make sure you're always running the latest version of Spotify so you don't miss out on any updates.

The Community's always here if there's anything else we can assist with.

Cheers 🙂

Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs

Vossy1995 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:29:09 GMT

Thank you. If you need any more feedback, please let me know. Products can always get better 🙂

Skip duplicate song option gone when merging playlists and albums

elisamr — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:51:32 GMT

My Question or Issue

I have seen similar topics but I have not found an answer yet. For the past months (maybe even longer) I no longer get the notification to skip the duplicate songs when adding an album or a playlist to another playlist. And I can't find another option to quickly screen or remove duplicates which is very annoying as I often used to make new playlist by merging albums and different playlist. I know there are third party apps but it is ridiculous that this used to be a feature and is now removed for no good reason. I used this a lot and it has almost made this app unusable for me (first world problems, i know). I only use Spotify on my phone (samsung, android 14 and previously on a samsung android 11). It happened on my previous phone as well. This is pretty much the only device I really use, so only making playlist on desktop is not a solution. I'm currently on Spotify version 9.0.86.1358. At this point I am only using Spotify as I'm on family plan and don't have to pay. I'm really hoping there is a solution or it will get fixed soon and I was wondering if Spotify is planning to do something about it in the next update

Plan

Family plan premium

Country

Netherlands

Device

Samsung s25

Operating System

Android 14

Re: Skip duplicate song option gone when merging playlists and albums

MusicWalrus — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:01:14 GMT

Ditto. Hasn't worked for months. I wouldn't mind quite so much if Spotify didn't deliberately hide page contents from browsers' page-search features. The only way to see if a song is in your playlist several times is to search "by hand" because Spotify also makes it impossible to select the text of playlists in the webapp and copy them so they can be pasted elsewhere to be searched. Spotify seems determined to make the user experience difficult.

Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs

relacuna — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:21:51 GMT

I am also having this issue! I've been using Apple Music for years, and have found Spotify to have more of what I search for so I'm wanting to switch over. I added the EXACT SAME song, from the exact same album twice, and still haven't gotten a pop-up. Doing this manually for all of my transferred playlists would waste SO much time... I can't believe this isn't standard.

Re: No more warning when adding duplicate songs

maxidge — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:06:37 GMT

This is still a problem for me on the web player, desktop, AND Android app. When adding, I used to get a warning if that a song is already in the playlist (and an option to skip the duplicate song/s).

Its quite frustrating, especially when coupled with the other issue of having songs in your playlist that aren't reflected on the artist's page. I go to an album, see a song I know, and I'm surprised to see I don't have it added. I then add the song to my playlist, and later find that it was already in the playlist under a seperate identical album that I can only access by playing the song and clicking the album from the player! Its a hard issue to describe, but hopefully you get the gist.