Work with Playlist
You can organize your songs into playlists to categorize and access your favorite music more easily.
There are three types of playlists: Personal playlist (viewable by the DiskStation user who creates the playlist), shared playlist (viewable by all DiskStation users with access to Audio Station), and smart playlist (in which songs are exclusively selected based on specific rules).
Create New Playlists
Audio Station provides you with choices to create new empty playlists from scratch or by saving the now playing queue. You can also save Internet radio stations to your playlists.
To create playlists, do either of the following:
- Method 1
- Go to Create > Playlist or Smart playlist to create an empty playlist. Name the playlist and click OK. Tick Add as shared playlist
if you want to create a shared playlist.
- For smart playlist, click Add Rule in the window that appears to set the rules, and click OK.
- While browsing through the library or lists of Internet radio, select songs or radio stations you want to add to the playlist just created, and right-click to choose Save to personal playlist or Save to shared playlist.
- Method 2
- After playing songs or listening to radios by double-clicking or adding them to the playing queue, you may want to save the music listening history as your playlist. Go to Playing Queue on the left panel, and right-click any item on the queue to choose Save playing queue.
- Name the playlist and click OK. Tick Add as shared playlist if you want to create a shared playlist.
Note:
- You cannot add folders to playlists.
- DSM administrators (DSM admin or a user belonging to the administrators group) can create shared smart playlists by going to DSM's Main Menu > iTunes Server and clicking the Smart Playlist button.
Edit Playlists
You can do the following to edit the selected playlist by right-clicking or going to Action on the control bar.
- To rename the playlist, right-click the playlist and choose Rename.
- To remove the playlist, right-click on the playlist and choose Delete.
- To adjust the order of songs in the playlist, select songs and right-click them to choose Up or Down to move them up or down in the playlist.
- You can also adjust the order of songs in a playlist by selecting and dragging them up or down.
- To remove songs from the playlist, select multiple songs by holding the Ctrl or Shift key and right-click to choose Delete.
- To remove missing songs indicated with an "X" from the playlist, right-click any item and choose Clear missing songs.
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To copy a shared playlist to a personal playlist and vice versa, right-click the playlist and choose Copy to personal playlist or Copy to shared playlist.
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To edit the rules of a smart playlist, right-click the playlist and choose Edit to modify the rules.
Add Playlists to Playing Queue
- To add a playlist to the queue and replace the existing songs in the queue, right-click the playlist and choose Play. Audio Station will play the songs in the playlist immediately.
- To append a playlist to the queue without replacing the existing songs in the queue, right-click the playlist and choose Add to queue.