Knowledge Base

A playlist is a collection of audio tracks, videos, images, HTML, and other assets organized in a particular order that are grouped together to create a playlist that can be published to your media players.

In the Playlist module, you will see a list of previously created playlists (if applicable). Once a playlist has been created, you can preview, set the publishing mode (standard or by tag), duplicate, edit, or delete it on this screen.

Actions on the Playlists Table

Preview: To preview your playlist, simply click on the Preview button. This will open a pop-up window displaying the content of your playlist for a quick view.
The preview of the playlist will not show the effects of settings and other options such as Shuffle, Condition, and When Playlist Ends.

• Note: We highly recommend that you implement a test setup that matches your project's conditions to preview  your content as it will be displayed on your screens (player, SD card, screen and, the player network connection.
  

Publish Mode: To change the playlist publish mode to "Publish media that matches player TAGs", click on the "Standard" button. This will ensure that only the assets containing the same tag as the players will be published.

Edit: To make any changes to your playlist, click on the Edit button.

We will go over the steps for creating a playlist in this article and you can also find a quick video at the end Jump to video explanation.

Please keep in mind that before creating a  playlist, you must have previously uploaded your assets to the media library. Please refer to this help doc for more information on Media Library. 

To create a New Playlist, click on the New Playlist button. Name your playlist, select the the presentation that will be used, and Save it.

Once you've named your playlist and selected the presentation you'll be using, you'll find one or several tabs. Each tab corresponds to a specific zone that you previously created in your presentation using Bright Author.

From here, you'll need to configure the playlist and select assets for each of the tabs (zones):

If you want to synchronize two or more players to display content simultaneously from the same playlist or different playlists (assuming they have the same number of assets and duration), turn on the Sync switch.

In the Master field, enter the name of the player that you want to use as the master player.

Shuffle
When the playlist is published, its assets will be randomly shuffled and displayed in a different order on each player.

Playlist type
Select Standard or Smart List.

When selecting Smart List, you'll be able to choose playlist assets based on their tags. Click on the 'Select Tags' button and the following pop-up window will be displayed:



Here you’ll see the total playtime for your playlist.

Bulk Actions
At the top of the assets table, you'll find four bulk action buttons that can be applied to the entire list:

Other Actions

• To preview each asset, simply click on its thumbnail. 
  

• You can also search for assets on the Media Library using their respective Asset IDs.
  

• By clicking on the Edit button, you'll have access to additional options such as setting the full-screen view and toggling the audio on or off for specific assets.
  

• Click on the Delete button to delete the asset or mark the checkbox in several assets to delete them through the emerging Delete button on top of the table.
  

When playlist ends
At the bottom of the page, you can select what happens when your playlist ends:

Loop: The playlist will continuously repeat.

Repeat for: Enter the number of times you want the playlist to repeat and the name of the playlist you want to display after the specified number of repetitions is complete.