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21 | <title>Disobedience: Playlists</title> | |
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27 | <h1>5. Playlists</h1> | |
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29 | <p>The chapter describes playlist and how to use them.</p> | |
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31 | <h2><a name=what>5.1 What are playlists?</a></h2> | |
32 | ||
33 | <p>A playlist is a named list of tracks stored by the server. It | |
34 | can be edit by either just its owner or, alternatively, by all | |
35 | users. It can be played as a unit when required.</p> | |
36 | ||
37 | <p>Playlists fall into three categories:</p> | |
38 | ||
39 | <table> | |
40 | <tr> | |
41 | <td><b>Shared</b></td> | |
42 | <td>Shared playlists have no owner and can be seen and edited | |
43 | by anybody.</td> | |
44 | </tr> | |
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46 | <tr> | |
47 | <td><b>Public</b></td> | |
48 | <td>Public playlist are owned by their creator and can be seen | |
49 | by anybody. Only their creator can edit them, however.</td> | |
50 | </tr> | |
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52 | <tr> | |
53 | <td><b>Private</b></td> | |
54 | <td>Private playlists are owned by their creator and can only | |
55 | be seen or edited by their creator.</td> | |
56 | </tr> | |
57 | ||
58 | </table> | |
59 | ||
60 | <p>To bring up the playlist window, select <b>Edit > Edit | |
61 | Playlists</b> from the menu.</p> | |
62 | ||
63 | <h2><a name=creating>5.2 Creating Playlists</a></h2> | |
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65 | <p>To create a playlist, click the <b>Add</b> button in the |
66 | playlist editor. This will create a pop-up window where you can | |
67 | enter the name of the new playlist and decide whether it is | |
68 | shared, public or private.</p> | |
69 | ||
70 | <p>Only Roman letters (without any accents) and digits are allowed | |
71 | in playlist names.</p> | |
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73 | <p class=image><img src="playlist-create.png"></p> |
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75 | <h2><a name=editing>5.3 Editing Playlists</a></h2> |
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77 | <p>You can select the playlist to edit from the left side of the |
78 | window. Shared playlists are listed first, then the public | |
79 | playlists of each user (plus private playlists that you own).</p> | |
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81 | <p class=image><img src="playlist-window.png"></p> | |
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83 | <p>When a playlist is selected, you can edit in the right hand half | |
84 | of the playlist window. The editor is very similar in structure | |
85 | and function to the <a href="tabs.html#queue">queue</a>. You can | |
86 | rearrange tracks within it by drag and drop and you can drag tracks | |
87 | from the <b>Choose</b> tab into it.</p> | |
88 | ||
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89 | <p>Right clicking will create a pop-up menu which you can use to |
90 | play indivudual tracks or the whole playlist, as well as the | |
91 | usual options as found in the <b>Queue</b> tab.</p> | |
92 | ||
93 | <p class=image><img src="playlist-popup-menu.png"></p> | |
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95 | <h2><a name=playing>5.3 Playing Playlists</a></h2> |
96 | ||
97 | <p>There are three ways to play a playlist:</p> | |
98 | ||
99 | <ol> | |
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101 | <li>You can use <b>Control > Activate Playlist</b> from the main |
102 | menu.</li> | |
103 | ||
104 | <li>Right clicking in either half of the playlist editor will | |
105 | create a pop-up menu. There is an option to play this | |
106 | playlist.</li> | |
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108 | <li>You can select all the tracks and drag them to the desired | |
109 | point in the <b>Queue</b> tab.</li> | |
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