Editing the CD-playlist
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To edit a CD's playlist, select the CD from the list (q.v. About CD management and what it's capable of...). The tracks will be displayed in the window on the left.

Note: Since playlists can be defined for any CD, RPG-SoundMixer has a built-in CD recognition. Hence, SoundMixer always plays the playlist of the CD currently in the CD drive. If a sound-event is currently active and the CD is replaced by another one, the sound-event will adjust itself automatically. To add a track to a playlist, select the track and then click the "add to playlist >>" button. Holding down the Shift or Ctrl button enables you to select multiple entries like any other Windows program. You can remove selected tracks by clicking the "<< delete from playlist" button.

When a sound-event is activated, the a CD's playlist will be played in the order displayed. When the playlist has been completed, playback will automatically restart from the first track. If a sound-event contains a playlist that you have defined, it will be played in an infinite loop. Background music can be "overwritten" or stopped by other sound-events, and can also be stopped manually by hitting the button assigned to this sound-event again (q.v. Starting and stopping sound-events).

You can use the arrow buttons to the right side of the playlist to change the order of the tracks.

If you would like to play the tracks in "random" mode, enable the random option. This will cause the tracks to be played randomly or "shuffled". The likelihood of a track being played is determined by its probability (q.v. What are probabilities?). To change the probability of a track, select it (on the right side) and click the "Change probability>>" button (alternatively, you can double-click the probability you'd like to change). In the popup window enter the new probability. Don't forget that you can change multiple track probabilities by selecting them while holding down the Shift or Ctrl key and then clicking the "Change probability>>" button. The "Probabilities (all)>>" button offers a similar feature: After clicking it, you are asked for the probabilities of all tracks one after another. This way, you can quickly assign probabilities to all playlist files.