Working with playlists

Like any good music player, Volumio supports playlists, but unfortunately it’s not the most intuitive of tools. Switch to the Browse tab and then browse your music library by either artist or album. You’ll see the ’hamburger’button next to artists, albums and individual tracks – click this and you’ll see an option to add the selected item to a playlist. Either type the name of a new playlist and hit New, or click an existing playlist to add the items to it.

You can access your playlists from the Browse tab. From here you can open the playlist to remove individual items via the button, but one crucial missing feature is the fact that you’re unable to rearrange the running order.

No problem: a more elegant – and indeed, quicker – method to both create and edit playlists comes curtesy of the Queue tab. Instead of adding items to a playlist, choose Add to Queue instead (so one click instead of two).

Once complete, switch to the Queue tab. Not only can you remove individual items from here, you can click and drag them to rearrange them too. Then click the floppy disk icon to create a new playlist or select an existing one.

Note that your queued items aren’t appended to an existing playlist – they’ll overwrite it. So if updating a playlist, you should first select it from the Browse tab (under Playlists) and choose Add to Queue before making your changes.