2024/05/07 Recent Spotify Changes Break spotifyFinder.com forcing this site to go offline
Prior to the Spotify Change
If you have Multiple Copies of the Same Track in a playlist and you selected ONE of them to be removed, just the selected track would be removed.
After the Spotify Change
If you have Multiple Copies of the Same Track in a playlist and you selected ONE of them to be removed, now ALL copies of the selected track will be removed from the playlist.
Impact of this change
This site is based on letting users select the exact track to be removed and that is no longer possible. It is very misleading if you select a single track to be removed and multiple copies of the track are removed. For example, if you have two copies of the same track in a playlist you can no longer remove just one of them, both copies of the track will be removed.
Will this site come back online
Not sure. I am thinking about how to revised the web site so that a user has a very clear understanding on what will happen when they select a track to be removed.
There is a small chance that Spotify will go back to the old way of removing tracks which would allow this site to come back online.
It was exactly 3 years today, 2021/05/07, that this site went online.
This website is a set of tools to help you organize/curate your Spotify playlists.
Use this website to find duplicates across your playlists or within a playlist and remove them.
Use this website to search for songs (tracks), artists, albums across your playlists.
Use this website to move or copy songs (tracks) to another playlist.
You have complete visibility and control because you pick the songs (tracks) to be removed/copied/moved.
This website is easier to use on a large screen (1366x768 or larger), such as a laptop or desktop.
This website is completely free to use for all Spotify users.
Playlists selected on the 'Playlist Tab' determines which playlists are examined by the 'Duplicates Tab', 'Search Tab', 'Tracks Tab', 'Artists Tab'.
Press 'Log in with Spotify' to get started.
Find Duplicates In Spotify Playlists Feature
Search across your playlists for a duplicate songs (tracks).
have you ever wondered if a song (track) is already in another playlist.
Search individual playlists for duplicate songs (tracks).
have you ever wonder if a song (track) is already in a specific playlist
When searching for duplicates you can:
match on Track Id for exact matches.
match on Name/Artist/Duration for very close matches.
You have complete visibility and control because you pick the duplicate songs (tracks) to be removed.
Search Spotify Playlists Feature
Search across your playlists for a particular artist.
Search fields: Track Name, Artist Name, Album Name, Playlist Name, etc...
have you ever wondered if a song (track) or artist is already in one of your playlists.
have you ever want to find a song (track) or artist in your playlists.
Default Playlist Selection Feature
Playlist selection can be remembered for your next visit by pressing Save on the 'Playlist Tab'.
Playlists selected on the 'Playlist Tab' determines which playlist are examined by the 'Duplicates Tab', 'Search Tab', 'Tracks Tab', 'Artists Tab'.
Move Spotify Tracks Feature
Move Tracks to another playlist.
have you ever wanted all songs (tracks) from an artist in one playlist.
Copy Spotify Tracks Feature
Copy Tracks to another playlist.
have you ever wanted to copy songs (tracks) to a favorites playlist.
Sort Spotify Playlist Feature
on the tracks tab you can use the column headers to order the songs (tracks) in a playlist then press save sort to update the playlist.
the sort you selected will become the default track order on Spotify...set the Spotify UI to use custom order
have you ever wanted the ability to set the default ordering for a playlist so all your playback devices use the same song (track) order without having to set the sort in Spotify.
Refresh Spotify Playlist Feature
if you have a playlist you created a long time ago it may need to be refreshed so you do not see remove track errors.
you only need to use this feature if you are seeing remove track errors.
see the Help Page: 'Refreshing a Playlist to Fix Remove Errors' for details.
Playback Controls
the playback controls allow you to:
add up to 20 selected tracks to the playback queue
start playing whatever is in your playback queue
pause playback
go to the next track
the playbacks controls are located on the search, tracks, and artists tabs
you must a have a Spotify playback device active for the play controls to function
an active device can be a: Spotify phone app, Spotify desktop app, Spotify web app, or Spotify connect device
this feature requires Spotify Premium
Reload from Spotify Feature
reloads all of your playlists from Spotify
reloading your playlists can be useful if you change any of your playlists in the Spotify App while using this website
Learning to use the Duplicates Feature
How to practice on a couple of test playlists
In Spotify create a playlist called A1_Test.
In Spotify add tracks to A1_Test, also add few tracks twice.
In Spotify create a playlist called A2_test.
In Spotify add tracks to A2_Test including some of the same tracks from A1_Test.
Open SpotifyFinder.com and press Log in with Spotify
Select A1_Test and A2_Test on the Playlist Tab (unselect all other playlists).
Goto the Tracks Tab to review the tracks in A1_Test and A2_Test.
Goto the Artists Tab to review the artists in A1_Test and A2_Test.
Goto the Duplicates Tab and alternate between Across Playlists and In Same Playlist.
On the Duplicates Tab select duplicate tracks and press Remove Dups.
Once you feel comfortable using SpotifyFinder you can organize your actual playlists.
Spotify Public API, Loading Times/Speed and Session Timeouts
The Spotify public api is quite nice, but it has built in speed limits.
this web app loads data from Spotify as fast as Spotify permits.
loading a playlist with 1000's of songs (tracks) may take a while
it is reccommended that you limit the number of large playlists selected on the Playlist Tab at any one time
A session timeouts after 12 hours of no activity.
Change Log
To view the change log go to the help page and select change log.
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