[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.

[Lanciano007]

I have the same kind of issues for months...and there are posts on this Community that also have opposite experiences about songs they didn't add anywhere, but do get green spots behind them. You can read my post about this issue here where I was advised to go by moderators to get help:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/The-Heart-button-is-being-replaced-with-a-Plus-butto...

Reading your experiences, I have a feeling It could be connected/related with this issue below in a thread from the same period...(started when the green spots arrived and broke hearts and partially the connections between Your Library, Searchbar, Discography and maybe more...) 

I have and had both issues...This issue got fixed and I think the solution for this one has to be sought in the same direction.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Your-Library/Only-playing-first-song-of-an-album-on-Discography-Vie...

[banankakan]

Appears as liked on artists page when you click You Liked: https://spotify.link/xjr7yTeA4Jb

The one that is in my Liked if I search for it within liked: https://spotify.link/6kXlyylA4Jb.

same song, different link. I guess that explains it. I am not sure why they are different links tho? On their page there is only one version of the album (there is a rerelease but it even has different album cover, impossible to confuse). Is this a case of an album being removed and the. Reuploadeed and thus the link changing? 

i noticed it with Aphex Twin - Syro as well, but I already readded it so I can’t compare the links sadly. It had vanished from one of my playlists and I had to readd it again. I understand this is kind of hard to avoid with streaming, but it is a bit annoying for some users (like me 🙂)

sirry for the late reply, I had turned off email notifications apparently

Edit: the one that appears if you just click on the album: https://spotify.link/wHfTX4NA4Jb

that’s three different links for the same album. I am confused

[Lanciano007]

@Banankakan

The third link you posted has a slightly different album cover (released june 17th 2008)....  https://spotify.link/wHfTX4NA4Jb

And I can't find the other album cover in their Discography list (from your first 2 links, released june 13th 2008) ...it doesn't exist there...and also when I search for the album in the searchbar it doesn't exist. The Album is unfindable, apparently only findable via Liked songs.

https://spotify.link/xjr7yTeA4Jb

https://spotify.link/6kXlyylA4Jb.

There's another thing I notice now: When I press Play for songs on my desktop player, some songs have a delay of a fraction of a second before playing the song. In the meantime I see that these songs don't have the green spot but a fraction of a second later their Album cover changes, the song get's a green spot and starts playing.

Unfortunately this still doesn't happen with the songs that don't get/have the green spot while they should, like the two examples I gave above...Goldkimono and Patrice Rushen...and many more. Seems their links with the green spots are broken.

[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!

[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.