Keeping in line with the Windows Explorer familiarity, Shuffleplay offers familiar methods of copying and moving your files around.  ShufflePlay includes cut-and-paste functionality as well as drag-and-drop capability to simplify your interface with the program.

Case Study

Let's just say that you had a bunch of Spice Girls songs scattered around your drive, and you wanted to put them all someplace where nobody could find them, and where you could delete them at a moment's notice in case your friends wanted to mess with your computer. Here's how I... err, I mean you would do it. Use the Search applet to locate every Spice Girls MP3 on your drive. Have the results copied over to your playlist. Don't worry, you'll learn how to do this later in the Tour. Actually, you probably could figure it out on your own. At any rate, the next step is to select all Spice songs from your playlist and Cut them to the virtual clipboard. Navigate to your secret directory like your Windows\Temp folder or something. Then Paste the songs there. Nothing else to it!

Just drag the files from the Files view and drop them onto any folder in the folders tree.  You will then see a menu asking if you want to copy the files, move the files, or cancel the transaction.

Another way to copy/move your files can be found in the File menu. Select the files from the Files/Playlist view to copy, then choose File then "Copy to..." or "Move to..." You will then be asked for the folder to copy/move the files to.

Still another way is to use the Copy/Cut/Paste menu available by right-clicking and cut and paste files to and fro.

This functionality works from both the files view as well as the playlist view.  You can also use context menus to copy/move files from the built-in Search system.

Now you're probably thinking "Hey, I could have done that with Windows Find." But could you copy the songs from a playlist whose songs are scattered around your drive into a folder with a drag and a click? How about copying all songs on your local drives written in the 1960's into your Oldies folder? Now that's where ShufflePlay comes in.

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