Playlist sorting

I have a playlist where I put my latest downloaded music so I can listen to the newest tracks I have (sorted by date), it works fine, but then iTunes arranges my songs by title and not by the track number... would it be possible to sort by date, then by track number and only then by track name?

Unlike Excel, iTunes does not have the notion of a secondary sort key. You can pick one thing to sort on, and the rest defaults to whatever.

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[All Platforms][Playlists] Playlist sorting

Add ability to sort playlists alphabetically or arrange them in whatever order the end user prefers to more easily go through the playlists.

Updated: 2015-07-13Hello and thanks for the feedback!
A similar idea has also been suggested here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Playlist-sorting-options/idi-p/181
Add your kudos and comments there please! ;)

Ios 5 playlist sorting problem

I'm having a problem with my iPhone 4S playlist sort order after restoring from a backup from my iPhone 4. I have several playlists that I want sorted first, so I've put numbers in front of them. On my iPhone 4, the playlist sort order is correct:
1
2
3
4
A
B
C
However on my iPhone 4S the order is:
A
B
C
1
2
3
4
I can't seem to be able to put my numbered ones first anymore! Anyone know what the problem is or a solution?

If you are still having issues see my other post here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16472810#16472810
Regards
Padster

Recently Played Playlist sorting

Hello
I recently bought a 6th generation ipod nano...On syncing the nano to my PC I found that the Recently Played playlist sorts in alphabetical order by artist on the ipod but sorts by most recent on itunes...Is there a way to change the sort on the nano? I have already gone into the items under the nano on itunes and changed it in there but the nano does not change.
thanks

brotherludi wrote:
My Recently played playlist is not correct. My setting is:
Match all of the following rules:
Last played is in last 3 days
Playlist is Music
Media kind is not Podcast
but it does not work, the playlist is not correct.
Delete the rule saying "Playlist is Music" and see what you get.
Also, make sure you have it set for Live Updating.

ITunes Match Smart Playlist sorting on iOS7 by date added?

Playlist works find on iTunes.
Messed up on both iPad + iPhone
Criteria basically sorts by genre, and only for songs added within X months.
I have tried to add the criteria "Kind = music", and also limiting to 9999 songs, sorted by date.
The first few songs are correct and in the right order, but after that there are just random songs.
Any ideas?

Hi guys, i have cracked it!!
Ok, manage music manually on your iphone, plug into your computer in itunes to do all this
. In each playlist, Sort by date added latest date at top of page
. On yr iphone, make a new playlist, call it ie: chill 2 or pop 2 etc
. Grab the chill playlist from iphone playlist and drag all into chill 2 folder
. Delete chill playlist from iphone
. Rename chill 2 playlist to be 'chill' same name as itunes playlist so it can sync when you sync again
I did this with all my playlists, within the iphone itself whilst connected to computer itunes, now on my iphone, i see all my playlists as date added not alphabetical!!
This has annoyed me for ages!! So glad i cracked it!! Found no answers on the internet, but so many people asking!!
Cheers and goodluck
Cass

[Playlists] Sorting my playlists (not sorting songs, artists, etc within playlists)

When I first got my Spotify account I could created a playlist and they were automatically listed (sorted) alphabetically. It worked great for me. All of my playlists I denoted iWorkout, iFocus, iChill, iWakeup, etc. Then followed up with the genre of music last, for example... iWorkout - Rap, iWorkout - Rock, etc. If I was working out all of my workout lists were grouped. If I needing to focus, to chill, to wakeup! I could easily find what I wanted. At some point an update came through and all of my playlists are listed by creation date?? I guess?? Sucks monkey balls. Now my playlists are all over the place and the ones that I use the most I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to find, why? Because I created them first... and we can't even sort ascending or descending by creation date. It's just dumb - my opinion. It's been months... I assumed others would complain for me, but it's not returned or been enhanced. So, here's my complaint. Please return the sorting to alphabetical or give us the option to sort them as we prefer, by date created, by alphabet, by last accessed, or whatever others may be asking for. Thanks-so-much

Updated: 2015-07-02Hello and thanks for the feedback!
Any news regarding this request will be announced in the original idea topic here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Playlist-sorting-options/idi-p/181
Please add your kudos and comments there, if you haven't already. ;)

Still no Playlist sorting options-Deal breaker.

I have been a strong supporter of Spotify since the beginning. In fact, I pay for 2 (that's right 2) Premium accounts in my household. That is about to change. The lack of easy Playlist sorting is unforgiveable. I can't count how many times I've almost wrecked my car looking for my Chet Baker playlist and have to scroll down down down when it could be easily found if I could sort things alphabetically. It's a basic function and I could swear it used to be available. It's too bad because I absolutely love Spotify otherwise. So any recommendations on a service that is similar to Spotify but has the very basic and standard function of sorteable lists/folders? Thanks a ton!

I can sort my giant list of playlists by name, date etc. but can't find a way to do this while using the Windows version of Spotify on my laptop. This is silly.

How can I make a smart playlist sort album by artist in order of size?

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a playlist of songs I generally like from a very large library to fit on my iPod. The songs aren't rated, and I don't want to have a totally random selection chosen by a smart playlist.
I thought a good way to pare down the list would be to sort album by artist, and then filter that list in order of the size that each artist takes up. It's more important to get rid of an artist that I don't like that also hogs a lot of space than one that maybe only has one track. I figure if I could scan down the list and exclude the worst offenders, it conceivably would make the task much simpler.

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a playlist of songs I generally like from a very large library to fit on my iPod. The songs aren't rated, and I don't want to have a totally random selection chosen by a smart playlist.
I usually make two playlists.
One playlist with favorites I do want on the iPod and another smart playlist to fill the rest of the iPod. Just limit the size to th esize of the iPod minus wthe size of my iPod selection playlist.

Creative Zen 32GB playlist sorting

I just bought the plain Zen 32GB. Not the Zen this or that. Just plain Zen. When I go to manage playlists on my computer (Windows XP), the only way I can see to sort playlists is by dragging items up and down. There have to be other ways that I'm missing here. I would expect to be able to sort a large playlist by any column order or randomly but I can't find those features. Where are they?
Thanks.

Yep. I know I can shuffle the player so that things are mixed around when they play. I want to randomize the playlist. I have some playlists I want to play in random order and some I want to play in the order They belong in. For example, I would not want an audio book that is split into tracks to shuffle. That would be stupid. But I do want my Beatles collection to play in random order. It's my understanding from reading other posts (about other Zen players) that playback is either shuffled or it's not. You cannot specifiy shuffle mode per playlist. It's eitehr all or none. So you have to turn it on and off depending on which playlist you're playing. If that's teh case, then it's pretty useless to me. You guys should look at WinAmp. For over 0 years it's given users the ability to BOTH shuffle and randomize - 2 totally different features but both are very useful. I can create a playlist and then randomize it so that it plays the list in teh order it's showing but the list has been mixed up permanently until I organize it again a different way. Shuffle simply plays the list in a random order. They are not the same thing but have similar results. it would sure be nice if you'd add that in a firmware update since it's just a software issue.

Bug: iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5 podcast smart playlist sort order and how to fix.

There seems to be a bug in iOS 5 and iTunes 10.5 involving the sort order of a smart playlist of podcasts. I created such a playlist and sorted by release date on iTunes but I noticed it had a different sort order on the iPod Touch.
After playing around with it a bit I found that the only way to preserve the sort order that I have in iTunes on the iPod Touch is to uncheck "Live Updating" in the smart playlist.

Confirming this incredibly annoying bug. Basic list sorting not working... real bottom shelf work apple.
workaround update: limit to must be turned on, set it to an absurdly high number if you don't want to actually limit the playlist, then one of the sortby options in that submenu will work. The live update checkbox is irrelevant from experimentation.
This workaround does NOT fix the fundamental problem: sort order from itunes in smart playlists is not being synced and preserved in ios5 devices.
This is the latest in a long string of debacles which is making me seriously consider swapping to debian stable. (snow leopard to lion was a severe downgrade in performance for anyone doing heavy multitasking.. scheduling is FUBAR... when a command option escape beachballs on a brand new core 17 machine, your OS has serious problems with nice levels)

IPad music smart playlist sort

I have a problem with the sort order of smart playlists being different than the computer I am synching with? Any ideas?. I hav ipad2 synced with an iMac 27" running lion. Any help very much appreciated

it's a bug, but here's the workaround:
at the bottom of the playlist, select "Limit to [however many] items selected by [choose the order you prefer].
• by "limiting" to a high number of items or GB, you won't be limiting the playlist at all.
• to sort alphabetically, choose "selected by name." (or whatever other option you want).
after doing this, you shouldn't see any change to the items displayed in the smart playlist in itunes. however, the playlist will now sync properly to your idevices. :-)

IOS5 Playlist Sort Order Issue (not smart list just normal playlist)

So i cant figure out why my music wont sort thwy way i wanted to in each of my playlist. Before IOS5 i can sort my songs in my playlist to what ever i wanted and not it just stuck at oldest song added to newest song added.. i want it the other way around...
What happen apple? it was fine in the last OS... am i missing something here.
I would like the ability to sort my music any which way i want to!

Ugh.. This is driving me crazy! Yes, the adding of the rule "playlist is music" fixes this issue when you're syching an ipad or iphone, etc. BUT, that very rule causes iTunes Match to fail! So for any of my devices I have iTunes match enabled for...which is all of them now, my playlists are all jumbled. Here's an example of how weird this issue is:
On my iPad I can see my playlists. When I click on the playlist the music order seems random. I have to select a track to play. Once I've done that, I can click on the picture of the album up at the top where it lists how far into the track you are, etc. and that changes the screen to a full sized picture of the album. At the bottom of THIS screen is another playlist icon (bottom right of the screen). If I tap THAT item, suddenly my playlist is listed CORRECTLY. I can then select the first track of the playlist and tracks will play in the proper order after that.
This is absolutely insane and so opposite of Apple's "it's simple" and "it just works" mantra that it's not even funny. To play my smart playlists in order on my iPad or iphone with iTunes Match enabled, I have to select a playlist, get a track playing, change the display to show the album cover, tap the playlist icon at the bottom of THAT new display, and THEN I can select the first track in my playlist and everything is good. Something needs to be done about this. It's been an issue since iTunes Match was activated. BTW, iTunes Match won't synch smart playlists with the "playlist is music" rule selected because it says that 'playlists that reference other playlists' cannot by synched. It was crazy to have to add that rule to begin with but I could live with it. Now, there's simply no apparent way to fix the issue.

Smart playlist sort order issue

I'm having an issue sorting a smart playlist. I've searched through other questions on here but can't find the identical issue.
I've created a smart playlist that contains the contents of two other smart playlists. I've tried to sort this list by 'name', by clicking on the arrow in the column heading, but the list still leaves the two playlists separately, ie. it sorts each original playlist separately, and then puts one after the other in the play order.
I have other smart playlists constucted in the same way, and have no issues with them, and I can't see what the difference is with this one!
I'm using 11.0.4.4, on a Windows 7 PC.

I am also having the same problem. Running the newest iTunes and iPhone software my smart playlists are not working correctly. My "Recently Added" is correct in iTunes, and if I look at the playlist on my iPhone info in iTunes it is correct there, but the actual playlist on my iPhone is populated entirely with audiobook files. I have tried deleting and recreating the playlist which gives the same results. I have also specified that items within the playlist should be music files only and still get the same results.
I have a playlist that's Top 50 Most Played that's also not behaving properly (ie correct in iTunes but not on my iPhone).
Any suggestions?

Playlist sorted by album or artist.

Hello
Is it possible to sort playlists by album or artist name?
Currently when I open a playlist in my Ipod it will sort all the numbers by name of the song. Some of my playlists have 200+ songs, and it becomes seriously annoying to find one specific song while there isn't even an artist name beside it.
It would be much more usefull if you open a playlist a subsection would appear in which you can choose the artist or album. Or at least sort the songs in the playlist by artist.
Again. is this possible?

Thanks for the info.
As a sub question. Is it also possible to show the artist name in the playlists on the Ipod itself? Or is the only option naming the songs by artist? Which I won't btw. that would take me a day or 2 :s

ITunes 11 x iOS 6 Playlist Sorting Fiasco continued...

I know people have been complaining about this for ages and after reading 50 posts I can't seem to find an answer or solution so I'll ask here and see if someone can help.
Why can't my iOS device (6.0 iPhone 5) sort my Playlists in the same order in which they are sorted in the iTunes 11 library?
I usually create newer playlists on top (marked with a dash to keep them up) but they are always sorted alphabetically on the iPhone.
The songs within the playlists are fine but the playlists themselves aren't sorted like they are in iTunes.
Is Apple ever going to address this?
I've fiddled for an hour and don't think there's a way to sort it as-is in iTunes.
Mind blowing
Anyone? Apple? Hello?

"I'm guessing iOS ignores the iTunes sort order--and special characters used to force the sort order--because of Siri."
Your answer makes sense. I used to force playlists to the top of the order with • , but since I put ios6 on my iPod Touch this stopped working. And it was kinda' bugging me.
However, your comment helped me stumble on an imperfect, yet usable solution. I have a number of playlists that are Greek albums. You reminded me that the play lists labelled in Greek used to alphabetize at the end of my playlists, but are now at the top.
I re-ordered the couple of playlists that I want a the top with an ω (omega) as a prefix, and viola, they're at the top of my English playlists. (The rest of the Greek stuff still ends up at the very top).
At any rate, I didn't play around with any other keyboards, but it might be a solution. Albeit, imperfect.

Playlist sorting options

I would love to be able to sort my playlists by Artists, then drill down by album so as not to clutter my Spotify. It's pretty hard to organize my playlists the current way. Any ideas on a future iteration that will enable this capability?

Please implement alphabetical sorting at the least. It is something I have considerd lacking since day one. I still love the service and have paid for nearly 3 years now, but it seriously needs better sorting options so that I can instantly get to an album/playlist. It's daft because it all has to be done manually, and android puts new playlists at the top and mac at the bottom of the list. Just a button to organise, it can't be that difficult? I fail to see why all these apps and integration can be used to best effect without proper sorting options. It really is a drag, people. Thanks for listening...

Playlist sorting

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