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The SLIMP3's remote control interface uses a system of menus which are navigated using the remote's cursor keys. There are four ways to locate songs in your music library:
Using this interface, songs, playlists, and directories can be quickly located and added to the current playlist.
The SLIMP3's main menu is the starting point for browsing music, searching, and editing the current playlist. You can get back to SLIMP3 Home at any time by pressing "menu". the SLIMP3 Home menu looks like this:
the top line of the display always tells you where you are, and the bottom line indicates the item which is currently selected. So in the example above, we are at the SLIMP3 Home menu, and Music Library is the option selected. Pressing right" would take us into the Music Library browser. Pressing up/down cycles through the other choices: Genres, Artists, Albums, Search, and Playlist.
Pressing right to enter the Music Library will bring up a list of all the items at the top level of the hard disk heirarchy.
This is saying that we're at the top level of the Music Library, there are ten items here, and the one currenty selected is "Rock". the arrow in the bottom right corner indicates that this is a directory which we can enter. Pressing "down" will scroll to the next item in this folder, for example:
Pressing down again to go to the next item:
Now you're in the Rock folder. There are 33 different folders inside the Rock folder. You could press up/down to scroll through the artists, or press "right" to choose "Led Zeppelin". If you want to scroll really fast, you can hold down the button.
Now we're two folders deep, so it shows "Rock/Led Zeppelin". Now you could press up or down to scroll through the Led Zeppelin albums:
Press right to enter "Houses of the Holy"
Track 6 is selected. When you leave a folder and then come back, it remembers where you were last time - so this is what track we are on the last time we listened to "Houses of the Holy". Press up a few times to choose track 3:
Now press play, and this track will begin to play. Even as a track is playing, you can continue to browse around in other folders.
The SLIMP3 maintains a "current playlist" at all times. Individual tracks, entire albums, even large directory trees can be added to the playlist. There a two ways to add a items to the playlist. You can press "play", which will clear out the current queue and play the selected item(s), or you can press "rec" to append the selected item(s) to the current playlist. For example, suppose we wanted to create a playlist of all the songs by Sublime. Start at the SLIMP3 Home menu, then scroll down to "Artists", and press "right":
Then press and hold the "down" button until you get to "Sublime":
At this point, you could either press right to browse albums and tracks by Sublime, or you could press "play" to create a playlist of all the Sublime tracks. To append all of the Sublime tracks to the current queue, press "rec". The display will briefly display the following:
Then it will go back to the browsing mode, allowing you to add more items to the playlist.
To access the current playlist, choose "Playlist" from the SLIMP3 Home menu, or simply press "PIP" at any time.
This is showing that there are 125 items currently in the playlist, and the one playing at the moment is the eigth one, "Rivers of Babylon". Pressing "up" and "down" will scroll through the items in the list, and pressing "rec" will remove an item. To exit the playlist view, press "left".
From either the playlist view or the browser, you can view additional infromation about an item by pressing "right" when the item is selected.
Press up/down to view addition information about the track:
and so on...
The SLIMP3 provides an advanced search mechanism to help you locate songs in large collections. you can search by song title, by artist, or by album. To access the search feature, choose "Search" from the top level menu, and then select one of "Songs", "Artists", or "Albums". For example:
Use the cursor keys to enter letters.
Press right when finished.
From here, you can browse and select songs just as if you were in a directory.