Sorting of playlists

The single thing I dislike the most about spotify is the sorting of the playlists and songs. The most important is this option:
++ You should be able to sort the playlists either (or in combination) 1. alphabetically, 2. size (number of songs) 3. most played ++
Songs in playlists should also been possible to be sorted in most played order.

Updated: 2015-08-02Hello 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. ;)

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Is there a way to sort a playlist on my iPhone alphabetically by Artist? I can do it when I view the playlist through iTunes on my computer, but when I view it on my iPhone's iPod, it is sorted by the date the songs were added. I add the songs through iTunes, and I can sort it by Artist with no problem in the iTunes window. However, when I look at the playlist through the iPod on my iPhone, the new songs are down at the bottom, no matter who the Artist is.
If it matters I am running iOS 4.3.10 on an iPhone 4 and I have iTunes 10.4.0.80 on my computer.
Thanks.

Ottonomy, here's what to do.
Connect your iPhone to your computer and open the iPhone's playlist in an iTunes window. Copy/Paste the entire playlist into a new(!) playlist in iTunes, not on your iPhone. Then resort the playlist. After you sort it, Copy/Paste it to a new(!) playlist on your iPhone. Now delete the old playlist on your iPhone and rename the new playlist the name you want it to be (probably the same name as the old playlist).
The downside to this method is that you have to do it every time you add a song to the playlist. Unfortunately, I don't think there's another way.

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Hello helpful ones.
I've got a rather annoying problem. I have a few smart playlists on my iPod Mini, like most people. I've set my iTunes to NOT autosync with the iPod. This is because the iPod does not have enough storage space for this feature.
Anyway, take the "recently added"-playlist for example. I've set it up to return the 50 newest songs, and sort them by their title/name. Whenever I drag-n-drop a new file onto the iPod, it appears in the playlist but allways ends up at the bottom. The iPod is totally disregarding my sorting instructions.
Playlist details, roughly translated from Norwegian:
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<Date added> <is in the last> <3> <months>
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<auto update>
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I'm using an iPod Mini with firmware version 1.4 (all though it seems like this problem has been there with previous versions, but I can't really remember) and iTunes version 6.0.1.3 (Norwegian).
Does anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong, or why my iPod is acting up?
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I read most of that thread before posting my question. It seems like the problems mentioned in that scenario gets solved when connecting the iPod to a computer.
That's what I can't understand here. When browsing the playlist on the iPod from within iTunes, everything seems updated and ok. But when I'm accessing the same playlist on the iPod itself after disconnecting it from the computer, the newly added songs just gets appended to the bottom of the list. I.e. no sorting of titles.
Just for the record, I completly restored both the iPod firmware (erasing everything) and the iTunes installation on my computer. I also reinstalled the ipodservice-thing that runs when you connect the device.

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Just figured it out...

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Whenever I create a video playlist, and add to it, the iPod always shows the contents of the playlist in reverse alphabetical order.
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Guy's we are speculating.
Clearly this is software version 1.0 and improvements will come in time, if you have any requests you should send them to feedback, Apple are happy to receive feedback, for example I'm not convinced the menu listings are as good as they could be but I'm glad Apple didn't rush in and lock us into file listing system without giving us the opportunity to let them know what we felt by feedback.
As for the bugs ???. I've read more posts than most and apart maybe from the waking from sleep issue, I haven't seen an issue that can be attributed to a bug. Bilbo if you have a problem you should start a post, but remember issues can arise from a number of sources and if someone is unable to help you because they have no knowledge of your equipment and set up, it doesn't mean it's a software bug in the tv or itunes. Surely you realise that there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of us out there that have no problems at all.

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If only we had access to the SQL engine hiding inside iTunes it would be easy. However sorting 30,000 songs with vbScript would be painfully slow. If you can narrow things down so that you are working with say a few album artists at a time it might be practical. Looking at the iTunes COM SDK I can't seem to find a way to affect the *Play Order* of an existing playlist, however adding tracks to a new playlist in the order that you want should be possible. The script would need to gather the indexes of the selected tracks and the other properties you need for sorting into some kind of array, sort this array, and then construct the new playlist by adding the tracks in the given order. If you are in to writing scripts then you might want to look at my scripts page in case anything there gives you inspiration, otherwise I'll try to have a go at putting something together. SortDateAdded contains a sort method and Unconsolidated has a playlist building routine. It should be possible to automatically "uncheck" all but the longest track with each track name. You could then review the list in case you want to change things.
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How can I get my Recently Added back to how it was before I reset? Also, is there any way to sort a playlist by the numbering (i.e. 1, 2, 3)?

Basically, I reset my computer (not rebooted; reset, as in wiped it clean) and backed up all my music. After putting the songs back onto my iPhone, the playlists like My Top Rated and Recently Played were empty, of course. For Recently Added, all of my songs were in there. I imported my playlists and most were back to normal. However, the first 13 songs in my Recently Added were the same as before I reset my computer, which I found really odd, so I figured that they were sorted somehow for that to happen--they had to be. The rest of the songs were all of my other songs.
Anyways, I can't find a way to get my Recently Added to just have those 13 songs and it's really irritating me. Is there a way??? Yes, I've tried limiting to 13 items. I've also tried sorting by name, and the "most recently/least recently added" options didn't work either. How can I sort it by numbering, as in the actual numbers next to the Artist name???
Also, notice how the first 13 songs are sorted by Name and after those songs, the rest are sorted by Artist Name. So, I'm thinking this issue is fixable. It's peeving me!

lil9lovely3 wrote:
For Recently Added, all of my songs were in there. I imported my playlists and most were back to normal. However, the first 13 songs in my Recently Added were the same as before I reset my computer, which I found really odd, so I figured that they were sorted somehow for that to happen--they had to be. The rest of the songs were all of my other songs.
A smart playlist like "Recently Added" is based on the date that a track is added to your library. Since you erased your computer and re-built your library from scratch, all your tracks are considered "recently added" because iTunes assigned a new date to each song as it was re-added to your library.
Instead of re-building your library from scratch, and re-importing certain playlists you had saved, it might've been better to have simply recovered your "iTunes Library.itl" file. That is the index that points to where all your song files are, and contains all your playlists, and has properties such as ratings, last played date, and date added. As long as the native files for your songs are in the same place, you could re-use your "iTunes Library.itl" file if you saved a copy before you erased your computer (always back that file up along with your native files, the .itl file IS your library).
As far as why the Recently Added playlist starts with 13 particular songs, then proceeds with the rest of all your songs in alphabetic order, it is possible that either you (or iTunes) started adding the songs back with the 13 most recent songs you had previously added to your library before it was erased, and once those were added then things proceeded by artist in alphabetical order. Not sure, but there's really nothing you can do about that other than replace your .itl file with the original version if you still have it somewhere.

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sing digits at the beginning of the playlist name isn't
appropriate as some of the names actually start with digits already!
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Alexander.

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I have tried pretty much everything I have seen on this discussion board...apply sort field, sorting each song, etc...none of them work. The playlists always default back to sorting by number.

Hmm, dunno then. If you want to step me through the process you use to do this, I can try it on my PCs and see if the same thing happens.
Maybe it was designed that way, for all I know. You can also do a Help > Provide iTunes feedback and send your comments to Apple.

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I just completed my iTunes Match thing, and i was happy.
But then realised that i can't sync particualr playlists using iTunes, to my iPhone.
Why is this. Why can't i sort my music, the way i used to, using iTunes, then syncing up the playlists that i want and th emusic that i want.
What i'm seeing is this;
Instead of the usual sync opions. Now i'm afraid to sync my iPhone incase it removes or adds music that i don't want on my iPhone at this time.
Is there a way to get the out Sync opions back?

And so now i discover that all my iPhone playlists are gone, all the music is there, but i have no playlists, nothign.
Do i need to recreate all my playlists again using my iPhone?
If so, i wish i'd never used iTunes Match now. Its just created more problems then it sovled.
Thanks Apple, thanks for infoming me that i'd lose all my playlists on my iPhone, and now have to spend god knows how long rebuilding them.
PUT THE IPHONE MUSIC SYNC OPIONS BACK TO THE WAY THERE WERE!
If not, then i guess i might end up taking all my DRM free music someplace else, couse i feel, lately using Apple is far much like hard work.

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Anyone got any tricks for these things?
Thx

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Any one know how to sort a playlist by shuffle order in itunes 11?

Before you could just click on the number column after shuffling and it would sort by what was up next. I would like to see all my song info not just the name and album that the 'up next' pop up gives.

I've just discovered, by accident, that if I double-click on a song in the Up Next playlist, iTunes will begin playing that song and remove the earlier ones above it from the list. So if you don't like what's coming up, double-click the first one in the list that you do like.
To add songs in the Up Next to a Playlist, highlight them; click on the first one, shift click on the last one and it does this (or CTRL + click to select only the songs that you want):
To add those to an existing Playlist, you have to right-click the blue area of the list - but importantly, do not click on the arrow. Although it will give you an "add to playlist" option, it will only add the last track. To add every highlighted track, you must right-click and see this menu:
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You may have noticed, I said existing Playlist. I haven't noticed a "create new playlist" option when I'm doing this.
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