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plural playlists
(radio) A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station. examples
(computing) A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service. quotations examples
When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.
1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer
Strangers constructed playlists that pulled from artists and albums you’d never heard of, but without the performative high/low-ness that afflicts so much online music talk.
2015 November 17, Robinson Meyer, “A Eulogy for Rdio”, in The Atlantic
I hadn't spoken to her in a year, but she could still see my listens on the music platform we both used. I still went to those playlists for solace. A sense of collective understanding. We had stockpiled our youth.
2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books
No past, just traces / Nowhere to play, just playlists
2021, “Skyline”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon
A list of songs, prepared for a band or musical artist, to be performed during a concert; a setlist. examples
third-person singular simple present playlists, present participle playlisting, simple past and past participle playlisted
(transitive) To include (a track) on a playlist. quotations examples
Suddenly they got a single playlisted at Radio 1 and the album went gold.
2009, John Niven, Kill Your Friends, Harper Collins, page 7