COCCIDIOIDES

Playlist sorting options

Status: Under Consideration
by COCCIDIOIDES on ‎09-02-2012 01:04 PM - last edited on ‎07-05-2012 04:06 PM by Community Manager

I would love to be able to sort my playlists by Artists, then drill down by album so as not to clutter my Spotify. It's pretty hard to organize my playlists the current way. Any ideas on a future iteration that will enable this capability?

Status: Under Consideration

 

Hello folks!

We are going to mark this as "under consideration" since we have passed it internally and we are working on good ways to improve the playlist sorting options. Keep an eye on this thread, we will update you all as soon as we have news.

Thanks for your feedback and awesome ideas :)

Comments
by jlovato on ‎03-05-2012 07:11 AM

As inane as it sounds, I would like a way to read the tag and sort by year of release. It would make some playlists I have created to sort a bit quicker. :)

by bimbimone on ‎03-05-2012 05:30 PM
Please implement this. Also in the mobile apps. Seems simple task from a programmer's perspective ;)
by oslofreak on ‎04-05-2012 07:18 AM

Hi! 

 

First time poster, very long time user of Spotify. 

 

While I do have a selection of self-made playlists, lately I have utilised Spotify playlists websites lately to discover new music. I got the idea that having some sort of rating column - similar to popularity on search results - would be an awesome thing to have while viewing others' playlists. If I want to check out, say, an Electronica / Dance / House playlist, and said list has 500 songs - most of which I am unfamiliar with - it would be great to have some sort of indication as to what songs might be worth checking out first. A type of popularity rating that looks at of how many times said song has been played; added to someone's playlist; added to someone's starred list; and shared.

 

I feel a feature like this could further increase Spotify's abilities to help people discover new music.

 

Cheers for a wonderful service!

by mamsebamse on ‎04-05-2012 08:36 PM

"In Alphabetical Order"

En funktion lika självklar som att solen går upp imorgon!!

Playlist´s in alphabetical order; PRONTO!!!!

 

by jbr on ‎04-05-2012 09:23 PM

Product pain point: I use playlists as "saved albums," since I tend to listen to music by album.  This means that I have several screen's worth of albums that are "<artist> - <album>".  I try to keep them organized by genre/mood, but the more I use Spotify, the harder this becomes.  Some sort of organizational system would make my use of Spotify way simpler.

 

Potential solutions that come to mind are playlist tags (genre, artist, mood, or whatever could just be free-form per-user tags) or a hierarchical folder system, but neither of these seem great.  Pretty much any organizational system would be better than the current "gigantic ordered list" of albums/playlists.

 

Am I using playlists in a way other than they were intended?  Is my use case representative user behavior?

 

Thanks for Spotify!

by IetsmeteenS on ‎05-05-2012 09:58 AM
You could just make playlists per genre and drop all your albums in there. If you only use spotify on your desktop this works very good.
by Videl on ‎05-05-2012 09:07 PM

I agree with you, jbr. I have the same display as you, which is a super humongous right-click menu everytime I want to add a new album/song to an album. 

I thought a folder system to sort the albums was perfect, but jbr came in with much more good ideas. Please use them. (I want to be able to choose which album goes in which folder, though)

 

 

by larelle on ‎05-05-2012 11:46 PM
Now that we've got Spotify for iPad, I'm wishing more than EVER for this to be. Even to be able to actually ARRANGE my playlists in order manually would be enough at the moment -but it seems that now you can't even rearrange them manually any more in the apps. A real pig!
by Kurateesi on ‎07-05-2012 12:22 PM

I know it's not really the solution you're looking for, but you do know that you can already create single-step playlist folders, right? It isn't clear from the initial message. I make heavy use of this feature.

by billyboy01253 on ‎07-05-2012 01:15 PM

I noticed that when I add a track to one of my playlists it is put into alphabetical order according to title of the track. However in my other playlists the tracks are entered at the bottom. How can I make my playlists add the tracks in alphabetical order ? 

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