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Media Rack User Guide Contents

Media Rack Overview

Media Rack Components

Showing or Hiding Media Rack Components

Showing Media Rack Component Menus

Selecting Full or Condensed View


Media Rack Overview

Media Rack gives you control over your PC audio functions through a user interface as simple to use as a home stereo system.

For detailed information on a Media Rack component, refer its own Online User Guide (Help file).

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Media Rack Components

Media Rack consists of several major components:

Control Center:  Controls the display of Media Rack components.

Alarm Clock:  Speaks aloud the time and date, and plays your wave files as reminder alarms at times you set.  [For English; otherwise use alternate paragraph below]

Alarm Clock:  Displays the time and plays your wave files as reminder alarms at times you set.  [Modified for international versions]

MIDI Player:  Plays MIDI music files.  Lets you create song playlists and use MIDI editors to modify the song files.

WavePlayer:  Records and plays digital audio (wave) files.  Lets you create wave file playlists and use editors to modify the wave files.

CD Player:  Plays standard audio CDs.  Allows you to create playlist collections of CD tracks (songs).

System Mixer:  Sets the volume level of your audio inputs and outputs.

For detailed information on a Media Rack component, refer to its Online User Guide (Help file).


Control Center
Control Center: Controls the display of Media Rack components.


Alarm Clock
Alarm Clock: Speaks aloud the time and date, and plays your wave files as reminder alarms at times you set.


MIDI Player
MIDI Player: Plays MIDI music files.  Lets you create song playlists and use MIDI editors to modify the song files.


Wave Player
Wave Player: Records and plays digital audio (wave) files.  Lets you create wave file playlists and use editors to modify the wave files.


CD Player
CD Player: Plays standard audio CDs.  Allows you to create playlist collections of CD tracks (songs).


System Mixer
System Mixer: Sets the volume level of your audio inputs and outputs.


Selecting a Media Rack Component
Showing or Hiding Media Rack Components

To remove or add a component from display, click on the component button on the Control Center Button Bar or toggle it off using the Select Menu menu.


Button Bar
Button Bar:


Showing a Media Rack Component Menu

The left-most menu item changes to be that of the active component.  For example, when using the MIDI Player, the left-most menu item will be MIDI.  To make a component active, either click on the face of the component, or select the component from the Select Menu menu.


Selecting Full or Condensed View

Media Rack has a Full view, which covers a large portion of your PC screen, and a Condensed view, which uses less space but still gives you access to most capabilities.  To switch between them, click on the leftward- or rightward- pointing arrow button on the Button Bar.