topic Re: Duplicate tracks in library in Desktop (Windows)

Duplicate tracks in library

Bromista — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:40:12 GMT

Hey, I have an odd issue. In my library, some of the tracks are duplicated. However, one can see from this picture that both versions of each track are present locally. When I right-click and tell it to show the file in windows explorer, it opens to the same file for both versions of a track.

Is there any way to get Spotify to realize that these are, in fact, the same tracks? It really should already know that, considering that each version is linked to the same local file.

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

Peter__ — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:48:29 GMT

Hey! Welcome to the community 🙂

That is definitely a strange one!

Do you have more than 1 source for local files selected in Edit > Preferences > Local Files which might be causing them to be imported twice?

Peter

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

Bromista — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:09:43 GMT

Nope. The only source is iTunes.

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

Peter__ — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:30:08 GMT

@Bromista wrote:

Nope. The only source is iTunes.

If you right click on the duplicate tracks in Spotify, and select "Open Containing Folder" are there two copies of each track in that folder?

Peter

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

Bromista — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:09:12 GMT

There is only one file for each song in the folder.

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

MichaelJerzak — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:10:58 GMT

Do these duplicate songs play? Or fail to play?

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

Bromista — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:06:51 GMT

I believe that both versions played.

The duplicates have now disappeared, though. No idea what fixed it.

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

MichaelJerzak — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:08:07 GMT

Oh, well that's great news!

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

user-removed — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 05:04:36 GMT

Peter, I am having the same problem. All of the sudden ALL of my library has dupes and when I go the the folder containing the first one it goes to the track in the "replay" program file and there is only one. When I clicked on the second one it just takes me to "Laptop"-the main file under "user". When I try to play the second one(s) from the library they do not play. Do you know how to fix? I did the recent update after I found the issue hoping it would fix it, but it didn't.

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

Rollo_ — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 05:16:42 GMT

Are you using Network Magic from Cisco?

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

user-removed — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 05:19:48 GMT

Thanks for the response, No I am not. I ended up searching the community and found the answer. I had both WMP and Windows Music Library boxes ticked in the "Preferences" tab. I unchecked the WMP and it solved the problem. Thanks again!

Re: Duplicate tracks in library

Rollo_ — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:58:13 GMT

Wow, I'd not even thought of that, but the Network Magic issue is similar. It will sometimes show two copies of shared folders in Windows Explorer. Glad you got it straightened out.