Playlist sorting options: Syncing between Desktop/iPhone

Does anyone know how/why playlists aren't organized the same between iPhones and the Desktop? For example, I have a playlist that I've curated using my iPhone for songs to play in a particular order. When I open Spotify on my desktop, this order is obsolete and I can only organize the songs by category (title, artist, length, date added). Can anyone advise on how to solve this issue? Thanks!

Hello Sapozhnik, I'm afraid I'm new to Mac/iOS development myself so I don't have any specific information for you but as I understand things you could take one of these approaches:
You could send the data entered from the iPhone/Mac to an online database as soon as it's entered and retrieve it from said database when it's loaded into a view, the issue with this approach is that the app is useless if the user doesn't have a connection.
You could store the data on a local database (for both the Mac and iPhone) and then synchronize the local database with an online database when the user connects.
I'd look into SQLite and mySQL for storing the information you want to transfer. My suggestion would be taking the second option so the user does not require an internet connection to use your application. If it were me I'd look at syncronizing two local SQLite databases with one online mySQL database. The challenge will be determining which update(s) to sync with the online database as the user could make changes to the desktop app and the mobile app prior to connecting to the internet.
I know I haven't included any code as I currently have no idea how that would be written but hopefully it helps if you're looking for a direction to go in.

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