Way to prevent duplicates in playlists.

[LakeWorthB]

I have big playlists, and would like a built in way to prevent duplicates from occuring in my playlists.  This could be an option to prevent, or select/hide duplicates.

[jemoli]

I have a similar problem, the thing is I have many playlist with many songs, sometimes I like a song but I don't remember if I already have it saved in some playlist, you could let me know hey you already have this song here or there. to avoid adding dupes across playlists.

[BeanerF82]

How do we activate this feature? If it's automatic, it doesn't seem to be working for me as I have tracks with the same title, artist, and album in my playlist.

[Gauzz]

Please make a funktion that shows if a track is already on one of my playlists. 

Like this: "this track is already on your playlist "X"".

That would be great!

[jammer71068]

I would like to request again to implement the ability to see which playlist a song is in, as I have many playlists and do not want duplicates.  I love Spotify and use daily  But it is rather annoying to have to scroll up and down between my playlists to see if a) a song IS in a playlist or b) which one.  I have seen dozens of requests to add this feature and have received a case closed reply. 

Why cannot this feature not be added is my question?

Thanks

Rob

[pawraf71]

Hi,

I'm always using this feature, but very often Im noticing duplicates, espacially if adding entire song list of the given singer, band. CTRL + A, and then move to the given playlist. After that I'm seeing up to four the same songs of the same album.
Could you please check it out and verify?

[user-removed]

Actually the program recognise the song is already added to a playlist. However it never know if the same song name existed in diff. album. So that is the real problem..

[Shunsmuse]

One long version workaround is to export playlists into Excel format. From an excel sheet it’s possible to organize in a variety of preferences. I.e. alphabetical etc. Merging playlist will identify duplications. From there searching the location of the duplicates. The preferred solution would be for Spotify to build an identifier listing the details of duplicates existing in various playlists within the library.
Ideally, this function would be initiated by toggling a switch. There’s probably no need for many people to have this running. It is primarily for people who care to curate their playlists. Also, there are apps available that work with meta-data in the Spotify architecture that will identify beats per minute, key signature, activity level, and more.

[needforname]

@Shunsmuse Thanks for the suggestion about using Excell. I don't have that program and prefer not to install another application just for this use. It's a shame Spotify doesn't listen to their customers. The biggest annoyance for me is when I want to add a track to multiple playstlists. The optimal solution would be to simply allow users to place a checkbox next to all playlists they'd like to add a track to, rather than have to tediously add a track to each and every playlist one at a time. It's very time consuming, and a very easy fix if Spotify would just impelement it. Not to mention the inability to remove a track from a playlist on my phone. These are blatant oversights. It's as if the Spotify team doesn't even use the service themselves, or they would fix these stupid limitations. 

[Sagehorn]

I think you should even get a warning, when artist and title are identical... because of the thousand "versions" of a track... maybe the spotify team should connect identical songs with separate IDs... like musicbrainz does

[Vladimiros92]

besides being able to see if a track is already in your playlist, there should be a mechanism to detect duplicates that are not from the same album (e.g. Anathema's "A Natural Disaster" existing twice: once from thr "Natural Disaster" album and once from a "Best of" collection)