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[Android] First Song in Playlists on Custom Order changes constantly

Hey folks, 

We noticed that the current first song in any playlist will keep swapping with a different song from the same playlist. This is now being investigated.

Hey folks,

 

Thanks for your patience while we looked into this issue!

 

We're happy to announce that this should now be fixed for everyone - just make sure you're running the latest version of Spotify.

 

If you're still having trouble you can post a new thread in the relevant help board here.

 

Cheers 🙂

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nrhatigan

Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device

SAMSUNG A52

Operating System

Android 13

 

My Question or Issue

I have a playlist in custom order. Usually this is the same order on every device but today in Android one song is moved from way down the playlist to the top. Apaprt from the rogue song the rest of the playlist is in order. android app is 8.9.6.458

rjzzeng

this is a very minor issue, doesn't affect play queue or whatsoever in any sort of way. but i do notice that in my playlist, the first song is switched with another track in my playlist. this doesn't really bother me other than aesthetic reasons (looking a little less ordered), but I am concerned that it could be a sign of some as-yet unknown storage problem on my device. it only occurs on my phone, on my computer its fine. i have spotify premium, android 14, samsung a24, and i have tried to reinstall spotify, as well as logging out and restarting my device, but none of it has solved the problem. again this is a really small problem that only affects the playlist aesthetically, but help is really appreciated!

rjzzeng

additional note: i do notice also that it switches the positions of songs at the halfway point, i.e. my playlist has 650 songs, so it switches the 1st and 326th songs (325 being half of 650). also, if i move the song back to its correct place, it would just drag another song to switch with the first track. just in case this was relevant.

Thesims03

Same here, even if I rearrange them back into the right place they don't save. Only a couple of my playlists have this issue however which I don't understand 😕

Dinosaursrecycle

The exact same thing happened to me. I have a, like, 500 tracks long collection of songs from a series I love and all the songs are sorted after their appearance, so having 2 songs in the wrong place is driving me nuts. What I tried doing was change the playlist order on the pc app and now that has the correct order, but it still shows the wrong order on my android phone.

Vasil
Status changed to: Under investigation

For anyone who hasn't provided this info so far - please let us know the following details:

  • The make & model of the affected device
  • Its OS version
  • Your currently installed Spotify app version

We'll keep you posted as soon as we have anything new to share, thanks!

DashSonic128

Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device

Google Pixel 5

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

I have a very long playlist (over 24 hours long) that I usually listen to on shuffle. When I opened it today, a song that was deep down in the playlist randomly swapped with the first song. I tried to edit the playlist back to its original form but the playlist moved the that was originally first back down again and put a random song in first. Now every time I try to edit the playlist, it moves songs around all over the place, and always changes the song at the top. It won't affect my listening since I always listen to the playlist on shuffle anyway, but my OCD doesn't like it. Does anyone know of a solution?

BradBoyd

I am also having this problem. It is effecting my large playlists but not my smaller ones. For example it is effecting my 138 song playlist and any larger, but not my playlists 118 and under. I have premium and am on android version 8.9.6.458.

Khushi_11

Device -Redmi 12

Operating System-Android 13

I am having the same issue. First song gets replaced by a song way down in a playlist. And I can't rearrange it back.

 

RobH99

I have the exact same issue since yesterday. 1,000 songs in my playlist, and track 1 keeps changing to other random songs in the playlist on my phone (desktop seems fine and shows a different track 1). Full reinstall did not work