Playlists and smart playlists

Regular playlists

Create a playlist, give it a name, a color and an icon, then add tracks from their menu or a selection. The Playlists tab shows all playlists, with search, classic / smart filters, sorting and grid or list views. The sidebar only shows pinned playlists; new playlists are pinned by default. Right-click to play, edit or delete a playlist. “Add to playlist” offers classic playlists: smart playlists fill themselves through their rules.

A playlist, “Liked tracks” and “Recently played” are shown in the same table as the library’s tracks: same columns, same sorting, same menu. “Remove from playlist” and “Remove from likes” are in each track’s menu. To declutter the sidebar, hide playlists there in Settings → Appearance → Sidebar.

Your .m3u and .m3u8 playlists can be imported: the “Import” button at the top of the Playlists page, on the “This computer” source. You can pick several files at once; each one becomes a playlist with the same name. Its tracks are found in your libraries by their path, or by their folder and file name if the list was written on another computer. A message tells you how many tracks were found, and how many are missing from the library.

The other way round, right-click a playlist, then “Export as .m3u8”: the file plays in most players. Tracks that come from a server are left out.

Smart playlists

Click “Smart playlist” in the sidebar. Build your rules: each one combines a field (rating, plays, date added, format, sample rate, genre… and any tag in your files), an operator and a value.

• “Matches”: all conditions, or at least one.
• “Group” nests rules for finer combinations.
• “Limit to” keeps a set number of tracks, with the sort order of your choice.
• The number of matching tracks updates as you type: you see the effect of a rule straight away.

Ready-made presets

“Start from a preset” fills the editor in one click, to fine-tune afterwards: