TITLE: Making playlists for cmus
DATE: 2020-09-10
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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I use cmus as the music player on my laptop. I routinely use the
track queue feature to create an immediate playlist of the next few
songs, but never got to grips with creating persistent themed
playlists. It turns out it's not that hard, the documentation just
seems a bit sparse.

 [cmus]: https://github.com/cmus/cmus

Playlists are stored in plain text files, on my system inside
~/.config/cmus/playlists/. The default playlist (filename and
playlist name) is created by default. It's merely a list of
filepaths referencing song locations, one filepath per line. The
filename can contain spaces and so can the filepaths, with no
quoting or escape sequences required. New playlists can be added by
adding files to the directory. An example playlist:

   /Volumes/share/music/Ben Caplan/Birds With Broken Wings/12 Ben
Caplan - Canary.mp3
   /Volumes/share/music/Bloc Party/Silent Alarm/07 This Modern
Love.mp3
   /Volumes/share/music/Family Atlantica/Cosmic Unity/06 La
Humanidad.mp3

In cmus, it appears it is possible to add songs to the current
playlist (y), marked by an asterisk in the playlist view (view 3).
To select a playlist, highlight it and press . To create a new
playlist, type :pl-create <playlist_name>. It's also possible to
create the playlists outside of cmus using a file manager, then
load them automatically when cmus starts.

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