General The Audio tab is the place to view and change the active playlist. You can select the active playlist by pressing on the header area of the audio tab (look for the little triangle).

The active playlist determines which episodes and what order they play when auto-play is enabled. Playlists can be useful even without autoplay by serving as a list of episodes that can be manually selected for play.

Auto-play When an episode finishes playing and auto-play is enabled, auto-play will start the next episode in the active playlist. This can be enabled/disabled in the preferences or on the A button on the media player controls.

Playlist quick tips Here are some simple ways to know which type of playlist will best suit your needs:

System playlist - you would like DoggCatcher to completely manage adding/removing episodes from your playlist

Dynamic playlist - you would like DoggCatcher to completely manage adding/removing episodes from your playlist but you want to specify which feeds are included and whether the episodes are grouped by feed.

User playlist - you would like to control which episodes are added to the playlist and want to be able to manually re-order, add, and delete from the playlist

Play order of episodes - episodes for each feed are ordered within a playlist based on the feed option "Play Order". This can be configured globally for all feeds in the preferences or overridden per feed.

System Playlists There are some playlists that DoggCatcher creates for you. These have a headset icon next to them and cannot currently be modified or removed.

All - sorted by feed/date

All - sorted by date

Categories - one playlist is created for each feed category that you have added

You should order your feeds on the Feeds tag in the order that you would like them to play. You can move a feed up/down by pressing the context menu and then pressing "Move".

The system playlists and the dynamic playlist (mentioned later) will then use this order to generate the playlist.

Dynamic Playlists Dynamic playlists will always contain all the episodes that match the category that is configured for it. Their contents can be filtered by catetgory and grouped/not grouped by feed.

The order of your feeds on the feeds tab determines the order of episodes in dynamic playlists.

You can create as many as you like. They can be renamed and deleted by long pressing on the playlist on the playlist selection screen (pressing on the playlist button).

User Playlists User playlists are created and managed by you and have a person icon next to them.

You can add episodes to a user playlist (or create a user playlist) by pressing on the context button for a feed or episode and then selecting 'add to user playlist'. User playlists can be configured to automatically add all or some new episodes once they are downloaded.

You can create as many as you like. They can be renamed and deleted by long pressing on the playlist on the playlist selection screen (pressing on the playlist button).

Virtual playlist This is a playlist for all of your virtual feeds. When using auto-play and virtual feeds, make sure you have the virtual feed playlist selected.

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