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Building a Song Queue
Let’s say you would now like to choose several different songs or selecti ons to play in a row.
This is called building a “Song Queue.” SoundBridge automatically bu ilds a Song Queue every
time you select a song or album to play. You can add to that list by navigating to your preferred
music and pressing Add. The selection will be added to the end of th e current Song Queue.
You may add a single song, an entire album, all songs by an artist, all songs in a genre, or any
search result – just browse to the selection you prefer and press Add. For exa mple, if you
would like to play all songs by Coldplay, select the BROWSE ARTISTS option from the Main
Menu/Browse option. Navigate to COLDPLAY in your artist list, and press Add. All s ongs on
all albums by Coldplay will be played by album, in the order they appear on each album. For
more information about browsing and searching options, see the “Browsing” a nd “Searching”
sections later in this user guide.
You have several other options for building a Song Queue. After you press Select while
browsing on a song, a “Song” menu appears with the following options :
1. Play, starting with the selected song (and clear p revious Song Queue)
2. Get information about the selected so ng
3. Play the selected song only (and clear previo us Song Queue)
4. Insert the selected song into the Song Qu eue (after the current song)
5. Add this song to the Song Queue (same as pressing the Add but ton)
Note that both “play” options 1 and 3 above are “destructive”; they will clear your previously
existing Song Queue. The “add” and “insert” options , however, will add the selected song to
your existing queue.
The rst, “play these songs” option is described in the section ab ove – it starts playing your
album (or other browsed list), beginning with the current tra ck.
Hint: Notice that “Play songs” is the rst item in the menu. That makes it easy to p lay
a list of songs, starting with a particular track. You can just “double -click” the Se lect
button on the track you’d like to play rst — the rst click brings up the “Song” menu,
and the second executes the “Play songs” command. You can think of this as double-
clicking on a track listed in your music library.
If you choose “Play songs” on any track in your selection, the entire list is added to the S ong
Queue, but playback starts on the chosen track. If you have the Re peat option selected, the
earlier tracks in the queue will play after the last song (and s o on indenitely). If you have the
Shufe option selected, then the chosen tr ack will play rst, followed by all the other tracks in
the list in random order.
The “Add song to Song Queue” option behaves similarly as the Add button – it places the
current song at the end of your playlist. The “Insert song nex t in Song Queue” inserts the
highlighted song to the Song Queue in second place, after the track that ’s playing or paused
currently.
You can add an almost unlimited number of songs to your Song Queue. Each selectio n will be
played in the order it was entered (unless you have chosen to Shufe your So ng Queue).
Hint: After you have selected multi ple songs to be played in turn, you can use the “Next
Track” : and “Previous Track” 9 buttons to skip from song to song in your Song Queue.
Reviewing a Song Queue
At any point, you can review what’s in your Song Queue by pressing the down arrow 6 from
the Now Playing screen, which is the default screen that appears while SoundBr idge is playing.
The Now Playing screen looks something like this:
DON’T PANIC 0:10/2:17 4
COLDPLAY PARACHUTES (2000) (|||------)
You can also press Exit several times from any point in your browsing; eventually, the Now
Playing screen appears.
Alternatively, you can press Menu, then select the SHOW SONG QUEUE option. You will see the
entire list of songs in your song queue; refer to the scroll bar on the right side o f the screen to
determine where in the list you are located. Press the Up/Down arrows 5 6 to see the entire
list of selections in your Song Queue. The currently playing sel ection is indicated by a speaker X
icon.
You cannot save a Song Queue that you have created — it’s only held in memory temporarily
and then erased when you build your next Song Queue. If you woul d like to build a Song