The order in which user playlist results from the /me/playlist API endpoint appear to be broken

[dm246]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

My Question or Issue

Sometime in the last week or so, the sort order of the list of user playlists returned by the "/me/playlists" API endpoint changed. Previously, it appeared to be returning the list of playlists in whatever order the user was currently using in their desktop/mobile app (if the user's app was set to alphabetical, API would return the list in that order, if the user was set to "Custom Order" it would return in that order, etc).

Now, it appears to always return the list of playlists in the "Most Recent" order regardless of what the user has selected in app.

Is this a bug or an intentional update to this behavior? If it is intentional, my request would be to either

a.) revert the API behavior back to the way it was so that the results automatically come back in whatever order the user has chosen in their app as this is most likely to provide the most satisfactory and consistent results for users

and/or b.) update the API to include sufficient information in the results so that we can modify the sort order on our end by adding new attributes to the SimplifiedPlaylistObject that gets returned such as:

• "last_playback_timestamp" - so we can do Most Recent sorting ourselves, if desired
• "created_timestamp" - so we can do Recently Added sorting
• "custom_sort_order_index" so that we can replicate the same Custom Ordering that the user has chosen in the app

[slipstream422]

For a long time i have used custom order in the spotify desktop app and spotify mobile app and the the response to /vi/me/playlists would be in the custom playlist order. Now the playlist order is scrambled. It is looking like a something has changed on the Spotify end. It would be really nice if the the response to /v1/me/playlists followed the sort in the Spotify desktop or mobile app.  Please revert the changed that modified the playlist order in the /v1/me/playlists response.

[lex2023]

Why can't your songs in your play list be in alphabetical order