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title: "Send Media to Digital Signage Screens | EasySignage"
description: "Send files from Media Assets straight to your digital signage screens. The Send to screen wizard makes a playlist, assigns it to screens and publishes it."
url: https://easysignage.com/help/media-assets/digital-signage-send-to-screen/
---

# Send to Screen

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**Send to screen** puts files from **Media Assets** on your screens in three steps. It makes a new full-screen playlist with the files you picked, assigns it to the screens you choose, and publishes it.

> **Warning:** The screens you choose stop playing what they play now and play the new playlist instead.

## Before you begin

-   You need access to **Playlists** and **Screens**, without **Readonly**, and the **Publish** option on **Screens**. See [Teams](https://easysignage.com/help/user-mgmt/teams/#permissions).
-   Only files that are ready can be sent. Folders, files that are still processing and disabled files are left out.

## Send files to screens

1.  Go to **Media Assets** and tick the files you want to show.
2.  Click **Send to screen**. The button shows how many of the ticked files can be sent.

![Selected files with the Send to screen button](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/media-assets/media-selection-toolbar.webp)

3.  **Name your playlist**: check the **Playlist Name** (3 to 30 characters). It starts with the name of the first file. Choose the **Orientation**: **Horizontal** or **Vertical**. Click **Next**.

![Send to screen, step 1: Name your playlist](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/media-assets/send-to-screen-1.webp)

4.  **Choose screens**: pick the screens in **Select screens**. Only screens with the orientation you chose are listed. If your account uses tags, you can click **Tags** and pick tags instead: every screen with one of those tags gets the playlist. Click **Next**.

![Send to screen, step 2: Choose screens](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/media-assets/send-to-screen-2.webp)

5.  **Ready to publish**: check the summary, then click **Publish**.

![Send to screen, step 3: Ready to publish](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/media-assets/send-to-screen-3.webp)

Nothing is changed until you click **Publish**. Click **Back** to change an earlier step, or **Cancel** to stop.

## What happens next

The wizard shows its progress: **Creating the playlist**, **Adding media**, **Assigning screens** and **Publishing**. When it finishes, click **Open playlist** to edit the new playlist, or **Close**.

-   The files are copied into the playlist. The originals stay in Media Assets.
-   The new playlist appears in **Playlists**, where you can change it like any other playlist.
-   If [Media approval](https://easysignage.com/help/media-assets/digital-signage-media-approval/) is on, files that wait for approval aren’t sent until they are approved.

## Troubleshooting

**“No screens match this orientation.”** None of your screens has the orientation you chose. Click **Back** and choose the other **Orientation**.

**"… items could not be added." or “… screens could not be assigned.”** Some steps failed, but the rest went through. Open the playlist from **Playlists** to add the missing files, or use **Assign to screens**.

**“Something went wrong. The playlist was created, so you can finish it from Playlists.”** Open the new playlist in **Playlists** and finish it there.

**“Something went wrong. Nothing was changed.”** Try again. If it keeps happening, [contact support](https://easysignage.com/contact-us/).

## Related articles

-   [Media Assets](https://easysignage.com/help/media-assets/digital-signage-media-assets/)
-   [Playlist Management](https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/digital-signage-playlist/)
-   [Control media playback by tags](https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/3.7-control-media-playback-by-tags/)

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