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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 🙂

Comments
KidneyBeanBro

Same thing happening to me, song 1 swapping with song 76 of 151. When I try and switch it back it sometimes switches even more songs from the middle and start. Device: moto e40 OS version: 11 Spotify version:8.9.6.458

 

Alexpexp

Same here!!!!!

O mesmo comigo

JWK12

 

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Android devices (Samsung S8, S21)

Operating System

Android

 

My Question or Issue

I've organized the songs in multiple playlists, but after the recent update spotify will:

  • Shift a song from somewhere in the middle of the playlist to the start of it
  • Trying to move this song manually from the top back to it's original position will cause the next song in the middle of the playlist to appear at the start
  • The song originally at the start of the playlist is now in the middle. Trying to move this song back to the start doesn't work (i will shift it back to the start and press save, but it won't move from the middle)

Any ideas in what's happening? I've put in a lot of time organizing these playlists and its driving me nuts!

H-MUSIC_FR

I have a playlist that's like 150 songs long, and recently Spotify has moved a song to the top of it, from the middle, and every time I try to put it back it just moves it back up automatically, does anyone know what's wrong? 

On the desktop app the first song is the good one, but on the android app this song is at the middle of the playlist. 

I have this problem on 4 playlists 

 

jwenzori

Plan

Premium

Country

EU

Device

Huawei P30 Pro

Operating System

Android 12

 

First songs in all of my playlists are replaced with some random song from the same playlist. Please fix it

H-MUSIC_FR

I have the same problem 

littlejo

Happening with me too. Just on my android device. Laptop seems normal.

crnblover

Very annoying! Wrong first song issue only happens on phone, the desktop version is fine.

 

S20+ SM-G986W

Android v13

Spotify 8.9.6.458

My playlist has more than 200 songs, short playlists seem fine.

 

 

RenzLol

Plan

Premium

Country

PH

Device

Samsung Galaxy A71

Operating System

Android 13

 

Same issue here as the previous comments.

Playlists with more than 130 songs start exhibiting the issue where the first song and the song halfway through the playlist get swapped in the mobile app but the playlist is completely fine on PC. Attempting to manually swap the songs' positions on mobile just messes up the playlist even more, but doing adjustments on the desktop app manually still won't fix the order in the mobile app. Deleting the song in question will just replace it with the song that immediately follows it in the playlist. I guess the only fix for now is to split the playlist into smaller playlists with less than 130 songs each.