[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.

[mwhit]

Just giving a +1 to this thread, still in 2022 this is the behavior and is incredibly frustrating. I am currently trying to "audit" my library and this is ridiculously confusing -- even when I play the song directly from the album it shows as liked, but not on the album itself.

That means that clearly, the application does know the song is saved and is getting it from the same source! But if I like the song from the album, it saves it a second time.

There is no way this was the intended behavior even if it's the expected behavior.

[tinr]

Bump. This is so frustrating. Apple Music DOES NOT have this issue. 

[restinfm]

This is definetly a bug: Same ARTIST, VERSION, ALBUM, SONG and even PLAYLIST... still not showing as saved in the player.. C'mon.. have a look!!

[scarletvvitch]

I'm not sure this directly addresses the issue but using spotify depup has helped me a lot with some of the problems comments are describing. At least it's worth a shot? 

[Novy]

Updated on 2022-08-26

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[Onemanarmyy]

Albums often get re-issued after a while, which means that your likes on a previous version of an album are gone on the current page-listing and can only be found by going straight through your likes-page to the previous listing of the album. It's messy and unorganized.

Perhaps the process on the backend could be altered so that if the meta-data of a song is an exact duplicate, the like-status transfers to the latest active album-listing. By checking the meta-data is a duplicate, different versions of songs should not automatically be liked instead.

[OscarDC]

Updated on 2022-10-13

Hello @Onemanarmyy.

Thanks for submitting your idea to the Idea Exchange!

We've gone ahead and marked this as a new suggestion. Spotify Staff will look into this idea once it reaches the necessary amount of votes. 

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Cheers!

[chats_meow_]

Please open this again,, it's ridiculous that it's still going on

[mborsik]

Dear Spotify coders: this is not a feature request, it's a very obvious bug. I could see that it's not neceserally the easiest issue to fix, because sometimes, EP and Album versions with the same song name can differ. However, if OP is correct that the play counter can already identify identical duplicates, it shouldn't be a complicated fix at all.

[Brysonic]

I primarily use the Windows desktop application, so I'm not sure if this is unique to that or not, but this is what I've had happen quite a few times: I'll like a song, be listening to a radio playlist for that same artist, and have an identical but separate version of the song I liked show up in the playlist. The only way I can differentiate between the two is that one version shows that I've liked it and the other doesn't. Here are two examples:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0QU7TJHdBCZkY0o4oI7sh2?si=326e9c75905d4b92
https://open.spotify.com/track/428IfVfM2jelUXToZYzMbH?si=bbe979198a2a4deb

https://open.spotify.com/track/207jvv3SLF6CGhVW2gOanq?si=f23bec95fa3e44e1
https://open.spotify.com/track/5DJTYOAHZEKjNqXpOwnomi?si=ac456788714b4d68