12 The display
The Rio Advanced Digital Audio Center condenses all your music into a single manageable database. Simple as a CD player but smart as a PC, it holds more than 650 CDs worth of songs, and lets you experience the freedom of digital music streaming on your home system. In this chapter, you will learn the functions of the buttons on the Rio Advanced Digital Audio Center and on the remote control, how to play music CDs, convert music CDs into digital audio tracks, manage your music, play recorded music, write custom CDs, use functions like Shuffle and Repeat, Add to Now Playing List, Audio Bookmarks, and more.
The display
Now Playing Screen
Main Window
Status/Feedback Bar
The display is divided into two sections: the Main Window and the Status/
Feedback Bar.
The Main Window
The Main Window is the larger portion at the top of the display. By default the
Main Window shows the Now Playing screen.
In Now Playing Mode, the main window displays information regarding the music the Rio Advanced Digital Audio Center is currently playing, which could be music Tracks on a CD or on the hard drive, the music by a particular Artist, the tracks in a Playlist, Genre, and so on.
In Menu Mode, the main window displays Menu screens you can select to perform various actions, for example, encoding music CDs, creating or editing playlists, playing music CDs, recording custom CDs, and so on.