Why is Spotify not playing my playlist in order
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Spotify has a handsome macOS app for accessing and making playlists, searching its library of music and other audio, and playing it back. But theres a mystery in its lists: If you click a column heading for a playlist, album, or other view to sort by ascending or descending order, how do you restore the original sequence? This is particularly critical with albums, because those of us who remember albumsor are listening to multi-track audiobookswould like to hear them in the order in which they were produced or intended. Because its a kind of semi-app, like Slack and many others for macOS, Spotify presents few options in its menus to help figure out app behavior. The answer is crystal unclear: Column headings, when clicked, cycled through ascending order, descending order, and original order. Yes, thats right. To get back to where you are, you click again. Spotify signals its using a non-play-order sort with a green arrow in a category heading. For instance, lets say you sorted the Harry Potter soundtracks playlist by album, figuring this would arrange it both by album and the tracks within the album. You would be incorrect. Its unclear what the Sorting Hat did, but its not that. Now you want to get back to the original album and tracks-within-album order.
In both cases, all green arrows will disappear from the column heads and the original run of songs will be restored. Ask Mac 911Weve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: {{#url}}read our super FAQ{{/url}}{{^url}}read our super FAQ{{/url}} to see if your question is covered. If not, were always looking for new problems to solve! Email yours to{{#url}}{{/url}}{{^url}}{{/url}} including screen captures as appropriate, and whether you want your full name used. Every question wont be answered, we dont reply to email, and we cannot provide direct troubleshooting advice. |
