Creating a new Playlist
To create a Playlist, press the RIGHT button while you are in the Music browser. A second panel is opened on the right side to display the playlist contents (shown empty in the picture). You can now start adding songs to the current Playlist. In the left window, search for the
songs you would like to add to your Playlist. Once the song is highlighted, click on the OK button to add it to the Playlist. The song will be added to the Playlist and the music icon in front of the current song is displayed in reverse video to indicate that it is in the playlist. Continue searching and adding songs in this manner until you are satisfied. You can jump back and forth anytime between the two windows by clicking the LEFT/RIGHT buttons. A Playlist can
have a maximum of 1000 songs in it. We recommend that you save your Playlists to the Gmini hard drive (see below) to be used again later. You can also add all the music files of a complete folder in one operation by highlighting the desired folder, pressing MENU to display the contextual menu, and then selecting either
ADD TO PLAYLIST or INSERT TO PLAYLIST.
•Add to playlist: adds all files at the end of the current playlist.
•Insert to playlist : inserts all files in the playlist at the current cursor position.
Loading a Playlist
You can load a previously saved playlist or add the files it contains to the current playlist. Use the music browser to select the playlist of your choice (playlists are indicated by a special list icon)
Playlist contextual menu description
•Start Playlist: starts playing the first track of the playlist.
•Save Playlist: saves the current playlist on the hard drive so that it can be reloaded later.
•Rename Playlist : changes the name of the current playlist with the virtual keyboard.
•Shuffle Playlist: randomly changes the order of the items in the current playlist .
•Clear Playlist: remove all tracks from the current playlist.
•Move Track: changes the position of the current track within the playlist. The current track is then displayed with a double arrow icon. Use the UP and DOWN keys to move the selected track and press OK to validate the new position.
•Delete Track: removes the highlighted track from the playlist.
Important: Once you save a Playlist it is important that you do not move the actual MP3 files as the Playlist searches in the original file location. If you need to move your MP3 files to a different folder, you'll have to recreate your Playlists.
and then press OK. If there were already some items in the Gmini playlist, then the songs of the loaded Playlist will be added to the end of it. You can then check or modify the playlist as usual in the playlist edition window.
Playing a Playlist
There are two ways to play a Playlist.
1)Press the RIGHT key to go into the playlist edition window. Then use the UP and DOWN keys to select which song you want to start with.
2)In the playlist edition window press MENU to display the contextual menu and select START PLAYLIST. The Gmini starts playing from the first track of the playlist.
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5.1.4What’s an .m3u file?
Example of the contents of the .m3u Playlist file ‘Jazz Music’
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You can open a Playlist file (Playlistname.m3u) on your computer with a text editor such as
Notepad or SimpleText (Macintosh®), and you will see that it is merely a list of files to be played along with the hard disk