topic Re: Help with Sorting Songs Alphabetically in Desktop (Windows)

Help with Sorting Songs Alphabetically

241095 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:18:35 GMT

Plan

Premium

PCOperating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I'm having trouble sorting my songs alphabetically in my music library. This issue is making it hard to find and organize my music. Can you please show me how to sort ?

Re: Help with Sorting Songs Alphabetically

Yordan — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:46:25 GMT

Hi @241095,

Welcome to the Spotify Community!

You can sort the songs in your playlists by clicking on the menu one right:

Desktop app view

Note that the Web Player only supports the Custom sort order. You can find more info on the sort & filter features in this article.

Hope this clears things up. Cheers!

Re: Help with Sorting Songs Alphabetically

241095 — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 06:46:44 GMT

I mean i want to sort the song by Alphabet to find the song more easier

Re: Help with Sorting Songs Alphabetically

AlejaR — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:59:39 GMT

Hey @241095,

Thanks for your reply.

We'd like to add further insights. So, when sorting a playlist, you'll find some options: title, artist, album and date added for your Liked Songs playlist. For the rest of the playlists, you'll find the aforementioned sorting options, plus duration.

Now, it's important to keep in mind that the title, artist and album sorting options will arrange your playlists alphabetically. In other words, if you select the album sorting option, for example, you'll see your playlist songs sorted by the album title, alphabetically, starting with numbers and special characters and continuing with letters. This is an example:

In the album column you can see they're sorted alphabetically. So, to answer your specific questions, in order to see your songs sorted alphabetically, you should select the title option, since that one will order your playlists by title (the name of the songs):

You can sort songs as mentioned above by @Yordan, or you can also click on Title (highlighted in the image above) to order them by title and alphabetically. Note that you can also inverse the alphabetical order by clicking again on Title, so you'll see the names sorted from z-a.

Now, if you're looking for a specific song on a playlist, you can always use the search tool. You can find it next to the menu in which you can find the sorting options:

Lastly, remember you can sort your Library (the panel on the left) alphabetically:

That option will sort all your library (artists, albums, playlists and podcasts). If you choose filters at the top, you can sort the content on those alphabetically as well. Remember, from the search tool available on the library itself, it's not possible to look for songs per se, but you can look for albums, playlists and podcasts.

Take into account, the sorting options for playlists are not present on the web player. You can sort the Library (the panel on the left) in the web player. You can read more about sorting options here.

Hope this clears things up. If you have any questions or need anything else, the Community is here for you.

does spotify playlist play the songs in order/numbering or randomly?

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:35:57 GMT

help

Re: Help with Sorting Songs Alphabetically

bonikastjames — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:17:53 GMT

I'm on the web and none of those headers have a drop down and the only option is compact or List.

Re: Help with Sorting Songs Alphabetically

tromaster — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:02:54 GMT

Same here. It seems now there is no option to sort a playlist, in any way.

Re: Help with Sorting Songs Alphabetically

tromaster — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:05:14 GMT

This is not working anymore.