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One Hit Wonder
December 14, 2017
Replied by Deezer

Indicator that a song is already on my playlist

  • December 14, 2017
  • 37 replies
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When listening to the Flow or to someone else's playlist, I'd like to see if the song is already in one of my own playlist (for example by clicking on the "..." button).
Would also be nice to know if it is part of one of my favourite albums (for example by displaying a "heart" close to the name of the album)

37 replies

Hitmaker
July 10, 2020

Hey @Rudi,
What with this case?
I can’t remember how many times I tried to add multiple times the same track to my playlists because I didn’t know that I added it before. Such information would save time a lot!
Something like ‘you have this track on x playlists’ or even directly - the list of playlists where this track already exists.

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
July 11, 2020

Hey @nikipedia 

There's a pop-up message that appears when you try to add a track already on your playlists. In which app are you listening to Deezer on?

walker
Hitmaker
Hitmaker
July 13, 2020

Even if song has different versions, Deezer should tell us which are already added. :wink:

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Guitar Hero
October 28, 2020

We already have a little notification when a user adds a song to a playlist and the song is already in it, but we are not planning to improve this notification at the moment.


We are not actually asking to improve that notification, we want an option where we can see which of our playlist already have the song playing. I think this could be achieved by:

  • When you touch the tree botons that shows all the options, just show at the botton something like: “Included in the playlists: “x”, ”y”, ”z”... ” with a message that goes left to rigth like in a car radio, to be able to see all the playlist names.
  • When you tap to add the song to a new playlist, in the existing window where you choose the playlist, just show first at the top, and highlighted, the playlists that already have that song.

We really need something like this, i think no other streaming music plataform have something similar, it would be atractive to musice lovers.

Rudi
Ultimate Superstar
Ultimate Superstar
October 31, 2020

I personally agree with you @nemterest, thank you for explaining in detail.

I covered this feature with one of our product managers a few weeks ago, on improvements that are very much sought by our community users. So it looks promising now, let's see which new features will be added to development in the near future. I know there are some new things on playlists under development right now, especially collaborative options :thumbsup_tone2:

Yula
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Deezer Staff
March 20, 2022
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Roadie
December 15, 2022

When listening to the Flow or to someone else's playlist, I'd like to see if the song is already in one of my own playlist (for example by clicking on the "..." button).
Would also be nice to know if it is part of one of my favourite albums (for example by displaying a "heart" close to the name of the album)

4 years later and we still don’t have that very basic feature...

Yula
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Deezer Staff
May 30, 2023
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Roadie
June 28, 2024

It would be convenient for me to know which of my playlists contains the song that is currently playing. This does not require much space on the screen. For example, after clicking the "+" button when viewing the list of playlists, you can add a small icon next to the playlists that the song is already in this playlist

Alper.SIMSEK
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero
August 20, 2025

It's sad that there hasn't been any development on this issue for 7 years. Deezer isn't meeting its users' expectations. I think the budget allocated to the development team isn't enough for such updates. Deezer management is quite incompetent in this regard. The fact that these and similar simple features, which existed on other platforms for years, haven't been added to the Deezer app shows how much Deezer cares about its users. :) If they had paid attention to such issues, they could have reached more users.

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