Pro-Ject Audio Systems Stream Box DS net - Manual (Page 13)

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© Audio Trade GmbH · Pro-Ject Stream Box DS · Version: January 1st, 2012
In Genre/Song the tracks are sorted by music types.
In Artist the sorting criterion is the performer, who recorded the track.
In Folder you can access the tracks in the memory folders on the server
like with a normal computer. When you select Playlists, you find there
all playlists you generated yourself on a computer and saved on the
server.
For the different sorting criteria, the media servers and the Stream Box DS are using additional
information saved with the music track files in the very most cases, the so called tags. All important
file formats, e.g. MP3 or FLAC, contain such tags, with the exception of WAV. This format anyway is
not so well suited for the use with music servers because of its high memory requirements.
The tags include information like the name of the CD the track is part of, the title number, the
name of the title, its length and the genre. In tracks downloaded from the internet these tags are
usually already contained. If you save music from a CD to your computer (in computer language
this procedure is called “ripping”), you have to add the tags yourself. Luckily this process usually is
handled by the ripping software automatically. It gets the necessary information from databases in
the internet and searches for CD covers too. It is worthwhile to provide the tracks with as complete
tag information as possible to help media server and Stream Box DS sorting the music by meaningful
criteria.
Additionally you should take a look into the settings of your media server. If for example the media
server menus in the Stream Box DS are displayed not in English, although you have selected
English in the language settings menu, the reason for that is a wrong setting on the server.
Normally you can personalize these settings according to your needs. Please refer to the manual of
the server or server software for directions how to change the settings.
Displaying photos from a media server
For displaying photos from a media server, go to the root menu with the
key. There please move to the menu item Media Server with
the  keys and confirm your selection with the key OK . After that,
please go to the desired server and then to Photos and confirm.
now you can see a list of several criteria comparable to the music
menus. This criteria help sorting and searching all photos on the
media server. Again the criteria are self-explanatory: In Album you
find the stored cD covers, By Date contains a list sorted by Date and
in Slideshows you find all slideshows you generated yourself on a
computer and saved on the server. The menu operation is similar to
what is described in the chapter „Playing music from a media server“.