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Control Web/Mac/PC Guide

Locate and click the folder containing the files you want to import, then click the OK button at the 
bottom of the window. (The folder can contain subfolders, and the application will sort that out. 

You could import an entire MP3 music library at once this way if you wanted to.)

The application will send information about the files to the Sooloos Metadata Service. If the files in 

the folders correspond to the contents of recognizable albums, it will organize them accordingly, 
apply the downloaded metadata, and prompt you to evaluate, and approve them.

 
Clicking the Approve button will import the files and their metadata to the system as an album. If 
you disagree with the information that has been downloaded, clicking the Edit button will open 

the Edit Album Information window (see “Editing Album Metadata,” page 7). If you don’t want to 
group the tracks into an album, clicking Unalbumize button will move them to the loose files bin 
(see below.)

If the system does not recognize files as comprising all or part of an album, or if you choose the 
Unalbumize

 option, it will list them individually in a Loose Files pane at the bottom of the page. 

(You can resize the pane by grabbing the separator bar — it has a small dot in the middle — with 
your mouse and dragging it up or down.)

Summary of Contents for Sooloos

Page 1: ...Control Web Mac PC User Guide...

Page 2: ...eridian Sooloos Control Web Mac PC User Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS What is Control Web PC Mac 3 Getting Started 3 Playback Information and Controls 4 Music Selection and Playlist Creation 5 Editing Album...

Page 3: ...heck system and library status Turn any computer into a local playback zone for all of your music Although many of these features are available directly on the system some such as metadata editing are...

Page 4: ...networked external hard drive If Control Web PC or Mac fails to run the most likely reason is a network problem since it must communicate intensively with the Sooloos system in order to function If yo...

Page 5: ...o have the option of Local Playback Zone Selecting this zone will route sound to the speakers of the computer you are using to access the system Music Selection and Playlist Creation The applications...

Page 6: ...gain to open a fifth with a list of songs on that album If you need to get back to a now hidden window click the single left arrow at the bottom left of the screen to scroll back one window or the dou...

Page 7: ...ylist will repeat instead of stopping at the end If you check both Loop and Shuffle all songs in the Playlist will play before it starts over in a new order Remove Clicking this button pops up a menu...

Page 8: ...ner closes the window The metadata is organized into eight sub pages selected by clicking the tabs along the top Important Note All changes are provisional until you click the Save button at the botto...

Page 9: ...ers track titles and Track Pick ratings Track times are also listed but are not alterable Remember that all changes are provisional until you click the Save button at the bottom of the window to make...

Page 10: ...ready associated with the album on the right Clicking the button next to a genre listing expands to a listing of all its subgenres and clicking the button next to a subgenre listing expands to a listi...

Page 11: ...the list and click the button to expand to a list of subgenres Highlight the new style s subgenre with your mouse Then type the new style s name in the field at the bottom of the window and click the...

Page 12: ...ove a credit just click the button to its right Moods The Moods tab switches the panel to a list of moods which you select or deselect by clicking the checkboxes next to them Labels Clicking the Label...

Page 13: ...dow to make them permanent Tapping the X in the upper right corner closes the window and cancels any unsaved changes Any Tag in the list already associated with the album will have a checkmark in the...

Page 14: ...nt to remove the album from the system Clicking OK at this point deletes the album the only way to recover it after that is to reimport it Clicking Cancel returns you to Album Details Clicking the X i...

Page 15: ...prove albums with complete metadata If the system locates full metadata for the album on the Sooloos servers it imports the CD without requesting confirmation Prefer local metadata over Sooloos Metada...

Page 16: ...from a CD in the background as soon as it recognizes it so the progress window may come up indicating some portion of the transfer is already complete Each CD you import displays as a separate transfe...

Page 17: ...ingly apply the downloaded metadata and prompt you to evaluate and approve them Clicking the Approve button will import the files and their metadata to the system as an album If you disagree with the...

Page 18: ...uldn t be assembling the album manually to begin with So you usually will want to click the Edit button to open the Edit Album Information window and enter metadata At the very least you re going to w...

Page 19: ...adata as an album the Edit button to open the Edit Album Information window see Editing Album Metadata page 7 or the Unalbumize button to dissolve the album and re list its contents in the Loose Files...

Page 20: ...music to iTunes either as links or as files Exporting links requires no storage on your computer but the music is accessible through iTunes only when the Sooloos system is running Exporting the files...

Page 21: ...to it If you have iTunes open make sure it is not in the iTunes Store then minimize it before starting the export Begin the export by clicking the Export Music to iTunes Library button on the Sooloos...

Page 22: ...your computer Begin by clicking the Open Sooloos Volume button on the Export page This will open a Finder window on a Macintosh or a Windows Explorer window in the S drive which is how your Sooloos S...

Page 23: ...network as well as restore previously backed up data from a hard drive to a Sooloos system Start by clicking the Backup tab which will bring up screen with two buttons Backup Start a backup by clicki...

Page 24: ...ce you ve finished your selection click the Run Backup button at the window s bottom right to begin copying the files The window will close and the backup will proceed in the background To go back to...

Page 25: ...are any of those you don t want to restore click on their boxes to uncheck them You may also click unchecked boxes to include items not pre selected but this will result in the backup files overwriti...

Page 26: ...ate Use the dropdown to adjust the data rate of music sent from the Sooloos system for playback on the computer speakers from 64 to 192 kilobits per second kbps In most cases there will be no reason t...

Page 27: ...ack to track preventing abrupt volume changes To ensure best sound quality Sooloos applies an intelligent volume adjustment at the start of each album or song rather than compression Click the radio b...

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