How to Use Playlists

Playlists

Playlists are very convienient way to save music and/or videos for later playback. MPS-Youtube has the ability to save multiple playlists, and adding songs to playlists may be done as new songs are found.

View Playlists

To view the playlists currently available, use the command ls. Example output below shows the ID of the playlist, the name, the number of items, and the total duration. Note that during playback, the songs or videos are streamed from youtube (they are not stored locally.)

  Local Playlists
  
  ID  Name                                          Count   Duration
  
  1   delmccoury-0                                  7       00:22:03
  2   doylelawson-0                                 25      01:19:46
  3   nashvillebluegrassband-0                      7       00:21:39

Enter open to load a playlist

Create Playlists

To create a playlist, first you must search for music or videos in the main mpsyt screen. Search using . or / with the keywords for the search after the period or slash. For example, searching for 'Nashville cats' returns the following.

 Num  Title                                                                                    Length
  1   Nashville Cats - Lovin' Spoonful                                                       02:38
  2   Nashville Cats                                                                         03:07
  3   Del McCoury Band - Nashville Cats                                                      03:53
  4   The Lovin' Spoonful - Nashville Cats                                                   02:38
  5   The Lovin' Spoonful - Nashville Cats (Audio)                                           02:36

Search results for nashville cats [1/100>

Add items from the search list to either existing playlists or new playlists. To add item 2 to the existing playlist delmccoury-0, use add 2 delmccoury-0. Or, create a new 'LovinSpoonful' playlist using the same command, add 1 LovinSpoonful. Playlist names are arbitrary. Multiple items can be added at once by separating the items with a comma, e.g. add 1,4,5 LovinSpoonful.

Play Playlist

To view items in an existing playlist, use command open, e.g. open delmccoury-0. Then, the items can be played by typing the item number in the prompt. Or, a playlist can be started directly using the command play. For example play delmccoury-0.

Playlist Command Reference

Command	Description/Action	Example Usage
ls	List saved playlists	ls
add	Add items to playlist	add 1,4 delmccoury-0
open	Open existing playlist	open delmccoury-0
play	Play existing playlist	play delmccoury-0
>	Skip to the next song	>
<	Skip to the next song	<
->	Move forward (arrow)	->
<-	Move back (arrow)	<-