Koel’s web interface is designed to be as simple and intuitive as possible, drawing inspiration from the best music players out there. Here’s a quick rundown of what you can do with it.
* Select a song by clicking on it. To select multiple songs, hold down <kbd>Shift</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl/Cmd</kbd> while clicking.
* Drag and drop one or more songs to reorder them when applicable
* Drag and drop one or more songs to applicable menu items to the left to perform actions like adding to a playlist, queueing, or marking them as favorite
* Right-click on a song to bring up a context menu with options to play, queue, mark as favorite, add to a playlist, and more
To search globally for songs, artists, and albums, see [Instant Search](./search).
Start by clicking the <InterfaceIcon:src="plusIcon"alt="Add"/> button next to the "Playlists" header in the navigation bar. You'll be provided with three options:
* songs by Iron Maiden that have been played more than 99 times by the current user
There are a great variety of criteria to choose from, and you can combine them in any way you like, providing a powerful tool for creating dynamic playlists.
## Editing Songs
As an admin (Community edition) or song owner (Koel Plus), you can edit a song's metadata by right-clicking on it and choosing "Edit…".
A dialog will appear, allowing you to change the song's title, artist, album, genre, lyrics, and more.
You can also download several songs, all songs from an album, all songs by an artist, or a whole playlist as a zip file via the "Download" buttons found on according screens or context menus.
This feature requires the [`zip` extension](https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.zip.php) to be installed and enabled on the server.
:::warning Resource Intensive
Downloading a large number of songs at once (or a big playlist) can be resource-intensive, may take a long time, or even (silently) fail.
You can disable this behavior by setting `BACKUP_ON_DELETE` to `false` in your `.env` file, but be aware that this will make it impossible to recover a song once it's deleted.
*<kbd>Enter</kbd> plays a song. If multiple songs are being selected, <kbd>Enter</kbd> adds them to the bottom of the queue, <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> queues them to top. Adding a <kbd>Cmd</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> into the combo plays the first selected song right away.
*<kbd>Delete</kbd> removes selected song(s) from the current queue/playlist
With a browser that supports [MediaSession](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSession) — basically, all modern browsers — you can control Koel using hardware media keys without even having Koel _or the browser_ focused.
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