[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.

[iluvatars]

As someone who listens to quite a few artist who pretty much publicise every song as an individual single and then collect a bunch of them in an album with maybe the addition of 1-3 new songs in the album aswell, this is extremly frustrating because none of the songs i previously liked or added to a playlist show up as liked or in that playlist. And it is in fact the same exact song with the playcount just being the same.
I would really apreciate these being consolidated with an option to also chose which cover (album or single) to take.

[someotherdan]

Almost 11 years and still no fix on this. Jesus f***king C****t, Spotify, get your s**t together. I'm glad we canceled our family plan. Between this and the literally non-functional 'Hide' options, it's as though you really give absolutely zero f***s about the end-user experience. Oh wait, that's not what brings you money, so I suppose that likely is the case.

[Erim_sp]

When I try to search for the song "Everybody's free (To wear sunscreen)" by Quindon Tarver and Josh Abrahams I cannot find it.
I use searches like "Everybody's free to wear sunscreen Quindon Tarver", "Everybody's free to wear sunscreen", "Quindon Tarver Everybody's free to wear sunscreen" and alike but the song in question does not appear.
Instead it finds different versions of the song (by other artists).

I am 100% positive that the song is on Spotify as it is in some of my playlists and can be played from there.

The artist page of Quindon Tarver also does not show the song or the album with the same name, but the song appears in the section of the liked songs.

Does anyone have an idea?

[Erim_sp]

How did my post end up as a reply here???

This is clearly a different topic. The topic is about songs of the same artist while my question is about the same song of different artists...

[Yordan]

Hey there, @Erim_sp,

Welcome to the Spotify Community!

This album seems to feature two versions of the song, could you confirm that this is what you're looking for?

spotify:album:30NOuZiJRlawF26dmWVaJo:small

Note that one of them seems to be unavailable in certain regions at the moment. This depends on permissions from rights holders. 

If you can't find the version you're looking for in Search, you can instead locate it through the playlists you have saved it in. You can also use the Share button to share it with your friends. We’re regularly looking for opportunities to enhance the user experience for everyone, so your feedback on this is greatly appreciated.
 

Cheers 🤘

[Erim_sp]

Yes, that is the song.

As I can listen to it, I assume it is available.

However, the search does not find it even though I search explicitly for it. So it seems that the search is buggy.

I only find these:

Since I consider it a but, I already sent a report to the support. There they suggested to also post it here. (Why I don't really understand)

[davidatmilford]

would be more helpful instead of them all appearing separately

[agent-andy]

So many Songs exist on multiple Albums in the exact same form - e.g., original release, greatest hits, compilations, soundtracks.

This makes it difficult to avoid adding the same Song multiple times to Liked Songs. It would be amazing if Albums worked like Playlists, i.e., a collection of links to Songs rather than a standalone copy of files. Then a Song would show up as Liked regardless of which Album it was playing from, unless it was truly a different version than the one you already liked (e.g., a remix, or a remastered version).

If possible, this would drastically reduce the amount of storage necessary as each unique Song would only need to be stored once.

[partyingwithdragons]

Plan

Premium since 2014

Country

USA

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Windows 10 & IOS 16.6.1

My Question or Issue

I've noticed this for a few years now and always hoped Spotify would fix it, but here I am. I can only find threads about this from 2020...it's 2025...

On many occasions I know I've already liked a song (clicked the plus sign which turns it into a green check) but when I go to the album on the Artist page or listen to it in a different playlist (or even that same playlist sometimes) that green check doesn't show up. Which makes me think I haven't added it to my liked songs. If I'm not sure and I do add it to my liked songs it doesn't give me the prompt "this song as already been added, are you sure?" (even though it is, in fact, in my liked songs playlist already). Now I have two of the same songs added in my liked songs. 

To be clear this is the same exact song that shows up in my liked songs - not a different version or from a different album. 

I've included attachments of this with "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" showing this.

This is super annoying, especially when you can't search within a playlist on the desktop web player (I am unable to download the desktop app) so I have to pull out my phone and search there rather than scroll through thousands of songs on the desktop. Also, I pay too much for Premium for this stupid stuff to happen for years at a time.

Spotify - stop firing your employees so they can actually fix these problems. Have some respect for your employees and customers. I'm about to go back to my iPod classic from 2008 if you can't offer a decent platform. Not to mention the pennies you pay artists...but that's for a different thread... 

[xxxtemptation]

Hey Everyone,

I started cleaning my Liked playlist for duplicates. I noticed that while not every time, on several occasions deleting a duplicated song (that was re-released in an EP or album/ re-release) leads to deleting both of the duplicates, taking out the entire song in my liked playlists. I do not end up re-liking the song, because why bother? Is this a common bug? Thanks.