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[Mobile][Playlists] 'Add to playlist' sort order should be custom

In the latest Spotify library redesign, when I try to add a song to a playlist, the modal that opens sorts my playlists in a seemingly random order. This is very annoying since I have a mix of many playlists/folders in a specific custom order, and now finding the correct playlist to add a song has become a pain. This has only become a problem in the latest update, and worked perfectly in previous Spotify versions. I think that the order of the playlists in the "Add to playlist" dialog should follow the same order as the main Playlists tab - that is, if I have my playlists sorted by custom, the dialog should be sorted the same way.

Updated on 2021-06-13

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Comments
Bayce

The UI has recently been updated on MacOS, and my bookmarked playlists now appear at the top when I access the menu from the (+) icon next to the currently playing song. The rest of the playlists seem to be in order by recently used or played. A slight improvement because the new UI allows you to pick multiple playlists at the same time, reducing the time spent waiting for menus to open. I would still prefer to choose the order myself, but this is better than the previous interface with a totally randomized order. And the problem still isn't fixed on the right-click menu.

Yo-C

Agreed. I do a lot of playlist management on Spotify, but when adding songs to playlists on mobile it would be nice to have a degree of consistency in where the playlists can be found in the list. Also, I like the new feature that allows you to see which playlists a song is already in with a green tick, but it would be far more helpful if these were in my custom order.

Boneman325

For the love of god yes. I have the custom order for a reason, it allows me to sort playlists and folders in an easy to navigate way. So when I lose that in the "add song" menu it's frustrating. With that being said the "add song" menu has been one of the greatest changes to the mobile app my god, they should add something similar to desktop.

Yo-C

The newer "Add to Playlist" feature (with the green ticks) has recently been added to desktop, but it still has the same issue of being sorted in a random order. It can be handy having the playlists that include the song at the top of the list, but it would be nice to be able to turn this off as it's not always ideal.

Nébulya

Damn, I'm sick of that issue. It's logical to include it and yet, still nothing for the desktop despite being on mobile..

Snyappy

Hi, this still seems to be the case?

No upates? 

 

I sorted my playlist alpahbetically but when i try to add songs it seems to be sorted by added recently.
I have 15-20 playlists in one of my folders and it's annoying to find the right playlist everytime. 

 

Although this feels more like a bug than a feature request.

Nébulya
Sadly, it's still the case and no updates has been made.
Yo-C

How is this still not addressed?

 

For a while, it was at least sorted by recently played, and I could force it into the order by playing each playlist individually. Now it has been changed again (on desktop) and they've somehow made it worse. It seems partially sorted by recently edited, but mostly completely random. And every time you go to add something to multiple playlists, the order is different again. This is incredibly frustrating, especially when sorting large amounts of songs, which I do on a regular basis.

 

Please fix this! Surely it can't be that difficult.

ukergin

They won't fix this. It has been years and they do not care. Spotify pattern:

 

1. Engage moderators that give fake enthusiastic messages and have them ask for votes on functionality or issues that are very basic and shouldn't be there in the first place. Or, have moderators who do not understand what you're talking about/do not read that you wrote.

2. Ignore tens of requests for issues to be fixed.

3. Bring new updates to the app/web player that introduce new bugs.

4. Go back to step 1.

ukergin

Think about this way, you're voting on an issue that a person with at least minimal intelligence would think that a playlist should be in either:

1. custom order

2. alphabetical order

3. recently used order

 

But for Spotify, no. It is completely gibberish and/or random that makes it hard to add and/or find the playlist you're looking for. Yet, we vote for this! As of now, it is 513 votes. And the problem is you cannot find at least one engineer or product manager who would think "This is very stupid mistake, we need to fix this because it should not have been there in the first place".