2. Playlist Menu

In this menu all actions are placed that can be applied to playlists. Consequently the most important ones can also be found in each playlists context menu.

2.1. Play

Plays a playlist in the external player. If the player is already running, the current list of songs in the player is cleared before playing the clips of the playlist the action is called for.

Note

Please note, that clips are played in the order they are stored in the playlist. This is not necessary the order you see in the clips table! You can order the clips in the clips table according to their appearance in the playlist by sorting them by the first column (#) of the table.

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Shortcut for this action: Ctrl+Alt-P

2.2. Play (Append)

Plays a playlist in the external player. If the player is already running, the clips of the playlist this action is called for are just appended to the songs the external player is playing already.

Note

Please note, that clips are played in the order they are stored in the playlist. This is not necessary the order you see in the clips table! You can order the clips in the clips table according to their appearance in the playlist by sorting them by the first column (#) of the table.

Icon for this action:

Shortcut for this action: Ctrl+Alt+Shift-P

2.3. New

Creates a new playlist. It's automatically added to the list of playlists.

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Shortcut for this action: Ctrl-N

2.4. New Autoplaylist

Creates a new autoplaylist. The new playlist is automatically added to the list of playlists and the playlist properties dialog is shown. If you do not define any filters in there, all clips myPod knows about will be in the playlist.

Icon for this action:

Shortcut for this action: Ctrl+Shift-N

2.5. Rename

Allows you to rename a playlist.

Icon for this action: none

Shortcut for this action: F2

2.6. Delete

Deletes a playlist if it is confirmed by the user in the upcoming dialog box.

Warning

Please be careful, there is no easy way to undo this action.

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Shortcut for this action: Ctrl-Delete

2.7. Import

Imports a playlist into myPod. The playlist(s) to import are selected in a file chooser dialog and have to be in very common .m3u format.

Note

Please note, that the clips in the playlist to be imported have to be known by myPod already! So, first do a scan to the clips and afterward import the playlists.

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Shortcut for this action: none

2.8. Export

Exports the selected playlist in the very common .m3u format.

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Shortcut for this action: none

2.9. Update

Updates the content of an autoplaylist according to its filters. This is done automatically most times, but you can make sure that the playlist is up to date with this action.

Icon for this action:

Shortcut for this action: F5

2.10. Properties

This action lets you change the properties of a playlist.

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Shortcut for this action: none

For a “normal” playlist the properties dialog looks like:

Figure 3.4. Playlist Properties - General

Playlist Properties - General

You can enter the name of the playlist here.

Enables / Disables the synchronization of this playlist with iPod.

Warning

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For so called autoplaylists the dialog is slightly extended and looks like:

Figure 3.5. Playlist Properties - Filters

Playlist Properties - Filters

Select a type of information you want to set a filter for.

Enable the filter. Select the entries for which clips should contained in the playlist.

Using the “None” or “All” buttons you can (un-) select all items at once. To select multiple items just use the “Shift” of “Control” keys.

2.11. Synchronize with iPod

(Un-) marks a playlist to be synchronized with iPod. If a playlist is selected to be synchronized with iPod the icon is shown in front of the playlist in the list of playlists.

Note

Please note, that this action is available only in the context menu of a playlist.

Icon for this action: none

Shortcut for this action: none