Often listen to the same songs while shuffling Spotify music? One of the reasons is that Spotify shuffle sucks, and another reason is that you may have many duplicate songs in your playlist. However, Spotify doesn’t have a built-in feature to check and remove duplicates from your playlists. You can sort songs by name and delete duplicate songs manually on the Spotify desktop app. However, it can be time-consuming when you have playlists with thousands of songs.
In this post, we will introduce the best free tool to automatically identify and remove duplicate songs from your Spotify playlists across devices.
Spotify allows you to sort all songs in a playlist by title, so it’s easy to find and remove duplicate songs on the desktop app.
For Spotify free users, open the playlist and tap on and more. Here you can view all songs in the playlist. When you find the duplicate song, tap the three dots icon and choose Remove from this playlist.
Spotify Dedup is an online tool that checks your playlists and saved songs in your Spotify library. Once Dedup finds duplicates, you can remove them on a per-playlist basis. Dedup will only remove duplicate songs, leaving the rest of the playlist and saved songs untouched. This web app uses the Spotify Web API to manage users’ playlists and saved tracks.
1. Open Spotify Dedup in your browser and log in with your Spotify account.
2. The script checks your playlists and saved songs.
3. Once the analysis is over (shouldn’t take long) you will have lists with all the duplicates from all the playlists and you can simply press “Remove duplicates from this playlist”.
To check whether the results are right, open the playlist in Spotify and click Title until it shows a green triangle (songs are ordered by title A-Z), and check the duplicate songs. I have checked several playlists and Spotify Dedup finds correct duplicates.
If the duplicates result is correct, click “Remove duplicates from this playlist” to remove duplicates. In case you use this and appreciate the guy’s work, he has a Buy Me A Coffee link.
How does Spotify Dedup choose which duplicates it removes?
After some testing, it seems to keep the most recent dupe. Any older ones will be removed.
If you have a massive Spotify library, it is easy to accidentally delete songs you actually want to keep while trying to remove duplicates. So it is highly recommended to back up your music before cleaning it out. While you can export Spotify playlists to Excel, a far superior method is to download your songs directly as local MP3s.
To download Spotify playlists to high-quality MP3, you can try a smart Spotify music downloader – Pazu Spotify Converter. It is specially designed for both Spotify Free and Premium users to download songs/playlists/albums for offline listening. It’s able to extract Spotify music and convert it to MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC and AAC. With Pazu Spotify Music Converter, you can easily enjoy any Spotify Premium feature within a free account forever.
Key features of Pazu Spotify Converter:
Now, let’s learn how to use Pazu Spotify Music Converter to download and convert Spotify songs with a free subscription from the following tutorial.
Download, install and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in web player.
Click the gear icon in the top right corner. Here you can select output format (AUTO(M4A)/MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF), choose output audio quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files and more.
Use the integrated Spotify web player to search for the songs, albums, playlists, or podcasts you want to download. Click the Add to list button to load all songs in the album or playlist, and uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.
Click the Convert button to start downloading the Spotify songs to your local computer.
Once the conversion is done, you can find your Spotify songs downloaded as local files by clicking the folder button or directly going to the output folder you customized in the previous step.
Now you can play Spotify songs on any supported device, even without the Spotify app.
Note: The free trial version of Pazu Spotify Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song. You can remove the trial limitation by purchasing the full version.
Download and convert any Spotify songs, albums, playlists to MP3/M4A etc.