Collections

Playlists & Collections, updated October 27, 2026

A collection is like a playlist, but made of whole albums instead of single songs. Use it to bundle every album by one artist, a genre, or your favorite albums for a Sunday afternoon.

New in Luma 1.4

Collection or playlist?

Collections appear in the Playlists tab as their own row, between the dynamic playlists and your playlists.

Create a collection

There are two ways:

In the Playlists tab

1. New CollectionTap + at the top and choose New Collection. If you don't have any collections yet, tapping the New Collection row works too.
2. Enter a nameand confirm with Create.
3. Add albumsOpen the empty collection and tap Add Albums. Tap the albums you want and confirm with Done.

Straight from an album

Touch and hold an album in the library and choose Add to Collection. It lists all your collections plus New Collection…, which creates a new one with this album right away.

Tutorial: Every album by an artist or genre at once

The album picker has a search. That lets you build a big collection in seconds:

1. Open Add AlbumsIn the collection, tap Add Albums.
2. SearchType an artist, an album or a genre, for example “Jazz”. The list now shows only matching albums.
3. Select allTap Select All. All matching albums go into the collection.
4. DoneLuma places new albums by their year. If you've put the collection in your own order, they go at the end.

Playing

In an open collection, or by touching and holding the collection, you have three options:

Via the menu (•••) you can also queue the whole collection with Play Next or Play Last.

Order of the albums

Since Luma 1.6, a collection's albums are sorted by year, oldest first. Albums without a year come last. That way a discography plays in the right order by itself.

If you want a different order, drag the albums into place under Edit. That order then stays. Sort by Year in the collection's menu (•••) brings back the sorting by year. It works the same way on the Mac.

Editing

In the menu (•••) of an open collection:

• Add Albums: select or deselect albums.
• Edit: drag the albums by their handle into an order of your own.
• Sort by Year: appears once you've set your own order, and sorts by year again.
• Rename: give it a new name.
• Change cover: see below.
• Delete Collection: the collection goes away, the albums stay in your library.

To take out a single album, touch and hold it inside the collection and choose Remove from Collection. If you delete an album from the library entirely, it automatically disappears from every collection too.

The order of the collections in the Playlists tab can be changed just like playlists.

Designing the cover

Since Luma 1.7, collections get their own covers, just like playlists. Change cover offers a mosaic of the album covers, a photo of your own or a generated pattern. On the Mac, right-click the collection, in the sidebar too, and choose Change cover. There you choose an image, take one from Photos or just drop it onto the cover.

Pin to the home screen

Like playlists, collections can be pinned to the top of the library's home screen: Settings › General › Home, then pick them under Pin Playlists and Collections and sort them by their handle.

Showing and hiding collections

In Settings › General › Playlists Tab:

• Show Collections: turns the feature on or off. When hidden, collections disappear from the Playlists tab, the album menus and the home screen. Nothing is deleted; turn them back on and all your collections are there again.
• Top of the Playlists Tab: whether your playlists or your collections come right below the dynamic playlists.

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