Setting up a Playlist

I have to admit I'm struggling with playlists too.
I can add tracks to a playlist but can't find the playlist to actually play it!
As an example, I recently bought Elvis Costello's "This Year's Model" which has bonus tracks. My memory of this album from back in the day, was a particular running order and included "Watching The Detectives" as the last track on side one (mine was a European released LP).
So, I've made a playlist to reflect exactly how I recall this LP but although I now have the option to "add to playlist This Years Model" I cannot find the playlist anywhere should I want to play it.
There is a folder called "Playlists" but it only contains "Last Played, Newest" etc.
Where is my "This Years Model" playlist?

The playlists appear on the front page of the Naim app.

Mike A posted:

For the first time, I'm trying to create a playlist from the music on my Unitiserve - can anyone point my to instructions?  Assuming it would be intuitive, I opened the Nain app (Vn 4.7 on my iPad) and drooping down the menu below the ... At the top right of the screen, created a new Playlist. So far so good??

i believe this creates a plylist of your total collection, that explains why it says 'full' afterwards. you have to select the album you want to add to a playlist first and then proceed as above. or if you want to add a specific track then click on the ... on the right of the track. hope that helps.

When I select a track from my music and tap the ... It offers the option to Add to Dinner with friends. However, when I do this a messages appears saying 'Playlist Full. No further tracks can be added'

Can some one advise how to delete the Playlist (it does not appear in the Playlist folder under CD Collection on the UnitiServe) and how to do what I thought would be an intuitive task??

enjoy

ken

Have you tried doing it from the n-Serve app? You can easily build a queue of songs.

Thanks for the responses above. Having been out for the evening, on my return I found a new play list, on the app front page as HH says above, containing the first 500 tracks of my CD Collection as mentioned by Ken C. It had obviously taken a while to build it and now I've deleted it. I started again by choosing a track and adding it to a new Playlist. Success!

Tomorrow, I'll explore N-Serve. Having had a quick look, I see the 'Add To...' button, in the iOS version, but as I use the Unitiserve as a UPNP source for my Uniti, I've only needed to use N-Serve for metadata editing so far. Is this another route to creating Playlists to serve by UPNP?

Unless I got things mixed up, a playlist must be defined on the server - in this case on UnitiServe.

Hungryhalibut posted:

The playlists appear on the front page of the Naim app.

Yay!!! Thank you -seems like an obvious place really but I could only find the ones on the QNAP which are empty.... Thanks again 

Adam Zielinski posted:

Have you tried doing it from the n-Serve app? You can easily build a queue of songs.

The n-Serve app doesn't work with a SuperUniti. I do however use it for my HDX in my main system. Thanks for the thought anyway.

Just reporting back after following Adam's suggestion (thanks!) to build playlists in N-serve. This route creates your playlists in a Playlists folder on the Unitiserve (under CD Collections), rather than on the Naim app home page which those created within the app will appear (alongside your radio presets on iPad, or below the radio presets on the narrower screen of an iPhone).

Now spoilt for choice!!

I prefer to create playlists on the Unitiserve as they are visible on any streamer or iOS device, and can be backed up on the Unitiserve backup.

Naim app playlists are entirely separate, and are stored on the individual iOS device, which is not ideal if you use more than one device to control your streamer. Thay can be transferred manually from one to the other, but that's not ideal. 

By the way, Naim playlists have a max capacity of 500 tracks. If you use the ... options on the top R of the screen, it's easy to inadvertently add huge folders to a playlist. Use the ... symbol next to an individual track instead.

If you create playlists on the n-serve app can then these playlists be seen on the Naim app which controls my SU?

It would be a pain to have to switch between the 2 apps....to change volume etc?

Yes - that is the whole point.

n-Serve manages the UnitiServe / HDX. Create a playlist by adding albums / tracks.

if you now switch to the Naim App and go to the SuperUniti, you will see a top view : Albums, Artists, Playlists, Genres...

Go to Playlists. Your newly created play (from the UnitiServe created via the n-Stream) list will be there.

The whole point of this exercise becomes obvious when you run more than 1 streamer at home - each one can access the same playlist from the central server.

Yes they can. If you create them in N-Serve, they are saved in the folder called Playlists within the CD Collection folder (assuming you're using a Unitiserve) which is accessed through the UPNP source in the Naim app.

Mike A posted:

Yes they can. If you create them in N-Serve, they are saved in the folder called Playlists within the CD Collection folder (assuming you're using a Unitiserve) which is accessed through the UPNP source in the Naim app.

Generally correct, but..

If you have any downloads, then access the Playlists from the 'All Music' folder, rather than 'CD Collection'.