# Playlists, podcasts and photos

- The gtkpod Manual
- Managing playlists

- 3.1.1. Playlists
- 3.1.2. Podcasts
- 3.1.3. Photos

## 3.1.1.Playlists

Playlists reside under the iPod repository node in the left hand pane of gtkpod. Clicking on them will display the tracks associated with them, effectively filtering the other gtkpod panes. You can ...

- create playlists with the <New Playlist> button on the toolbar or pressing "Ctrl-n" in the playlist listview.
- create playlists by adding an existing playlist file with <Add file> or <Add playlist>.
- add tracks to playlists by marking the tracks you want to add, and then dragging them onto the playlist.
- rename playlists.
- delete playlists by selecting the desired playlist and pressing "Ctrl-D", or by selecting "Delete Playlist" from the Edit menu.

## 3.1.2.Podcasts

You have to download podcasts using a third party tool like http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/ or http://perli.net/projekte/gpodder/%29 .

Podcasts should be added directly into the 'Podcasts' playlist of the iPod repository, for example by selecting the Podcasts playlist before manually adding files/directories. Podcasts will then appear only in the Podcasts section on the iPod. If you add podcasts to the main playlist 'gtkpod/iPod' or any other iPod playlist first and then drag them over to the Podcasts playlist, the podcasts will appear in the Podcasts section on the iPod, as well as in the normal music section.

The podcast 'repository' is a local repository (like 'Local') where you can keep all local podcasts. No mechanism exists to automatically synchronize the iPod repository with the Podcast repository at this time. You have to drag the podcasts over manually.

## 3.1.3.Photos

If your ipod supports photos then a special dynamic playlist is created in the playlist tree. YOU CANNOT DELETE IT! Indeed when clicking on it all the usual track related ipod functions are disabled or removed.

- The track window elements are replaced with the photo management pane. This displays the Photo Library and all the saved photos from the ipod and allows you to add new albums, add new images, remove albums, remove images and drag n drop image between albums.
- You cannot delete the Photo Library as this is the original photo database. All images are stored in it and thus clicking on it, all the images on the ipod are displayed in it. Subsequent albums display a subset of the Photo Library's images.
- Removing an image from an album will remove it from the album but it will still be stored on the ipod in the Photo Library.
- Removing an image from the Photo Library will delete it completely from the ipod.
- You can select a set of images from a selected album (inc. the Photo Library) and drag n drop them into another album.
- Any changes made in the photo management window will change the Photo playlist to italics indicating that a "Save Changes" should occur before exiting in order to preserve those changes.