Questions tagged [playlist]
An organisable list of songs or audio tracks, usually stored within a media player application such as iTunes.
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How can I delete multiple playlists at once in Apple Music (without deleting songs)?
I'm trying to clean up my Apple Music library on macOS, but I can't find a way to delete multiple playlists at once. I don’t want to delete any songs—just the playlists.
Over time, I’ve ended up with ...
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Can I clone an iPod Nano 5th gen to an iPod Classic 5.5?
I got myself a nice iPod Classic 5.5 (Don't know why though, I have a perfectly working iPod Nano 5th gen).
I want to duplicate everything on my Nano to my Classic so that means not just the music but ...
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When did iOS remove the ability to set the alarm clock to play a Music playlist?
I am virtually certain that in early iOS products -- for example, on my old 5th-generation iPod Touch, which was contemporary with the iPhone 5, and which shipped with iOS 6 -- one could set the stock ...
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Adding a song to a playlist suddenly doesn't let me choose existing playlists. I can only add it to a new playlist
I used to add songs to a playlist by right-clicking it and then selecting "Add to Playlist." It would show all existing playlists that are not smart. But today, somehow I can't do that ...
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How to get Apple Music to auto-generate custom playlists? Spotify-like
I've been a Spotify user for a while and appreciate that based on a genre, an artist, or even a single song, it can automatically create a playlist with that genre or with similar artists/songs that ...
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How can I create a smart playlist on Apple Music of my instrumental songs (no lyrics)?
I'm looking to create a smart playlist on Apple Music that automatically creates a playlist or finds all of the songs in my library without lyrics. Is there a way to filter songs that Apple Music hasn'...
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How to make a truly random playlist
I have a playlist in Music.app that contains over a thousand songs. My iPhone doesn't have enough storage to accept all of them without deleting apps. So I created another playlist that says to take ...
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Music.app creating playlists gratuitously
I have seen these duplicate playlists many times:
I never use any of them, and frequently delete all four, only to have them reappear the next time Music is launched. When I delete them, they stay ...
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Create a playlist via command line?
I have some rather complicated scripts that I use to create MP3 files which I use for improving my language skills. Each session creates a new file in each of six languages, with text embedded in the ...
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How to stream a M3U file on iOS devices in background?
Years ago I asked how to stream m3u radio files (music) on the iPhone. Revisiting my question from the past, none of the IPTV players allow to play the music when the app is in the background / when ...
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How to replace the non-lossless songs in my playlists with the lossless ones
Many songs in my playlists are not tagged as lossless when I play them.
I then go to the album and select display entire album. There I can see, that most of the time, there is a different version of ...
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How to add all songs in your apple music library to a single playlist at once?
I figured out a couple of songs get removed from apple music overtime, I want all my library songs in a single playlist so that I can keep an eye on the number of songs I have, currently I have over ...
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Restore music metadata after SSD loss
So a month ago I lost my 2020 MacBook Air's SSD (which had been running Catalina) to a coffee spill; the computer is now fixed (and upgraded to Monterey) but the drive is wiped. The documents had been ...
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On post-iTunes Macs, can you create a playlist with music and podcasts? If so, how?
In the old iTunes days, both podcast episodes and music tracks were available when creating a playlist. (I like to mix things up when going for a run without having to manually switch things around in ...
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Music on macOS: hide huge playlist title area, when viewing playlist “as Songs”?
In the macOS Music app (formerly iTunes), when viewing a playlist or smart playlist “as Songs”, there’s a huge playlist title/header area. Is there any way to hide or shrink this header area?
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