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Using Now Playing

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Adding Music to Now Playing

Use Now Playing to program your music listening. You can add music to Now Playing in several different ways. This page introduces you to some of the handiest methods.

 

Here’s How

  1. A simple way to add items to Now Playing is to drag music—individual songs, or entire albums, artists or genres—from My Music or Yahoo! Music Unlimited into Now Playing.

    Drag music from My Music or Yahoo! Music Unlimited into Now Playing.

  2. You can also drag a playlist to Now Playing to add all its contents to the scratchlist.

    Drag a playlist to Now Playing.Enlarge

  3. To add individual tracks, click the song menu button (The song menu button) next to any song in My Music or in Yahoo! Music Unlimited search results and select:

    • Add To > Now Playing (My Music)

      Select Add To > Now Playing from the track menu.

    • Add to Now Playing (Yahoo! Music Unlimited)

      Select Add to Now Playing from the track menu.

  4. In My Music, double-clicking an artist, album, or genre adds all tracks in your collection associated with that item to Now Playing.

    Double-click an artist, album, or genre in My Music.

  5. When you stream any LAUNCHcast Radio station, including your customized station, each song gets added to Now Playing as it plays. This creates a playlist of your entire listening session, so if you like something you hear, you can save it to a playlist, find out more about the artist, get other albums like it, and so on.

 

What’s Next

Once you've added some tracks to Now Playing, you can organize them into the perfect playlist.

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Words to Know

  • Genre: a category of artistic composition marked by a distinctive style, form, or content, such as rock, classical, or jazz.
  • 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.
  • Stream: to play music from a server (for example, over the Internet) rather than from source files on your computer or from a CD.
  • Yahoo! Music Unlimited: a collection of more than two million songs, available by subscription and for purchase through the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.