# playlist
## English
### Etymology

From play +‎ list.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpɫæɪ̯ˌɫɪst/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

playlist (plural playlists)
* (radio) A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.
* (computing) A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.
** 1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer: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.
** 2015 November 17, Robinson Meyer, “A Eulogy for Rdio”, in The Atlantic‎: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.
** 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN: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.
** 2021, “Skyline”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon:No past, just traces / Nowhere to play, just playlists
** 2025, Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria 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.
* A list of songs, prepared for a band or musical artist, to be performed during a concert; a setlist.

#### Derived terms

* playlistism

#### Translations
### Verb

playlist (third-person singular simple present playlists, present participle playlisting, simple past and past participle playlisted)
* (transitive) To include (a track) on a playlist.
    She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.
** 2009, John Niven, Kill Your Friends, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 7:Suddenly they got a single playlisted at Radio 1 and the album went gold.
** 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: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.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English playlist.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plɛ.list/ ~ /ple.list/
* Homophone: playlists

### Noun

playlist f (plural playlists)
* playlist

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playlist.

### Noun

playlist f
* playlist

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playlist.

### Noun

playlist f or (less common) m (plural playlists)
* playlist (list of music tracks to be played)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plaiˈlist/ [plai̯ˈlist̪]
** Rhymes: -ist
* IPA: (imitating English) /ˈpleilist/ [ˈplei̯.list̪]
** Rhymes: -eilist
* Syllabification: play‧list

### Noun

playlist f (plural playlists)
* playlist (list of music tracks to be played)