YouTube Music is known for its vast collection of diverse songs, a good recommendation algorithm, and its value proposition. However, a major complaint with it has always been playlist organization and sorting. Thankfully, YouTube has now started adding much-requested sorting options.
While not many people seem to have them yet, one post on Reddit shows all of the new options. Earlier, only Manual, Top voted, Newest first, and Newest last were available. Now, the list contains Title, Artist, and Album as well.
A reply to the post mentions version 9.20.52 as the one with the new sorting options, but other people on the same version still don’t have them, suggesting that it’s a server-side rollout, one that isn’t tied to a specific app version.
I’ve checked for this change myself on the web app and the YouTube Music iOS app, but I only found the old four options. This suggests that it’s a phased rollout, and not everyone will receive the sorting options at the same time.
People who have switched over to YouTube Music from Spotify were frequently complaining about the lack of these features. Being unable to sort by title or name was a major source of frustration, since it’s such a basic feature. The new options would drastically improve categorization once they’ve fully rolled out, and it’d finally put years of complaints to rest.
Reactions from users were positive, though some felt these features should’ve been added years ago. Others want the new sorting options to roll out fast, expressing excitement over finally being able to organize their playlists better.
On a concluding note, if you use YouTube Music and are facing bugs with playback, you can check out some workarounds from here. In other YouTube news, the company is testing out a new ‘Top Fans’ visibility option for videos. We covered that here.
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Sudhanshu K
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