The Music Browser searches your computer for your MP3 files, streams, and Playlists and then creates a collection of your music in one place, automatically!
When you download music from EMusic.com or any other Web site that supports RMP files, the Music Browser automatically adds your new music to your collection, so you can easily find it.
The Music Browser also provides a way for you to create and modify Playlists.
Tool Bar
New Playlist opens a dialog to create a new Playlist.
Save Playlist opens a dialog to name and save a Playlist.
Import Items opens a dialog to select a track or Playlist to add to the Music Browser.
Remove Items removes the selected track or Playlist. It does not remove the selected item from your computer.
Edit Info opens a dialog to edit information about the track or Playlist.
Add Items adds the selected track or Playlist to the Playlist.
Add Files opens a dialog to select a track or Playlist to add to the Playlist. Add Files does not add the track or Playlist to your Music Collection.
Move Up moves the selected track up in the Playlist.
Move Down moves the selected track down in the Playlist.
File Menu
New Playlist opens a window to create a New Playlist. If you are currently playing a Playlist, the Playlist continues playback while you create your new Playlist.
Open Playlist opens the Open Playlist window to locate and select a .m3u or .pls file from your computer. When you select the .m3u or .pls file, the Playlist is added to the My Playlists folder in the Music Browser.
Save Playlist saves the open Playlist.
Save Playlist As opens the Save Playlist As window to name and save the Playlist. The Playlist is saved in the My Playlists folder in the Music Browser.
Import Tracks and Playlists opens the Import Track window to locate and select MP3 files from your computer. You can choose from .mp3 files on your computer, or type the URL location of a file on a Web site in the URL field and then click the Open URL button. When you use a URL, FreeAmp opens the URL and plays the file.
When you select the file or open the URL, the track is added to the My Music Catalog folder in the Music Browser.
If the file’s title can be identified, the file is placed in the Music Catalog’s All folder and in the Artist’s list located below the Uncategorized folder.
If the file’s title cannot be identified, the file is placed in the Music Catalog’s Uncategorized folder.
Export Playlist
Search Computer for Music searches your computer for all mp3 and .m3u and .pls files and places the files in your Music Browser folders.
If the file’s title can be identified, the file is placed in the Music Catalog’s All folder and in the Artist’s list located below the Uncategorized folder.
If the file’s title cannot be identified, the file is placed in the Music Catalog’s Uncategorized folder.
Stop Music Search is enabled only after selecting Music Search. Stop Music Search stops the Search for Music and returns to the Music Browser without displaying any music found in the music search.
Close closes the Music Browser.
Edit Menu
Add Selected Tracks and Playlists opens the Add Playlist item window to select an .mp3 file to add to the Playlist. You can choose from .mp3 files on your computer, or type the URL location of a file on a Web site in the URL field and then click the Open URL button. When you use a URL, FreeAmp opens the URL and plays the file.
Add File from Disk
Remove Tracks from Playlist
Move Up becomes available when you select a track in the Playlist. Select Move Up to move a track one position up in the Playlist order.
Move Down becomes available when you select a track in the Playlist. Select Move Down to move a track one position down in the Playlist order.
Edit Playlist becomes available when you select a Playlist in the Music Catalog Playlist folder. The Edit Playlist window appears to make changes to the selected Playlist.
Edit Track and Playlist Info becomes available when you select a track in the Music Catalog
View Menu
View Playlist Only sets the Music Browser view to show only the Playlist area. To view the complete Music Browser window, select View and then View Music Browser.
View Music Browser sets the Music Browser view to show both the Music Browser and Playlist area.
Options opens the FreeAmp Preferences dialogs to configure FreeAmp settings.
Controls
Play/Pause the Current Track
Play/Pause plays or pauses playback of the current track. Clicking the Pause button during playback pauses playback of the track. Clicking the Play button after pausing resumes playback from the exact location where Pause was selected.
Stop the Current Track stops playback of the current track. When Play is selected again, playback starts from the beginning of the track.
Move to Previous Track stops playback of the current track and begins playback of the previous track in the Playlist.
Move to Next Track stops playback of the current track and begins playback at the beginning of the next track in the Playlist.
Play Tracks in Normal Order plays the tracks in the order they appear in the Playlist.
Play Tracks in Random Order randomizes the playback of tracks in the currently playing Playlist. It does not change the order of tracks in the saved Playlist.
Repeat No Tracks plays all tracks in the Playlist and then stops.
Repeat Current Track repeats only the current track.
Repeat All Tracks continues playback on all tracks until you stop playback.
Sort Playlist Menu
FreeAmp retrieves and stores ID3 information about the track (known as MetaData) in a database. Using this information, you can sort your Playlist by any of the MetaData fields (such as Artist, Album, Title, Year Track number, Genre, Length or Location) FreeAmp found for that track. Using FreeAmp’s Edit Track feature, you can change the information for a track.
by Artist sorts your Playlist alphabetically by the name of the song’s artist.
by Album sorts your Playlist alphabetically by the name of the album.
by Title sorts your Playlist alphabetically by name of the title.
by Year sorts your Playlist by the year it was released.
by Track sorts your Playlist alphabetically by the name of the tracks.
by Genre sorts your Playlist alphabetically by the type of Genre.
by Length sorts your Playlist by the length of the tracks.
by Location sorts your Playlist by the location of the tracks.
Randomly sorts your Playlist in a random order.
Help Menu
Contents opens the FreeAmp help.
FreeAmp Website connects you directly to the FreeAmp.org Web site. If you are not already connected to the Internet, FreeAmp will open your computer’s Dial-Up Connection and connect you directly to FreeAmp.org on the Internet.
EMusic Website connects you directly to the EMusic.com Web site. If you are not already connected to the Internet, FreeAmp will open your computer’s Dial-Up Connection and connect you directly to EMusic.com on the Internet.
About opens the FreeAmp about dialog, which describes the version number of the FreeAmp, provides credits to the program developers and includes links to FreeAmp.org and EMusic.com Web sites.