Tangara has support for playlist files with file extensions '.m3u8' or '.playlist'. These are files containing a list of filepaths (relative to the SD card root) each on a new line. When selected in the file browser, a new queue will be created with each of the tracks in order.
Playlists must be saved with the file extension '.m3u8' or '.playlist' in order to be used. An example playlist might look like:
Music/Artist/Album/01 Track.flac
Music/Artist/AnotherAlbum/01 Another Track.opus
Podcasts/ACoolPodcast/ACoolEpisode.mp3
Podcasts/ACoolPodcast/TheNextCoolEpisode.mp3
It's possible to enqueue more tracks onto the end of this queue. In a later update we plan to add the capability to save the current queue as a playlist.
Creating Playlists using The Command Line
A quick way to generate playlist files on a unix system is by using find to output the filepaths of tracks and using the > or >> operators to write the output to a file.
For example, to create a playlist file of all files in the Music directory from the command line one could navigate to the SD card root and enter something like:
find Music -type f > all_tracks.playlist
One might want to further refine this using grep or other command line tools in order to only include certain file formats or tracks matching a particular search. For example:
find Music -type f | grep -E '.flac|.ogg|.mp3' > all_tracks.playlist
find Music -type f | grep 'Cool Artist' > coolartist.playlist