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21 <title>Disobedience: Playlists</title>
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29 <p>The chapter describes playlist and how to use them.</p>
31 <h2><a name=what>5.1 What are playlists?</a></h2>
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>
37 <p>Playlists fall into three categories:</p>
41 <td><b>Shared</b></td>
42 <td>Shared playlists have no owner and can be seen and edited
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>
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>
60 <p>To bring up the playlist window, select <b>Edit > Edit
61 Playlists</b> from the menu.</p>
63 <h2><a name=creating>5.2 Creating Playlists</a></h2>
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67 <p>To create a playlist, click the <b>Add</b> button in the
68 playlist editor. This will create a pop-up window where you can
69 enter the name of the new playlist and decide whether it is
70 shared, public or private.</p>
72 <p>Only Roman letters (without any accents) and digits are allowed
73 in playlist names.</p>
75 <h2><a name=editing>5.3 Editing Playlists</a></h2>
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80 <p>When a playlist is selected, you can edit in the right hand half
81 of the playlist window. The editor is very similar in structure
82 and function to the <a href="tabs.html#queue">queue</a>. You can
83 rearrange tracks within it by drag and drop and you can drag tracks
84 from the <b>Choose</b> tab into it.</p>
86 <h2><a name=playing>5.3 Playing Playlists</a></h2>
88 <p>There are three ways to play a playlist:</p>
92 <li>Right clicking in the playlist editor will create a pop-up
93 menu. In addition to the familiar options there is an option to
94 play this playlist.</li>
96 <li>You can select all the tracks and drag them to the desired
97 point in the <b>Queue</b> tab.</li>
99 <li>You can use <b>Control > Activate Playlist</b> from the main