Automix repeating the same song (Spotify)

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A) SUMMARY OF ISSUE:

  • I built a playlist with my linked Spotify account and set cues/loops for the entire thing. After updating to DJay Pro 5.6.9, playing the playlist automix works well for 4-5 songs and then it will add a song already played up next. It will keep replaying that same song every other song and continue to queue it up, even though it’s not on the queue. It definitely didn’t used to do this before the update. I built this playlist for my wedding next week and currently it’s unusable because it keeps playing the same thing over and over again. I’m not able to effectively remove or eject the song. I’ve tried hard restarting, dozens of different settings to locate the issue, and transferring to other devices (I’m also unable to transfer the cues I’ve built into each song so I’m stuck with this one laptop).

B) DETAILED STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Load a Spotify playlist of any kind

  2. Play the first track with Automix on

  3. After 4-6 tracks it will begin to repeat.

C) EXPECTED RESULTS:

  • The playlist plays normally in the order I set it in with the proper start/end points.

D) ACTUAL RESULTS:

  • After several songs, one song that has already played will continue to appear as “up next” for every other song for the rest of the playlist.

  • Device model: 2025 Macbook Air M4

  • Version of operating system: Tahoe 26.7

  • Version of djay: 5.6.9

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Hi @codyosaurus, welcome to the Community! Sorry to hear you’re experiencing this issue. Thanks for the details about your setup and the issue. I tested this on a similar setup and was not able to reproduce the issue.

  1. Since this sounds repeatable, can you please capture and share a short screen recording of the issue that I can share with our engineers?
  2. Can you please also share a screenshot of your Automix Settings screen? Thanks!
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Yes of course! Thank you for the quick reply, this is a bit of an emergency! I’ve attached a screenshot of the Automix settings and a link to a recording of the issue. You can see that despite it not being next on the playlist or in the queue, Get Down On It plays after every other song while the rest of the playlist continues normally. Even skipping or ejecting it doesn’t seem to get rid of it.

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Thanks for the video @codyosaurus. One thing jumps out. “Get Down On It” is the only song in your recording where the deck title doesn’t match the playlist. The deck loads “Get Down On It - Single Version”, but the playlist entry is just “Get Down On It”. My hunch is that djay is loading a different Spotify version than the one in your playlist, so Automix never marks it as played and keeps bringing it back.

Could you try this quick test?

  1. Click Stop Automix.
  2. Remove “Get Down On It” from the dance floor playlist in the Spotify app.
  3. Quit and relaunch djay, reload the playlist, and start Automix from the Automix side panel.
  4. Let it play past the point where the repeats used to start.

Your cue points and loops are saved per song, so taking this one track out won’t touch the cues on the rest of your playlist. If the repeats stop, you can try adding a different release of the song back from Spotify and testing again.

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If that doesn’t work, please try recreating the playlist from scratch in the My Collection Source rather than directly within the Spotify Source. Then simply add the same Spotify songs to the playlist in My Collection and retest Automix from that playlist instead.

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The first solution didn’t work as it seemed to be not just that particular song, it was just whatever song came up as the 4th or 5th track once I hit play.

The second solution worked! It must have been something about playing from the Spotify source. So far going through the new playlist, everything is playing great. Thank you so much!!

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Good to hear @codyosaurus! You’re welcome.

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  1. the same song keeps playing every other song in auto mix, even in shuffle mode, how do I stop it?
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Hi @Kissfreak, welcome to the Community! I’m guessing you are using Spotify. If so, the current workaround it to recreate or Spotify playlist in the My Collection source. Please see above for more details. Thanks!

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Thanks for the quick response, I’ll try it and let you know if it works for me!

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You’re welcome @Kissfreak

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  • Lenovo Ideapad C340
  • Windows 11 home
  • 5.6.9.
  • none
  • 25H2
  • Please consider sharing a short video or screenshots to help clarify your issue

A) SUMMARY OF ISSUE:

  • same songs get stuck in deck in automode

B) DETAILED STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Make playlist with songs: On the floor - Jennifer Lopez 4:45 , Atemlos durch die nacht-Helene fisher 3:40 on spotify (more other songs to test). then start automix on that playlist. these songs get stuck.

C) EXPECTED RESULTS:

  • Both songs get loaded in de deck, but stay there and never will be replaced by other song in the playlist.

D) ACTUAL RESULTS:

  • One deck stays on the same song.

I have a video, but because i’m new, i’m not able to upload.

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Hi @JeroenDutchy1, thanks for the setup details an repro steps. I’ve given you upload permissions now. Please share your video.

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Also made a test playlist on spotify with the problem songs: TEST DJAY: Spotify

This new playlist does the same thing

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Thanks for the video @JeroenDutchy1. Can you please provide a full screen recording instead so I can see everything at once?

  1. Press Windows + Shift + R.
    Or open Snipping Tool from Start, click the video-camera icon, then New.
  2. Drag from one corner of the monitor to the opposite corner so the selection covers the entire screen.
  3. Turn Microphone and System audio on or off from the toolbar if those toggles are available (they are in current Snipping Tool versions).
  4. Click Start. There is a short countdown.
  5. Do what you want to record. Pause if needed.
  6. Click the red Stop button.

Can you please also share a screenshot of your djay Settings→Automix menu?

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I noticed that it is not with all songs from spotify. the songs that came along with this problem, i put in the playlist i mentioned earlier.

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Hi @JeroenDutchy1, thanks for the recording and the settings screenshot, that makes it much clearer. Your video shows exactly what you described. Once “On The Floor” lands in Deck 2, it never gets swapped out. Each time it finishes, it rewinds to the start and plays again, and every new song from the playlist gets loaded into Deck 1 instead.

Another user on 5.6.9 ran into the same pattern this week while playing straight from a Spotify playlist. It went away once they rebuilt the playlist in My Collection. Can you give that a try?

  1. Click Stop Automix.
  2. Click My Collection, open the Playlists browser, then + > Add Playlist. [screenshot: My Collection + menu showing Add Playlist]
  3. Drag the songs from your TEST DJAY playlist into the new playlist.
  4. Select the new playlist and start Automix from the Automix side panel.

Feel free to skip through songs the same way you did in your video so we can compare the two runs directly. Let me know if “On The Floor” still gets stuck. I hope that helps!

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I have the video taken with making the new playlist. As you see, the problem stays. I have now also tthe problem that de new playlist not automaticly go to the automix (when this is stopped)

I have run through more playlists in the same way with automix. The songs who get stuck are now all in the TEST DJAY playlist…. It seams that there is something in these songs that triggers this problem.
Maybe the problem sits in the metadata of these songs…..

The song ‘on the floor’ i found twice in spotify (same version). when i take the other song, the problem is gone.

The version of the song ‘atemlos durch die nacht’ has only one original version on spotify. (second version is live version).

Thanks for your quick replies.

(I’m a mostly a home user and sometimes i have a event, so no pressure from my side)

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in the meantime I have run through some other playlists and found more songs who get stuck. Not all, but some. I copied them all to the TEST DJAY playlist, maybe you find similar info in eg the metadata…

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Hi @JeroenDutchy1,thanks for testing so thoroughly, and nice find with the second copy of “On The Floor”. It suggests the problem is tied to those specific Spotify entries rather than your settings.

One thing I spotted in your video: the new playlist was created under Spotify in the sidebar, so Automix is still playing from the Spotify source. The fix that worked for the other user was a playlist in My Collection. Could you give that a try with your TEST DJAY songs?

  1. Click My Collection in the sidebar, not Spotify.
  2. Open the Playlists browser, then click + > Add Playlist.
  3. Drag the songs from TEST DJAY into the new playlist.
  4. Select the new playlist and start Automix, then test the same way as before.
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If you can, please also paste the Spotify links for both versions of “On The Floor” so I can pass them to the team. Thanks for your patience!