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English

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Etymology

From play +‎ list.

Pronunciation

Noun

playlist (plural playlists)

  1. (radio) A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.
  2. (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.
  3. A list of songs, prepared for a band or musical artist, to be performed during a concert; a setlist.

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Verb

playlist (third-person singular simple present playlists, present participle playlisting, simple past and past participle playlisted)

  1. (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

Noun

playlist f (plural playlists)

  1. playlist

Italian

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playlist.

Noun

playlist f

  1. playlist

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English playlist.

Noun

playlist f or (less common) m (plural playlists)

  1. playlist (list of music tracks to be played)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaiˈlist/
  • IPA(key): (imitating English) /ˈpleilist/
  • Syllabification: play‧list

Noun

playlist f (plural playlists)

  1. playlist (list of music tracks to be played)
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