[All Platforms] Consolidate duplicates

[Kerumen]

It would be nice if Spotify can recognize identical songs to avoid duplicates in your Liked songs and playlists.

This is pretty common for songs released first as a single then within an album.

For example, if you like the single one, the UI will not show the song as liked when you browse the album. And if you like the song in the album, you'll end up with a duplicated version in your library.

This also happens a lot for songs that you listen in Daily Mix or Discover weekly. If it's not the exact same song you have already liked before, the UI is inconsistent and you can save a duplicate.

Apparently, there is already an internal merge mechanism as the play counter is not split between the different versions of the songs. Maybe this can also be used to consolidate the UI.

Repost of https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Your-Music-Remove-Duplicated-Songs/idi-p/4546787 which didn't get enough kudos.

[AeroZ]

I don't think that having to post a "new idea" for basic functionality to work correctly is the way to go here.

[charleskellom]

My thoughts exactly. This isn't a "new idea," it's a basic expectation of
how the system should work.

I wonder if Apple Music has this problem...? 🤔

[AeroZ]

It doesn’t.

[sophieyoshii]

sometimes I add multiple of the same song that may be the same version (but different album cover) or a different version, but don't realize it until I look through and see. If Spotify could recognize when you already have a version of that song and send you a similar notification asking if you still want to add it, that would be awesome!

[Guido]

Updated on 2020-02-24

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[cineknt]

The basic functionality is broken and you are saying "it's not a bug, it's a feature". You should be ashamed of yourself.

[aaareese]

Yes! I've also had it where a song I thought I had saved will come up on a radio for another song or artist but it doesn't show as being "liked" so I'll like it again and then I have two of the same song on the same album & artist saved. I try and go and find duplicates since I'm almost at 10k songs and sometimes when I do, it'll unsave BOTH songs when I only clicked unsave on one. It's very frustrating since I utilize the date saved as a way of going back and finding old songs I've forgotten especially since there's no personal playcount feature. 

[user-removed]

Some ideas for how this would affect a song would be:

• If you like, hide or add a song to a playlist, they should all be affected
• Additions option in song context menu to see a list of the different albums it's found in
• Swipe the picture to see the various album arts
• Different variations (anniversary, different language/singer, live) could be merged as well, and you would be able to choose from them from the current song.
• Maybe have an option to turn off lyrics (instrumental/solos) for a particular type of song.

A report button would be nice as well in case they missed one.

[Bizatts]

I am tired of this issue as well.

[mirthe]

Yes, a thousand times this. This is very annoying. Esp if I'm browsing other playlists and find songs unstarred which I'm sure I've already starred. Very confusing.