Organize your Spotify Liked Songs by language

Playlistation sorts your Spotify Liked Songs by the language they are sung in. Pick one or more of more than 140 languages and it gathers the matching liked tracks into a real Spotify playlist, or removes them and keeps everything else. It is how a French rap playlist stays French and how you make a playlist of everything you listen to that is not in English. The Language filter needs the Plus or Pro plan, and the app marks it experimental.

Where the language comes from

Spotify publishes no language for a track, so Playlistation works it out. For each track, once, and the result is shared by everyone:

1. A lyrics source. Playlistation searches Genius for the title and the main artist. When the best match is close enough to Spotify's title, it takes the language listed there.
2. An AI model, when that disagrees with the language the artist's other tracks came out as, or when the artist is new to Playlistation. It is given only the title and the artist name, never the audio and never the lyrics.
3. The artist's usual language, borrowed as a stand-in until a real detection replaces it.

That is why the filter is marked experimental: it is a guess, a good one most of the time, and wrong sometimes. When it is wrong you can say so, and the correction sticks for everyone.

Building a playlist in one language

1. Create a playlist and name it after the language or the scene.
2. Add the Language filter and choose Is one of.
3. Type the language and add it. The list holds more than 140, each named in the language the app is set to, and you can add several.
4. Create the playlist. It fills from your Liked Songs and stays in step from then on.

The saved filter reads The track language is one of French, Spanish.

Everything except one language

Switch the operator to Is not one of and the filter removes what it names instead. The track language is none of English keeps everything else you have liked, which is a good way to hear the rest of your library again. Instrumentals come with it, since they have no language at all to exclude.

Language is what a genre filter cannot see

Spotify's genre labels mix languages: "rap" and "hip hop" cover every country at once. Adding a language is what turns a broad genre into a scene.

Genre labels are covered on organizing Liked Songs by genre, and periods on playlists by decade.

What it cannot do

• A track gets one language. A bilingual song is filed under a single one, and a cover can inherit the original's.
• Instrumentals have no language, and the picker says so: - No lyrics - is an entry you can select like any other. Pick it with Is one of and you get a playlist of exactly those tracks; pick a real language and they stay out, and Is not one of always keeps them. For "how much of this track is sung" rather than "which language", use the Instrumentalness filter.
• It is a detection, not a fact. When a track is filed wrong, expand it in the track list at the bottom of the playlist page and click the flag next to the language. Reports are read by hand, and an accepted one fixes that track for every user.

The full reference, with both operators and the exact sentences, is on the Language filter page.

It keeps sorting as you listen

The languages are stored as a rule, so the playlist follows your library rather than a moment in it. A Portuguese track you like next week joins your Portuguese playlist at the next update, every hour on the Plus plan and every 30 minutes on Pro. See how syncing works.

Questions about filtering Spotify Liked Songs by language