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[Playlists] Sort List of Playlists alphabetically

How about ordering playlists alphabetically? I'm paying for this service and this feature is the most common and easiest one even for a free music player...

Updated on 2021-07-07

Hey folks,

 

Thanks for coming to the Spotify Idea Exchange and voting to make this happen.

 

We're happy to announce that sorting your lists of playlists alphabetically is now available across devices. There's more info here.

 

Once again, thanks for helping us make Spotify better, by participating here on the Community.

Comments
noeljfitz
I am not sure if this is directed to me.
Thanks to all who helped;

The problem is sorted.
fwiz

Make it happen!

It's just the most basic function there is and should definitely have been there from the start.

 

noeljfitz

I agree.

But the problem has been sorted for me now, thanks to those contributing here.

kepler200

"Under Consideration"...LMAO. Hey Spotify, we aren't getting any younger here. It's been YEARS now. What are you "considering"?

 

What is there to "consider"? Just DO IT and stop stalling and making wimpy excuses.

Rootser

Thanks to prodyel for a suggestion he or she made way back in the #1 earliest set of comments. Your suggestion worked on my iPhone! 

 

On my desktop Mac, however, I'm still struggling. I have over 60 playlists. When I follow Spotitfy's direction to click on Artists, I can then click on Sorted / By Name. Then I see a window showing the images for playlists in alphabetical order, but only 21 of them. Below the images, it says "Following" for some of the playlists and "1 song" for others. 

 

Does anyone have an idea about how I could tweak this system so that it shows all my playlists? Or does Spotify limit the number of playlists it will alphabetize to only 21?

 

As numerous other people have noted, it seems ridiculous that the company cannot create a simple, straightforward, and easy way for users to alphabetize their playlists. PLEASE WAKE UP, SPOTIFY! Until you fix this problem, I will continue to use Pandora much more than Spotify, and I will not pay for Premium.

hcck
As I have said before many times the ordering in alphabetical order really only works on iPad and iPhone but not for Desktop Mac. It kind of works after a fashion on Desktop Mac by outing the artists in order but you must always click on FOLLOW when you make a playlist. But that only puts the artists in order it doesn't address the problem of putting the Playlist in order.....the way it works in the iPhone and iPad by using Filters I think someone needs to issue a new idea to have Sporify get this problem resolved in the PC/Mac Desktop version of Spotify App........I think Sporify will probably sort that problem out very quickly because they want us to use the playlist version of streaming Music rather than CD version of Streaming Music
kepler200

Yes, mobile alphabetizing works perfectly, at least on my Android phone, so if it can be done there, it can be done on the desktop pc.

 

No excuses whatsoever. Pure negligence on the part of Spotify.

Bellaruse
Can you give the under the option to show the most recent added song in a playlist? I hate to scroll all the way down everytime. When you have a playlist of 1050 songs that takes a while.
hitomo

 Seems like they only allow sorting by artist name https://support.spotify.com/is/learn-more/guides/#!/article/sorting-and-filtering - and even so it's listed in tiles format not list - don't see how this is useful at all, really. 

 

Spotify playlists are the main reason why i use them, being unable to search through playlists that i follow and create is just plain frustration. 

rat2587

I agree. If anything makes me want to stop my premium service is the lack of basic features like this, (on PC). Frankly it angers me that isn't already in place. The PC feels very mickey mouse. I want to stay with Spotify but I will vote with my feet if this continues.  Navagation needs to be greatly improved . There is no valid excuse for this IMHO.  My 2 cents