Anyone use Sonar "Play List" feature?

I use platinum also for live gigs. My issue is with play list. I depend on the now time cursor, however it does not move automatically at start of songs. I have to click mouse on console view page, a little difficult  when you are playing. Scroll lock and pause break only work when not using play list. Also every time a song opens in play list I hear snap, crackle and pops. How can I fix this?

I am not familiar with the Hot Key concept. It used to work quite well with X3, first time using it in Platinum, which should be the same. If you care to share "How to" I"d be obliged

I believe Tenfoot used the Playlist function quite a bit playing live, might want to shoot him a PM with any questions/problems. I think he has moved on from SONAR since the guano hit the fan and now uses something else for the playlist function. iirche posted a thread about it. He still visits here every now and then, so he might come across this thread and join in.
 
[edit] here is the thread I was thinking of
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com...solution-m3691123.aspx

I thought about the Winamp approach but I need automation for delay, synth modulations, arpeggio synchronization etc, etc.  It's too bad the playlist doesn't work well enough.  I'm wondering if other DAWs would work better for this but I'm not planning on live playing so this will do for now.  Very interested in how others deal with this.  

Just a success story FYI - I used the Playlist (SPLAT) for 2 identical Christmas concerts with choir & orchestra in Dec '17 without issue.  Rehearsal was paramount in making sure it ran as intended.
 
In this case, my projects were 9 songs of 11 tracks each played from my Surface Pro.  No VST FX were used in the projects - instead we utilized the DSP built into the AI (Behringer XR 18).
 
Individual project tracks and direct connections from the mic'd choir were routed through the AI and fed directly to powered mains & monitors and mixed remotely over CAT5 via X-Touch.
 
Every song except for two were started manually with the space bar following narration.  Two songs were setup to automatically start after a 1-second pause.
 
Both concerts proceeded without a hiccup.  I did not time transitions but it worked very well for us.  Our only issues were during rehearsals - it is not most stable thing if you are wanting to change up your setlist on the fly.  You'd be much wiser using a dedicated program for that flexibility.

Hey Bob.
 
The cursor not moving was a bug that popped up a while ago. IIRC, I an enabled playlist, it will move on the first song you play, but not consecutive ones. The issue seems to be the preloading of the next song takes window focus and the cursor never recovers, but if you click on the window of the song playing the cursor returns. Obviously no solution whilst you are on stage! People also reported already played songs not closing in the background at the same time, though I never encountered that. It was reported as a problem several times but unfortunately didn't gain enough traction to get the bakers attention.
 
J Codys's idea sounds interesting. I always saved projects for performance in a small non full screen window next to the playlist, and the cursor certainly doesnt work in that state, so maybe try his full screen idea.
 
As Matron mentioned, I have moved on to something called Midi Automator (which is free), combined with Bome Midi Translator (which is relatively inexpensive). I am using it with Studio One, but it works with Sonar or any other DAW and gives you much more control. As with all things worthwhile, there is a bit of a learning curve, but brilliant once set up. It also solves the problem of occasional glitching in playback that can happen whilst Sonar is loading the next project, particularly with large track counts.
 
As an aside, looking forward  I would also mention that song loading in Studio One is blindingly fast and playback is rock solid, both huge advantages for live performance. Probably worth a look at whatever stage you need to find an alternative.