Sort-Play: The Ultimate Spotify Toolkit
A Spicetify extension that adds powerful sorting, filtering, UI features, and more to the Spotify desktop client.
⚡️ Features
➕ Comprehensive Sorting - Sort by play count, scrobbles, release date, audio features, and more.
Sort playlists, albums, and artist pages by a wide range of metrics.
- Global Play Count: The track's total play count on Spotify.
- Popularity: Spotify's internal 0-100 popularity index.
- Release Date: The track's official album release date.
- True Release Date: The track's actual historical debut. Automatically bypasses later re-issues, compilations, and remasters to find the original release date, while preserving accurate dates for live tracks and remixes (Note: accuracy is limited to the oldest available track on Spotify and may not be 100% accurate).
- Artist & Release Date: Sorts tracks alphabetically by artist, then chronologically by release date.
- Last.fm Scrobbles: The track's total global scrobbles on Last.fm.
- My Scrobbles: Your personal scrobble count for each track (requires Last.fm username).
- Scrobble Range: Your personal scrobbles within a specific custom date range (requires Last.fm username).
- Last Scrobbled: The date you personally last scrobbled a track (requires Last.fm username).
- Taste Match: Sorts tracks by how well they align with your unique listening history and personal taste profile.
- Energy Wave: Creates a dynamic listening journey by arranging tracks to smoothly transition through different energy levels and moods.
- Liked Status: Sorts tracks based on whether they are liked in your library.
- Album Color: The dominant color of the album artwork, with modes for perceptual grouping or a pure hue gradient.
- Audio Features:
➕ Quick Filters - Filter duplicates, unavailable tracks, release types, followed artists, and more.
Clean, filter, and audit your playlists with quick actions and interactive review modals.
- Remove Duplicates: Opens an interactive Duplicate Tracks Manager to audit, preview, and resolve duplicates before modifying your library:
- Remove Unavailable: Find and manage regionally unplayable (greyed-out) songs through a dedicated audit modal. Selectively remove them from your playlist, unlike them from Liked Songs, create a clean copy, export as Text/JSON, or archive them into a backup playlist.
- One Track per Artist: Keep only a single track for each unique artist, automatically prioritizing the most played or most popular track.
- Liked Status:
- Followed Artists:
- Release Type: Isolate specific release formats. Options include Albums, EPs, Singles, Compilations, and various combinations (e.g., "Albums & EPs"), with an optional toggle to group tracks by album.
- Remove Trashed: Instantly remove songs you've banned using the Trashbin extension.
- Exclude via Playlist: Filter out tracks that already exist in another playlist or folder of your choice.
➕ Extra Data Columns - Add play count, BPM, scrobbles, and more as columns in your views.
Enhance your music views with more information.
- Playlist Columns: Add up to two extra data columns to any playlist or search view.
- Album & Artist Columns: Add one extra data column to album and artist pages.
- Data Types: Display Play Count, Release Date, True Release Date, Scrobbles, My Scrobbles, Last Scrobbled, Key, BPM, Popularity, Energy, Danceability, Valence, and DJ Info (Key + BPM + Energy).
- Custom Formatting: Configure formats for release dates, personal scrobbles (number vs. checkmark), keys (Camelot, Standard, Open Key), and Last Scrobbled (relative vs. date).
- Quick Column Switching: Click the header of any extra column to instantly switch its data type.
- Interactive Cells: Click on a True Release Date cell to instantly navigate to that exact album. Click on Scrobble data cells to instantly view detailed Last.fm stats.
➕ UI & Enhancements - Genre tags, now playing data, old like button, and other tweaks.
- Old Like Button: Brings back the heart (♥) icon for liking songs in track lists, the player bar, Now Playing sidebar, and track previews feed, with intelligent ISRC matching. Right-clicking the like button opens a menu to view alternate versions, jump to albums, and copy ISRCs.
- Interactive Genre Tags: Displays clickable tags on the Now Playing bar and Artist pages linking to EveryNoise playlists or Spotify search.
- Now Playing Data: Display extra track info (Release Date, Play Count, BPM, Key, Energy, Scrobbles, etc.) directly in the player bar next to the title or artist, with customizable formatting and separators.
- Configurable Sorting: Easily toggle ascending/descending order for all applicable sort types.
- Last.fm Overrides Manager: Manually fix mismatched Last.fm track links, edit overrides, and import/export override backups as JSON.
- Update History: View changelogs and release commits directly inside the extension settings.
- Live Chat: Access a live chat panel directly within the settings to talk with other Sort-Play users.
➕ Context Menus - Powerful right-click actions for tracks, artists, and playlists.
Access tools directly from Spotify's native right-click menus.
- Create Discography (Artist Menu): Generate a fully sorted and deduplicated discography playlist right from an artist's context menu.
- Show Genres (Track/Playlist/Album Menus): View detailed, multi-source genre tags for individual tracks, or open an aggregated breakdown of ranked genres across entire playlists and albums with search filtering, source indicators, and percentage bars.
- Last.fm Details (Track Menu): View Last.fm listeners, scrobbles, track tags, listening trends, and Shoutbox comments directly inside Spotify, with manual link override support.
- Last.fm Details (Artist Menu): View global listeners, total scrobbles, and top community tags for any artist.
- Shuffle & Play (All Menus): Instantly shuffle and play any playlist, album, or artist (with optional Vibe & Flow) directly from the right-click menu.
➕ Full Artist Discography - Automatically load and sort an artist's entire catalog.
Apply any sort or filter option while on an Artist page to automatically fetch and process their complete discography.
- Complete Collection: Instantly gathers tracks from all albums, singles, compilations, and "Appears On" releases during the sort process.
- Intelligent Deduplication: Automatically cleans up duplicate tracks with customizable modes in Settings:
(Note: Compilation versions are always removed if an original version exists, keeping your list clean).
➕ Smart Shuffle & Flow - Artist-aware shuffle with optional energy-based flow.
Randomize your listening with advanced options.
- Intelligent Shuffle: Prevents multiple songs by the same artist from playing back-to-back for a more varied listening session.
- Vibe & Flow Shuffle: An optional mode that creates a dynamic listening journey by arranging shuffled tracks based on energy wave patterns, tempo transitions, and harmonic key matching.
➕ Dedicated Playlist Creation - Generate top tracks, new releases, discovery mixes, and more.
Generate a variety of curated playlists with a single click.
- Available Playlist Types:
- Automated Updates: Schedule your dedicated playlists to update automatically (e.g., daily, weekly on Fridays) to always keep them fresh.
- Advanced Filtering for New Releases: Filter new releases by keywords, track versions (Live, Remix, Acoustic, Instrumental), specific followed artists, and album limits.
- Customizable Limits: Configure the size of your Top Tracks and Discovery playlists, the time window for New Releases, and the number of tracks to pull from each new album.
- Appearance Customization: Set custom names and upload custom cover images for any dedicated playlist card.
➕ Dynamic Playlists - Build self-updating playlists with custom sources, filters, and schedules.
Build powerful, self-updating playlists that manage themselves.
- Multi-Source: Combine tracks from any number of playlists, artists, albums, folders, Liked Songs, or Local Files.
- Automated Scheduling: Set an update schedule (e.g., every 3 hours, daily, weekly on Fridays) or custom intervals, with on-demand manual runs.
- Customizable Sorting: Apply any sort method (Play Count, Release Date, Scrobbles, Taste Match, Audio Features, Shuffle, etc.) with standard or reversed direction, plus track deduplication.
- Advanced Filtering: Automatically filter source tracks based on rules:
- Flexible Update Modes:
- Track Sampling: Limit the number or percentage of random tracks pulled from each source on every update, with automatic rotation to prevent repeats.
➕ Playlist Analyzer - Get visual insights and charts for your current view.
Generate a dashboard of the current tracklist (Playlist/Artist/Album) with visual insights and charts.
- Top Artists, Albums & Genres: Explore interactive Treemaps showcasing the most prominent artists and albums, alongside genre distributions.
- Quick Stats: View metrics like total duration, and total/median streams.
- Timeline & Eras: See when the tracks were released using a Release Year Bar Chart, or use the Decades Analysis to see the defining eras (e.g., 80s, 90s, 00s) of the list.
- Vibe Map (Mood Analysis): View the emotional tone of the tracks via a categorized Mood Ring, or explore the interactive Heatmap that maps track density based on Positivity (Valence) vs. Intensity (Energy).
- Audio Profile & Musicality: View the Tempo (BPM) distribution, Top Musical Keys displayed on an interactive Camelot Wheel, and a Radar Chart breaking down acousticness, danceability, energy, and more.
- Setting Predictor: Predicts the ideal time of day and weather (e.g., "Late Night", "Sunny & Clear") for the current tracklist based on its audio features.
➕ Vibe Filter - Filter tracks by mood using an interactive grid or mixer.
Analyze and filter tracks based on their raw emotional tone and audio features.
- 9 Distinct Vibes: Filter across Workout (Hype), Party, Focus, Chill, Late Night Drive, Morning Coffee, Gaming, Rainy, and Festival (Pregame).
- Grid Mode: Select multiple vibes to easily filter and include tracks that match any of the selected moods.
- Mixer Mode: Act like a DJ by dialing in exact percentages for each vibe to craft the perfect blended playlist.
- Match Strictness: Choose between Broad, Balanced, or Strict match levels to control how closely tracks must fit your chosen vibes.
➕ Advanced Custom Filter - Filter by keywords, range sliders, and preview results in an interactive table.
A completely redesigned, powerful modal to meticulously filter any playlist or discography.
- Range Sliders: Apply precise dual range sliders with empty-range indicators for attributes like Release Date, Date Added, Duration, Play Count, Popularity, Scrobbles, and Audio Features.
- Track Versions & Status: Filter precisely by Live, Remix, Acoustic, and Instrumental versions, as well as Explicit, Liked, Followed, and Scrobble History status.
- Release Types & Quick Actions: Instantly isolate Albums, EPs, Singles, or Compilations, apply quick deduplication, one track per artist, and remove trashed songs.
- Harmonic Key Filtering: Filter tracks by musical key using an interactive Camelot wheel with optional harmonic mixing.
- Keyword Filtering: Use keywords to filter by track title, album, and artist, with options to keep or exclude matches and match whole words.
- Interactive Tracklist: View, sort, and manually remove tracks from your filtered selection in a detailed Tracklist before creating the playlist.
- Save & Load Keywords: Save your favorite keyword sets into named groups and load them instantly for future use.
- Integrated Mini-Player: Preview and listen to tracks directly within the Tracklist to help make your selections.
- Flexible Output: Save as a new playlist, modify the current playlist, or send directly to the playback queue.
➕ Genre Filtering - Filter by genre using multi-source data from Spotify, Last.fm, and Deezer.
Filter any playlist or discography by genre with a powerful, interactive modal.
- Multi-Source Data: Uses lightning-fast Spotify Track genres by default, with optional toggles to use genre data from Last.fm, Deezer, and EveryNoise.
- Cloud Caching: Uses a smart, community-driven database. Once a track is processed by any user, its genres load instantly for everyone else.
- Intelligent Mapping: Automatically groups hundreds of specific sub-genres into broader, easy-to-understand main genres.
- Include & Exclude Modes: Offers dual-action filtering to include genres (left-click) or exclude them (right-click).
- Intuitive Interface: Easily browse, search, and select genres, complete with track counts for each genre and a "select all" option.
- Sort & Output Selection: Choose how to sort and output the filtered tracks, with options to create a new playlist, modify the current playlist, or add to queue.
➕ AI Pick - Filter tracks using natural language prompts with Google Gemini.
Use AI to select specific songs from your current list based on your prompt.
- Context-Aware: Picks tracks directly from the current playlist, album, or artist page.
- Powered by Gemini: Utilizes Google's Gemini models for intelligent track selection.
- Customizable Instructions: Edit the AI's system instructions to fine-tune its behavior.
- Advanced Controls: Choose models and toggle data sources like song statistics and lyrics.
- Use Your Own Key: Provide your own free Google Gemini API key for extended usage.
- Prompt Library & History: Save your favorite AI prompts as presets and easily access your recent prompt history.
➕ Local File Integration - Convert local files to Spotify tracks for sorting and streaming.
- Universal Support: Fully supported across sorting, custom/genre filtering, dynamic playlists, and analysis tools. Automatically converts local tracks in playlists to their Spotify versions on-the-fly.
- Dedicated Conversion Tool: Convert your entire 'Local Files' library into a new, streamable Spotify playlist directly from the menu.
- Detailed Report: After converting your Local Files, view a report of which tracks were found and which couldn't be matched.
- Export Report: Download the detailed conversion report as a JSON file for your records.
- Configurable Handling: Choose how to handle local tracks during sorting (convert and keep, convert and remove, or preserve original local files).
➕ Flexible Output Options - Save, overwrite, queue, or customize how results are handled.
Choose what happens after sorting and how your library is managed.
- Save as New Playlist: Create a brand new playlist with the sorted tracks.
- Modify Current Playlist: Directly update your own playlist with the sorted order while preserving original "Date Added" dates.
- Add to Queue: Send the sorted tracks directly to your playback queue.
- Playlist Organization: Automatically organizes all created playlists into a dedicated "Sort-Play Library" folder.
- Open After Sorting: Automatically navigate to the new or modified playlist once the process is complete.
- Deduplication Report: View a detailed list of all tracks removed during the deduplication process.
- Playlist Privacy: Configure all newly created playlists to be private by default.
- Automatic Titling: Choose whether to automatically append the sort type (e.g.,
(PlayCount)) to the playlist title.
📷 Screenshots
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Sorting Interface |
Extra Columns |
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Playlist Analyzer |
Vibe Filter |
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Dynamic Playlists |
Dedicated Playlists |
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Genre Filtering |
Custom Filters |
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Now Playing Genre & Data |
AI Pick |
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Last.fm Details |
Settings |
🛠️ Installation
Using Marketplace
- Ensure you have Spicetify and Spicetify Marketplace installed.
- Open the Spicetify Marketplace.
- Search for
Sort-Play. - Click Install.
Manual Installation
- Ensure that Spicetify is installed on your system.
- Copy the
sort-play-loader.mjsfile to the Spicetify Extensions folder:
%appdata%\spicetify\Extensions
- Linux & macOS: ~/.config/spicetify/Extensions
- Open a terminal and run the following commands:
spicetify config extensions sort-play-loader.mjs
spicetify apply