This brings up the file browser, and you can navigate to the proper directory to find your song. Now you're all set! Hit the red buttons at the bottom of the Player window and you'll have the responses of a normal CD player. Touch the upper green buttons to change the center display.
Creating a playlist
The Playlist Manager within the a2b music Player provides you with the
capability to gather any of your songs together into a collection called a
playlist. This is nothing short of fantastic, for it enables you to create your
own custom collection of digital songs, which can be played as if they were consecutive
song tracks on a CD!
The notion of a playlist is just that: a list of songs to play. The playlist manager does
not move or rename your digital song files; it simply refers to them as an ordered list,
the first representing track 1, the second representing track 2, et cetera. You may refer to the
same digital song name from within as many playlists as you desire. A playlist may be as long or
as short as you wish. Playlists can be reordered with ease as shown below.
Shown below is the Playlist Manager window, which comes up when you select from the Player Menu Bar:
File->Playlist Manager
We observe herein a playlist entitled My Favorite Songs which currently
comprises the list of digital songs "You've Got a Friend" through "Black Water". To the
left is the digital music file browser, with which you can find any of your stored
digital songs. The semantics of the Add-> button above Close are to add the highlighted
digital song file name(s) to the end of the playlist shown to the right.
The Playlist Manager command buttons to the right are as follows:
Create: create a new playlist
Load: open an existing playlist ( a file of type .a2b )
Save: Save this playlist file
Delete: delete a song from this playlist
Move up: move a song up 1 track in the playlist
Move down: move a song down 1 track in the playlist
Play: play this Playlist
So to make your first playlist do the following within the Playlist Manager:
- Click Create to create your new playlist
- Click Add-> to add song(s) to this playlist
- Click Save and name your playlist
- Click Close to close the window
Anytime after this you can play selections from this particular playlist by selecting from
the a2b music Player menu bar:
File->Open
and viewing Files of type *.a2b and selecting your playlist.
When you later Load this playlist, you can add songs to it as you did before with
the Add-> button;
you can rearrange the list by a sequence of Move up and/or Move down clicks.
Use the
Playlist Manager to create you own unique blend of music!
Organizing my songs
Song organization is completely at your discretion. Every digital song you download is stored
as a file with the suffix .mes. Every Playlist you create is stored is a file with
the suffix .a2b. The a2b music Player will store these files by default
into the directory named Music, but you may move them to
any location you so desire.
Organization is normally done to avoid chaos. In this case, until you have a large number of songs
then you may not worry too much about it. But if you do move your song files, then any playlists
that referred to them in their former location are now invalid. So remember, when you reorganize
you will also have to redo your playlists. Here is a case where early thought to some organization
(for instance, subdirectories named rock, classical, blues, ...) will save you a lot of work later.