Niles Audio DMS4 manual Organizing your music collection, Playlists, Creating a New Playlist

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these options, refer to the Editing the Audio Library chapter on page 27.

The Play Queue

Any item in your Audio Library can be selected for playback in one of two ways:

•Press the OPlay key to begin playback immediately, ending playback of any current music selection

•Press the MAdd key and select the [Play Queue] option

•Press the äAdd key to add the selected item to the end of the play queue. For example, if you are currently playing an album, the item you have selected will not begin playing until the album has finished

Alternatively:

•Press the OAdd & Show key to add the selected item to the play queue and display the play queue screen

To display the play queue:

•Display the Now Playing screen by pressing the •Now Playing key on your DMS4 Digital Music Server remote control

•Press the T key to display the play queue

organizing your music collection

This chapter describes the features built into your DMS4 Digital Music Server to help you organize the music in your Audio Library, including information about creating playlists of your favorite tracks, deleting albums or tracks you no longer want to store, and naming albums, tracks, and artists.

playlists

Your DMS4 Digital Music Server allows you to create your own selections, called playlists, and identify them with a name of your choice. For example, you could select your favorite party tracks from a number of different albums and include them in a playlist called Party Music. You can then play your selection simply by choosing the appropriate playlist from the Playlist screen.

Creating a New Playlist

•Display the Audio Library by pressing the àLibrary key on your DMS4 Digital Music Server remote control

•Press the U or V keys to highlight the Playlists option and press the OSelect key

The following screen will be displayed, listing your existing playlists:

Fig. 3-22 DMS4 TV Interface showing Play Queue

To remove a selection from the play queue

•Use the U or V keys to highlight the selection you would like to remove from the queue

•Press the PDelete key

To clear the play queue

•Press the äOptions key and choose Clear Play Queue To move a selection in the play queue

•Press the pMark key twice to place a îMove symbol next to the selection you wish to move

•Use the U or V keys to move the selection to a new place in the play queue

•Press the pMark key again to remove the îMove symbol

To save a play queue as a playlist

You can save a play queue as a playlist so that you can listen to the same collection of music at a later time.

•From the Play Queue screen press the äOptions key on your DMS4 Digital Music Server remote control

•Choose Save Play Queue as playlist... and, in the screen that appears, enter a name for the play list using the alphanumeric keypad

•Press the OOk key and the current play queue will now be available as a playlist in the Audio Library

Fig. 4-1 DMS4 TV interface Playlists screen

•Press the MNew key on your DMS4 Digital Music Server remote control

•Use the alphanumeric keypad to enter a name for the new playlist and press the OOk key

Your new playlist will now appear in the list.

Adding Music to a Playlist

You can add music from your Audio Library to a playlist from any library screen, by using the MAdd key on your DMS4 Digital Music Server remote control.

For example, to add an album to a playlist:

•Press the àLibrary key on your DMS4 Digital Music Server remote control to display the Audio Library

•Press the U or V keys to highlight Albums and press the OSelect key to display the albums list

•Use the U or V keys to highlight the album you wish to add to a playlist

•Press the MAdd to... key

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