Escient FireBall MP-150, User Manual

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PC Integration WD044-1-1
2/24/2005
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Integrating with iTunes and iPod
FireBall supports iTunes and iPod integration through the FireBall Network File Sharing feature
described above. Once your PC is connected to your FireBall over the network, you can
access FireBall’s music and use it from iTunes and sync it with your iPod.
Note: Other PC music player applications and portable MP3 players are also supported,
however the following instructions are specific to Apple iTunes and the iPod. Please refer to
the user’s manual for your MP3 software for specific instructions about how to import and
transfer MP3 files from a networked drive.
Please read the section Connecting to your FireBall before proceeding to make sure that
you can mount FireBall’s CONTENT volume on your PC Desktop.
What You Can Do
Once FireBall’s is mounted on your PC Desktop, you can:
x
Import FireBall MP3 music into iTunes
x
Create iTunes Playlists
x Burn CDs using iTunes
x Sync Playlists and Music to your Apple iPod
What You Can’t Do
Here are some things you can’t do with iTunes:
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Copy Music from an iPod to FireBall
x
Copy iTunes Playlists to your FireBall
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Import FLAC files
Note: WinAmp is the preferred PC Music Player for playing FLAC files stored on the FireBall
music server. A FLAC plugin for WinAMP is required to play the FLAC files. Please refer to
the
http://flac.sourceforge.net/ web site for more information on the WinAmp FLAC plugin and
other PC players that support FLAC playback.
Importing Music Into iTunes
iTunes allows music files to reside on different volumes or hard drives, including network
volumes. Since FireBall’s CONTENT volume is really just another network volume to the PC
OS, you can add your FireBall music to iTunes.
iTunes creates and maintains it’s own Library index files which are separate from the actual
music files that appear in it’s browser window. This means that the
iTunes Music Library file
can remain on your hard drive (usually located in your Music folder) while the actual music files
are located on some other volume, like the FireBall CONTENT volume.
Note: Since iTunes does not currently support FLAC files, only MP3 files from FireBall can be
used with iTunes.