topic Re: Changing song order easily (for everyone) in Your Library

Changing song order easily (for everyone)

Inge5 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 08:43:54 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Netherlands

Device

Operating System

Android 13

My Question or Issue

Hi, I was wondering whether it is possible to change the standard order of my playlists for everyone. I have soms theme-related playlists and I want people to see these playlists in a certain order when they open it (ofcourse they can later then sort it to 'last added' or any other that they would want). Some of these playlists I ordered myself (e.g. have a playlist with places of the wordl, and put places closes to each other together), but changing the order of a playlist by hand is a lot of work. Some playlists I would just want alphabetically (or almost alphabetically, like a playlist with numbers in it). However it does not seem possible to change the order to alphabetical and then make some changes (the standard order just stays the personal one which is the last added order). Is it possible to change your playlist order to alphabetical not only for your device but for all devices? It would be way less work sorting my playlists if this would be possible, then I wouldn't have to do it al manually. Thanks

Re: Changing song order easily (for everyone)

Yordan — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 14:36:37 GMT

Hi @Inge5!

Currently it's possible to move songs around within a playlist only when sorting in Custom order. This is the default sorting option, so when someone opens your playlist for the first time, they'll see the songs in the custom order you've set.

The desktop app is perfect for making adjustments to your playlists, so feel free to try out this workaround:

Open your playlist and set the sorting order to your preferred one (for example, set it to Title, so that all tracks, including those that start with numbers, are sorted alphabetically).
Press Ctrl + A (Cmd + A if you're on mac) to select all songs inside the playlist, then press Ctrl + X (Cmd + X) to cut them.
Now paste them inside the playlist again with Ctrl + V (Cmd + V). This will make it so that the Custom order matches the Title order.

Note that if you continue to update the tracks inside the playlist, you'll need to manually edit it and place the new tracks in their relevant positions every time you make adjustments, so that the Custom order is also updated.

Hope this clears things up. The Community is always here if there's anything else you need assistance with.

Cheers!

Freezing a playlist order

Jurgs67 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:16:00 GMT

I created a public playlist for a friend's event, the tracks appropriately ordered for playback.

But when they view my playlist from their account, it's in a completely different order.

How do I fix the order of my playlist so they can play it back as designed?

Re: Changing song order easily (for everyone)

Jurgs67 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:54:37 GMT

Why has my question been buried with an irrelevant topic? This thread doesn't address my query at all 👎

Re: Changing song order easily (for everyone)

Ivelina — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:33:13 GMT

Hey @Jurgs67,

Thank you for reaching out via the Community.

Apologies for the confusion. What we meant by moving your comment in this thread was to double-check the sort order of the playlist as suggested here. Make sure that the playlist is sorted by Custom Order both on your end and that your friend has also sorted it by Custom Order. This would ensure that you're both on the same setting.

I recommend also having a look at this support article about Sort and filter.

Lastly, you could share a link to the particular playlist so we can have a look at how it looks like from our end.

We'll be on the lookout.