[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.

[Alex]

Hi there @Brysonic,

Welcome to the Community!

This is most likely happening, because those songs have been previously removed from the platform. This can sometimes happen due to licensing issues or label requests. 

Usually most content does make its way back on the platform, but they get uploaded with new metadata, so the app treats those tracks as different songs. One song is uploaded as a new release and one song is uploaded in the same place of the one that was previously removed.

There is no automatic way to replace those songs. You'd need to manually remove them and re-add them to the playlists.

Hope this info helps.

[drumbum6]

This is literally how spotify used to work years ago until they stripped it out and ruined their entire platform. Makes it impossible to find songs when you have thousands saved.  Literally makes you go save a song, then go to the artist page, save that artist, then go to the album and save that if you ever want to be able to find a song in different ways.  Ive posted about this before and they said they were working to fix it and never did anything.  Absolute garbage

[yotamon]

Thanks for sharing that suggestion, I really hope spotify will wake up and understand the need of consistancy. Will follow this ✌️

[Lester1980]

If you like a song, Spotify should be clever enough to know the same song on different singles/EP's/compilations to prevent unnecessary duplication of the same song appearing in Liked Songs when it's fundamentally the same track. 

[olejorgenb]

Please reopen. As mborsik said, this is more like a bug than a feature-request, at least from a user perspective.

A simple solution would be to show a slightly different indicator for songs identified as a "duplicate" of a song you've already liked. This way it would still be possible distinguish - in cases where the duplicate-detection algorithm isn't perfect.

[SirBilliam]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Galaxy Z Fold 4, Windows 10 

Operating System

Android 13, Windows 10

My Question or Issue

For almost a year now, I have been noticing that songs I liked back in the early days of my subscription (~2016) are no longer showing up as liked when I go to the artists page. It shows them as downloaded and they download if I clear the downloads folder, but they do not show up as liked (in the screenshot look to the right and see that the heart symbol is missing from those songs, which I KNOW I liked to add to my devices). Does anyone know why this happens? Is it a bug caused by updates over time? 

[dageka]

Common Spotify, fix this already!

[xfuler]

When there are multiple versions of the same song on different projects please transfer the likes over. For example, if a song is liked off of an album from release but then there is an extended version released that also has those songs but they are not liked even though they have been. It would eliminate repeated songs in the liked songs playlist from two different versions of the album. It would also be nice for users which use likes to keep track of songs they recognize on other users' playlists. It's a small quality-of-life change that would be great.

[Lyubka]

Hey everyone,

This suggestion got moved to the wrong place by mistake and we're setting it to live idea again. Thank you all for bringing your feedback in the Spotify Idea Exchange.

We'll continue to monitor the comments here. Please note that even if the status is set to “Not Right Now" - you can still add your votes and support this idea, so that it would have a better chance of being considered, as Spotify always strives to improve your experience.

As soon as we have any updates on its status, we'll let you know.

More info on how your feedback reaches Spotify via the Idea Exchange can be found here.

[tommytyrrell53]

When a song is liked or added to a playlist, if the same song but different version is added or liked, i.e. remastered, greatest hits, or radio edit version of a song is being liked but the original is already liked a prompt should appear asking if you want to like it again or not. This can even be a setting to turn on or off. People with very keen sense of hearing who can tell the difference between remastered and original can turn it off so they don't have the extra step of having to accept the question prompt. Others who don't care can turn it on and can answer no if they don't intentionally want the song in their playlists twice. It can even have a 3rd option that warns if a remix or live/studio version is already in the playlist for those who really only want one version of the song.