Add BPM, Key & Camelot Sorting to Spotify Mix 🎛️

[OBIDJON_ABDIEV]

Currently, when you press the Mix button, Spotify automatically creates a playlist — but there are no sorting options available.

It’s not possible to sort by BPM (tempo), musical key, or Camelot, so tracks stay in a random order.

Users have to manually reorder songs, which is inconvenient and makes the mix sound unbalanced.

💡My suggestion

Spotify should add professional sorting parameters inside Mix playlists:

1. Sort by BPM (Tempo) – for smooth rhythmic flow.

2. Sort by Key – for harmonic transitions between songs.

3. Sort by Camelot – for DJs and advanced listeners.

⚙️Why this is easy to implement

Spotify already has full track metadata (BPM, Key, Camelot) available through the Spotify API.

These parameters are used by many third-party DJ tools like Algoriddim DJAY, Rekordbox, and Mixed In Key.

That means Spotify can easily implement sorting without any additional track analysis — all the data is already there.

🎧Why this matters

Since Spotify is expanding tools like AI DJ and Mix, it makes sense to add professional sorting control.

This feature would improve the user experience, help create smoother and more intelligent playlists, and make Spotify more attractive to DJs and music creators.

✅Summary:

Adding sorting by BPM, Key, and Camelot is a logical and realistic next step.

Spotify already has the metadata — it just needs to enable sorting inside Mix.

A small change, but a huge improvement for every listener and creator.

[theorb33]

Absolutely agree.  There is a lot of manual work involved currently.  A lot of my playlists were made when I just wanted to add songs to a particular genre.  It would be helpful if Spotify can do some of the heavy lifting for us wannabe DJs.

[tunedIN]

Hello @OBIDJON_ABDIEV 

Thanks for posting in the Spotify Community! 😃

The 'Mix' feature is for creating transitions. As an ex Radio DJ my objective is to blend 2 tracks together seemlessly.

I agree that fIltering by BPM and key would be a useful feature. While it's not happening at the moment I want to steer you towards a hidden function, that you mightn't be aware of. 

Under the sort menu, and to the right of the clock symbol, is a selection tool. It's only visible when you hover your mouse over it. With that you can add the BPM and Key columns to your Web App. You can't use these to sort but seeing the columns is more useful than not seeing them. 

I hope this helps to improve your experience. I know it's not exactly what you're asking for but it will get you part of the way there. 

If there's anything else I can help you with just let me know

Bye for now, and have a great day! 😃

 

[mjbaldwin]

I absolutely support this! I never order playlists manually, but want automix to simply pick an order that works well for mixing every time. I'd also rather it just factor BPM and Camelot together at the same time, rather than using only one or the other. Just figure out which playlist order minimizes overall tempo and key disruption.