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

Organizing Now Playing

If you care about the order in which the songs in Now Playing play, or if you want to create a more permanent playlist from the Now Playing scratchlist, you can first arrange the tracks in the scratchlist just the way you want them.

 

Here’s How

  1. Add as many tracks as you like to Now Playing. (Remind me how.)

    Tip: The same song can appear more than once in Now Playing.

  2. To rearrange songs in Now Playing, drag them up or down in the list.

    Drag songs up and down in Now Playing to rearrange them.

  3. Delete any songs that you don't want to keep on the temporary scratchlist by selecting them, right-clicking, and choosing Remove from the menu.

    Select Remove from the track's right-click menu.

    Tip: You can also delete a track by selecting it and pressing your computer's Delete key.

  4. To clear Now Playing completely and start over, click the Remove All Tracks button at the top of the list.

    Click the Remove All Tracks button.

    Note: If you’re not a subscriber, clicking this button starts the subscription sign-up process, which you have to complete in order to add music.

 

What’s Next

Have the music you like arranged as you want? OK, now you can do any of the following things in 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.
  • 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.
  • Portable music player: a small electronic device for playing music. Different types of devices support transferring different types of music from the Yahoo! Music Jukebox.
  • Yahoo! Music Jukebox: a free desktop application that lets you listen to music, mix and burn CDs, import, manage, and share music, transfer music to portable music players, and more.