This command opens a selection Dialog box. Choose the format of the files to be played (they should all be in the same format). Use the browse button to select, in the sequence in which you want them played, all the files that need to be played. The usual Windows shortcuts of Click, Shift-Click, Ctrl-Click can be used to select a range of files or separate individual files. You can also type *.* wild characters in the browsing window to select all files in a folder. The maximum number of files that can be selected and played with a single "Play a list of files" command depends on the length of the file names: the total length of all file names added together should not exceed 65,000 characters, so that if you use "normal" filenames you can play a lot of files indeed.
Tell Vox Studio what type of file you want to play. If you select a headerless format you will have to give additional coding and sample rate information. If not, Vox Studio will read this information automatically from the file headers.
You can click a selection button so that the function only plays the first so many seconds of each file. This length is adjustable.
The following window appears when you press OK:
All files then automatically play one after the other. You can check which file is currently playing by looking at the title bar. Pressing the "Skip" button skips to the next file in the list. You can also pause or end playback.
It is thus possible to scan through hundreds of files very rapidly, irrespective of file format, as long as all the files are of the same format. There is even an option to only play the first "n" seconds (let us say 3 seconds) of every selected file for quick identification or checking purposes.
The display indicates the file length in seconds and milliseconds, the sampling rate in KHz, the recording format used and the stereo/mono status (for ".wav" files).
Some file formats, like ".wav" for instance, have information headers at the beginning of the files. For those files it is usually not necessary to indicate to Vox Studio what the precise recording parameters are for each file, as Vox Studio will read this from the file itself. For other file formats Vox Studio will prompt you for the file-family (Dialogic or CCITT for instance), coding type (e.g. A-law or ADPCM) and sampling frequency (e.g. 8 KHz or 11 KHz). If your files are of a single file family which has (type information) headers then you can mix files with different sampling rates or resolutions in a single play list command. If not, all files will need to have the same characteristics as there is no way Vox Studio can guess this information when going from one file to another.
The same functionality is also available to an external file manager program (Windows Explorer for example). You can select and drag all the filenames you want to play and drop them onto the Vox Studio play list icon at the bottom of the graph window (the three colored arrows). A slightly different window now appears:
The functionality is similar to the standard method above, except that you will have chosen all the files to play in an external program instead of in Vox Studio.
The Play List command is also available from the 
pause button on the toolbar at the bottom of the graph pane. This same button can also be used as drop target for drag-and-drop playback.