Escient MP-150 manual Integrating with iTunes and iPod, Importing Music Into iTunes

PC Integration WD044-1-1 2/24/2005

Integrating with iTunes and iPod

FireBall supports iTunes and iPod integration through the FireBall Network File Sharing feature described above. Once your PC is connected to your FireBall over the network, you can access FireBall’s music and use it from iTunes and sync it with your iPod.

Note: Other PC music player applications and portable MP3 players are also supported, however the following instructions are specific to Apple iTunes and the iPod. Please refer to the user’s manual for your MP3 software for specific instructions about how to import and transfer MP3 files from a networked drive.

Please read the section Connecting to your FireBall before proceeding to make sure that you can mount FireBall’s CONTENT volume on your PC Desktop.

What You Can Do

Once FireBall’s is mounted on your PC Desktop, you can:

ξImport FireBall MP3 music into iTunes

ξCreate iTunes Playlists

ξBurn CDs using iTunes

ξSync Playlists and Music to your Apple iPod

What You Can’t Do

Here are some things you can’t do with iTunes:

ξCopy Music from an iPod to FireBall

ξCopy iTunes Playlists to your FireBall

ξImport FLAC files

Note: WinAmp is the preferred PC Music Player for playing FLAC files stored on the FireBall music server. A FLAC plugin for WinAMP is required to play the FLAC files. Please refer to the http://flac.sourceforge.net/ web site for more information on the WinAmp FLAC plugin and other PC players that support FLAC playback.

Importing Music Into iTunes

iTunes allows music files to reside on different volumes or hard drives, including network volumes. Since FireBall’s CONTENT volume is really just another network volume to the PC OS, you can add your FireBall music to iTunes.

iTunes creates and maintains it’s own Library index files which are separate from the actual music files that appear in it’s browser window. This means that the iTunes Music Library file can remain on your hard drive (usually located in your Music folder) while the actual music files are located on some other volume, like the FireBall CONTENT volume.

Note: Since iTunes does not currently support FLAC files, only MP3 files from FireBall can be used with iTunes.

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