Playlist order changed in Android Auto

[meridder]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

(Pixel 7)

Operating System

(Android 16)

My Issue

When I first paired my phone to my car and accessed the Your Episodes playlist, it would show up on the Android Auto GUI in the order I selected on my phone: release date, ascending. Recently, when I opened the playlist to start playing the episodes currently in there, I noticed they were sorted by date added instead, but only on the Android Auto GUI. I've come across multiple posts about this from years ago where some people say that the difference in order is the "expected behavior" (from a 2023 post) when that was never the case after months of use for me until now. Another commenter suggested toggling off smart shuffle, but that didn't work either. I also cleared the cache and storage of both Spotify and Android Auto, restarted my phone multiple times, unpaired and re-paired my phone to my car, I even uninstalled and reinstalled Spotify, but no luck.

One thing I should note, this behavior seems to coincide with me clearing the storage of Spotify a few days ago (I noticed it was using a whole GB despite me removing all downloads from within the app, so I thought I'd force it). I can't be sure since I recall opening the playlist since then and seeing the playlist in the order I expected.

So what happened here and what might be a solution? I really like listening to news podcasts and prefer to listen to them in the order they were released.

[meridder]

Hey everyone,

The team has discovered the root cause of the issue and has scheduled a fix in an upcoming version of Spotify: 9.1.54.688! We're unable to provide an exact ETA for when that version will come out at the moment, but make sure you're always keeping the app updated in the meantime.

Thank you for your patience and for bringing this to our attention.

Cheers 🤘

[Thebookperson]

im so glad this is a recent post bc it just happened to me a few days ago. i like my recently added songs to be on top and all of a sudden its backwards! I really hope the new update fixes this 😞