The Favourites

The first item, and the one most people use. It takes the mix you are listening to and keeps it.

Once it is on, the label itself changes to In Favourites, so you never have to wonder whether the tap registered. The heart on the player fills in at the same time.

Everything you have hearted, in one list, wherever you hearted it. Tap one and it takes you back to that player with that mix. The small × beside a row removes it from Favourites.

This is the list to check first when you half remember something you liked and cannot think where it was.

A favourite is one sound. A playlist is an order of them, which is what a session actually needs.

Adding builds the running order you will use in the room. A sound can sit in more than one playlist at once, so a favourite you use everywhere does not have to be chosen between.

Your playlists, and everything you do to them: renaming, deleting, and changing the order.

Renaming

Tap the pencil, not the name. Tapping the row itself opens and closes the playlist to show what is in it, so the pencil beside it is what renames. The name becomes editable in place; type the new one and confirm.

Name them after the work rather than the sound. "Tuesday evenings" finds itself faster than "Forest mix 3".

Deleting

The × on a playlist row deletes it, and it asks you first. Deleting a playlist never deletes the sounds in it: they stay in My Favourites and in any other playlist they belong to. Only the running order goes.

Length

Ten tracks is roughly fifty minutes. A seventy-five minute session will fall silent with twenty-five minutes left unless repeat is on, so turn it on before the client arrives.

Reorder mode

Order matters more than anything else in a playlist, so changing it has its own mode. The controls appear only while Reorder mode is on, which means a playlist cannot be reshuffled by a mis-tap during a session. Tap Done when you have finished.

It works the same way in My Playlists and in My Favourites. Three ways to move a track, and they do the same thing:

• The handle — tap once to lift a track, tap where you want it to land. Two taps moves it anywhere in the list.
• The arrows — one place at a time, for a small correction.
• To the top — straight to first, which is the one practitioners reach for most.

There is no dragging, on purpose. Drag and drop does not work on iOS at all, and most of this happens on a phone. Tap to lift and tap to place behaves identically on every device.

Changes save and sync as you make them, so a running order rearranged on a laptop is already correct on the treatment room tablet.

Like hearting, but named and kept on purpose. Use it when you have built something you want to find again by name rather than recognise in a list.

A heart is a quick yes. A saved mix is a decision.

The last item, and the one people forget is there. Every mix you have saved and named, ready to open or to drop into a playlist. The × deletes one, and asks first.

If you build the same sound more than twice, it belongs here rather than being rebuilt each time.

Saving a playlist for offline

In My Playlists, each playlist has its own offline control. Tap Save for offline and it downloads; when it is done the label becomes Saved for offline with a tick beside it. Once saved, that playlist runs with no connection at all.

It is per playlist rather than per player, and deliberately so: the thing you need in a room with no signal is the running order, not one sound out of it.

• Do it the night before, not on the day. Downloading takes as long as it takes, and a client is already sitting down.
• Do it on the device you will use. Offline means stored on that phone or laptop.
• Check the tick before you leave. It is the only thing that tells you it finished.