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The Play view of the Mixer shows tracks that are currently queued to play, and the tracks that have most recently been played. Play can also be used as a scratch pad for creating playlists. Add tracks to Play from the Music Guide, or drag and drop files, links, or tracks from your computer's file folders, a browser, or My Library into Play.
You can save the contents of Play for future use by saving it as a permanent playlist in the Source List.
The Play
status bar (at the bottom of the Play
window) displays the number of tracks in the list and the total playing
time.
Each track in Play appears in a table. To the left is the number in which the track is ordered. (You can drag and drop the tracks into any order you desire.) Next is the name of the track. This column is followed by the track's length, the name of the artist, the name of the album, and the genre.
You can rearrange the column order by clicking on a column and dragging it to a new position on the column bar. Only the # column cannot be moved.
Note: You can widen the Mixer by clicking the left side of the Display Area and dragging it to the right.
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Tab or Button |
Action | |
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Play Tab |
Shows the Play view of the Mixer, which you can use to queue up music to listen to, share, or to create a playlist. | |
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Clear All Button |
Clears the current queue. | |
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Share Button |
Allows you to share the contents of Play with your friends, or publish tracks to Playlist Central, an online Rhapsody community. | |
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Save Button |
Allows you to save tracks as playlists to the Source List. |
Add tracks (individually or in groups) to Play with the following methods:
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Method |
Description | |
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Drag and drop
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Drag and drop into Play
any tracks from My Library, playlists
from the Source List or the Display
Area, or supported
music files from a local file folder. | |
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Click |
Click If you have Plays song
immediately selected in your General
Preferences, you can choose to click and hold [CTRL]
on your keyboard, then click |
To play music from the Play view of the Mixer, simply double-click any track in the Play queue. Playback will begin from that point.
In the Rhapsody
controls, you can select Repeat
( 
) to play the track queue in Play
continuously, until you choose to stop it. You can select Shuffle
( 
) to play the tracks in Play
in random order.
Note: Repeat and Shuffle can be used together or separately.
in the Music Guide