Xiva musicm8, User Manual

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XiVA musicm8 User Guide
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Located in the left sidebar, the Browse menu gives access to all the music, video
and pictures stored on your musicm8 and enables you to stream or download
content from any PC on your network.
To access your music, select Browse Music from the menu. Your music collection
will be displayed in a directory listing all artists. To select an artist, click on their
name. To stream a track, simply click on it and it will play in the window.
To download a track choose Save As .
For the best browsing experience XiVA recommends using Squeezecenter or
TwonkyMedia, but you can use your preferred media player.
Copying your music from your computer to musicm8
After connecting to your musicm8’s shared folders using the previous steps, it’s
easy to copy music already on your computer to the musicm8. By copying your
existing music to your musicm8 share you are now enabling your music to be
shared over your home network for playback via a wide selection of media players.
Simply select the files and/or folders you want to copy, copy them and paste them
into your musicm8 shared folder.
Windows 2000, XP, Vista
Go to the files or folders of music that you wish to copy. •
Highlight the file or files you wish to copy. If you need to highlight more than •
one file, you can hold down the CTRL or Shift keys on your keyboard or drag a
box around the files you wish to copy.
Once highlighted, you can either right-click one of the highlighted files and •
select Copy , or if you’re in My Computer or Windows Explorer you can click
Edit
at the top of the window and choose
Copy
.
Move to the • Shared folder on your musicm8 and either right-click in the folder
and choose Paste , or click Edit and click Paste .
Mac OS X
Go to the files or folders of music that you wish to copy. •
Highlight the file or files you wish to copy. If you need to highlight more than •
one file, you can hold down the Command (Apple) or Shift keys on your key -
board or drag a box around the files you wish to copy.
Once highlighted, you can either right-click (Control-click) one of the high - •
lighted files and select Copy , or you can click Edit at the top of the window
and choose Copy .
Move to the •
Shared
folder on musicm8 and either right-click in the folder and
choose Paste , or click Edit and click Paste .