topic Re: Alphabetical sorting bug in Android

Alphabetical sorting bug

1233448284 — Mon, 14 May 2018 12:50:35 GMT

The Spotify app on my android seems to have bugged out and is now sorting everything by alphabetical order instead of track # in playlists. This is happening for every type of sorting by artist, recently added etc. For example instead of sorting the new Arctic Monkeys album as Star Treatment (track 1) into One Point Perspective (track 2) into American Sports (track 3) it is now sorting it as American Sports into OPP into ST, no matter whether this is by artist, album, or recently added. This is extremely frustrating at the moment meaning that I cannot listen to albums I've added to playlists in the correct order at the moment. Does anyone know of this is a recent change Spotify made or if there is a option to turn it off somewhere or if it is just a bug?

To clarify - when sorting by recently added it is actually sorting it by newer songs and the way it is intended to, however not in the exact order I added them. If I added Star Treatment before One Point Perspective first it will sort OPP before ST despite me adding the latter first.

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

1233448284 — Tue, 15 May 2018 12:06:08 GMT

BUMP - please help!

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

marxthecomunist — Thu, 17 May 2018 20:39:37 GMT

help us please

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

cosmiclemur — Sat, 19 May 2018 17:00:14 GMT

Yep! Same here. Here's a couple reddit threads about it too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/8kmhxb/android_app_songs_within_albums_being_sorted/

https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/8kk4by/i_have_a_problem_where_my_playlist_shows_albums/

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

Alekszyyyyy — Mon, 21 May 2018 06:30:34 GMT

This making me wanna off myself straight up

Pls fix

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

quangthang — Mon, 21 May 2018 22:55:53 GMT

got the same problem

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

Braedy — Mon, 21 May 2018 23:21:49 GMT

Same problem; endlessly infuriating!

Why does it seem that every few weeks Spotify implements a new 'feature' that consistently makes it worse and less user friendly?

How hard is it to overhaul the settings menu and at least give users the ability to customise these kind of interfaces?

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

-_____________- — Fri, 25 May 2018 20:31:39 GMT

I'm having the same issue. Before when I sorted my music by artist, it would group songs by the same artist by album. Now when I sort by artist, it sorts all of the artist's songs in alphabetical order, mixing up the albums and making it difficult to listen to any album in order.

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

TempestO97 — Sat, 26 May 2018 11:08:05 GMT

Still going on. Insanely annoying...

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

MajorLepra — Sun, 27 May 2018 11:18:17 GMT

Absolutely horrendous, makes it impossible to skip forward or backwards to a particular song. It's all sorted by artist but the albums are absolutely random on my device, it's not just that the track numbers are random, Track #1 of Album "X" is followed by Track #5 of album "Z" followed by Track #7 of Album "Y" and so forth. It renders my playlists absolutely useless.

I'll attach a screenshot of this bug.

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

guiliphy1 — Sun, 27 May 2018 21:17:52 GMT

Super annoying. Especially for users like me who treat their playlists more like 'collections'. i.e. I have one playlist per genre (Rock, Metal, Electro, etc.) and just throw every song I like out of that genre into the particular playlist. Sorting still works fine in the desktop client. I hope the phone sorting isn't intentional.

I would also suggest maybe adding multiple sort options. Sort of like Artist -> Year -> Album -> Track Number.

Cheers

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

Crammstein — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:58:29 GMT

They are not at random. The songs under the same artist (when sorted) are sorted alphabetically and thereby ignoring album-chronology.

I have the same issue and **bleep**ing hate if I've listened to a playlist on shuffle, and feel like listening to the rest of the album - not possible unless I go to that specific album on the artist's page. Kind of ruins the idea of having a playlist....

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

afaman5 — Tue, 29 May 2018 23:14:28 GMT

Same here. Android Moto Z Play

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

cosmiclemur — Wed, 30 May 2018 04:12:13 GMT

Checking in again, still happening here even after resetting cache/downloaded playlists and reinstalling the app. Is it only on the android app?

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

cosmiclemur — Wed, 30 May 2018 04:12:42 GMT

trying to piece this together--are you having the issue just on the android app too?

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

cosmiclemur — Wed, 30 May 2018 04:12:57 GMT

trying to piece this together--are you having the issue just on the android app too?

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

georgedb — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:57:18 GMT

Still happening, someone please fix this!

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

user-removed — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:08:21 GMT

Same here, everything was fine until a couple weeks ago when my primary playlist started sorting songs into alphabetical order either by artist (with the album songs mixed together) or by album (with the albums mixed together with other artists). Everything is fine on the desktop application but not on my Android device.

Why can't they just sync the playlist sorting properly?

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

t_gold — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:36:13 GMT

Happening to me as well, I started another thread before I found this one, contacted support and tried them on Twitter as well, and it feels like this issue is just being ignored, which is really frustrating

Sorting works as expected on desktop PC (sort by album retains the track order), but it's messed up on Android and just ruins the listening experience.

Please please please fix this. Between this and the ongoing issue with not being able to turn off the connect feature (making me having to keep my phone app on offline mode) , Spotify is just becoming unusable.

Re: Alphabetical sorting bug

user-removed — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:31:06 GMT

I think I'll give Deezer a go. If the Android app shows basic competence
and doesn't pester me to use it as a social platform it'll become my daily
driver.