SpotifyFinder

Overview

• 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, such as a laptop or desktop.

• 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 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 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 Tracks Feature

• Move Tracks to another playlist.
• have you ever wanted all songs (tracks) from an artist in one playlist.

Copy Tracks Feature

• Copy Tracks to another playlist.
• have you ever wanted to copy songs (tracks) to a favorites playlist.

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.

Your Privacy

• This website is ad free.
• This website enforces the use of https.
• This website does not use third party tracking cookies.
• This website does not use third party tracking analytics.
• This website does not share, sell, or buy any personal information about you.
• With your persmission this website reads/edits your Spotify playlists.
• The User Authentication page is provided by Spotify directly. This website never sees your Spotify password.

Open Source

• View Source Code: SpotifyFinder on GibHub
• 3rd Party Open Source Libraries Used:
  Python
  Flask
  Flask-Sessions
  Spotipy
  MySql
  Flask-MySqlDb
  DataTables
  jQuery
  Stack-Trace-Parser
  jquery.scrollTo

Author

• A retired software engineer who likes building things and contributing to open source.
• A Richard Feynman quote: "The pleasure in life comes from figuring things out".

Support

• Send us an e-mail    If you have questions, issues, or suggestions.
• Report Issues on GitHub    If you are a github user.

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