Navigation:  Music Library > Creating Music Playlists

The Media Player in orchidmedia plays music from Playlists created in the Music Library.

 

You can use the Music View in the Music Library activity to create Playlists using the Play (1) or Add/Play (2) buttons on the Music Toolbar or using the Actions | Play or Actions | Add/Play menu actions on the menu bar.

 

To see how this works, the following example creates a Play List from 20 Tracks from a folder called My Selections:-

 

 

First, we select the Music files from the displayed tracks in the Music View for the My Selections folder, by depressing the Shift button and dragging the mouse over each track in turn.  The selected Tracks are highlighted as shown in (3). You can use any of the Mouse and Keyboard selection commands to select the Tracks.

 

Finally, we select the Play (1) button on the Music toolbar to add the selected items to the Now Playing Playlist. The Play (1) button will clear any existing tracks in the Playlist, before adding the new items, and it will play the first track (4) of the items shown in the Playlist. If we had selected the Add/Play (2) button on the Music toolbar, the selected items would be appended to any previous tracks in the Now Playing Playlist.

 

The Now Playing Playlist is shown to the right of the screen, and it can be hidden using the close button by the Playlist title. If your Music Playlist is hidden, you can redisplay the Playlist by selecting the Playlist button shown in the Media Player.