M U S I C   M A N A G E R   H E L P

You can open "Music Manager" by pressing MM button in Player or selecting Music Manager in system tray menu. With Music Manager, you can organize your music files, edit song information, and create playlists. Music Manager consists of following 3 components:

  • Playlist - Current selection of songs for playback. Playlist can be read and stored in 2 formats: PLA (Soritong Playlist), and M3U.
  • Music Folder - In Music Folder, you can view your song collections in sorted order. Once song information is in place, you can sort your collection by title, artist, album, and genre. Just select a folder to view, and your are set.
  • Information Editor - You can edit song information (ID3 tag compatible) here. Click a song to edit in either Playlist or Music Folder, and enter the information. The information you enter here is used to organize songs in Music Folder.

P L A Y L I S T
 
 

Add - This button opens a "Open dialogue box" where you can select a file to add to the playlist.

Remove - Remove the selected song from the playlist.

Open - Open a playlist (PLA, M3U) from disk. Current list is replaced with new list.

Save - Save the current playlist to disk.

Org. - It opens a menu shown below. You can change the view property or delete dead links.

Up/Down- Move up/down the selected item.

*Double Click - Play the selected song.

   

Remove Dead Links - Dead links are marked by icon with "X" on it, and you can delete these dead links from the playlist.

Remove All - Clear the playlist.

Display -> Title + Artist - View by song title and artist name. If such information is unavailable, the file name (without path) is shown.

Display -> File Name - View by file name (with full path).

 
M U S I C   F O L D E R
 
 

Add - Add selected song to the playlist.

Sort - Sort the list of songs in different manner. When this button is pressed below menu pops up.

Folder - Select a directory (folder) to view.

*Double Click - Play the selected song.

 


Sort by Title
- Sort the list of songs by the song title.

Sort by Artist - Sort the list of songs by the name of artist.

Sort by Album - Sort the list of songs by album title.

Sort by Genre - Sort the list of songs by genre.

Sort by File Name - Sort the list of songs by file name.

Refresh - Refresh the listing. When new file is added to the folder, you should refresh the listing.

Delete Song - Delete the selected file from the hard drive. You CANNOT UNDELETE the file afterward. Use this with caution. (Confirmation dialogue box will always pop up before deleting.)

 
 
I N F O R M A T I O N   E D I T O R
 

Click a song to edit in either Playlist or Music Folder. The information of the song you clicked the last will be shown here. You can change every item except the file name (written in blue). Once information is entered, press "Save" button to save the information. (Confirmation dialogue box will always pop up.) If you press "from pl." button, you can edit the information of the song that the Player is currently playing.

Note that you can enter lyrics as well. Since this is compatible with ID3 Tag, which is widely used today, all this information (except the lyrics) will be visible on other mp3 players as well.




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