Smart playlists for Spotify that update on their own

A smart playlist on Spotify that fills itself: set the filters once and every Liked Song that fits lands in it, including the ones you like next month. Its filters read like "artist genre is french hip hop", "released in the 1980s", "between 170 and 190 BPM", and Playlistation adds every matching liked track to a real playlist in your Spotify library. The Free plan keeps 5 playlists up to date, with every filter.

Pick a genre and every liked track that matches joins the playlist.

Spotify has no saved condition of that kind. Playlistation adds it through Spotify's official API, without touching the playlists you made yourself.

How to make a smart playlist on Spotify

Sign in at playlistation.app with your Spotify account, free or Premium.
Click Create playlist and pick its filters, which also name it. A playlist can hold as many filters as you want, on every plan.
Click Create playlist at the bottom of the form. It appears in your Spotify library with every matching liked track and stays up to date.

The new playlist form with one artist filter and the sentence describing what the playlist gathers — One filter is enough; the sentence under the list says what the playlist will gather.

The permissions Spotify asks you to grant and the suggested playlists are in getting started.

What one is made of

A filter is one condition each liked track either passes or fails, and a smart playlist is the set of tracks that pass all of its filters. All of them work on every plan. Nine read the track, its artists or a date:

Filter	What it reads
Artist	The artists credited on the track
Artist genre	The genre labels on those artists
Artist popularity	Spotify's 0 to 100 score for the artist
Artist followers	How many followers the artist has
Track popularity	Spotify's 0 to 100 score for the track
Duration	How long the track is
Explicit content	Spotify's explicit flag
Liked date	When you saved the track
Release date	When the album came out

Nine more read Spotify's audio analysis or the language of the lyrics: Language, Tempo in BPM, Energy, Danceability, Positiveness, Acousticness, Instrumentalness, Liveness and Speechiness.

Combining them

Filters are joined with AND by default: a track has to pass every one. The pill between two rows switches that pair to OR, a group a track only has to satisfy once, which is how one playlist covers two decades or three genres.

A filter list with an AND pill between two rows and an Any of box grouping two filters joined by OR — Click the pill between two filters to switch AND and OR.

Under the list, the app writes out in plain language what the playlist will gather, so a wrong one shows before you create it. The operators, the groups and six worked recipes are in combining filters.

What keeps them up to date

Playlistation stores the filters, not the result. A background job re-runs them over your Liked Songs, adding the tracks that now match and removing the ones that no longer do:

Plan	Refreshed
Free	Once a day
Plus	Every hour
Pro	In under 30 minutes

Liking a track in Spotify is enough; nothing has to be pressed here.

A playlist card showing the Syncing status pill next to its track count — The pill flips while an update runs.

A smart playlist is the result of its filters. A track added by hand in Spotify is removed at the next update, and a matching track deleted by hand comes back. Kept: the cover image you set, and whether you made the playlist public.

The whole loop is in how syncing works.

Where to start

From a filter you have in mind: create a playlist, pick the filter, save. Creating a playlist walks through the form.
From your own library: the Discover page proposes ready-made playlists, and the Stats page turns your top artists, genres or decades into one in a few clicks. See quick playlists.
From a job you already know you want: organizing by genre, by decade, by release year, by BPM, by language or by the date you liked a track.

The Discover page with a grid of suggested playlists, two of them selected, and the Create 2 playlists button — Each suggestion shows how many of your liked tracks it would hold.

What they are not

Every track comes from your Liked Songs, so a smart playlist only contains music you have already liked. Playlistation does not read your listening history or your other playlists, and never adds a track you have not saved. It is not a recommendation engine.

Questions about Spotify smart playlists

Is there a smart playlist feature for Spotify?

Not in Spotify itself. Spotify can sort and filter what you see inside Liked Songs, and on Premium, in some countries, build a playlist from a prompt, but it does not save that condition and re-apply it. Playlistation adds it: filters over your Liked Songs, and a real Spotify playlist kept in step with them.

Can I make Spotify smart playlists for free?

Yes. The Free plan needs no card and does not expire. It has every filter, keeps 5 playlists up to date, reads your 1,000 most recent Liked Songs and refreshes once a day. Plus ($2.99 or €2.99 a month) has unlimited playlists, reads your 3,000 most recent likes and refreshes every hour; Pro ($6.99 or €6.99 a month) reads your whole library and refreshes in under 30 minutes. Euro prices include VAT. See plans and billing.

How does a Spotify smart playlist stay up to date?

Playlistation stores the filters and re-runs them on a schedule, once a day on the Free plan, every hour on Plus and in under 30 minutes on Pro. Each run adds the new matches and removes the tracks that stopped matching. Before each run the app checks whether your Liked Songs have changed, so a fresh like is picked up by the next run.

Can I combine several filters in one playlist?

Yes. Filters are joined with AND by default, so a track has to pass all of them, and the pill between two rows turns that pair into an OR group where passing one is enough. There is no limit on how many filters a playlist holds, on any plan.

Do the playlists show up in Spotify?

Yes. They are real Spotify playlists in your own library, private by default, and they play on every device where you use Spotify. Nothing has to be exported, and you never have to open Playlistation to listen.

Does it modify the playlists I built myself?

No. Playlistation only writes to the playlists it created. Your own playlists are never changed and their contents are never read, and Spotify's consent screen shows exactly which permissions the app asked for before any of this starts.

What happens if I stop paying?

Nothing is deleted. Your playlists stay on Spotify with the tracks they hold. The ones over the Free plan's quota of five stop updating until a slot frees up, playlists refresh once a day, and only your 1,000 most recent likes are read. Everything resumes if you upgrade again. See plans and billing.