Active Playlist Properties

Active playlists are hierarchical playlists that are dynamically created based on the keywords that you select.

Active playlists are useful for organizing your media files by their attributes - such as artist, album, album-artist, file type, month, year, etc. They allow you to break down your media files into smaller collections (or sub-playlists) based on keywords that you select for the active playlist.

Mezzmo installs several active playlists into your Mezzmo library when you install Mezzmo - including:

• Music / Artist
• Music / Album
• Video / TV Series
• Video / Movies
• Photos / Year
• Photos / File Type

You can right-click on any of these active playlists and click the Properties menu item to view the Active Playlist Properties dialog.

Choose a location in your library where you want the active playlist located. Click the Browse button to choose a new location.

Enter a name for the active playlist that best describes the media files that will be added into it.

Enter a description of the active playlist that may be helpful for you to understand the contents of the playlist.

Click the browse button to select a content rating that best describes the files that will be listed in the playlist. This content rating will be used by Mezzmo to either list or not list the playlist on devices depending on the content rating settings for the device.

Click this button to edit the display titles for this playlist. Display titles let you set format for the titles of your files when they are displayed in Mezzmo and on your devices. You can set the display titles for all playlists and folders in the Options dialog (General page).

Lets you change the artwork thumbnail for the playlist. Mezzmo will display this artwork in its user interface. Mezzmo also streams this playlist artwork to devices and web browsers. Some DLNA devices will display this artwork - however, it depends on each device's implementation of DLNA.

• Add Picture: Click to use an image from your hard disk.
• Get Internet Artwork: Click to search for artwork from web sites.
• Delete Picture: Click to remove the current artwork thumbnail.

Active playlists use special keywords to determine what playlists are automatically created and what media files are listed in them. For example, for music tracks you may your tracks organized by artist name and album name. You can do this easily using a keyword hierarchy of:

• [+] Artist
  • [+] Album

then music tracks will be organized into the following active playlists:

• [+] Artist
  • [+] Coldplay
    • [+] X&Y
    • [+] A Rush of Blood to the Head
  • [+] U2
    • [+] Rattle and Hum
    • [+] Zooropa
  • [+] Rihanna
    • [+] Talk That Talk
    • [+] Unapologetic
    • [+] Anti

You can also use the Group By First Letter to create a rolodex-style playlist where keywords and files are grouped by their first letter. The Group By First Letter can precede any keyword and this tells Mezzmo to group the results for that keyword into A..Z sub playlists for convenient browsing. Adding Group By First Letter at the end of the keyword hierarchy tells Mezzmo to group the list of files by their first letter.

By clicking this button, you can add a keyword into the keyword hierarchy.

By clicking this button, you can move the selected keyword up in the keyword hierarchy.

By clicking this button, you can move the selected keyword down in the keyword hierarchy.

By clicking this button, you can remove the selected keyword from the keyword hierarchy.

Click this button to filter the set of files that are used to populate the active playlist. For example, you may only want media files from the 'F:\Movies' folder listed in the active playlist.

Choose the types of files that you want contained in the active playlist.

Choose the file attribute that you want your files sorted by.

Tip: Choose Random Shuffle to have the files sorted and listed randomly on your devices.

Lets you change the artwork backdrop for the playlist. Mezzmo will display this artwork in its user interface. Mezzmo also streams this playlist artwork to devices and web browsers. Many DLNA devices will not display backdrop artwork, but Mezzmo's web interface and Mezzmo apps do display it.

• Add Picture: Click to use an image from your hard disk.
• Get Internet Artwork: Click to search for artwork from web sites.
• Delete Picture: Click to remove the current artwork backdrop.