Playlists

A normal playlist is a list of songs that you add and manage. You might want to create your own list of songs by your favorite artist from multiple albums, your latest favorite songs, or an upbeat playlist to listen to while you exercise.

You can create a new playlist by pressing Control+N, from the menu choosing Media ▸ New Playlist or by selecing the track(s) you would like to add to the playlist. Select the track(s), right click them, and choose Add to Playlist ▸ New Playlist. You can also drag and drop them to a new playlist by selecting the track(s) and dragging them to the left hand window pane over Music. As you drag it over Music, a new option New Playlist will appear and you can drop the track(s) over New Playlist to add them to the playlist. You can repeat this process until you have added all the tracks you want in the playlist.

To give your playlist its own name, select the playlist and right click on the playlist and press Rename Playlist and enter the name of your playlist.

You can change the order of the playlist by dragging and dropping the song to the new position in the playlist. Songs can only be re-ordered in the playlist when none of the columns are sorted. To unsort a column, press the column until the up or down arrow is no longer showing and the column is blank and then re-order the playlist.

To remove a track from the playlist, select the track(s) you wish to remove. Press the Delete, from the menu choose Edit ▸ Remove from Playlist or right click the track(s) with your mouse and press Remove from Playlist.

Smart Playlists allow you to quickly generate a dynamic playlist based on a number of pre-set variables. You can quickly create a new playlist based on a specific artist, favorites or more.

To create a new Smart Playlist, from the menu choose Media ▸ New Smart Playlist. You will be presented with a dialog to create a new Smart Playlist. Enter the name of your playlist and then choose the criteria your playlist should be based on. You can choose from any field included in the song's meatadata, such as Album, Artist or Year. Choose the criteria and then choose from one of the following:

You can also press the + button to add an addition query to the Smart Playlist. For example, you could create a smart playlist that includes all songs from 2010 that you rated 5 stars. To create this playlist you would choose:

You can then optionally select how many songs are included by pressing the Limit to checkbox and choosing the number of songs to be included.

Banshee also includes smart playlists already created for you. Press the Open in editor button to view how the playlist created was or to modify it. If you press Create and save the playlist will be automatically generated and saved for you. The following playlists are included: