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, then browse your music library by either artist or album. You’ll see the “hamburger” menu 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 courtesy of the “Queue” tab. Instead of adding items to a playlist, choose “Add to Queue” (so one click instead of two). Once complete, switch to the “Queue” tab. Not only can you remove individual items from here, but 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 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.