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7. Media
The "Media" menu on the BrailleSense Polaris MINI consists of programs related
to media playback: specifically music, videos, and DAISY content. The "Media"
menu contains 3 items: "Media Player", "FM Radio", and "DAISY Player".
You can open the "Media" menu by pressing "F1" to bring up the main "Program"
menu, then navigating to "Media" using the DOWN scroll key and pressing
"Enter". Or, you can quickly jump to and open the "Media" menu by pressing M
from the main menu.
7.1 Media Player
You can use the Media Player to play audio files as well as listen to the audio for
some video file formats. The Media Player plays the following formats, ac3, asf,
asx, m3u, mp2, mp3, MP 4, mpa, mpg, ogg, pls, wav, wax, wma, flac, midi and
wmv.
You can control the playing of media files using either Braille keyboard commands
or the media buttons on the front panel of the Polaris MINI. To launch the "Media
Player", navigate to it in the "Media" menu and press "Enter". Or, launch it from
anywhere on the unit by pressing "F1-M".
7.1.1 Using the Media Buttons
Near the center of the front panel on the Polaris MINI is a group of 5 buttons.
These buttons can be used to control the Media Player. Moving from left to right,
the buttons are: "Back", "Record", "Stop", "Play/Pause", and "Forward".
