How to use MixMoose's Editor

Main Menu

The Main Menu is at the top of the editor and will show your playlist's name and toolbar with various options.

• File Operations - This will allow you to load, save, export, or start a new playlist. At times there are two options for saving: Save As New will add a new playlist to your library. When you are editing a new playlist or a playlist you don't own, this will be your only save option.
• Undo & Redo - These buttons will allow you to undo and redo your last change to the track list.
• Finding Tracks - Use Add Track to search Spotify, Get Recommendations to discover similar music, or Copy from Playlist to browse another playlist's tracks. Each opens a side panel so you can keep your playlist in view. See the search tips below, or read Finding the Right Track for Your Playlist for more detail.
• Flowify - This will auto arrange your playlist for you! Read more about it at Arranging Playlists with Flowify.
• Edit Playlist Details - This will allow you to edit your playlist's title, description, visibility and cover.
• Options - This will display the various options, such as chart and column header visibility, auto-save behavior, and auto-scroll behavior.

Searching for Tracks

Open Add Track, type a search in the box at the top, and press Enter or choose Search. Choose Show Advanced Search to narrow your query by album, artist, track name, genre, or release year. These fields build the query in the search box. You can hide them again to make more room for results.

The search box and Search History stay at the top of the panel while you browse. Choose a previous search from the history menu to run it again. The filter button opens Result Filters, where you can show or hide tracks already in your playlist, artists already represented, and tracks you've marked Don't Show for this Playlist. These filters narrow the results; they don't change the tracks in your playlist.

In Get Recommendations, choose your seed tracks and adjust the feature ranges or targets before choosing Search. Once results appear, the settings fold away. Use Show Search to bring them back into view, even after scrolling down the results. You can also revisit a recommendation search through Search History.

To copy tracks, open Copy from Playlist and search for a playlist or choose My Playlists. The playlist filter lets you narrow the displayed results by playlist title or creator name. Choose a playlist to browse its tracks, then add the ones you want.

For more search tips, read Find the Perfect Track for Your Spotify Playlist.

Stats Panel

The Stats Panel is below the Main Menu. It will display various statistics about your playlist. Filters are also displayed here.

You can click almost any point or row and this will highlight the relevant tracks in your playlist.

• Charts - The charts show line graph for selected features from your playlist. You can configure what categories are shown from options in the Main Menu. You can also pick change the x-axis from track numbers to playlist time. (To learn more about the categories that can be added, check out Analysis Categories Explained.)
• Artist - This shows a table of artists in your playlist. Tracks displays the number of times an artist appears anywhere in a track, while Primary only shows the number of times an artist appears first in a track.
• Track Feature Summary - Shows a table with some aggregate statistics on every feature.
• Labels - Shows how many tracks come from each record label, using the label listed on each track's album.
• Artist Genre - Spotify does not provide genre information for each track. Instead genre information can only be found for artists. This breaks down the genres for all artists on a track. Each artist seems to be able to have up to five genres, so some tracks might have lots of genres.

Filters

You can filter your playlist along every category shown in charts and column headers. Simply select the category from the drop down menu and adjust the inputs. By default, filtered tracks will show in a muted color - you can also hide the tracks if you want.

The Arranger

Here's where you can rearrange your playlist, but that's far from it.

Arranger Menu

The buttons in the arranger's header help you manage selections. Open More Actions (the three dots) for sorting, shuffling, and other playlist tools.

• Show filters - Shows filters in the filter pane.
• Select Visible Tracks - Selects all visible tracks. Useful when filtering!
• Clear Selections - If you have tracks selected then this will clear all those selections.
• Delete Selected Tracks - Removes the selected visible tracks from your playlist.
• Generate Playlist from Selections - Yep! This will bring you to the generator with all selected tracks as seeds.
• Add selections to playlist - This will allow you to add selected tracks in bulk to another playlist. You can also add a track to another playlist at any time from its title menu.
• Set Order from Current Sort - The playlist can be sorted by clicking any header. This will make the sort permanent.
• Advanced Sort - Combines several sort fields, each with its own direction. See below for examples.
• Shuffle / Shuffle Selected - Randomizes the whole playlist or just selected tracks, with optional artist or album separation.
• Enable / Disable Compact Arranger - Switches between compact and regular track layouts.

Sorting Your Tracks

Click a column header to sort the display, then click again to reverse it. Use Set order from current Sort in More Actions to apply that order to the playlist itself.

Advanced Sort combines names and track features with a direction for each field. Choose Add for another field, use the arrows to set priority, or the trash button to remove one. For example, Artist Name followed by Track Name sorts songs within each group of credited artists. Check Ignore leading “The” in names to sort names such as The Beatles under B.

Check Make sort permanent to reorder the playlist, or leave it unchecked for display only. With two or more visible tracks selected, Only sort selected tracks keeps all other tracks in place. Choose Apply Sort; permanent changes support Undo. The Advanced Sort panel remembers settings for this tab, and Reset clears the form.

Shuffling Your Tracks

Open Shuffle... in More Actions and choose the kind of mix you'd like:

• Purely random shuffle - Randomizes the order without trying to separate related tracks.
• Prioritize Artist Separation - Tries to spread out tracks with the same first credited artist.
• Prioritize Album Separation - Tries to spread out tracks with the same album name.
• The (alt) versions use a different approach to artist or album separation. Try either version to find a mix you like.

Separation is a preference, so a playlist with many tracks by the same artist or from the same album may still have some together. To remix just part of a playlist, select at least two visible tracks and open Shuffle Selected.... It offers the same methods and only rearranges the selected slots; unselected tracks keep their positions. Both shuffle menus change the playlist's track order and support Undo and Redo.

Track Rows

• Drag the handle or track number to move a track to another position.
• You can start playing the playlist by clicking the play arrow next to the track title. The playlist will start playing from this point.
• There are a lot of relevant menu options shown when clicking the track title, such as Move to a Good Spot and Find Similar Tracks.
• By default values shown in the arranger are their actual values and they are colored by their relative values to the rest of the tracks. These can be changed by going to track options in the Main Menu.

Other Tips

• Touching pretty much any label, such as an artist's name or track title, will bring up a context menu with options for that object.
• Use the color-theme picker in the top bar to choose Dark, Light, or Tomato.