A method for navigating a list of media items on a client device includes providing a playlist portion of one or more playlist portions of a user interface (UI) of an application, wherein the playlist portion of the UI provides a list of media items streamable to the application in a first playlist of one or more playlists, receiving an indication of a gesture made by a user with respect to the playlist, identifying a location associated with the gesture, determining that the gesture location is in an area covering the playlist portion, in response to determining that the gesture is a swipe left gesture, navigating media items of the playlist in a forward direction, in response to determining that the gesture is a swipe right gesture, navigating media items of the playlist in a backward direction, and updating a viewing state associated with the first playlist based on the navigating.