[Mobile] Rearrange songs in a playlist

[mrogowski62]

Plan

Premium

Country

 USA 

Device

iPhone 6

Operating System

iOS 12

My Question or Issue

 I’ve had this app for maybe 2 years now and I have never been able to rearrange my songs in a playlist. When I look up a solution it says to click the three dots on the top right, hit edit, then drag with the three dots next to the song. I do not see it next to any songs on my playlist. I really want to move my songs.

[Maria]

Hey there,

Thanks for posting in the thread!

@dragon_master - Just to confirm, are you currently subscribed to Premium? Keep in mind that if you're using the free service, you won't be able to edit the custom order of your playlist via the mobile app, which might be why you're not seeing the Edit button. However, you can still use the desktop app or Web Player to rearrange the songs while on free.

Should you be on Premium, however, could you try clearing stored cache from the app to see if it makes any difference?

Hope this helps!

[KB0203]

The fact this issue hasn’t been resolved is insane. Next step is definitely canceling my subscription.

[lorrabelliz]

Wow, thank you so much! This was extremely helpful, I did it! I appreciate you taking the time to share this process. -lr

[KA1966]

I have a subscription but I still can’t edit. I can drag titles around but, when I let go, it goes back to where it was. I turned off shuffle and it’s the same.

[PureIceWater]

I agree I've been trying other ways and I haven't seen a single way to do it and I all I want to do is move 2 songs and that's it yt music is a different app that allows you to moves songs with the 3 lines but ever since I've switched to Spotify I haven't been able to

[nehlslowe]

When in your playlist, pull down on the screen to reveal the “Find on this page”/“Sort” bar at the top. Touch the Sort button and select “Custom”. Next move to beneath the playlist title and just above the “Add to this playlist” option, touch “…” (3 dots), then select “edit”. Now press down on the 3 bars of the song that you want to move, wait 1 second, and you should be able to drag and drop that song to where you want it on that playlist. 

[GalyienTrueshot]

It really shouldn't be this damn hard to

rearrange a play list. It should feel intuitive and for that, Spotify sucks ass....

[Tuggummi]

We all love our playlist, some keep them entirely one genre and other's is like a candy bag with all different tastes. But sorting the songs can get a little annoying, at least for me.

On my playlist, there's a ton of different music tastes, some country, some pop, and some old fashion Swedish songs. As for my suggestion, I sort of have to. The overall idea is to improve the sorting and handling of playlists.

So firstly, moving the songs around when you have "Custom Order" if you have a bigger playlist feels clunky, to be fair I don't have great ideas on how to improve that. But one thing that would be nice is if you could right-click (or tap the •••), then there's a dropdown called "Move", "Relocate" or something, you hover/press on it and you can choose the spot, let's say "5th". 

Another thing I'd love to see is a new way to sort the playlist. I would really appreciate a "Most Played", or similar a similar label, which would sort the playlist based on the most played songs in the last week or month etc. 

Thanks for reading through this idea, I hope it can become useful. 

[Dotlight96]

this solution no longer works on android, there is no edit button... order seems to be set when creating the playlist so the only work around I could find is creating a new playlist and adding in the desired order... fun...