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SPARK comes with the Philips Songbird
software.
The Philips Songbird software helps you to:
purchase new media (music and v ideos) •
online
create a media librar y•
manage your media librar y•
play music and videos•
sync your media with the S PARK•
When Philips Songbird is launched for the
rst time, choose from the following options
to import media les into the Songbird media
library:
Import an exist ing iTunes library.•
Scan for media les in speci c directories. •
(You can select to watch a folde r, so that
the les that are added or de leted there
are automatically add ed or deleted in the
Songbird media libra ry.)
Build a media library
Use one or more of the following options to
build a media library with Songbird:
Rip a CD
By default, the Philips S ongbird softwar e
installs the following ad d-ons that are needed
to rip a CD:
CD Rip Support•
Gracenote Metadat a Lookup Provider•
Set up the CD rip options
1 On the computer, launch the Song bird
program.
2 Select Tools > Options....
3 Select the CD Rip tab, a nd then choose
your CD rip options.
4 Click on OK to conrm.
Import media les from a directory
The following steps show how you c an import
media (music and video) les that ar e stored
elsewhere on your compute r or computer
network:
1 On the computer, launch the Song bird
program.
2 On the Songbird toolbar, click File, t hen
select Import Media ....
3 Select your media (music and v ideo) les,
then click OK.
The media les that you added are »
listed in the media library.
Tip
If you select a folder tha t contains music or •
video les, the soft ware scans the fol der and
adds all the music or vide o les it contains to
the media librar y (duplicate titles ar e ignored).
Import media from iTunes
1 On the computer, launch the Song bird
program.
2 Select Tools > Options....
3 On the Songbird toolbar, selec t the
Media Importer tab, t hen iTunes Import/
Export.
4 Verify your librar y location and options.
5 Select Import Libr ary.
The software imports the iTunes »
library into Songbird.