Overview

Use Smart playlists to automatically curate a list of audio articles or summaries based on your criteria.

Create a Smart playlist

To create a Smart playlist:

  1. Go to Project > Distribution > Playlists.
  2. Click + Playlist.
  3. Enter a name for your playlist.
  4. Upload a cover image for your playlist.
  5. Select Smart.
  6. Click Continue.

Your playlist will be created and you’ll be redirected to the playlist editor.

Whenever you create a playlist, a podcast feed will be created automatically.

Curate a Smart playlist

To curate a Smart playlist:

By default, your Smart playlist will include all articles in your project.

  1. Click Set rules.
  2. Click + Rule.
  3. Select the field you want to filter by. This will be based on your arricle metadata. By default it will include author, title, and published date.
  4. Choose the operator you want to use: is, is not, contains, wildcard.
  5. Enter the value you want to filter by.
  6. Click Apply.
  7. You can add multiple rules and combine them using the AND operator.
  8. Review the results and click Save changes.

Publish your playlist

To publish your playlist:

  1. Click on the Embed code button.
  2. Select the content type: Articles or Summaries.
  3. Copy the embed code.
  4. Paste the embed code into your website.

You can only select Summaries if your articles have summaries.

Share your playlist

To share your playlist:

  1. Click on the Share button.
  2. Select the content type: Articles or Summaries.
  3. Click Copy link.
  4. Share the link.

You playlist will not be visible unless you have set the visibility to Public.

Copy your playlist ID

To copy your playlist ID:

  1. Click on the button.
  2. Click Copy playlist ID.

Want to let your audience create their own playlists?

To let your audience create their own playlists, you can use the Player JavaScript SDK.