topic Long playlist plays not in correct order. in Android

Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

jerry22717 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:39:16 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Samsung Galaxy A15

Operating System

Android 14

My Question or Issue

When I sort my playlist and start playing it while sorted, it should play in the order displayed. However, it starts playing in the recently added order. In this screenshot it was sorted by artist and it still plays by artist, just not in the displayed order. I have only experienced this issue on my phone, it doesn't happen when playing spotify on my PC.

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

Joan — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:27:05 GMT

Hi there @jerry22717,

Thanks for reaching out. We'll be glad to help you get everything playing in the desired order.

You mentioned this is only on your phone, but when did it start happening? Did it work as expected before? And just to make sure we have our bases covered, consider performing a clean reinstall to fix any damaged cache that may be causing this.

Let us know how it goes.

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

jerry22717 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:41:56 GMT

Hi Joan, I did a clean reinstall and that seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks for the help!

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

jerry22717 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:04:37 GMT

Hello again, it would appear that my earlier message was wrong. I was listening to spotify again and the issue reappeared.

I did some more investigating and the problem seems to be related to my echo dot. I often listen through my echo dot when on my phone and rarely through my phone itself so that's why I thought it was a phone problem. Spotify works fine when just listening on my phone. That's also why I thought it was fixed, I checked it on my phone and not my echo dot.

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

Joan — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:28:05 GMT

Hi @jerry22717,

Thanks for the reply and for letting us know about this. Can you confirm that this only happens when playing on the Echo dot? Does it happen when playing through other Connect devices? If you haven't tested that, please do so and let us know how it goes. In the meantime, you can also try disconnecting the Echo dot and your account from the Alexa app and then reconnecting and reconfiguring them. This often helps resolve connectivity or playback discrepancies.

Keep us posted.

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

jerry22717 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:17:06 GMT

As far as I can tell, this only happens with my echo dot.

I tried reconnecting my echo dot, did not change anything. I don't own any other connect devices to test it with so I don't know what would happen there.

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

Dessi — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:40:20 GMT

Hey @jerry22717,

Thanks for the reply!

Just to double-check, since you mentioned this doesn't happen on your PC - if you start the playback in the desktop app and connect to your Echo Dot from there, does the issue still occur?

It also seems that you have Repeat on, so can you check if turning it off makes a difference? If it doesn't, it's also worth performing a factory reset of the Echo Dot in case you're okay with that. You can find the steps here according to your Echo device's version.

Let us know how it goes.

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

jerry22717 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:18:15 GMT

I have checked on my PC and the problem is still present when connecting to my Echo Dot from my PC. Turning off repeat hasn't made a difference. I tried a factory reset of my Echo Dot which didn't change anything.

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

Dessi — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:42:16 GMT

Hey @jerry22717,

Thanks for the patience!

Our tech folks are looking into this, but they weren't able to reproduce the issue. Can you let us know if you've experienced it again recently?

Keep us posted.

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

IowaMC60 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:24:34 GMT

Yes

Mine too. So frustrating. I left YT music because of the same issue. And yes I deleted and reinstalled the app. I suspect that maybe it’s ploy to reduce their costs

iOS, IPhone16, Premium user

Re: Playlist plays in recently added order even when sorting.

OscarDC — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:57:45 GMT

Hey folks,

Thank you for your patience.

Taking into account that some updates have been releleased recently, would you mind confirming if this issue is still happening? If so, include in your next response the following info:

- Your device info (make/model) and OS version

- Exact Spotify version

Also, and if possible; could any of you record a short video where we can take a better look? You can attach it to your next response by using the Insert Video option in the post editor. You can also upload it to YouTube or Google Drive and share the link with us (make sure the video has the permissions for anyone to see it).

We'll be on the lookout.

Re: Liked songs suddenly change song order when using a Bluetooth device

Normington — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:25:31 GMT

Yeah I'm also struggling with this problem. A few times a year, I like to play my songs alphabetically to discard unwanted tracks that I skip a lot. It's very frustrating to come back to the speaker and have it do as OP described. It's annoying as **bleep**. I have to make sure I go back to the liked songs list and select the song that was just playing to have it continue in order. Where I work doesn't like us to have phones on the floor, so I can't always fix it. You can though, please. I'm not above begging. 😆

Long playlist plays not in correct order.

Chilred — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:59:13 GMT

I have a very large playlist (> 1300 songs). I have sorted the list in alphabetic order. I got the problem that it skip tracks. This happens very often, especially when it autoplay via bluetooth when it get connected.

Plan

Premium

Country

German

Device

Samsung Galaxy S25

Operating System

(Android 16)

My Question or Issue