I’ve found a few other threads regarding duplicate songs and how plex handles them but they are many years old. Is there any plan to improve how plex handles multiple songs? My library often has both the artists primary album, but also greatest hits, compilations, etc that cause plex to list multipl…

[image] xiphosm3: The problem is there might be 5 of the same songs listed in that playlist because they are in different albums. No one wants that. And that’s why we’re adding the de-dupe functionality (which is actually already baked into the auto-generated playlists Plexamp makes upon firs…

[image] elan: If it does then Musicbrainz may have incorrect data, as that’s what the Plex Music agent uses to distinguish the different recordings (great albums, by the way). Your right, the musicbrainz_recordingid is the same between the tracks. I’ll now need to figure out how to go and fi…

+1 to this. I’m one of the users mentioned in OP having made a thread - would kill to get this feature! Sometimes I’ve got 4 copies of a song in my smart playlist and have to skip multiple times to get to the real next track.

Also bumping this as a relatively high priority – this is just silly [image]

After years of using plex, I only started dabbling with smart playlists recently and found this ‘duplicates in smart playlists’ issue straight away that’s a real pain and puts me off using them further. @elan if the de-dupe feature you’re talking about is all about solving this, definitely +1 looki…

[image] feld: Also bumping this as a relatively high priority – this is just silly The auto-created “Fresh :heart:” smart playlist uses an upcoming feature which already de-dupes. You can use that for now, and the feature will be available to all smart playlists in an upcoming release.

The problem is as follows (1) You want to create a Smart Playlist from a specific decade with the original track by rating it 5 stars. When Plex automatically rates the track on a compilation album 5 stars, then the track on the compilation album will be in the wrong decade. (2) Another scenario …

[image] fdaley: You want to create a Smart Playlist from a specific decade with the original track by rating it 5 stars. When Plex automatically rates the track on a compilation album 5 stars, then the track on the compilation album will be in the wrong decade. Both tracks will be rated 5 sta…

Where do I find this playlist at? I’ve looked i multiple user accounts and can’t find this playlist. I’m on Version 1.42.1.10060 as well.

Duplicate Song Handling

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elan August 19, 2025, 6:04pm 16

If you sign out and in again, Plexamp will offer to create them if they don’t exist.

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Duplicate Song Handling

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