Songs play out of order in playlist. Screenshots inside!

[cabaynes]

So something strange that's been driving me crazy over the past 10 days or so. It's difficult to explain without showing someone in person, so please bear with me.

I use my "Starred" playlist as my default playlist to dump all my random music into. I add invididual songs to it, and I also add entire albums to it.

When I listen to this playlist, I always listen to it in order by MOST RECENTLY ADDED, and I never use shuffle. So I am always listening to this album in chronoligical order by the most recently added songs. That means if I add an entire album to the playlist, it will add the entire album in its correct order to the playlist, and that should be part of the chronological order of songs in this playlist.

However, over the last 10 days or so I have noticed a different behavior.

When playing through my Starred playlist, if I have added individual songs one by one, they will play in the order that I added them, which is correct. HOWEVER, if I have added an entire album to this list, when Spotify gets to this album in the playlist order, it will start playing the album songs in random order, skipping songs from the album, mixing them up, and/or then skipping past the album all together to the next set of individually added songs in my playlist. I have only noticed this behavior for instances where I have added an entire album at to my Starred playlist.

See the attached screenshots for examples. I have two albums in my playlist as examples where this is happening. The two albums are: "The Weeknd: Starboy" and "Incubus - SCIENCE"

Here is how the screenshots are ordered:
(THERE ARE 2 ATTACHEMENTS, WITH 4 EXAMPLES TOTAL)

LEFT PANE - You can see the ablum songs listed in my playlist, with the songs in the correct order of the album and how they should be played
MIDDLE PANE - You can see the "Now Playing" song art to display which song I'm playing from my playlist on the left pane
RIGHT PANE - If I click on the top right icon of the "Now Playing" screen to show the "Up Next" list of songs, you'll see that Spotify is either skipping songs from the album, or has them very out of order. This list of "Up Next" songs SHOULD MATCH EXACTLY the order of songs in the LEFT PANE screenshot of my playlist, however Spotify is skipping/shuffling songs within the album. Shuffle is NOT activated.

This only seems to be happening in this playlist when the playlist gets to an album that I've added. The individual songs seem to be playing chronologically fine.

Please see the attached screenshots.

Here are my specs:
- Paid spotify account
- iOS 10.2.1
- iPhone 7+
- I already completed deleted and re-installed the Spotify app on my iPhone after doing a reset on the phone.
- This is NOT happening on the desktop application. Only my iPhone app.

[cabaynes]

Tried to removed the albums and re-add them to the playlist and still having the same issue. 

[cabaynes]

Tried to removed the albums and re-add them to the playlist and still having the same issue. 

[diogoserrador]

I'm having the exact same issue!! There's no solution? 

[mburruel]

I am also having this issue, it seems to have started within the last couple of days. I just noticed it today since I usually use shuffle play. It's happening on the mobile app.

[toiletstand]

im having this very same issue!

[Adambananas]

I am having the same exact issue in an iPhone 6. What's the solution?

[cabaynes]

Still waiting for some help...... anyone from Spot hanging around these parts? 🙂

[diogoserrador]

If there's no solution soon, gonna cancel my premium subscription

[Garryw]

I am having the same issue with the ASOT playlist which is mixed so even more annoying. If have added all tracks to my own playlist and downloaded them. They are shown in the correct order. If I start the playlist from any track when viewing the playlist, it is fine. If I start the music playing from the play button that pops up from the bottom of the screen when I enter the app then it plays the currently paused song but after that track finishes, it either picks a random track from the playlist or decides to start up a radio playlist from the track I resumed.

Really infuriating and I am a premium user. This happens on my iPhone 7 running iOS 10.2 and Spotify V7.5.0.1023.

[artursapek]

same problem here, it's incredibly annoying. I'll start playing an album by clicking on it or one of the songs inside it, and spotify will continue to play it out of order after the first song is over.

seems pretty funny that a music player, whose job is to just play music, could **bleep** up something this simple.

[NexAeon]

Im having the same issuse here i would play an artist in my made playlist like Blink-182 and it will start with a random song at the begining and wont go in order from what i have made and shuffle is not on at all.

[cabaynes]

Deleted and re-installed the app once more, still having the same issue.

[toiletstand]

i tried reinstalling as well  redownloaded everything and still same issue. tried reorganizing my playlist with three little bars at top and still had the same problem.

this started after the most recent update im on ios too.

[thejohnstones28]

I am having the exact same problem on an iPhone 6s running 7.6.0 on iOS. Never play in the right order in playlists especially when in artist order it seems to be the worst

[cabaynes]

Still waiting for a solution! 

[Herzog_]

Just adding my voice to the many who also seem to have this issue - it's very frustrating as I have a playlist of albums that I want to listen to in order but cannot due to this error/bug! 

(I definitely don't have shuffle on...)

[DaBlizz]

Gotta say I'm having this issue currently as well... It is driving me insane, and it's happening on multiple playlists of mine.

EDIT: Just remembered! A sortof workaround to this exists if you have access to the desktop app. Make sure the device that the mobile app is installed onto is shown in the "Devices" manager on the desktop application. You can start playing a playlist on the desktop version, it will play back in the correct order, and you can then click on the desired mobile device on "Devices" to listen to your que there. You will have to do this each time you want to play songs in order of artist, album, or date added, but I thought that should be mentioned for those of you who can take advantage of it.

[kuba1127]

I am having the xcat same problem but only on mobile i hand sent a mesdsage to spotify care and there telling me to Delete my accounbt and make a new one but i am the owner of spotify family

[fatigante]

I have the same problem. I have the impression the playing order is the alphabetic order, don't know why.