
8.Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons to highlight the media fi les that you wish to play and then press the Select button.
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Windows Media Player needs to look inside each fi le to identify the artist, albumandtrackinformationfrom'tags'embeddedineachfi le. Additionally, Windows Media Player may take time to access the Internet to obtain additional information such as 'album art' which it can display when you examine your music library on your PC.
In UPnP mode the search criteria offered and the fi le types made available | 8,9 |
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Media Player 11 has limited fl exibility compared to some UPnP servers, |
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Some third party server applications allow customisation of the search criteria and indexing methods, which can be useful if you have a very large collection of stored music fi les.
Many UPnP server applications are also capable of sharing pictures and video fi les to other network connected devices. If this is the case (as it is with Windows Media Player 11) you may see the option of choosing between 'Music', 'Video' and 'Pictures' on your radios menu. Clearly you should only select the 'Music' option. Content offered via the alternative options will not be playable on your clock radio.
9.The clock radio will display '[Add to Queue]'. Press the Select button and the clock radio will add all the tracks in the album to its queue and begin playing them automatically.
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