Some editing functions work only when at least one entry in the playlist is
selected. To select an entry, click it. To select a contiguous range of entries,
click the first, hold down a Shift key, and click the last. To select or de-select
one entry without affecting any others, hold down a Ctrl key and click the
entry.
•
To add an entry at the end of the playlist
, click the square button with
a plus sign on it. A dialog box for typing a file name or browsing and
selecting a file will appear. After naming or selecting the file you want,
click this dialog box’s
Open
button.
•
To delete an entry or entries from the playlist
, select the entry or
entries and click the square button with a minus sign on it. The entry or
entries will disappear immediately. (The playlist itself will not be affected
until you click
Update
.)
•
To move an entry or entries up or down in the playing sequence
,
select the entry or entries and click the square up or down button.
•
To reverse the entire playing sequence
, click the bar above the
contents of the playlist (the bar the editing buttons are on).
•
To finalize your changes
, click the
Update
button in the bottom right
corner of the Properties mini-panel.
If you have
not
finalized your changes and you want to cancel all of them, click
a different playlist in the top part of the Playlist subpanel. (If no other playlists
appear, click a blank line.)
Note that pressing your keyboard’s Enter key has the same effect as clicking
Update
.
Once you know the Playlist subpanel, you know the Internet Radio subpanel. These
two subpanels are identical in appearance (except for any files listed in them and
some of their buttons’ pop-up descriptions) and very similar in function.
To display the Internet Radio subpanel, click the rightmost icon (an “at” sign, globe,
and musical notes) in the group at the top of the Media Import panel.
The reason the Internet Radio subpanel looks just like the Playlist subpanel is that it
is also for managing playlists — playlists of a special kind called Internet radio files.
Regular playlists contain the names and paths of “local” files — files residing on your
computer’s internal and directly-attached disks and other storage devices. An Internet
radio file contains the URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) of audio streams provided
by sites on the World Wide Web.
When the media adapter activates an Internet radio playlist from the media server,
your PC connects to the site (an Internet radio file often contains only one URL),
requests the stream specified by the URL, and the mediaserver routes the stream to
the media adapter.
Even the Internet Radio subpanel’s Properties mini-panel looks exactly like that of the
Playlist subpanel, and works the same, with one small but important difference.