Organizing your music collection – ELAN Home Systems Digital Music Server User Manual

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1

Indicates the Output currently selected

2

Re-syncs the video display to the audio output selected
in your zone

3

Used to select VIA!dj analog outputs 1, 2 and 3. The
highlighted output coincides with the album details
currently being displayed.

4

Used to select the Digital audio output in a home theatre

5

Cover art of the album currently selected by the
highlighted output

6

ELAN Zone mute

7

ELAN Zone volume up and down

8

Return to VIA! Graphics

9

Play

10

Next track

11

Stop

12

Pause

13

Used to toggle between time remaining and time elapsed

14

Previous track

15

Press to return to the previous screen

16

Press to return to the Library screen

17

Adds track to existing playlist (see

Addendum

)

18

Randomly plays tracks from albums, genres and playlists

19

Repeats the selected album, genre or playlist

CONTROLLING PLAYBACK

Whether you are playing music from the library or directly from
the CD you can pause, stop and resume playback as well as
seek and skip tracks at any time.

To pause play

• Press the II key on the VIA! Touch Panel, VIA!dj front

panel or remote control.

To stop play

• Press the

key on the VIA! Touch Panel, VIA!dj front

panel or remote control.

To resume play

• Press the

key on the VIA! Touch Panel, VIA!dj front

panel or remote control.

To skip to the next or previous track

• Press the

I

or

I

key on the VIA! Touch Panel, VIA!dj

front panel or remote control.

The front panel display shows the number of each track as you
skip between them.

To seek within a track

• Hold down the

I

or

I

key on the VIA! Touch Panel,

VIA!dj front panel or remote control.

Play resumes from the new position when you release the key.

Random and repeat playback

Your VIA!dj lets you play albums, artists, genres or playlists in
a random order to add variety to your music. You can also play
a selection repeatedly.

To randomize the current selection

• Press

Random

on the VIA! Touch Panel or the

key

on your VIA!dj remote control.

Press Random or the

key again to disable random

playback.

To repeat the current selection

• Press

Repeat

on the VIA! Touch Panel or the

key

on your VIA!dj remote control.

Press

Repeat

or the

key again to disable repeat play-

back.

The Random and Repeat buttons on the VIA! display are high-
lighted when these functions are active. The front panel display
also indicates that both random and repeat are enabled.

ORGANIZING YOUR
MUSIC COLLECTION

This chapter describes the features built into your VIA!dj to
help you organize the music in your music library, including
information about creating playlists of your favorite tracks,
deleting albums or tracks you no longer want to store, and
naming albums, tracks, and artists.

PLAYLISTS

Your VIA!dj allows you to create your own selections of tracks,
called playlists, and identify them with a name of your choice.
For example, you could select your favorite party tracks from a
number of different albums and include them in a playlist called

Party Music

. You can then play your selection simply by

choosing the appropriate playlist from the

Select Playlist

menu.

Although playlists can be created directly from a VIA! Touch
Panel, there is no way to enter the customized playlist names
from here. We recommend that you use the VIA!dj remote con-
trol to enter playlist information as its alpha-numeric keypad
makes the entering of text easy. The remote can be used in
any room that has a system IR receiver and a TV with the
VIA!dj display available. The remote can also be used to create
playlists by pointing it directly at the VIA!dj and using the front
panel display to guide you through the process.

Creating a New Playlist

NOTE:

A maximum of 100 tracks may be added to the playlist.

• Display the Main Menu by pressing the

on your

VIA!dj remote control.

• Press the

^

or

key to highlight the

Library

option and

press the

Select.

• Press the

^

or

key to highlight the

Edit Playlists

option and press the

Select.

^

^

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