Media folder type page

Playlist pages can also be created directly from selected media folders, giving you the flexibility to customize your content the way you want.

Images and PDFs

• A globally defined Duration will be applied to each page.
• This default duration determines how long each item is displayed.
• You can manually adjust this value for individual files as needed.

Video Files and Audio

• Videos and audio files automatically use their native duration.
• These durations can also be overridden by a maximum item duration.

Shared folders and files in playlists

You can also include shared folders and files synced from external storage as playlist pages.

• These pages will display the credential type on the folders and files, indicating which credential was used to sync them from external storage

Media Folder type page settings

In Playlist Page Settings, you can individually edit each page’s general settings and customize its behavior.

Duration

This duration will define the length of each element in the folder which has no native duration.

• Minimum duration/item must be greater than 3s.
• This duration can be overwritten by default duration from Playlist settings.

In ePaper mode this value is set in minutes, with the minimum duration of 5 minutes.

Item shuffle mode

Item shuffle mode determines, how the items inside the folder will be displayed.

Balanced
Balanced shuffle mode means if the folder contains more than 1 item in it, it will play through every item inside the folder before moving on the next page.

Serial
Balanced shuffle mode means if the folder contains more than 1 item in it, it will play through every item inside the folder before moving on the next page.

Played media types

With this settings you can select which source types you want to play inside the folder
Sources that can be selected:

• Video
• Images
• Audio
• PDF

Ordering mode

Ordering mode determines, what order will the items follow inside the folder when displayed.

Default
The default ordering type doesn't change the playlist any further, the items will play according to the other settings you've applied.

Alphabetical
Choosing alphabetical ordering will adjust the other settings but won't override them completely. Items will still play based on the original settings, but within an alphabetical order.

Random
The items will still follow the original rules, just in a randomized order.

Valid files only

When enabled, the folder will only contain files that have active validity or no validity set.

Advertiser

• Select an advertiser where you wish to collect Proof of Play records about the item's playtime

Here you can find more information about Advertisers

Device tags

Select tags from the suggestion list to specify which devices are eligible to play this page.

• You can select whether the device must contain all tags or at least 1 tag has to match.

Saturation

A value that determines how frequently a page alternates in the playlist.

• A higher saturation causes the page to shuffle more frequently, simulating the creation of additional pages to fill the time between other pages.
• This value cannot be 0.