ELAN Home Systems Digital Music Server manual Presets, Storing a Preset

USER GUIDE E L A N H O M E S Y S T E M S

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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