playlist

See also: Playlist

English

Etymology

play +‎ list

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɫæɪ̯ˌɫɪst/

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^[1]:

     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

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

Derived terms

• playlistism

Translations

record

• Armenian: երգացանկ (hy) (ergacʿank)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 播放列表 (zh) (bōfàng lièbiǎo)

• Danish: spilleliste c, playliste c
• Dutch: afspeellijst f, playlist (nl) m
• Esperanto: ludlisto
• Finnish: soittolista (fi)
• French: playlist (fr) f, liste de lecture (fr) f
• Georgian: დასაკრავი სია (dasaḳravi sia), ფლეილისტი (pleilisṭi) (colloquial)
• German: Wiedergabeliste f, Playlist (de) f
• Hungarian: lejátszási lista sg
• Icelandic: spilunarlisti m
• Italian: playlist (it) f
• Japanese: プレイリスト (pureirisuto)
• Macedonian: песноред m (pesnored), снимкоред m (snimkored)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spilleliste (no) m or f

• Polish: playlista f
• Portuguese: playlist (pt) f
• Russian: плейли́ст m (plɛjlíst), плей-ли́ст (ru) m (plɛj-líst)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: spellista (sv) c
• Turkish: çalma listesi, oynatma listesi

computing

• Armenian: երգացանկ (hy) (ergacʿank)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 播放列表 (zh) (bōfàng lièbiǎo)

• Czech: seznam stop m, playlist (cs) m
• Dutch: afspeellijst f, playlist (nl) m
• Finnish: soittolista (fi)
• French: playlist (fr) f, liste de lecture (fr) f
• Galician: lista de reprodución f
• Georgian: დასაკრავი სია (dasaḳravi sia), ფლეილისტი (pleilisṭi) (colloquial)
• German: Wiedergabeliste f, Playlist (de) f
• Hungarian: lejátszási lista
• Icelandic: spilunarlisti m
• Indonesian: daftar putar
• Italian: playlist (it) f
• Japanese: 再生リスト (さいせいリスト, saisei risuto), プレイリスト (pureirisuto)
• Malay: senarai main
• Maori: rārangipāpāho
• Norwegian: spilleliste (no)
• Polish: lista odtwarzania f, playlista f (colloquial)
• Portuguese: lista de reprodução f
• Russian: плейли́ст m (plɛjlíst), спи́сок воспроизведе́ния m (spísok vosproizvedénija)
• Serbo-Croatian: popis za reprodukciju m
• Spanish: lista de reproducción f, playlist f
• Swedish: spellista (sv) c
• Turkish: çalma listesi, oynatma listesi
• Ukrainian: спи́сок відтво́рення m (spýsok vidtvórennja), плейли́ст (uk) m (plejlýst) (anglicism)

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.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English playlist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɛ.list/, /ple.list/
• Homophone: playlists

Noun

playlist f (plural playlists)

1. playlist

Italian

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/ [plai̯ˈlist̪]
• IPA^(key): (imitating English) /pleiˈlist/ [plei̯ˈlist̪]
• Rhymes: -ist
• Syllabification: play‧list

Noun

playlist f (plural playlists)

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