Trackhop
Remove duplicate songs from a playlist
Add songs to a playlist for long enough and the same track turns up twice: once from the album, once from a single or a compilation, once from a share of a friend. The service sees two different tracks, so it does not warn you, and its own “already added” check only catches the exact same copy. Trackhop finds the repeats, shows them to you, and removes the extra copies in one go. It is free, open source, and it works inside the one service you use.
What counts as a duplicate?
Trackhop groups two entries as the same song when:
- they are the same track, added twice;
- they share the same ISRC, the code that identifies a recording, even if one comes from the album and the other from a “Best of”;
- or they have the same title and the same artists, with a compatible duration.
A live, acoustic or remixed version stays a song of its own: “Throne” and “Throne – Live at the Royal Albert Hall” are not duplicates. In each group the first copy in the playlist is kept and the others are removed, so the playlist’s order does not change.
How do I remove duplicates from a Spotify playlist?
- Install Trackhop on Android (download), or Trackhop Desktop for Windows, macOS or Linux.
- Connect Spotify: Accounts → Add connector → Spotify, signing in on Spotify’s own page.
- Open Tools. At the top, under Service for the tools, pick Spotify.
- Under Clean up, tap Remove duplicates.
- Choose the playlist and tap Find duplicates. Trackhop reads it and lists each group: the copy that stays, and the ones that would go.
- Check the list, then tap Remove n tracks. That’s it.
Nothing is removed before you tap that button, and only playlists you own are listed (a playlist someone else made cannot be edited by any app).
YouTube Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Amazon Music and your own server
The same tool works on every service that lets apps remove tracks from a playlist: Spotify, YouTube Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Amazon Music, Qobuz, Navidrome and other Subsonic servers, Jellyfin, Emby and Plex. Pick the service at the top of Tools and follow the same steps.
And on Apple Music?
Apple does not let apps remove tracks from a playlist, so Remove duplicates is greyed out there. You can still get a clean copy: Tools → New playlist from… → Copy, choose the playlist and tick Skip duplicates. Trackhop creates a new playlist with one copy of each song; delete the old one in the Music app afterwards if you like.
Merging playlists without making new duplicates
To put several playlists together, Tools → New playlist from… → Merge with Skip duplicates ticked: you get one playlist with one copy of each song, and the originals stay untouched. More on this in Merge playlists and remove duplicates.
The same song in several playlists
Duplicates inside one playlist are one thing; the same song scattered over ten playlists is another. Repeats across playlists (also in Tools) reads all your playlists once and shows the songs that sit in more than one, and the liked songs that are in none. It changes nothing; it just tells you.
Can I undo it?
Removing duplicates removes only the extra copies, and the first one of each song stays, so the music is still in the playlist. If you want a safety net anyway, tap Back up all playlists now in Tools → Backup & restore before you start: the backup keeps the playlist as it was, ready to restore. See Back up your playlists automatically.
More you can do with one service
- Fix greyed-out songs, the other half of Clean up
- Save Discover Weekly before it changes
- Back up all your playlists
- Your Wrapped, whenever you want