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Introduction to “Playlists”
SureThing makes it easy to use playlists to
create labels for your audio CD collection.
A playlist is a set of information describing
the contents of an audio CD. A playlist
typically consists of things like the album
title, the name of the artist and the titles of
each audio track. Sometimes this informa-
tion is recorded directly on the CD (CD-
Text), but more commonly a playlist can
be found in a database on the Internet.
The beauty of using playlists is you don’t
have to type the information on to your
label. You simply insert the CD into your
drive, and SureThing takes care of the rest.
Playlists are most commonly associated
with audio CDs. The concepts, however,
apply equally well to a data CD where you
might want to list the files included on the
CD. SureThing uses playlists for both types
of CDs.
SureThing makes using playlists easy in a
number of ways. It will read your CDs and
find the playlist information automatically
(if available). Using SmartDesigns, it will
automatically place the playlist on your
label in a number of attractive layouts.
Finally, there is a Playlist Manager which
helps organize your playlists and allow you
to re-use them on future labels.
The Playlist Manager
The Playlist Manager serves as the nerve
center for all playlist activity within
SureThing. Whenever you read a playlist
directly from a CD, the playlist is added to
the playlist manager building up a data-
base of playlist selections stored on your
computer. You can then use these saved
playlists in the future, even when you’re
not connected to the Internet.
In fact, we refer to inserting your CD into
your drive throughout this section. But
once you have an entry in the Playlist
Manager, you don’t even need the CD in
your drive to make a label for it. Just open
the Playlist Manager, select the desired CD
and click OK. You can use these selections
on any label.
In addition to using the Playlist Manager to
select playlists for use in labels, it also
allows you to create custom playlists for
CDs which may not be included in the
playlist database located on the Internet.
You can add a new playlist, edit an existing
playlist, delete a playlist or read a CD into
the playlist database.
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For convenience, many people like
to open the Playlist Manager and
quickly read several CDs into the database
at one sitting. This allows dial-up users to
store their music collection in one online
session and use the playlist features later
without connecting to the Internet.
There are actually two groups of playlists
being managed by the Playlist Manager at
all times. The first is the
playlist database
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which, as has been discussed, is a collec-
tion of all your audio CDs. The second is a
set of active playlists used by the current
document. SureThing makes a copy of a
playlist to be saved within a document so
that it can be customized specifically for
that document. SureThing makes this
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