Play Lists

The play list window is expanded by pressing the right facing arrow near the bottom of the collapsed SnackAmp player. A list of all the tracks either added by manual playlists, Auto Playlists, or added by a filter operation will be shown. The currently playing track will be shown in reverse video. You can either list them sorted or shuffled by selecting the appropriate button or menu selection. You can move songs up and down the list using a click and drag method with the mouse or highlighting one or more songs and using the Control-Up/Down keys to move them in the order. You may remove or add to the play list using the right mouse button menu options and optionally on Windows, double click a song from Explorer to insert that file (see settings to associate file types with SnackAmp). If you either remove a file that is playing or delete it from the main play list, the next song will be played.

There are a number of options that can be used when you select one or more files and press the right mouse button and get a pop-up menu. You can:

If you want to have your play list and current file restored the next time you launch SnackAmp, set the Restore Prior Play list option on. Otherwise, your last Auto play list file will take precedence.

Shortcuts

Play List Filter

The play list filter provides a way to find files within the overall play list, or if desired, within the entire media catalog. Files matching the filter either replace the play list files or are appended to them. A picture of the filter is shown below. To use the filter, enter some text within the entire file name of the songs you want to search for, and press the Apply Filter button . The files containing the text will be appended shown in the play list. Note, the full path of the file is filtered even though only part of it is shown. You text string can also contain the following:

Prior search strings can be recalled and applied by selecting the down arrow which pops up a menu of prior searches. You also have additional options to append/replace the play list by filtering on all files, auto-play list files or from those in the current play list.

You can either replace the contents of the play list with the search results by pressing the Enter key or selecting the right most icon . Selecting the second icon from the right will append the search results to the bottom of the play list.

To have the search space include not only the current auto play list files but the entire catalog of files, press the key next to the filter so it looks like this .

Play List Files

Snack supports standard playlists, and will save and read the .m3u format playlists used by other players. You may save one or more selected files to a playlist from either the main playlist window or the Auto-playlist track selection. You have the choice of creating/overwriting an existing playlist file or append to a playlist file. The image below shows some of the options available from the Right-Mouse-Button menu on selected tracks.

When reading playlist files, you have the choice of replacing the current playlist, appending to the current playlist or inserting at the cursor position. These options provide you the maximum flexibility using standard playlists.

When reading a playlist, each file will be validated for existence, if it not longer exists you will be notified.

Play List Sorting

See playlist settings.