Playlistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From play +‎ list.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpɫæɪ̯ˌɫɪst/
• 韻: -eɪlɪst

名詞

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.

派生語

• playlistism

動詞

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.