A major benefit
of digital music is the control it gives us when it comes to managing
our music. CDs and LPs can be converted to MP3.
Jukebox can play music CDs, play back MP3 files and other popular
audio formats.
Audio CDs
You may, for one reason or another, not want to fill your harddisk
with MP3 files, but rather play your audio CDs on the computer.
When you mount the CD for the first time, the tracks on the CD will
appear with the dull names: "Track 1", "Track 2"
and so on. But in a few seconds Zeta's inbuilt CDDB application
has connected to the Internet and compared the CD with the listings
at freedb.freedb.org, a global database of music CDs and it's content.
If the CDDB application finds a match among the thousands of CDs
listed in the base, it will copy the album and song names into Jukebox,
and the information will reappear every time you mount the audio
CD in Zeta.
Available Media Sources
Queries
Jukebox has an inbuilt live query (Available Media Sources) that
shows all artists from the harddisk and connected medias, and the
query shows you how many songs available from the different artists.
When you click on an artist or a band in the live query window,
all media files registered on this specific artist/band will be
shown in the window Media files.
Show all will show the results of a query on all media files on
your computer in the Media files window. Under the window you will
also see how many media files that got found during the query.
Playlists
You can add a playlist from the menu Playlists -> Add playlist.
A dialog box will then appear and you have to choose a name for
the playlist and then press Save.
The playlist will then appear on the bottom of the window Available
Media Sources, under the category Playlists. For now it's empty,
but by clicking on the specific playlist, you can add songs by drag
and dropping them in the Media files window.
Live playlists
Live playlists are making use of queries. These are lists that are
constantly rebuilt accordning to prespecified criterias.
To make a live playlist, choose Playlists
-> Add live playlist. In the first dialog box that
appears, choose a name for the live playlist and press Save. A new
dialog box will then appear, where you can add the criteria for
the playlist.
When you close the last dialog box, Jukebox is ready to play your
live playlist.
Search
You can do search for a specific song, and the search will be done
through all mounted medias.
Media files
Media files shows you the available songs from the chosen live query
in Available Media Sources, in this case ABBA. It will also
show you how many media files the query resulted in.
Play Control
The Play Control lets you move between songs (forward and rewind),
play / pause, adjust the output volume, and set repeat options.
Clicking directly on the volume bar, moves the volume adjustment
immediately to the chosen level.
The Play Control also displays information about the current playing
song, as the name of the song, how far the playback of the current
song has progressed and shows you a picture of the album (if a picture
is available). Dragging the progress bar moves the playback back
or forward in the audio track.
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