Build playlists and folders¶

You will: create an ordinary playlist and a folder, add tracks, and reorder them.

CueRithm has three kinds of playlist item: Playlist (you choose the tracks), Folder (a container) and Smart playlist (rules choose the tracks, see Build a smart playlist). Playlists live inside the library. Audio files are never touched, and removing a playlist never deletes music.

1. Create a playlist¶

Click the + beside PLAYLISTS in the sidebar. The editor asks for a name, a type and a parent folder.

Create playlist form with a name, a type and a parent folder — Name it, keep the type as Playlist, and choose Create.

The new playlist opens empty.

An empty playlist saying No tracks in this playlist

2. Add tracks¶

There are two ways.

Drag: select one or more tracks and drag them onto the playlist in the sidebar. Only ordinary playlists accept tracks. Folders and smart playlists do not.
Toolbar: select tracks, open the Choose playlist menu, pick the playlist and press Add to playlist.

A playlist with five tracks in manual order — A playlist in manual order. The toolbar offers Remove from playlist and Order arrows.

A track appears at most once in a playlist.

3. Reorder¶

When a playlist is shown in manual order, select tracks and use the up and down arrows beside Order to move them one place. You can also drag tracks onto another row to insert them before it. If you have sorted by a column, press Manual order first.

4. Make a folder¶

Create another item and set Playlist type to Folder. Folders can contain playlists, smart playlists and other folders. Drag a playlist onto a folder to put it inside, or use Move to folder… in the playlist's menu.

The sidebar showing a playlist, a smart playlist and a folder — A playlist, a smart playlist (lightning bolt) and a folder in the sidebar.

Opening a folder shows the tracks of every playlist inside it, each track listed once.

Each playlist has a ⋯ menu.

Playlist menu with Edit, Duplicate, Add to favorites, Move up, Move down, Move to folder and Remove — Edit, Duplicate, Add to favorites, Move up and down, Move to folder, Remove.

Remove is gentle: the playlist moves to a Removed playlists list in the sidebar, where Restore brings it and its contents back. Undo last playlist change (the arrow at the top of the Playlists section) reverses your latest edit, including a tool or generator run.

What just happened¶

Playlist membership is stored by track identity, not by file path, in the library database. Each edit is a checked transaction, so a stale window cannot overwrite a newer change. See The library database and Playlists, folders and favourites.