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.

[jasdwelle]

This has been requested back in 2008 and is still not implemented.....UNDER CONSTRUCTION? So much for ask and ye shall recieve? Is there too much "devil in the details"? Is this a God forsaken request? 

[SpotifyFixThis]

• Highly support this idea.
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• It would be so simple to add.
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• I don't care too much if the duplicate is a copy of 1 of spotify's copies, because several songs on spotify have many copies. (for example there are many copies of songs on different albums or remasters)
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• But I only care I don't add the EXACT same song ID identification to the same playlist twice. (sometimes I want the slightly different copies on the song on the same playlist) This should be so easy to program it's amazing how old this suggestion is.
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• You can work on detecting harder to spot duplicates... but preventing copies on 1 playlist with the exact same spotify URL ID should be easy peasy.
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• It doesn't even need to be an immediate duplicate search! I would even be happy with a Right Click option that say "FIND recent duplicates", that would search for dupes only on new songs added to my PL since my last dupe search. This doesn't need to be done by the server, all the processing can be done client side.
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• Additionally, if you keep the date of the last duplicate search, you can optimize search times by only searching for tracks added after the last duplicate search.
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• I really don't see why this suggestion is taking so long.
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• Just adding a basic Right Click that searches for dupes shouldn't be so rough.
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• I don't expect miracles, Spotify, just having a simple dupe search when I choose would solve most people's annoyance at this. It doesn't need to be some sort of perfect miracle solution that covers all possible duplicates. Just the exact spotify song ID. And I can do the dupe search with a right click.
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• I really need this to help clean up playlists, it's sad this is suggestion is so old.

[Thecaptain115]

Agreed, there needs to be a way to prevent adding the same song multiple times in a playlist.

[MadMikeDK]

Honestly Spotify, this is one of my biggest problems with Spotify. I keep adding the same (exact) song over and over and over again to my playlists.

How can this take over 6 years to implement?

Allow me to provide the logic for quick implementation:

IF "Exact-SpotifyID-of-song-currently-being-added-to-playlist" ALREADY EXIST in playlist THEN ask if user really wants to add it. ENDIF

Come on, people!

[user-removed]

At this point I am angry. I don't think this will get through, but I find myself powerless otherwise.

Dear Spotify Ltd,

In a lot of ways, you are starting to rule the music-streaming industry. 24 million users, 20 million songs and rising, and more than 6 million paying subscribers. You are not desperate to make everyone here perfectly happy because you know that most of us can not find a comparable service, since the other main streamers, Pandora and iTunes U, are radio-based. We on the forums have been asking for a simple feature option, "Way to prevent Duplicates in playlists", for how long? You would know better than me, but I have heard 6 years thrown around. It appears to me that you put this "under consideration" in 2012, and that was the last official statement on the issue any of us have heard from you on this forum.

If you were a small company, I would call this pathetic. But you aren't a small company. The reason this isn't simply pathetic is because you and I both know that even if every single one of us who have posted on this board got up and left and searched for another servce, it wouldn't even leave a scratch on your company's revenue.

However, as many of us have suggested, the feature we request isn't only tiny and easy to implemnent, it has no effect on those who don't want it. You can simply make it an option in the preferences, or implement it in the way that doesn't get in the way of people adding duplicates if they want to.

So I have the question: Why? The way I see it there are two possibilities. Either one, you put this on your companys "to-do list" at a very low priority, and have just never gotten around to it or two, you have considered it and chosen against this feature pretty much permenently for some reason. This feature is way to small and simple to need any kind of long-term thought or consideration for it, so if you have really considered it so far, my assumption is that this idea is not really "under consideration" but is really "currently not planned to be implemented". 

Either case is not a good thing for a company to do. In the first case you have taken something so tiny and "saved it for later". This is ok to a certain point, but its been years. Do you have any idea how many of us would be releived if you made this simple fix now? And in the second case, this is just as bad if not worse, because you are not being honest or communicating with your community. I am not saying that you absolutely must add this feature, but if you are not going to add it, we, your custemers, deserve to know exactly why you will not add it, when the decision is made (not that I think there is any reason not to add this). To be honest, I already know that once a comparable service is availible I will leave Spotify, because I have been in contact with many, many companies for custemor support and suggestions to their products. Some are bigger than Spotify, and some have been smaller, and by far you have been the worst. You are not contactable by phone, nor do you respond to us adequetly on this forum. I advise you respond to this complaint anyway, since even if it doesn't convince me that you will change, maybe you will save a few other customers minds that are reading this and agreeing.

There are 800 or so employees at Spotify. I assume that at least one of you must be reading this. If you who is reading this cannot answer me why Spotify is seemingly ignoring this issue, please show this to your supervisor. Even if it isn't significant enough to show your supervisor, please respond or at least ask a coworker if they will respond.

Sincerely,

Matt

[alexsagrado]

This is basic. Please!!!

[dtothet]

+1 been asking for a while

[silvinci]

I don't know, wether this came up yet, but for now, there's a workaround.

Create a new playlist folder (Ctrl + Shift + N) and move your playlist inside it. Then click on the folder. It'll show all the tracks of your playlist, but will hide duplicates. However, this only works with tracks that really have the same ID. Different releases of the same track have different IDs, even if the waveform is 100% the same.

[AngelD]

At the very least duplicate songs should be marked with a red dot, sort of like when new added songs get marked with a blue dot. Come on Spotify what's the hold up, anyone there?

[user-removed]

Hopefully you guys can already implement this on the new deskopt and mobile app. I have seen other music apps like Deezer was able to do this on their mobile and web player app (they don't have the desktop client app yet) so Spotify would be able to do it as well!