Pro-Ject Audio Systems Stream Box DSA - Manual (Page 12)

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now you see the menu shown on the right side. Go to Music with the
 keys and confirm with OK.
If you have selected a default media server in the Settings menu, the
selection menu for Music and Photos is shown right after you select
Media Server in the root menu. Go to Music with the  keys
and confirm with OK.
In the menu than comes up now, the music tracks on the selected server
are sorted by several criteria for easier search. The sorting terms are
more or less self-explanatory: E.g. in Album the tracks are sorted in
Albums with the original playback order. All Titles means exactly that:
This list contains all tracks on the server in alphabetic order.
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 DSA 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 DSA 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 DSA 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.