Finding and organizing songs

Keeping your music database up to date

Transferring songs

Automatically playing multimedia content

Extracting and converting songs

Creative MediaSource Organizer searches your hard disk to compile a database of songs available, called a “PC Music Library” or PCML. Once you have a PCML, you can sort it and search for songs. Searching is very fast due to a sophisticated engine and use of three search fields: artist, genre and album.

Once songs have been found, you can create playlists to automatically replay them in any desired sequence. You can also enter and edit extra information about each MP3 recording with ID3 tags.

As songs are added or deleted from your computer and other storage devices, your PCML will need to be kept up to date. The Media Sniffer will monitor specified folders on your hard disk for file changes, and update your PCML accordingly.

NOMAD users can use Creative MediaSource Organizer to transfer music files to and from the computer and other compatible devices.

Media Detector makes it easy for users to access multimedia content from various internal or external media. There is no need to hunt through a maze of different software to play different types of files.

Media Detector automatically recognises the insertion or connection of CDs, VCDs, and external devices like the NOMAD Jukebox and NOMAD MP3 players. Upon recognition, the content in the media will automatically start playing without further intervention from the user.

Storing hundreds of songs on your computer can consume much hard disk space. WAV files and tracks from audio CDs can take up to 50 MB per song. To reduce storage on your hard disk, you can convert tracks from audio CDs into smaller 4 to 5 MB MP3 files. Creative MediaSource Organizer’s built-in Rip Now module lets you easily extract tracks from audio CDs, then convert them to MP3 and WMA formats at high resolution bit rates of 320 Kbps and 160 Kbps, respectively.

To eliminate the need for you to manually type the track information of an audio CD’s ripped tracks, a feature called CDDB can connect your computer to the Internet (Gracenote’s CDDB service) and automatically retrieve the track names and other useful track information for you.

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