ELAN Home Systems Digital Music Server - Manual (Page 35)

PRESETS
Presets are simple playlists that can be used in the same way
as a preset station on your radio tuner. For example, you may
have a preset which plays a particular album, a preset that
plays all the albums by a particular artist, or a preset that plays
all the music in a particular genre.
Although you can select a preset for playback using the VIA!
Touch Panel or TV user interface, the greatest advantage of
the preset feature is that you now have a quick, user-friendly
way to access to your VIA!dj from standard keypads and
remote controls that do not have the visual feedback offered by
a VIA! Touch Panel or television.
Before a preset can be used, a selection of music must be
assigned to that ‘station’:
Storing a Preset
• From the Library menu select Presets then press
✔
Select .
If you have not previously stored a preset all the names
will be labeled
[Empty] .
If you have already stored a preset, the existing presets
will be displayed:
• From the Select Preset screen select the number of the
new Preset you wish to create or the name of an existing
preset you wish to change, then press Edit.
The following menu allows you to choose whether you wish to
rename the preset or re-program it:
To select the music for a preset:
• From the Preset Information screen highlight the Set
option then press
✔
Select .
You will be prompted to select an item from the library to store
as your preset. This may be a single track, an album, all the
tracks by an artist, all the tracks in a genre, a playlist, or all the
tracks stored on your VIA!dj. For more information on browsing
the music library refer to
Playing Music from the Library
p.17-19.
When you have located the album, genre, artist, playlist or
track you want to select:
• Press
✔
Set to store it as a preset.
• Press the
✔
OK to continue.
Important Notes:
1. Presets are not automatically updated when new music is
recorded onto your VIA!dj. For example, if you have a
preset which plays the Blues genre, when a new Blues
album is added the preset will not contain those new
tracks.
2. Adding new music to an existing preset overwrites what
was previously entered for that preset.
3. To select VIA!dj presets from an ELAN keypad the keypad
must be programmed with the proper IR commands. Your
authorized ELAN installer may already have programmed
your ELAN keypads for these functions. If not, a trip to
your home to add the proper commands to your keypads
would be required.
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