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Playlist Groups

Displaying unique content at different times of the day.

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If you're building your first playlist and thinking, "I want my calendar in the morning, but reddit in the afternoon," you're not alone.

For this use case we have Playlist Groups.

What is a Playlist?

Your Playlists tab is a collection of content being displayed on your device. You can drag/drop items to rearrange the ordering, or build Mashups to combine multiple screens.

What is a Playlist Group?

At the top of your Playlists tab are some action items:

The Add a Group button creates a "bucket" of playlist items, known as a Playlist Group, like so:

Each Playlist Group has a few properties:

  • name ("Morning Routine" in the example above)

  • display from (00:00, so midnight above)

  • display to (11:00 above)

  • every (a minute interval, for example 5 or 30 minutes)

Once you click to Add a Group at the top, you can begin adding plugins to it. To add plugins, either drag/drop an existing Playlist item from this page, or click "Add a Plugin" at the top, and arrange the new items as you wish.

You can rename a Playlist Group by clicking the name in the top left, which will default to "My Playlist." Just click those words, and you can edit inline.

Multiple Playlist Groups

Here is what it looks like when your TRMNL Playlist has multiple groups:

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