Smart playlists for Spotify

Unlike traditional playlists you manually create and manage, smart playlists created with Playlistation are automatically updated.

You create a playlist and you add filters like "The artist is X" or "The track was released in the last 30 days".

We then fill the playlist with the tracks in your library that match these filters, and keep watching your library for changes. Remove a track from your library and it leaves your smart playlists. Add a new one and we check it against your smart playlists' filters and add it wherever it matches.

Playlistation takes playlist curation off your hands. Add a new track to your library and we sort it into the smart playlists you set up, so you no longer have to work out which playlist it belongs in.

Yes. Spotify provides the Spotify Web API so developers can build apps around Spotify.

To offer "Login with Spotify", an app must pass a review by the Spotify team against the Spotify Developer Policy.

Playlistation does not have access to your Spotify login information.

To sign in, you go to the Spotify website, where Spotify asks you to let Playlistation manage your playlists and access your library.

Once you accept, Spotify sends you back to Playlistation with a token. We use that token to talk to Spotify, so we never see your Spotify password.

You can find more information in the Spotify API Documentation • Authorization.

Your plan sets how often each playlist refreshes: about every 6 hours on Free, every hour on Plus and every 30 minutes on Pro. A background job runs every minute and picks the playlists that have waited longest.

We use the Spotify Web API to monitor liked tracks and keep the playlists up to date.

The Spotify API is rate limited, meaning there is a maximum number of requests we can make per minute.

Factors like the number of Playlistation users, the size of their libraries (liked tracks) and the number of smart playlists created in Playlistation increase the number of requests needed to keep the app running.

We fetch your Liked Songs at most once an hour per account, so we can take up to an hour to notice a new like, plus the wait for the playlist's next refresh.

We monitor rate-limiting errors and will change the update frequency if needed to keep the service reliable for every Playlistation user.

Change the playlist image in Spotify and Playlistation picks it up on the next sync. The title is different: rename a playlist in Spotify and Playlistation keeps showing its own name, then writes that name back over yours the next time you edit the playlist here. Rename it in Playlistation instead.

You cannot add or remove tracks from playlists created with Playlistation, because every time Playlistation syncs your playlist it overrides your manual changes.

You can delete a playlist within Playlistation. You will have to choose between keeping the playlist on Spotify with its current list of tracks or deleting it from both Playlistation and Spotify.

You can also delete the playlist in Spotify like any other. Playlistation then removes it from the app as well.

To exercise your GDPR rights, including accessing, updating, or deleting your personal data, please email us at dpo@playlistation.com with the email associated with your Spotify account.

To learn more about how we handle your data, please visit our Privacy Policy.