Music playback

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.

Navigating 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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Controls During Playback

Once the desired song, album or playlist is highlighted, start playback by pressing the button. Pressing the White button (Info on the remote) will toggle song information and art on/off. The Start button will stop the music.

The button toggles visualization on/off. During Visualization Mode, pressing the button will pause/resume music while the triggers can be used to fast forward or rewind during playback. Pressing will stop playback.

The Start button (Menu on the remote) can be used to bring up the OSD (On Screen Display) from where you can alter the visualization settings and bring up the Now Playing window.

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 whilst in File Mode, selecting an album:

Queue Item Adds the item to the Now Playing playlist Play 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. Add to Favourites Adds the item to your Favourites menu.; Add to Favourites Adds the item to your Favourites 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. Scan Item to Library Scans the item into the the Music Library. Performing this on a folder will cause every item in the folder to be scanned. Switch Media Allows you to switch to playback of other types of media (e.g. video files). Go to Root Takes you to the "My Music" root folder. Now Playing... Takes you to a screen that shows what is currently playing and what the next queued files are. Settings Opens the My Music Settings menu.

Other possible menu items

Search

Allows you to search for specific media

Delete

Deletes the item. Must be enabled in the Appearance Settings.

Rename

Renames the item. Must be enabled in the Appearance Settings.

The On Screen Display (OSD)

There are two different onscreen displays available in My Music, learn more about them here.