Yahoo! Music Tutorials

Using Now Playing

Introducing Now Playing Adding Music to Now Playing Organizing Now Playing Listening to Now Playing Saving Now Playing to a Playlist

Introducing Now Playing

Now Playing is a powerful tool for creating playlists, capturing, and exploring new music from many Yahoo! Music Jukebox features. You'll find Now Playing especially useful as a "scratch playlist" to build playlists that you can then save, transfer to portable devices, or burn to CD. The Now Playing list appears in the column on the right side of the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.

Now Playing appears in the right column of the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.Enlarge

Now Playing also keeps track of songs as you play them, for example, from My Music or LAUNCHcast Radio. It shows you a temporary scratchlist of songs that recently played and those that are next in line to play. A speaker icon (Now Playing icon) marks the song that is currently playing. Look at Now Playing whenever you want to replay to a song, see who performed it, and so on.

 

Here’s How

  1. Launch the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.

  2. If the Now Playing list isn’t visible on the right side of the Yahoo! Music Jukebox window, select View > Show Now Playing to display it.

    Select View > Show Now Playing.

  3. Double-click the title of any song in My Music or Yahoo! Music Unlimited to start the music playing. The song title and artist appear on the Now Playing scratchlist.

    Double-click a song title to start the music.

  4. You can right-click any item in Now Playing to select specific actions for that track, such as viewing more information about the song, album, or artist.

    Select View > Song Page from the right-click menu.

  5. To adjust the width of the Now Playing display, drag the divider on its left edge.

    Drag the divider left or right to change the width of Now Playing.

  6. If you don't want to see Now Playing when you launch the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, uncheck Show Now Playing on the View menu.

    Uncheck Show Now Playing on the View menu.

    You can always change the option again later to make Now Playing visible.

 

What’s Next

Now you can start adding music to Now Playing.

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Words to Know

  • Burn: to copy music to a CD for playback through your home, car, or portable CD player.
  • CD: short for "compact disc", a small, portable medium for electronically recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, text, and other digital information.
  • LAUNCHcast Radio: a streaming music service that allows you to create your own customized station tailored to your tastes and provides an extensive collection of other music stations that offer a wide variety of genres and themes
  • My Music: your personal music collection in the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, where music that you’ve imported, downloaded, or bookmarked is stored.
  • Playlist: a list of songs that you assemble and organize. Use playlists to program your listening, as well as to copy files to portable devices or to burn your own CDs.
  • Yahoo! Music Unlimited: a collection of more than two million songs, available by subscription and for purchase through the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.