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Question's in the title, really. Cmus documentation is pretty light on how to create new play lists, add songs to them, and then play them. I'd like to know step-by-step how to do that.

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  • You can find pretty good documentation on cmus on these two pages 1, 2 Commented Jul 30, 2024 at 6:45

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And I just figured it out.

  1. :pl-create my-playlist
  2. 3 to navigate to the playlists window
  3. Highlight the new playlist and press space to mark it.
  4. Add songs using either of the following:
    • :add -p ~/Music/artist/ to add songs from that directory to the marked playlist
    • Go to the "Sorted library view" by pressing 2
      -> find artist / song / directory / etc. by searching with /
      -> select the desired songs with space
      -> press y to "copy tracks to the marked playlist"

TIP: If you need an online version of the CMUS man page, go to the CMUS documentation page. While the versions linked there are harder on the eyes, they are still better than the other hopelessly out of date ones.

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    You can also cd into .config/cmus/playlists and then touch files. Then follow the :add -p... part. Commented Nov 11, 2021 at 22:46
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    Great, never seen the option (:pl-create) before. Helped me out with being able to create playlists. PS once you have created a playlist be sure to save it with :save -p nameoflist Commented Aug 16, 2022 at 18:18
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    @DeepDeadpool Hope you don't mind the edit - I would have just copied your answer into a new one and added the few lines in the end. Commented Sep 27, 2023 at 14:32
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    No it's a good edit. Thanks. Commented Sep 28, 2023 at 20:35
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Very late answer, but as I found this page while trying to figure out how to add playlists in cmus I'll add my solution: you can create playlist files and then use pl-import to import the files.

The playlist files contain the full paths to the files. For example, you can have a playlist file like this:

$ cat /home/example/Music/playlists/shostakovich__string_quartet_1 /home/example/Music/shostakovich/complete_quartets/1/01_op_49_moderato.ogg /home/example/Music/shostakovich/complete_quartets/1/02_op_49_moderato.ogg /home/example/Music/shostakovich/complete_quartets/1/03_op_49_allegro_molto.ogg /home/example/Music/shostakovich/complete_quartets/1/04_op_49_allegro.ogg

In cmus, you can then import the file:

:pl-import /home/example/Music/playlists/shostakovich__string_quartet_1
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