Finally, you can sort the music in your playlist of popular songs on Spotify.
Welcoming the game to the Spotify Songs playlist has always been a bit misleading for me – I never know if I’ll get Steely Dan or Phoebe Bridgers or Ginuwine’s “Pony”. If it sounds like you (maybe without “Pony”, but that’s your job), Spotify with pity it began to unfold mood and gender filters today for free and premium accounts.
Spotify says that for anyone with at least 30 songs in the Playlists, it will be able to filter their music with up to 15 custom categories of genre and mood. However, these mood and genre filters are populated based on the music in your playlist. This means that if you change the playlist by adding or removing titles, you can also change the mood and genre filters.
To activate the function, go to Your library and select Appreciated songs. Under the “Add songs” button, but above the actual playlist, you should see additional bubbles showing you mood filters and gender. To filter by a specific category, select the balloon. To disable it, click on the “X” that will appear next to it. In the Spotify demo of the feature, some of the filters included chill, indie, electronic, rap and folk.
Don’t be alarmed if you don’t see the feature right away. Spotify said it will come on iOS and Android in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia “in the coming weeks”, so be careful.