Automatically organize your Spotify Liked Songs
Turn your Spotify Liked Songs into playlists by genre, decade, release year, tempo or language, and let Playlistation keep each one up to date.
Sign in with Spotify. The Free plan needs no card.
Playlistation is a Spotify Liked Songs organizer. You describe a playlist with filters, such as "released in the 1980s" or "the artist is tagged french hip hop", and it fills that playlist from the tracks you have already liked. The playlists are real Spotify playlists in your own library, and they stay current on their own: like a track in Spotify and it lands in every playlist it matches.
Nothing is sorted by hand, and nothing is sorted only once. A filter is a rule the playlist keeps, not a single pass over your library.
How it works
- Sign in with Spotify. There is no account to create and no password to type. Spotify shows you what the app may do, then sends you back. Free and Premium Spotify accounts both work.
- Describe a playlist with filters. Give it a name and add one or more of the 18 filters. While you build it, the app lists which of your liked tracks match and why.
- Let it run. Playlistation creates the playlist on your Spotify account and fills it, then re-runs your filters on a schedule, adding the tracks that now match and removing the ones that no longer do.
What you can organize by
Nine filters work on every plan and nine need the Plus or Pro plan. These are the ones most libraries start with:
- Genre, the labels Spotify puts on an artist: rock, french hip hop, melodic techno. See organizing Liked Songs by genre and the Artist genre filter.
- Decade, from the 40s to the 2020s in one click. See playlists by decade.
- Release year, a single year, a range of years, or everything released since a date. See sorting Liked Songs by release year and the Release date filter.
- Tempo, in beats per minute, on the Plus and Pro plans. See filtering Liked Songs by BPM and building a running playlist.
- Language of the lyrics, on the Plus and Pro plans. See organizing Liked Songs by language.
- The date you liked the track, which is how a "new this month" playlist empties itself. See organizing Liked Songs by date added.
The rest cover the artist by name, artist and track popularity, follower count, duration, explicit content, and seven measurements of how a track sounds: energy, danceability, positiveness, acousticness, instrumentalness, liveness and speechiness. Every one of them, with its operators and defaults, is in all filters.
Playlists people build first
Each row is written the way the app shows the filter once it is saved.
| Playlist | Filters |
|---|---|
| The 80s | Release date: The 80s (1980–1989) |
| New this month | Liked date: In the last 30 days |
| French rap | The track language is one of French, and the track artist is tagged with one of french hip hop |
| Running | The track BPM is between 156 and 176, and the track energy is at least 70% |
| Long tracks | The track is 6:00 or longer |
| Discoveries | Liked date: In the last 180 days, and the track artist has at most 100K followers |
More of them, written out step by step, are in combining filters.
Why it keeps organizing after the first run
Sorting a library tells you what was in it that day. Playlistation stores the filters and re-runs them: each playlist is refreshed about every six hours on the Free plan, every hour on Plus and every 30 minutes on Pro. Between two runs the app reads your Liked Songs at most once an hour, so a track you like now shows up in its playlists within about an hour or two on a paid plan.
That is also what makes a rolling playlist possible. "Liked in the last 30 days" is not a snapshot: a track joins it the day you like it and leaves it 30 days later, without you opening the app. The full loop, and what happens when Spotify says no, is in how syncing works.
What it does not do
- It only ever uses your Liked Songs. Playlistation does not read your listening history or what is in your other playlists, and it never adds a track you have not liked.
- It is not a recommendation engine. Even the suggestions on the Discover page are groupings of music that is already in your library.
- A smart playlist is the result of its filters. Add a track to one by hand in Spotify and the next update removes it, because it does not match. To change what is in a playlist, change its filters.
- It only writes to the playlists it created. Your other playlists are never modified. Once a day the app lists them, and only to notice when you have deleted one of its own in Spotify.
Plans
The Free plan covers a small library and needs no card: 5 playlists, 3 filters each, your 1,000 most recent likes, refreshed about every six hours. Plus is 3 dollars a month and raises that to 50 playlists, 30 filters and 3,000 tracks; Pro is 10 dollars a month for 500 playlists, 100 filters and 50,000 tracks. Both paid plans unlock the nine filters that read Spotify's audio analysis or the language of the lyrics. The full table is in plans and billing.
Questions about organizing Spotify Liked Songs
How can I automatically organize my Spotify Liked Songs?
Sign in to Playlistation with your Spotify account, create a playlist and give it one or more filters, for example a genre, a decade or a range of BPM. Playlistation creates the playlist on Spotify, fills it with the liked tracks that match, and re-checks your Liked Songs on a schedule so the playlist keeps up with what you like and unlike. You never sort anything by hand.
Can Spotify sort my Liked Songs into playlists on its own?
Spotify lets you sort and search what you see inside Liked Songs, and on Premium, in some countries, it can build a playlist from a prompt. What it does not keep is the rule: there is no saved condition that re-checks your library later and adds the tracks that now match it. That persistent rule, and the playlist it maintains, is what Playlistation adds.
Can a Spotify playlist update automatically when I like a song?
Yes. That is the normal behaviour of every playlist Playlistation creates. When you like a track in Spotify, the next update adds it to each smart playlist whose filters it passes, and unliking it takes it back out. Free plan playlists refresh about every six hours, Plus every hour and Pro every 30 minutes.
Is there a smart playlist feature for Spotify?
Spotify itself has no smart playlists in the sense of a saved rule that keeps a playlist filled. Playlistation adds them from the outside, through Spotify's official API: 18 filters, combined with AND and OR, over the tracks in your Liked Songs. The playlists it produces are ordinary Spotify playlists, so they play on every device you already use.
How many liked tracks can Playlistation organize?
It watches your most recently liked tracks, up to 1,000 on the Free plan, 3,000 on Plus and 50,000 on Pro. Older likes are never read, and the app says so on the Playlists page when your library is bigger than the limit. A single Spotify playlist also cannot hold more than 10,000 tracks, which is Spotify's limit rather than ours.
Will it change the playlists I already have?
No. Playlistation only writes to the playlists it created itself. Everything else in your library is left exactly as it is, and their contents are never read. If you delete a smart playlist, you choose whether it disappears from Spotify too or stays there as an ordinary playlist that no longer updates.
Do I need Spotify Premium?
No. A free Spotify account is enough to create and fill smart playlists, because playlists are part of Spotify's free tier. Premium changes how you listen, not what Playlistation can build.