[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.

[MiG93]

I listen a lot of songs but i notice recently that i have a lot of double sometimes they have little different by the artist or this is a different version so it is ok but sometimes the same song from different albums but still same play again and again so i would like something to remove all these double and enjoy my music with less repetitions 

[banankakan]

Hey Joan I left links here to the songs 🙂 please check it out if you have the time, 

as Luciano said they have slight dufferences in album cover and release date but they are the same album and it is not accessible through search. 

[banankakan]

I made an issue here with more info https://community.spotify.com/t5/Your-Library/Songs-in-playlist-don-t-have-a-checkmark-on-the-artist...

Vote on it if you want and provide any issue I may have missed 🙂

[Lanciano007]

Seems there 's an option on desktop player now to see "More releases" (bottom right, next to release date). The two other album cover releases from june 13th 2008 from Banankakan's links are not there...

These are the two that pop up as two releases of the same album...(both have the same release date 17 june 2008). Both have a different album cover. One has parental advisory ...the other doesn't. 

https://open.spotify.com/album/0gSx8vKLm6tmpO0OMspRPN

https://open.spotify.com/album/67v63ubEsvDUQkYMzI7A9t

[visxality]

This is a must change. Please ! Unless a song has a clean version or an extended version, the SAME IDENTICAL songs do not need duplicate entries at all. Please merge those internally Spotify. Would be a huge quality of life improvement!

[Rappjc1254]

This is NOT a solution. I have added the new Omar Apollo album, that came out a couple of weeks ago. Over half of the album on the album page is different than the songs on his main page that are on the popular songs list. On top of that this is causing the full album not to show up on playlists that I've added the album to. The full album shows up for my user but anyone who follows the playlist that I added it to only sees half of the album. Absolutely unacceptable for what we're paying Spotify as they continue to raise prices. I'd encourage anyone with these issues to report them and if they aren't fixed in a month or so to look into Apple, Amazon, Tidal etc for music streaming. Spotify has continued to increase prices while making the platform worse and not fixing issues like this.

[marcwats]

2024 and this is still not fixed... blows my mind that this problem wasn't dealt with in some beta stage of development let alone over the last over a DECADE of people complaining about it. WOW! Especially since this fix is clearly already been done behind the scenes to address song listen counts being combined. So annoying and frustrating someone please fix this or at a minimum just add a option in the settings to toggle on/off to leave it up to the user whether or not they want to have the confusion of adding the same song to there liked songs for sometimes the 3rd or 4th time without realizing it until you have the same song come up 2 songs apart when shuffle playing and wonder why.

[127113878]

I would like this feature to locate all duplicates in a library or playlist and be able to delete them all at once instead of having to delete them individually. This can be time consuming. I would like the app to be more universal with the features and appearance whether on a cellphone, tablet, or pc/laptop.

[_WERM_]

I consistently run into a problem where artists for some unexplainable reason reupload albums, and when that happens the songs remain in my Liked List but aren't treated as such. Having to re-add the songs to my Liked List is a chore and also ruins the date they were initially added. BEGGING for this change to be implemented so maybe this issue can be put to rest.

[Malic90]

Right now with the new Daily Playlist ( that one, that gets updated every 3h).

It shows matching to the time some songs that i could like, or liked.

Here comes the Problem. I have so many Songs in there that i like. but it doesnt show as liked. Why? Because its the Album or Single Version, which i dont pressed the Heart.

I did like the other version, which doesnt show up as a known or liked song. I think it messes up Playlist, because i clearly know those songs. And it messes up your whole Experience with favorited Songs that arent shown as that, because it got uploaded on an Album as well, even if its the same Song. There should be an Option to report it as the Same Song or something.