Spotify offers a user-friendly interface for creating playlists, making it easy to organize music and build a personalized library. For better listening experiences, it also allows users to change song orders in the playlists. Premium users have greater control, as they can manage the playlist song orders from both Spotify mobile and desktop apps. On the other hand, free users can only arrange Spotify playlist songs on desktop.
Whether you’re a Premium or free user, if you want to refresh your Spotify playlists by reordering songs -such as changing the default order or moving your favorites to the top for better visibility – follow this guide to learn how to do it on desktop, mobile, or any device.
Both Free and Premium users can change playlist song orders with the Spotify desktop app. You can sort the song in certain orders, or move any song to any place you wish.
* This option is applicable for playlists created both by you and others (Spotify and other users).
Spotify offers a “sort by” feature that allows you to quickly organize a playlist by title, album, date added, duration, etc. It’s especially useful when you are listening to a big playlist that could not be done within one day. You can sort the songs by title, and easily pick up where you left off the other day.
Here is how you can sort the songs in a Spotify playlist:
You can also customize the order of playlist songs in a drag-and-drop manner. If you want to rearrange a specific song, just hold it and drag it to the desired position within the playlist.
Keep in mind that the playlist must be in Custom order to support the drag-and-drop feature. Otherwise, songs cannot be moved within the playlist. Click the Menu icon at the top right and select Custom Order from the “Sort by” menu if your playlist is organized by other criteria such as title or artist.
** This method supports playlists created by you only. If you want to freely change the song order in a playlist created by Spotify or other users, you’ll need to create a playlist from it. To do that, Right-click the playlist and select Create Playlist from the menu. Then you can change the song order in the new playlist created by you.
Spotify Premium members can sort and customize a playlist order on mobile. Sadly, Spotify Free users can only shuffle-play their playlists with the Spotify mobile app.
Remember to turn off the Shuffle or Smart Shuffle mode before rearranging your playlist song order.
To sort a Spotify playlist by time, title, artist, album and more:
Follow these steps to arrange your playlist songs in any order:
Spotify does allow you to change the order of songs in playlists, but this feature comes with limitations, especially for free users using the mobile app. Free users can only shuffle play playlists with ads, preventing them from sorting or customizing the song orders on mobile. Even with a premium subscription, there are certain playlists that do not allow users to change the song order.
To overcome these limitations, consider using the Pazu Spotify Converter to download your playlists to MP3. This specialized tool offers a practical solution for both Spotify Free and Premium users to download all Spotify songs, playlists, albums, and podcasts for offline listening. It can extract Spotify music and convert it into standard formats such as MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, and AAC. This functionality essentially provides Spotify Premium features within a free account. Moreover, the downloaded tracks can be transferred to other MP3-compatible devices, allowing you to freely change the song orders on any device without limitations.
Key features of Pazu Spotify Converter:
Now, let’s learn how to use Pazu Spotify Music Converter to download and convert Spotify songs with a free subscription from the following tutorial.
Download, install, and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in to your Spotify account with the built-in web player.
Click the gear icon on the top right corner. Here you can select the output format (AUTO[M4A], MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, or AIFF), choose output audio quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files, and more.
Use the integrated Spotify web player to search the songs, albums, or playlists, you want to download. Click the Add to List button to load all songs in the album or playlist.
Click the Convert button to start downloading the Spotify songs to your local computer.
You can download individual songs or batch-convert the entire playlist.
To download individual songs or specific songs of your choice, simply uncheck the ones you don’t want to download.
Check all the songs in the playlist or album to download them all.
Once the conversion is done, you can find your Spotify songs downloaded as local files by clicking the folder button or directly going to the output folder you customized in the previous step.
Note: The free trial version of Pazu Spotify Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song. You can remove the trial limitation by purchasing the full version.
Download and convert any Spotify songs, albums, playlists to MP3/M4A etc.