Hot key is E. This window allows you manipulate play list items. You can move items from one position to another via mouse left button pressed. Type and time length of item are shown at the right side. If during loading item some error was occurred, corresponding item's file name and short error message are shown. Font and colors of playlist items in all states can be defined in "Tools" dialog.
All main window hot keys work in playlist window too.
Add items button allows you add item(s) with standard "Open Files" dialog box. You can use Insert key also. If you hold Shift during clicking on this button, you call "Open files from folder" dialog (also you may use Shift+Insert). If you hold Ctrl during clicking on this button, you call "Add CD(s)" dialog (also you may use Ctrl+Insert).
Clear list button removes all list items and set playlist global settings to By default.
Save list button allows to save current playlist into file (AYL or M3U). Remember, that in M3U-files only a file names are stored. Some AY and SNDH files can contain more than one tune, and this situation cannot be saved in M3U. So, use AYL if you want to save all parameters of current playlist and of each item.
List tools button allows you to call popup menu with additional commands. First five commands are for sort playlist in different ways: randomly, by author, by title, by file name and by file name extension. Use command Find item... to search an item by string queries (F7 hot key). You can refine Search area in the dialog that appeared. Deduplicate command allows to remove duplicated items (can be useful if you are loaded all folder content with music and playlists for it).
Next button shows one of four icons and determines way of playing playlist items. Press to change cyclically: backward (up), forward (down), random order (created stealthily and fixed to get availability play previous item and avoid repetitions) and only current item selected (once if list is not in loop mode).
Next button determines loop mode for playlist and can be in two states: when it is lowered, playlist is looped (after finishing playing last item, it starts playing first one).
Total number of playlist items and current item number both are shown in low-right corner.
Delete key deletes selected items from playlist.
Ctrl+A key combination allows to select all items in playlist.
Use cursor keys for navigation.
Shift and Ctrl keys with cursor keys and mouse clicks can be used to select/unselect items and its ranges. Use Ctrl one more time to deselect in same way.
Use mouse double clicking on item or Enter key for selected items to start playing.
You can drag and drop files and folders to playlist window to add it to the end of list.
You may call popup menu by mouse right button clicking on an item. There are:
The most commands from that menu work with range and not only with clicked item.
For Turbo Sound modules: note that only first module of TS-pair will be converted cause of limitation of target formats (except WAV).
Also don't expect miracles if you converting SNDH to YM6: special effects will be lost. This is hard hand work to convert Atari ST's MFP-effects to YM6-format, only YM-format enthusiasts could did it (mainly it is Arnaud Carre, ST Sound author). As time has shown, simplified Atari ST emulation to play memory dumps like SNDH is more rationally.
Total playlist time length is shown at the lower right corner. Usually, it includes time length of all visible items (in this case '+' sign added at the right). To include length of invisible for the moment items, click on this field. During time calculation, Ay_Emul extracts additional information from MIDI-files and from files playing by BASS library.
Use Esc, E or Alt+F4 to close playlist window.