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SIREN XP
RESS
Transform your PC into the ultimate music entertainment center with SIREN XPress music jukebox. SIREN
XPress lets you "rip" your CD collection onto one convenient location—your hard drive. Let SIREN XPress help
you surf the net and find more great music to add to your collection—MP3, WAV, and WMA files are all
supported. Use SIREN XPress' advanced organizational features to create custom playlists of the songs you
want to hear. SIREN XPress maximizes your audio experience with dazzling, colorful eye candy—real-time
computer animation that pulses and interacts with your songs. And when you're ready to hit the road with your
portable MP3 player,* SIREN XPress is the fun, easy way to upload your custom playlists.
*
Supported MP3 players do not currently run under Windows NT or Windows 2000/XP. You must
be running SIREN XPress on Windows 9x to upload songs to portable players.
SIREN XPress includes 20 free MP3 encodes, with unlimited MP3 playback.
SIREN XPress makes it easy to organize your music:
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SIREN XPress includes a powerful, database-driven music management engine.
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The Sort, Group, and Filter tools provide you with superior control over your music library.
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Use the Field Chooser window to view your collection the way
you
want to see it.
SIREN XPress brings powerful functionality to your desktop:
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Use Search for Music to find music on a network or removable drive.
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Export custom playlists to your Rio or Nomad II portable MP3 device.
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Use your Microsoft Internet Keyboard hotkeys to control SIREN XPress's functions.
Siren™ XPress Quick Start
Welcome to Sonic Foundry’s Siren XPress! This guide is designed to provide you with information that will
allow you to immediately begin taking advantage of the powerful features of Siren™ XPress.
Siren XPress allows you to operate in Philips compact mode or normal mode. The compact mode includes only
the Transport buttons (Play, Stop, Pause, etc.). The normal mode displays the entire Siren XPress window, and
allows access to all Siren XPress functionality. You can toggle between the Philips compact mode and normal
mode using any of the following methods:
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Click the
Compact/Skin Mode
button.
• Choose the
Compact/Skin Mode
option from the
View
menu.
• Press
Ctrl + M
on your keyboard.
You can expand the Philips compact mode to display the current and next songs, the
Compact/Skin Mode
button
, and the
Select Playlist
button. To expand the compact mode, click the
Expand
control on the right
end of the player. You can also use this control to collapse the compact mode. The Siren XPress expanded
compact mode is shown below:
