SMC Networks 802.11g manual User Guide, Listening to Music, Listening to Internet Radio Stations

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Listening to Music

User Guide

In the Home Menu, scroll up/down to find the source you want, then browse to the album, track or station that you want. If you cannot find all your sources, see Troubleshooting on page 20.

Note: The menu trees for the user modes are on pages 22, 26 and 27.

Listening to Music

Selecting and Playing Music

If you select a music server item from the Home Menu, you can browse through Select Screens by various categories, depending on the server you are using. Typical categories are:

Albums, All Tracks, Artists, Artists/Albums, Genres, Genres/Artists and Playlists.

Note: Rhapsody also offers a selection of Internet Radio Stations.

When you see the Play icon (Selecting and Playing MusicSetting up a Musicmatch Library on your PCListening to Internet Radio Stations) to the right of an item you can press Manual background to listen to it.

The basic key functions were described earlier under Play Screens on page 6, but you can also skip, REPEAT and SHUFFLE tracks. This table shows all the features you can use in Play Mode:

Key

Function

Screen Icon

 

Play/Pause the highlighted item

or

 

Stop playing the current item

(none)

 

INFOrmation key: switch between Play and Select Screens

(none)

 

Skip to the next track, or hold for 2+ seconds to fast forward the current track

(none)

 

Skip to the previous track (if available)

(none)

 

REPEAT the track currently playing. Press again to REPEAT ALL tracks and again to cancel repeating

or

Play items in SHUFFLEd (random) order. Press again to play in normal order.

Note: Shuffle can be used with REPEAT ALL (above) to repeat-play a whole album in random order

Setting up a Musicmatch Library on your PC

Before you can use the SMCWAA-G to browse and play music files (in MP3 or WMA formats) from your PC, you need to add them to your Musicmatch Jukebox Music Library.

Basic instructions for building a library are given below. Please read the Musicmatch Jukebox Help to learn about all the available features, and how to use them.

1.Load music files on your PC and note the folder name(s) where they are stored

2.Start the Musicmatch program by clicking on the Musicmatch Jukebox desktop icon: Manual background .

3.If the Library is not already open click the My Library button.

4.Click the Add to Library button.

5.Locate the folder on your hard disk noted in step 1 and select the music files to be added to the Music Library. Click the Add button to add the files to the Music Library, then click Exit.

Note: The Musicmatch server is always running, even after you have closed the Musicmatch application.

Listening to Internet Radio Stations

The SMCWAA-G comes with a pre-installed evaluation version of the vTuner Internet Radio service. Select Internet Radio from the Home Menu, then select a station by browsing through the displayed categories.

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SMC Networks 802.11g User Guide, Listening to Music, Listening to Internet Radio Stations, Selecting and Playing Music