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Playlists
A playlist rotates through a set of wallpapers: on a timer, when a video ends, at login, by time of day or by day of week. Playlists live in the Playlists tab.
- In the Playlists tab, click + ("Create playlist"), type a name and press Return (or click the add button).
- Or in Installed, select wallpapers and click Create Playlist under the grid. A sheet asks for a name and lists the wallpapers; Save creates it.
- Add more wallpapers later from a tile's context menu: Add to Playlist ›. On the Workshop tab, a card's context menu has the same item.
Choosing a playlist in the list makes it the active playlist (it is checked).
Select a playlist to see its detail view:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Rotate automatically | Advances on its own after the wallpaper duration |
| Shuffle | Picks the next wallpaper at random |
| Repeat | Starts over after the last wallpaper |
| Change when video ends | For video wallpapers, advances when the video finishes |
| Change wallpaper | Shows the playlist's schedule, set in Playlist Settings |
| Wallpaper duration | How long each wallpaper shows on a timer, 5 seconds to 1 hour. The slider moves in 5 s steps below a minute and 15 s steps above; the label reads e.g. "45s", "1m 15s", "1h". |
| Previous / Next | Jumps manually |
| Item rows | Thumbnail and title, Move up / Move down, Remove from playlist |
| Configure (gear) | Opens Playlist Settings (below) |
| Shortcut field | Records a system-wide hotkey that starts this playlist |
| Delete playlist (trash) | Asks first: "Its wallpapers stay in your library." |
The default duration is 5 minutes. Shuffle and Repeat don't apply to a Time of day or Day of week playlist, whose schedule picks the wallpaper.
Configure opens Wallpaper Engine's playlist options:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Change wallpaper | When logging in, On a timer (with the wallpaper duration), Time of day (each wallpaper gets a start time), Day of week (one wallpaper per day; at most 7) or Never |
| Change wallpaper when a video ends, Allow wallpaper to change while paused, Always begin with the first wallpaper, First wallpaper played at startup only | Timer options, as in Wallpaper Engine |
| Transitions | The transition between wallpapers, with a preview: none, random, or chosen effects (Enable all / Disable all) |
| Reset | Puts every setting back to a new playlist's |
- Without Shuffle, the playlist plays in list order. At the end it stops unless Repeat is on.
- With Shuffle, the next wallpaper is chosen at random among the playable ones.
- Auto-advance skips wallpapers flagged by safe restart (see Troubleshooting).
- After an unclean exit, the playlist stays paused at launch until you retry.
Read more (for developers): Architecture (Library/WallpaperPlaylist)