Playlists

You can use Playlists to create collections of music for different family members or different genres or moods. You can use them to create "mix tapes". And you can use them to precisely control the order of playback.

• Playlists are collections of music that can be played in order or randomly
• Playlists are made up of a mix of Tracks, Albums and Artists.
• You can create up to 60 playlists.
• There is an overall limit of 100,000 items in all the playlists. But an item can be an artist, album or track so that could easily be more than 1 million tracks.
• Combine Playlists - Append, Merge and even Subtract
• Playlists are saved and loaded from USB with import and export.

You manage playlists with the Web UI or the mobile App. These images show the Web UI.

To Play a Playlist

1. Pick a playlist with the dropdown menu in the Playlist tab
2. Click on the play icon next to an item in the playlist

You don't need to turn off a playlist once started - just start playing something else.

If a playlist has been assigned to a preset then you can play it on B3 from the front panel using Presets & Playlists.

To Build a Playlist

• Drag items from the search window into the playlist
• Click on the three dots next to a Track, Album or Artist and pick Add to Playlist
• Drag items within the playlist to re-order
• Click on the three dots next to an item on the playlist to reorder or delete the item. (It will not delete the music just the item on the playlist).

Playlist Menu

The Playlist menu lets you Rename, Delete, Create and Combine Playlists and also assign a playlist to a preset.

NB There are seven permanent playlists named after colours of the rainbow. These were for compatibility with the JB7. You can rename these but they cannot be deleted. If you delete they will reappear as empty playlists with the original colour. Our forum users recommend not using the coloured playlists.

There are three ways of combining playlists

1. Append - the source playlist is tacked onto the end of the target playlist.
2. Merge - like append but duplicates are removed.
3. Subtract - anything in the target which appears in the source is removed.

Blacklist

If you create a playlist with the name "blacklist" then the music in that playlist will not play when you play all music at random.

B2 Owner David G. has created this pdf guide.

Playlists on the Mobile App

On the App you can find the Playlists screen using the menu button on the main screen. The functionality is the same as the web UI.

Playlists on alternative Web UIs

The appearance of the Playlists functions is different on the different web UIs but the functionality is exactly the same as the original web UI.