playlist

plural playlists

1. broadcastingA list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.
2. computingA list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.

   No past, just traces / Nowhere to play, just playlists

   2021, “Skyline”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon

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   When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.

   1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer

   Strangers constructed playlists that pulled from artists and albums you’d never heard of, but without the performative high/low-ness that afflicts so much online music talk.

   2015 November 17, Robinson Meyer, “A Eulogy for Rdio”, in The Atlantic

   I hadn't spoken to her in a year, but she could still see my listens on the music platform we both used. I still went to those playlists for solace. A sense of collective understanding. We had stockpiled our youth.

   2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN

   When users would select the most immediately visible “dinner playlist” or ”workout mix,” they might have unknowingly clicked through to a list owned and operated by a major label.

   2025, Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria Books, →ISBN

3. A list of songs, prepared for a band or musical artist, to be performed during a concert; a setlist.

present singular third person playlists · participle present playlisting · participle past playlisted · past playlisted

1. transitiveTo include (a track) on a playlist.

   She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.

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   Suddenly they got a single playlisted at Radio 1 and the album went gold.

   2009, John Niven, Kill Your Friends, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 7

   And it's the story of how those problems then played out over the span of many years, as music became personalized, playlisted, autoplayed, and algorithmic.

   2025, Liz Pelly, “Introduction”, in Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria Books, →ISBN