To access the playlists screen, tap on the 'playlists' icon on the overlay menu on the 'now playing' screen.

 

 

 

The 'playlists' screen allows you to switch between your Foobar2000 playlists, displaying the track list of the currently selected playlist.

On initial startup, Foobar2000 Copilot will by default load the playlist that corresponds to the currently playing track.

 

How to switch playlists

 

 

The name of the currently selected playlist is displayed at the top of the 'playlists' screen, along with the number of tracks in that list.

Tapping on the 'right arrow' or any part of the playlist name will pop-up a list of the playlists.

Tapping on any playlist name in the list, will initiate loading that list in Foobar2000 Copilot.

If you popup the list of playlists, but do not want to make a selection, to make the popup disappear, either tap the Window Phone 'back' key or tap the 'right arrow' button again.

 

 

Playlists Options

Double tap on any track in the tracks list to start playing that track.

A single tap on a track selects it, but does not start playing it. Tapping on the 'enqueue' button at the bottom of the screen will then add the track to a queued playback list.

Playlist lines are never truncated for display, even if very long. You can horizontally scroll the displayed playlist to see long lines.

The 'Go playing' button on the bottom screen menu will select and scroll into view the currently playing track. If that button is disabled, the currently playing track is not in the selected playlist.

This option is handy if you have initiated a play from a search query, but then want to see that track in the context of the playlist since related artist and album tracks are likely around it in the full playlist. Also you may have selected a number of other tracks from the list for queuing purposes but then want to return to the currently playing track.

Tapping on the 'volume' button will bring up the volume control overlay.

 

Page Menu Options

Tapping on the ellipsis '' in the lower right corner, will bring up the page menu options of 'switch to playing playlist', 'jump to line number', 'refresh playlist', and 'preferences'.

 

 

Switch to Playing playlist :  Select this option to switch to and load the playlist that corresponds to the currently playing track. If this option is grayed out, you are already on the 'playing' playlist.

 

Jump to line number : In the case of very long playlists, you can use the 'jump to line number' option as a way to jump to different positions in the list, say to the middle, top or bottom of the list. Foobar2000 Copilot on the 'jump' popup dialog will display your current line number and the total lines in the playlist, giving you a relative sense of where you are in that playlist.

 

Refresh playlists : On startup and initial entry into the playlists screen, Foobar2000 Copilot will load a snapshot of the list of playlists from Foobar2000 along with a snapshot of the playlist that contains the currently playing track.

These will be cached for speed on Foobar2000 Copilot, but anytime you select or re-select a playlist from the popup list of playlists that playlist will be re-fetched fresh off the server.

The list of playlists, however, will remain the same -- if they do change and you want to re-fetch the list of playlists off the server, select this option 'refresh playlists'.

Also if you think something glitched or is stuck in transfer because of some connection issue or dropout, you should select this option, since it will also reset the Wi-Fi connection first and then make a clean request for the list of playlists and the currently playing playlist.

 

'Preferences' will take you to the 'preferences' screen to set various track list display options.  For each track title displayed, you can can toggle display of an additional informational line showing artist, genre, and file type.  See :  Preferences

 

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