Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/PlaylistPane

The Amarok playlist pane.

Playlist

Introduction

Just like any other good music player out there on the market, Amarok offers excellent playlist management for all of your songs.

Basic Playlist Manipulation

Adding music to your playlist is a simple drag-and-drop or double-click operation.

Two playlist-related options are available when performing a drag-and-drop operation to add music to your current playlist. You can either use Add to Playlist, which will append the songs you have selected; or Replace Playlist, which will replace all the contents of the playlist with your selection.

Searching the Playlist

Playlist searching options.

Amarok offers powerful searching capabilities for playlists. Simply enter your query for a song into the text box labelled Search playlist and it will match your keywords up against the match criteria you specify in the options menu — for instance, you can choose to serach only by Albums and not Artists, or choose to match both of them.

Pressing the upwards pointing arrow moves the selection to the previous search result, and the downwards pointing arrow moves to the next result.

Enabling Show only matches from the menu will cause your playlist to display only the tracks matching the query.

Playlist Functions

The bottom bar of the playlist pane provides various additional options for manipulation of your playlist.

Clear Playlist

This removes all items from your playlist.

Save Playlist

Clicking this will, by default, save the current playlist into the Amarok database.

However, holding down the left-mouse button on this button will bring up the save playlist menu, where you can also choose to save your playlist file onto the hard drive instead of into the database.

Undo

This undoes the last operation you performed on your playlist, e.g. adding items or removing items.

Redo

This reverts the last undo operation you performed.

Show Active Track

This scrolls your playlist up or down to the track which is currently playing — useful if you have a large collection of songs in your playlist.

Track Progression

The track progression menu enables you to modify the order in which Amarok progresses through the tracks in your playlist.

The top half of the menu specifies repeat options — whether songs should be repeated by track, by album or by playlist; whereas the bottom half specifies the order in which the tracks play in — in random order or by favor.

Favor

Favor is an innovative method to determine the next track to be played. Tracks can be selected depending on their score (a measure of how often they are played), their user-given rating or if they have not been recently played.