> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.setlist.dj/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Play tracks

> Listen to the tracks on a list in the player bar, rate them as you listen, and keep playing while you look elsewhere.

You can listen to a track without leaving the list. It plays in the player bar at the foot of the window, and from
there you step through the list, give stars and react, as you would on a row. Everyone who can open the list can play
its tracks, including people who can only look.

## Start a track

* **From a row.** The play button sits over the track's cover, at the start of the row. On a computer it shows when
  you hold the pointer over the row; on a touch screen it is always there.
* **From the track drawer.** Open a track (a tap on its row, or on the track in the timeline) and press the play
  button over the cover. Press it again to stop.

Nothing from Spotify, YouTube or SoundCloud loads until you press play. Their player then comes with their own
cookies, as the privacy statement at setlist.dj/privacy explains.

## The player bar

The bar is fixed to the foot of the window and stays there while you scroll. From left to right:

| Part | What it does |
| - | - |
| The cover and title | The track that plays, with its artist. The title takes you back to the list, with that track open. |
| ⏮ and ⏭ | **Previous track** and **Next track**. Between them its place, such as *3 of 12*. |
| Stars, reactions, comments | The same stars and reactions as on the row. The comment count opens the track's **Discussion**. |
| The source's player | Spotify's, YouTube's or SoundCloud's own player, with its own controls for pause and position. |
| × | **Close the player**. |

On a phone the cover, the title and the buttons come first, with the stars and the player on lines of their own
below.

### One player for the whole site

One track plays at a time, on the whole site. Start another one, from this list or another, and it takes over the bar.
The player keeps playing when you go to another page of the site: **Your lists**, another list, your account. A full
reload of the page or leaving the site stops it.

### Previous and next

**Previous track** and **Next track** step through the tracks that have a player, in the order the table shows them.
Tracks without a player are skipped, and the place (*3 of 12*) counts only the tracks that can play. While a proposed
order is shown with **Proposed**, the player follows that order (see
[The proposed order](https://docs.setlist.dj/guide/order-the-set.md#the-proposed-order)). The set and the Maybe list each have their own
order: a track started on the Maybe list steps through the Maybe list.

If a track that plays is removed from the list, or moved between the set and the Maybe list, the player stops.

### Rate while you listen

Give stars and reactions in the bar as you hear the track; they land on its row straight away. The comment count opens
the track's **Discussion** in its drawer, or opens the list on that track if you are on another page. If the link
only lets you look, the stars are greyed: *Only people invited to comment or edit can give stars.*

### In the table

The row that plays has a faint ground, its title in yellow and a small moving equaliser where its number was, so you
can see where you are in the set.

### Close it

Press × at the end of the bar, or press Escape. Escape goes to an open menu, dialog or field first: close that, or
click outside the field, then press Escape for the player.

## What each source plays

| The track comes from | It plays |
| - | - |
| **YouTube** | The whole track. |
| **SoundCloud** | The whole track. |
| **Spotify** | A preview, unless you are signed in to Spotify in the same browser. On a wider screen the bar says so: *A preview from Spotify; the whole track plays there.* |
| rekordbox, or a playlist or audio file you dragged in | Nothing: it is your own file, on your own computer. |
| A typed track | Nothing: there is no recording to play. |
| Another site, such as Beatport or Bandcamp | Nothing here. **Open on Beatport** (or the site's name) in the drawer takes you to the track there. |

A track without a player has no play button. Its cover says *No player for this one*, and its drawer says *No player
for this one: it is your own file, or typed in by hand.*

> [!TIP]
>
> Every track with a link has **Open on Spotify**, **Open on YouTube** or **Open on SoundCloud** in its drawer, for the
> whole track in its own app.

> [accordion] A Spotify track does not start
>
> Some browsers do not let a page start sound by itself. Press the play button inside Spotify's player in the bar.

> [accordion] A Spotify track plays only a short part
>
> That is Spotify's preview. Sign in to Spotify in the same browser and play it again, or press **Open on Spotify**
> in the track's drawer.

> [accordion] A track has no play button
>
> It is your own file, a typed track or a page from another site. See [What each source plays](#what-each-source-plays).

## What next

* [Order the set](https://docs.setlist.dj/guide/order-the-set.md): put the tracks in the order you play them.
* [Share and collaborate](https://docs.setlist.dj/guide/share-and-collaborate.md): stars, reactions and comments with the rest of the crew.


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