Listening to music, Selecting and playing music, Setting up a musicmatch library on your pc – SMC Networks 802.11g User Manual
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User Guide
In the Home Menu, scroll up/down to find the source you want, then browse to the album, track or station that you want. If you
cannot find all your sources, see Troubleshooting on page 20.
Note: The menu trees for the user modes are on pages 22, 26 and 27.
Listening to Music
Selecting and Playing Music
If you select a music server item from the Home Menu, you can browse through Select Screens by various categories,
depending on the server you are using. Typical categories are:
Albums, All Tracks, Artists, Artists/Albums, Genres, Genres/Artists and Playlists.
Note: Rhapsody also offers a selection of Internet Radio Stations.
When you see the Play icon (
) to the right of an item you can press
to listen to it.
The basic key functions were described earlier under Play Screens on page 6, but you can also skip, REPEAT and SHUFFLE
tracks. This table shows all the features you can use in Play Mode:
Setting up a Musicmatch Library on your PC
Before you can use the SMCWAA-G to browse and play music files (in MP3 or WMA formats) from your PC, you need to add
them to your Musicmatch Jukebox Music Library.
Basic instructions for building a library are given below. Please read the Musicmatch Jukebox Help to learn about all the
available features, and how to use them.
1.
Load music files on your PC and note the folder name(s) where they are stored
2.
Start the Musicmatch program by clicking on the Musicmatch Jukebox desktop icon:
.
3.
If the Library is not already open click the My Library button.
4.
Click the Add to Library button.
5.
Locate the folder on your hard disk noted in step 1 and select the music files to be added to the Music Library. Click the
Add button to add the files to the Music Library, then click Exit.
Note: The Musicmatch server is always running, even after you have closed the Musicmatch application.
Listening to Internet Radio Stations
The SMCWAA-G comes with a pre-installed evaluation version of the vTuner Internet Radio service. Select Internet Radio
from the Home Menu, then select a station by browsing through the displayed categories.
Key
Function
Screen Icon
Play/Pause the highlighted item
or
Stop playing the current item
(none)
INFOrmation key: switch between Play and Select Screens
(none)
Skip to the next track, or hold for 2+ seconds to fast forward the current track
(none)
Skip to the previous track (if available)
(none)
REPEAT the track currently playing. Press again to REPEAT ALL tracks and again to cancel repeating
or
Play items in SHUFFLEd (random) order. Press again to play in normal order.
Note: Shuffle can be used with REPEAT ALL (above) to repeat-play a whole album in random order