Get your music collection in order
With Organize Your Music you can easily organize your saved music. Just follow these steps:
Note: These steps can only be followed in the Spotify desktop app. Spotify Web Player does not allow the feature of adding local files. Add Your Own Songs To Spotify Playlist. After adding the local files to your Spotify app, you can add those files to your Spotify playlist too. The steps to do the same are given below.
- Select what music you'd like to organize: Your Saved Music; Music you've added to playlists; Music in playlists you follow; or all of it.
- Click on Organize your Music. If this is your first visit, you will be asked to ...
- Login with your Spotify credentials. Organize Your Music will place all of your tracks into a number of bins. There are Genres, Moods, Decades, Popularity and more.
- Pick one of the bins. You can view all the properties of the tracks in that bin. You can plot the tracks. You can listen to previews of the songs in the bin.
- Select tracks that you want to add to a playlist. Selected tracks will be added to your Staging Playlist. When you are happy with the staging playlist you can
- Save the staging playlist to Spotify.
Don't worry. Organize Your Music will never modify any of the songs in your saved music or playlists. It will only save new playlists for you, and only when you explictly click on the save button.
The Track Properties
Organize Your Music can help you slice and dice your music collection by a wide range of properties:- Genre - the genre of the track
- Year - the release year of the recording. Note that due to vagaries of releases, re-releases, re-issues and general madness, sometimes the release years are not what you'd expect.
- Added - the earliest date you added the track to your collection.
- Beats Per Minute (BPM) - The tempo of the song.
- Energy - The energy of a song - the higher the value, the more energtic. song
- Danceability - The higher the value, the easier it is to dance to this song.
- Loudness (dB) - The higher the value, the louder the song.
- Liveness - The higher the value, the more likely the song is a live recording.
- Valence - The higher the value, the more positive mood for the song.
- Length - The duration of the song.
- Acousticness - The higher the value the more acoustic the song is.
- Speechiness - The higher the value the more spoken word the song contains.
- Popularity - The higher the value the more popular the song is.
- Duration - The length of the song.