Music playback

Moving Around in My Music

When you first open My Music, the interface will look like the image on the right. Dominating the screen on the right-hand side is where your media is displayed. In this case, it is displaying all of the bookmarks available to My Music. To the left hand side, you have the following controls: View You can select List, Icons or Big Icons. Sort By You can choose what criteria to sort your media by. Note the arrow to the right which controls whether the items are sorted in ascending or descending order. Switch View This control allows you to switch between File View and The Library View. Playlists This control allows you to view your playlists. Playing music is as simple as navigating through your bookmarks and selecting a song.

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The Context Menu The context menu allows you to interact with the individual media items. You can view the context menu by highlighting an individual track or folder and pressing the white button (or the Title button on the remote). The following options are available on the menu: Album Information This allows you to view information about the item from Allmusic.com. You can achieve the same result by simply highlighting the item and pressing the Info button on the remote. Play Using Allows you to choose which player will be used for the file. You can choose between PAPlayer, MPlayer and DVDPlayer for most files. If the item is selected is a folder, then selecting this option simply plays all of the items in the folder. Queue Item Adds the item to the Now Playing playlist Scan to Database Scans the item into the the Music Library. Performing this on a folder will cause every item in the folder to be scanned. Search Allows you to search for specific media Delete Deletes the item. Must be enabled in the My Music Settings. Rename Renames the item. Must be enabled in the My Music Settings. Settings Opens the My Music Settings menu.

The On Screen Display (OSD)

There are two onscreen displays available in My Music: The mini-control Press the Start Button on the controller to display the mini control. The Visualization OSD The Visualization OSD is pictured at the bottom right and is available by pressing Start (Menu on the Remote) while in visualization mode. The Buttons on the OSD are as follows: 1. Now Playing - Selecting this opens the Now Playing Playlist 2. Select Visualization - Allows you to select the visualization being displayed 3. Visualization Preset - Allows you to select the visualization preset being displayed 4. Visualization Settings - Allows you to configure the current visualization

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Working With Your Music

There are two different ways to view your media in My Music: The Files View and The Library View. Choose either option to learn more about them.