# Please restore sorting in "Add to Playlist" **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** playlists\ **Created:** [November 9, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-restore-sorting-in-add-to-playlist/651694 "2020-11-09T01:41:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![angrywoks\_gmail.com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@angrywoks\_gmail.com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/angrywoks_gmail.com)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-restore-sorting-in-add-to-playlist/651694/1 "2020-11-09T01:41:21Z")
When adding to a playlist, the existing playlists now seemingly appear in “most recently used” order, making it very difficult to find a specific playlist if it wasn’t recently used. It used to be marginally easier because the playlist was in a lexical order. A search feature would fix this, but failing that could you at least restore it to lexical order? ---
**Author:** ![alandye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@alandye](https://forums.plex.tv/u/alandye)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-restore-sorting-in-add-to-playlist/651694/2 "2022-02-05T01:28:39Z")
Yep. Playlist sort in Plex is horribly broken with this change. It has gotten worse (for Movie/TV collections) because now the apparent “default” sort when attempting to add a movie to a playlist is either by “Updated Date” (which seems USELESS in the vast majority of scenarios) or RANDOM. Either way, having to manually scroll through the list of playlists and search (BY HAND) for the proper playlist if you have more than ~3 is AWFUL. Making it worse, if you just use the Create option to add a movie to a playlist which DOES already exist, this will CREATE A NEW ONE separate from the existing one. PLEX: PLEASE FIX THIS. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-restore-sorting-in-add-to-playlist/651694/3 "2022-02-05T01:35:33Z")
2022 clean-up: duplicate While this thread had been created earlier, the other thread is more aligned with the current feature (`Add to` supporting both collections and playlists; same sorting). I kindly ask you to cast your vote in that other thread while I close this one in order to avoid distracting/dispersing votes. Apologies for the inconvenience. > [@Sort the collections/playlists alphabetically in the Add to menu](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sort-the-collections-playlists-alphabetically-in-the-add-to-menu/724439): > > When I go to add an item to a playlist or collection and it’s going into a collection/playlist that isn’t one of the recently created collections/playlist, you have to hit the popup to ‘Add to …’. When one of the pages popup, it shows you a list of the existing playlists or collections but these are sorted by their primary key (basically, date entered), it would be nice if this was alphabetical. Sorting by the primary key is fine for a few entries … but when you have 50+, you are FORCED to use …