playlist
Sign in to savethumb|A playlist in an Audio player (software)|audio player A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player, either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general form, an audio playlist is simply a list of songs that can be played once or in a loop. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of television broadcasting, radio broadcasting and personal computers.
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11 sectionsContents
- Radio
- Television
- Computers and the Internet
- Celebrity playlists
- Web video
- Playlist generation
- Other playlist methods
- Types of playlist files
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|A playlist in an Audio player (software)|audio player A playlist is a list of video or audio files that can be played back on a media player, either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general form, an audio playlist is simply a list of songs that can be played once or in a loop. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of television broadcasting, radio broadcasting and personal computers.
A video playlist can also be a list of recorded titles on a digital video disk (DVD). On the internet, a playlist can be a list of chapters in a movie serial; for example, Flash Gordon in the Planet Mongo is available on YouTube as a playlist of thirteen consecutive video chapters.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “playlist” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.