Using AutoPlaylists
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Unlike regular Playlists, which are a collection of files, AutoPlaylists are Criteria based. Any files matching the Criteria set for an AutoPlaylists will be shown on the AutoPlaylist. This means that when you add new files to the Library, edit Tags on files in the Library or remove files from the Library that the AutoPlaylist will automatically reflect those changes and include any new files matching the Criteria and remove any files no longer matching the Criteria automatically.
For example AutoPlaylists allow you to quickly create an AutoPlaylist of 5 star Rock music that aren't Christmas songs, using Criteria like Rating and Genre.
As AutoPlaylists are Criteria based you can't add/remove individual files from the AutoPlaylist or manually change the sort of individual files on the AutoPlaylists. If you want that you could save the files to a regular Playlists which does allow for this, but it won't be automatically updated by changes in your MediaMonkey Library.
To create an AutoPlaylist:
- Use Edit > New AutoPlaylist from the Main Menu.
- A new AutoPlaylist will be created in the Playlists node in the Media Tree.
To edit an AutoPlaylist:
- You can change the AutoPlaylist name using double click on the AutoPlaylist name in the Filelisting.
- You can set to which Collection the AutoPlaylist should be limited using the Search setting.
- You can set which Criteria to use to filter which files should be on the AutoPlaylist using the Match + button to add Criteria.
- You can limit how many files should be shown on the AutoPlaylist by limiting by files, megabytes or minutes using Limit to. Selected by determines how this limit is applied.
- You can set how the files on the AutoPlaylist are sorted using Sort by. You can use multiple sorts so you can for example first sort on Genre and then within the Genre sort on Artist. Sort can be applied descending and ascending
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