E18
Operation - The Desktop Client Inter face
8.7 Interface Tabs
The Interface Tabs serve to select one of three interface
maintenance pages:
Music Library
,
Tools
and
Now Playing
.
8.7.1 The Music Library Tab
The
Music Library
tab selects the page illustrated in
Diagram 8.3.
The external storage hardware items to which
the interface is connected (if any, beyond the HDX’s
internal storage) are listed in the left hand window. They
can be selected and their contents expanded by clicking
on their associated
+
graphics. The display in the right
hand window will then show the detail of music files stored
on each hardware item. Clicking on the column headings
will re-order the list of items sorted by the heading criteria.
8.7.2 The Tools Tab
The
Tools
tab selects the interface page illustrated
in
Diagram 8.8
. It provides a set of hard disk player
maintenance and setup utilities, listed in the left hand
window, that can be selected and their contents
expanded by clicking on their associated
+
graphics.
Selecting a utility will open a dialogue box in the right
hand window that either provides information, or can be
used to specify a variety of hard disk player and network
setup parameters.
Diagram 8.8
illustrates the
Tools
tab with all the utilities in
the left hand window expanded and displays the Ripping
Monitor utility in the right hand window. The full list of tools
and utilities is described in
Section 8.18.
8.8 Interface Tabs - Tools
8.7.3 The Now Playing Tab
The
Now Playing
tab
selects the interface page
illustrated in
Diagram 8.9
.
The page displays the
track currently playing, its
associated information
and the playlist in which it
is included.
The page also includes
a text entry field for
naming playlists and
buttons for saving,
shuffling (randomising)
and clearing playlists. For
more about creating and
managing playlists see
Section 8.13.
8.9 Interface Tabs - Now Playing
