mcieno / spotify-sort-by-release

Sort Spotify playlists by release date of tracks.

spotify-sort-by-release

It's 2019 2020 2021 and Spotify still doesn't support sorting playlists by release date of tracks. This simple tool uses Spotify Web API to sort a playlist in this way.

Requirements

• Requests.

Installing

Clone the repository

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/mcieno/spotify-sort-by-release.git
cd spotify-sort-by-release

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install spotify-sort-by-release

pip install .

Usage

You can use spotify-sort-by-release as a command line tool.

• spotify-sort-by-release library: sorts the library
• spotify-sort-by-release playlist: sorts a playlist

You'll need an OAuth Token to contact the Spotify Web API, indeed. Make sure you request a token with permissions to create playlists for your account or to edit your library.

The script will create a new playlist and insert tracks into it sorted by release date, so that the "custom order" of the playlist is the desired one.