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Find any duplicate track in a playlist. You can trigger an automatic deletion of any duplicate entries.

[!NOTE] Due to Spotify API limitations this will first delete every instance of the duplicate track in the playlist and afterwards add it back.

Find any track that is no longer playable. This can happen because of various reasons, for example licensing issues.

These tracks are recognizable by being grayed out. Unfortunately due to Spotify API limitations these tracks cannot be deleted with API calls. You'll have to delete them manually. The easiest way to find them is by sorting a playlist by artist. They will appear at the top.

An overview of your history. It will show any track that you listened to or was played in a jam that you were a part of.

A track is only counted as played after you listened to it for at least 20 seconds, however due to the internal workings of the application it can be up to 40 seconds before a track is considered played.

An overview of recently added and removed tracks from any playlist.

In the Spotify client you can organize your playlists in directories. However Spotify doesn't expose this information in their API.

You can manually mirror your directory structure if desired. The directory structure is used in other locations of the application.

This is in all fairness a very niche feature. But it is the reason why I started this project.

Short

Links allow you to one-way synchronize playlists / directories.

Long

It's best explained with an example. This is a simplified version of my personal Spotify organize structure

Root/
  All/
    Genres/
      Pop
      Rock
    Instrument/
      Piano
      Guitar
  Good/
    Genres/
      Pop
      Rock
    Instrument/
      Piano
      Guitar

As you can see there are 2 main directories, All and Good. For the most part they mirror each other.

What I generally do, is when I discover a new song that I like I add it to the right playlist in my Good directory. Whenever I play some music I shuffle a playlist inside the Good directory. When I eventually grow tired of the track I simply delete it.

However I don't want it to be gone forever! That's where the All directory comes in. It contains any track I ever added to the Good directory. So when I delete something in the Good directory, I can still find it in the All directory.

I'm using links to automatically add any track I add in Good to the right playlist in All. On top of that I have a master playlist that contains every track in any other playlist.

Only if configured to do so. By default it only tracks your Spotify data.

However when starting a duplicate removal task or setting up links then it will modify playlists.

No. It uses the official Spotify Web API.

Spotify has very clear rules on what is allowed. If you have a reason to believe this project breaches any them please contact me personally or by creating an issue.

The absolute worst situation I can think of is that you misconfigure a link. And all that it'll do is add some unwanted tracks to a playlist.

Changes made to playlists in Spotify are not immediately reflected in the web API. It can take up to 10 minutes before the API returns the updated data.