Introducing BeoPlayer

Bang & Olufsen's BeoPlayer sorts your music tracks and leaves you free to enjoy your music.

You can download your tracks directly from the Internet, or use BeoPlayer to record them from a CD and store them on your PC. BeoPlayer can automatically sort your music alphabetically by genre, artist, track title and album title. If you have already placed your tracks in folders of their own on your PC, these folders are available as well.

You can also create your own Playlists from the set of sorted tracks, including those tracks you have recorded. Your tracks remain stored in their folders on your PC the whole time, so you can copy, delete or rearrange tracks in your BeoPlayer Playlists as you choose.

Whether you want to play your tracks randomly or in a particular order, BeoPlayer keeps your music playing, so all you have to do is listen to it. BeoPlayer automatically plays your lists and CDs to the end, or until you tell it to stop.

System requirements

To run BeoPlayer, you must have the following hardware:

Pentium-class PC (233 MHz or above) with 25 MB available disk space

min. 64 MB RAM

Super VGA monitor with a minimum resolution of 800x600 and 16-bit colour depth

Operating System Requirements

Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP

DirectX 7.0 or newer

Browser Requirements

Internet Explorer version 4.01 or newer

Netscape Navigator version 4.06 - 4.76

Browser Configuration Requirements

If you use Netscape Navigator, select the following preferences in Netscape Support:

Java

Java Script

If you use Internet Explorer, select the following preferences in Explorer Support:

Download signed ActiveX controls

Run ActiveX controls

Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting

Utilize active scripting

Start using BeoPlayer

Scan your PC for tracks

When you start BeoPlayer for the first time, you are prompted to search your computer for playable tracks. If, at a later time, you add tracks to a new drive, or you wish to restore tracks deleted from the BeoPlayer lists, you can search for these by clicking the SETUP button on the control bar, followed by SCAN.

The SCAN OPTIONS menu appears on the screen...

Move the cursor to an input box by a relevant drive.

Click once to set a check mark by the drive, and twice to remove a check mark. A scan must be performed the first time you use BeoPlayer, as well as the first time a particular drive is used for track storage. All other new tracks are detected automatically.

If you wish to see the names of tracks you have previously deleted from the BeoPlayer lists, set a check mark in the box by 'Show previously removed files on the selected drives'. This makes it easier to restore a track to the lists later on, if you change your mind.

Click START to begin a scan. Progress is shown in red below the drive selection box.

Click STOP to cancel a scan in progress.

Click HIDE SCAN to conceal the SCAN OPTIONS menu. Scans in progress will continue until they are complete.
If your existing tracks contain information 'tags', such as artist names, track and album names, or genres, this information is stored during a scan.

When scanning is complete...

Click N.MUSIC on the control bar to begin playback of the first stored track, or click PC CD to begin playback of a loaded CD.

Start using BeoPlayer

Customise the control bar

You can add or delete sources via a list of additional sources which you call up on the BeoPlayer control bar. A list of additional sources appears under the status display on the control bar, while the list of sources already present on the control bar is highlighted in gray.

From the control bar...

Click SETUP to set up the control bar.

Click SOURCES to add or remove sources. A list of available sources appears on the control bar.

To add a source...

Click on the source you wish to add from the list and drag it to the list of sources already present on the control bar.
If you drag the new source to a source which is already present, the new source will be hidden under the existing source.

To delete a source...

Click on a source on the control bar and drag it to the list of additional sources to remove it.

Click EXIT to leave setup.

Start using BeoPlayer

Principles of operation

Start BeoPlayer from the BeoPlayer directory in your Start menu. The first time you use BeoPlayer, move the cursor to the right side of the screen, and the control bar appears automatically. The bar disappears when not in use, but you can recall it by moving the cursor back to the right side of the screen and clicking the triangular tab that appears there.

Select tracks stored on your PC for playback. If N.MUSIC is currently active, clicking N.MUSIC calls up the list of tracks on the screen

Start playback of a CD on your CD-ROM drive

Shows the active source

Step to the next or previous track in the current list or on a CD

Step to the previous or following N.MUSIC list; restart CD playback from track 1, switch between CDs if you have two CD-ROM drives

Resume playback of a paused track

Appears when you select CD. Click to be able to store CD tracks on your PC

Pause playback of a track

Adjust the volume. Move the cursor between the buttons to reveal MUTE. Click MUTE to mute the sound and a volume button to restore it

Appears when you select N.MUSIC. Click to reveal information about the current track

Click SETUP to reveal SOURCES, CONFIG, RANDOM and SCAN. You can arrange the sources on the control bar, enter settings for the recording of CDs, play tracks randomly or scan your PC for new tracks.
Please note that the setup options available depends on which source is currently active

Call up this Guide on the screen

Switch off the current source. Click twice to exit BeoPlayer

Daily use - N.MUSIC

Via the BeoPlayer control bar, you can start, pause or stop playback of your music tracks, step to a new track or list, view the available lists and tracks, change the sorting of stored tracks, view information about the current track and play tracks in a random order.

Play your N.MUSIC tracks

Click N.MUSIC to start playback of stored tracks

Click to move to the next track. If the current track is the last in a list, clicking it steps to the first track in the next list

Click to restart the current track. Click twice to move to the previous track. If the current track is the first in a list, clicking it twice steps to the last track in the previous list

Click to move to the previous or following list

Click to pause playback of a track

Click to resume playback of a paused track

Play N.MUSIC tracks in random order...

Click SETUP on the control bar to reveal RANDOM.

Click RANDOM to play your tracks in random order. RANDOM turns white. All subsequent tracks are played in random order, also after you exit and restart BeoPlayer.

Clicking ▲ while in RANDOM mode steps to the next random track. ▼ steps to the previous track in the current list.

To return to normal play mode, click SETUP on the control bar to reveal RANDOM again and click RANDOM once. RANDOM turns grey again, and subsequent tracks are played in order.

Click EXIT to leave the SETUP menu.

Daily use - N.MUSIC

Sort and list your available N.MUSIC tracks

When you click N.MUSIC, your stored tracks are sorted and playback of the last track you heard begins. You can view the current sorting criterion, view the current track's location in the sorting and choose a new criterion.

Move the cursor to the left edge of the screen.

Click the triangular tab. The list of sorted tracks appears on the screen. Your tracks are listed by the current sorting criteria, e.g. Artists. The current list and the current track are highlighted in white.

Click and drag the scroll bar to scroll up or down the list. BeoPlayer supports the use of a Wheel Mouse.

To keep the list on the screen, click HOLD. HOLD changes to HIDE. Click HIDE to leave the list.
If you do not click HOLD, the list disappears when you move the cursor off the list.

You can play a track from the list by clicking on the track.

To sort your tracks differently, click once on the icon in the upper left corner. The next sorting criterion is selected, and BeoPlayer sorts your tracks.
If you choose Folders, please note that sub-directories in your folders will not appear on the list. All tracks in sub-directories will, however, be visible on the list.

To see the sorting criteria, click and hold the icon. From the on-screen list that appears, choose a criterion by dragging the cursor to a choice and releasing the mouse button.

Daily use - N.MUSIC

Search for a track or group of tracks

BeoPlayer helps you find the track or group of tracks you are looking for. Use your keyboard to enter the name or number of a specific track, or the name of a group in the current sorting, e.g. 'Blues'. BeoPlayer locates the track or group and highlights it. You can then click a track to play it. If you search by track number, the track is played as soon as it is located.

You can search for a group name or track number in all play modes, regardless of the sorting criterion you have chosen. Searching for a track name is only possible from TITLE mode.

While N.MUSIC is on...

Move the cursor over to the left side of the screen, and click the triangular tab that appears there. The current sorting, e.g. GENRE, appears, and the current track being played is highlighted.

Use the keyboard to type the name of the desired track or group, e.g. 'Blues', or...

...if you wish to play a track within the current group, type the number of the track.

As you type, your search entry appears at the top of the screen, and BeoPlayer locates the desired track or group. If BeoPlayer does not locate a track or group with the exact name you have entered, it will highlight the track or group whose name most closely resembles the name you have entered. If you enter a track number which exceeds the number of tracks in the current group, no track is played.

If you search by track name, the located track is highlighted. If you search by group name, the first track in the located group is highlighted in the list. If you search by track number, the track is played automatically as soon as it is located.

Click a track to play it.

Daily use - N.MUSIC

View and edit track information

While a track is playing, click INFO on the control bar. Information about the current track appears on the screen. INFO turns white on the control bar.

You can skip to another point on the current track by clicking and dragging the moving scroll bar at the bottom to either side.

To edit the track information, e.g. if information is missing from one or more categories, move the cursor to the category you wish to edit and click the rightmost mouse button...

...and use the keyboard to enter the information you choose. Editing is only possible for those fields prefaced by a ►
A genre name can be typed in directly or selected from a list. When you have highlighted the GENRE category, hold the ALT key down and press the right or left arrow keys to move through the alphabetical list to your chosen genre, e.g. ROCK.

The track time can be shown in different ways. The default setting, DURATION, shows the total track time. Click on DURATION to switch between DURATION, ELAPSED (time elapsed on the current track) and REMAINING (time remaining on the current track).

Click CLOSE INFO on the menu or click INFO on the control bar to exit the INFO menu.

Daily use - N.MUSIC

Create or edit N.MUSIC Playlists

You can put your favourite N.MUSIC tracks into Playlists, so you don't have to open folders repeatedly to listen to a series of tracks. Newly recorded CD tracks are also placed automatically into their own Playlist. You can also edit these Playlists at any time.

Move the cursor over to the left edge of the screen and click the triangular tab once. The current track sorting appears.

Click on a track you wish to add to a new or existing Playlist.

Click EDIT PLAYLIST. Your existing Playlists are shown. To edit one of these lists, simply click a list to open it, or click NEW PLAYLIST to create and open a new Playlist.

To enter a name for the new list or rename an existing Playlist, move the cursor to the list, click the right mouse button once and type the new name on your keyboard. Press ENTER when done.

With the mouse, click and drag tracks from the sorted groups or folders to your Playlist.

You can select and move more than one track at a time from an existing list. If you hold down the SHIFT key, you can select a series of tracks by clicking the first and last track in the series. If you hold down the CTRL key instead, you can select several tracks by clicking each track individually.

Click DONE to exit the Playlist, or click a track in the new list to play it.

To delete a track in a Playlist, click and drag the track from the Playlist to the waste basket. To delete a track from BeoPlayer's lists completely, you must delete it either from the Title, Artist, Album, Genre or Folder lists. This is done by clicking the file once and then clicking REMOVE*.

*Please note that tracks deleted from BeoPlayer are not deleted from your PC! You can add previously deleted tracks at any time. To be able to keep track of previously deleted tracks in your lists, place a check mark by 'Show previously removed files on the selected drives' in the SCAN OPTIONS menu. Please refer to 'Scan your PC for tracks' for further instruction.

Daily use - PC CD

To play an audio CD on your computer, load the CD in your CD-ROM drive and click PC CD. Use the control bar to change tracks, pause playback, or even switch between multiple CDs, if you have more than one CD-ROM drive.

To play an audio CD...

Click PC CD. Playback of the first track begins, and the track number is shown. If you have more than one CD-ROM drive, the drive name is also shown

Click to step to the next track

Click to step to the previous track

Click to play an audio CD on another CD-ROM drive, or to restart playback of a single CD at the beginning

Click to pause playback of a track

Click to resume playback of a paused track

Record tracks from an audio CD to your PC

Configure BeoPlayer for recording of audio CDs

Before you record, or ‘rip’, your audio CDs for storage on your PC, it is a good idea to preset a group of preferences for how you would like recording to occur. The ‘RECORD settings’ menu is available via the SETUP option on the control bar. Click SETUP, then CONFIG to call up the menu.

Options on the ‘Standard’ menu page

Recording quality

Choose the quality you want for your recorded music. The quality increases with the bitrate – the amount of data per second – but the size of the file increases at the same time. The default setting is 128 kbps (kilobytes per second)

Recording settings

Choose to record an entire CD or only a single track.

‘Stop recording on CD read error’

If you wish your recordings to stop automatically e.g. if a CD sector is faulty, set a check mark here.

File location

Choose where to store the recorded track or tracks on your PC. Click ‘Browse’ to look through your drives and folders. Click OK when done, or click ‘Cancel’ to return to the ‘Standard’ menu page.

Options on the ‘Licenses’ menu page

The ‘Licenses’ menu page contains information about usage licenses for CDs. These licenses allow you to record CDs for storage and use on your PC only. In addition, they allow you to download your recorded tracks to e.g. a portable mp3 player.

It is a good idea to make a backup copy of your licenses. If you wish to e.g. install a new operating system on your PC, you will need to save a copy of the licenses on a diskette or on a network drive. The licenses can then be restored when installation of the system is complete.

Choose a location for the backup copy.

Click ‘Browse’ to look through drives and folders. Click ‘OK’ when done, or ‘Cancel’ to return to the ‘Licenses’ menu page.

To make a copy, click ‘Backup now’.

To restore licenses, click ‘Restore now’.

Note that the option ‘Use DRM protection’ is not enabled by default. Enabling this option makes it possible to download recorded tracks to a portable mp3 player.

The CDDB² menu page

The ‘tag’ information that often accompanies your N.MUSIC tracks, such as artist name and album title, is often also available for your audio CDs. This information is useful if e.g. you record an audio CD for storage on your PC. Your recordings then contain the same reference information as your other N.MUSIC tracks. CD information is available via an Internet service called CDDB².

When you record a CD, BeoPlayer contacts the CDDB² service automatically via your Internet connection and downloads all available information regarding the current CD. If you deactivate CDDB² but still wish to use tag information for your recorded CD tracks, you must enter the information manually. Please refer to If CDDB² does not recognise your audio CD for further instruction.

Record from a CD to your PC

Recorded tracks are automatically placed in a new Playlist. Refer to Create or edit N.MUSIC Playlists for more information.
Before you record from an audio CD, please be sure to specify whether you wish to record one track at a time or record an entire CD. This is done in the CONFIG menus, which are accessible via the SETUP option on the control bar.

To record a CD...

Click PC CD to play a CD on your CD-ROM drive

If you wish to record a single track, click ▲ or ▼ to select the track

To start recording, click RECORD. The display shows RECORD and the track number in turn. If you have two CD-ROM drives, the drive letter is also shown.

BeoPlayer uses your Internet connection to download CD information from the CDDB² service. If CDDB² does not recognise your CD, you are prompted to fill in CD information manually, as described in the chapter 'If CDDB² does not recognise your audio CD...'

The control bar is locked during recording. However, it is possible to adjust the volume, or click STOP to stop the recording

To stop recording, click STOP. If you click STOP before recording is complete, the track being recorded is then deleted. Any fully recorded tracks are stored, along with the CD information provided by CDDB²

If your recording is complete or you press STOP...

...a new BeoPlayer Playlist is created which contains the recorded track or tracks.

Record from a CD to your PC

If CDDB² does not recognise your audio CD...

... the ‘CDDB Disc Information’ menu appears

Click the tabs at the top of the menu to view the different categories of information.

Click an entry field to move the cursor.

Use the keyboard to enter the requested information.

Click a new entry field or press TAB to move through the fields on a menu page.

Click ‘OK’ or ‘Next’ when you have entered the requested information on a menu page, or click ‘Cancel’ to leave the menu.

Keyboard shortcuts

Several BeoPlayer functions are directly available by pressing a single key or a combination of keys. These ‘shortcuts’ can be helpful when you play your tracks or edit your Playlists.

Sorting and editing

ALT+F4

Press once to switch off a source, twice to exit BeoPlayer

CTRL + U, CTRL+S

CTRL+U scans drives for recently added tracks. CTRL+S scans drives for all available tracks

DELETE/BACKSPACE

Delete a selection. If nothing is selected, the track currently playing is deleted

ESC

Close the active menu

ENTER

Insert the current track in a new Playlist or an opened Playlist. If several Playlists are open, ENTER inserts the track into the first open Playlist

TAB

Change sorting mode, e.g. from GENRES to TITLES. Press repeatedly to cycle through sorting modes

Keyboard shortcuts

Several BeoPlayer functions are directly available by pressing a single key or a combination of keys. These ‘shortcuts’ can be helpful when you play your tracks or edit your Playlists.

Shortcuts during playback

↑ ↓

Move up or down through tracks

← →

In N.MUSIC those keys move to the previous or following album. In PC CD they changes between available CD-ROM drives

SPACE

Pause and resume playback

+ -

Volume up or down

0-9

Select N.MUSIC or PC CD track by number. N.MUSIC track numbers from 0-999 and PC CD track numbers from 0-99 can be selected in this fashion.

About

BeoPlayer v. 1.0.0

Bang & Olufsen

Terms of use Use of Bang & Olufsen BeoPlayer requires the accept of this End User Licence Agreement, which terms you are considered to accept if you continue downloading this software. The BeoPlayer and this Agreement does not in any way provide you with any license or permission to use the Name, Logo or any Trademark used or registered by Bang & Olufsen. Reverse engineering, decompilation, disassembling of the Freeware or any of its content is prohibited. Renting, lending, networking, reselling, or redistribution of the software is also prohibited. Bang & Olufsen will not be liable for any loss, including but not limited to, direct damage and/or loss, loss of profits, consequential loss, personal injury and/or injury to your personal property, due to download, use, unability to use and/or defect in the software. Bang & Olufsen will under no circumstanses be liable for the content that may be stored using the software. Bang & Olufsen stongly advise you not to download illegal music. Bang & Olufsen is very concerned about your privacy and will protect the privacy of information you provide with the end user registration.

Microsoft Inc.

Microsoft Windows Media Technologies

Portions based upon Microsoft Windows Media Technologies. Copyright © 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows Media and the Windows Logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

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Restore Service:

In order to allow for a restore service, Microsoft and our partners (Record labels, Players, Video labels, and many others) worked to develop a restore schema. The goal of this service is to grant users permission to restore and move digital media licenses between personal machines for legitimate use. This service allows for a limited number of license transactions. When you restore your licenses you are sending some information to Microsoft that uniquely identifies your machine for internal tracking purposes. We store this unique machine identifier in a database and keep track of the number of times you attempt restore. Note that we do not share this unique machine identifier with any other services either internal or external to Microsoft. You also are sending some security information that enables us to restore your licenses to the new computer (or same computer that has either re-installed the OS or changed some hardware component). None of the security information is stored permanently. In the event that you exceed the limits of our restore schema you will be asked to provide some personally identifiable information. This information is necessary to prevent fraudulent restores and piracy of protected content. In addition, the data may be used internally to perform aggregate analysis of the restore service, such as helping to ensure that we have adequate capacity and security to meet the demand for the service. The personally identifiable information that you provide will not be used for any other purpose. It will be securely stored in a dedicated database located in the United States of America, and will be kept separate from information you may have provided to Microsoft in other contexts. This information will not be shared with any other services either internal or external to Microsoft. Both the unique machine identifier and any personally identifiable information will be transported and stored in a secure environment that protects against unauthorized access, data corruption or loss, and unwanted use or distribution. If you would like to access the personally identifiable information you have provided to Microsoft through the restore service, you can send your request by e-mail to drmpii@microsoft.com

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In order to use content with a higher security rating, some vendors require that you upgrade your security components in the Windows Media Rights Manager. Microsoft provides this service and no unique information is shared with the content providers or any third parties. When you upgrade your security level, you are sending some information to Microsoft that uniquely identifies your machine for internal tracking purposes. We store this unique machine identifier in a database and keep track of the number of times you attempt to upgrade your security. We may also use this data internally to perform aggregate analysis of the security upgrade service, such as helping to ensure that we have adequate capacity and security to meet the demand for the service. Note that we do not share this unique machine identifier with any other services either internal or external to Microsoft. You also are sending some security information that enables us to deliver the appropriate security upgrade to your machine. None of the security information is stored permanently. We also keep track of which security upgrade files were downloaded to your machine. This information is not used to identify your machine, but to help Microsoft prevent security breaches that could affect legitimate users. The unique machine identifier and the security upgrade file information will be transported and stored in a secure environment that protects against unauthorized access, data corruption or loss, and unwanted use or distribution.

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CDDB² TERMS OF USE

This application contains software from Gracenote Inc. of Berkeley California ("Gracenote"). The software from CDDB (the "Gracenote CDDB Client") enables this application to do online disc identification and obtain music-related information, including name, artist, track, and title information ("Gracenote Data") from online servers ("Gracenote CDDB Servers") and to perform other functions. You may use Gracenote Data only by means of the intended End User functions of this application software.

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