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Web UI User’s Manual

THANK YOU

The team at Escient would like to take this 

opportunity to thank you for purchasing an Escient 

product. Escient is committed to providing our 

customers the most technologically advanced, yet 

easier-than-ever to use products that converge the 

power of the Internet with home entertainment. 

To maximize your enjoyment, please take a few 

minutes to review this User’s Manual.

If you should need assistance please call our 

Customer Support Staff at 800.372.4368

THE ESCIENT TEAM

INTRODUCTION

 

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ESCIENT PRIVACY POLICY 

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CONTACT INFORMATION 

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COPYRIGHT 

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TERMS AND DEFINITIONS 

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THE WEB INTERFACE

 

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USING THE WEB INTERFACE 

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CONNECTING TO YOUR FIREBALL 

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FIREBALL WEB INTERFACE

 

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LISTENING TO MUSIC

 

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BROWSING YOUR MUSIC LIBRARY 

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SHOW AND HIDE TRACKS 

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PLAYING THE CURRENT TITLE 

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SELECTING A DIFFERENT SONG 

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CHANGING THE GUIDE VIEW 

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View By Artist 

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View By Title 

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View By Song 

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View By Cover 

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CHANGING THE CURRENT PLAY MODE 

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VIEWING BY GENRE 

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LISTENING TO INTERNET RADIO

 

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BROWSING INTERNET RADIO STATIONS 

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PLAYING THE CURRENT STATION 

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WATCHING DVD MOVIES 

 

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BROWSING YOUR MOVIE LIBRARY 

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PLAYING THE CURRENT MOVIE 

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CONTROLLING THE DVD PLAYER 

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CHANGING THE GUIDE VIEW 

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View By Title 

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View By Cover 

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VIEWING BY GENRE 

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GETTING MUSIC INTO FIREBALL

 

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RECORDING FROM THE INTERNAL CD 

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RECORDING FROM AN EXTERNAL CHANGER 

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MANAGING YOUR MEDIA

 

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CREATING PLAYLISTS 

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CREATING GROUPS 

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ADDING INTERNET RADIO STATIONS 15

UPDATING THE INTERNET RADIO STATIONS LIST 

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EDITING MUSIC INFORMATION 

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Automatically Lookup Information for This Disc 

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Searching for the Original Cover 

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Tips for Searching for Covers 

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Selecting an Existing Cover 

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Editing Track Names 

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EDITING RADIO INFORMATION 

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EDITING PLAYLISTS 

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EDITING GROUPS 

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DELETING MUSIC 

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DELETING PLAYLISTS 

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DELETING GROUPS 

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SETTING USER PREFERENCES

 

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SELECTING THE CLIENT MODE 

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SETTING THE SCREEN SAVER PREFERENCES  

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Activation Idle Time 

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Mode 

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Retail Demo Mode 

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Photo Screen Saver Mode 

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SETTING YOUR TIME ZONE  

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SETTING YOUR ZIP CODE

  

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ENABLING PASSWORD PROTECTION  

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Setting a System Password 

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Removing a System Password 

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CHOOSING YOUR NETWORK CONNECTION 

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Ethernet Settings  

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Dialup Settings 

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SETTING THE FIREBALL SERVER NAME 

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SELECTING THE AUDIO ENCODER TYPE 

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SETTING THE DISC INSERT PREFERENCES 

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MANAGING EXTERNAL CHANGERS 

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Automatically Getting Disc Information 

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Getting Disc Information for a Range of Discs 

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Getting Disc Information for All Discs 

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RECORDING FROM EXTERNAL CHANGERS 

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Automatically Recording CDs 

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Recording a Range of CDs 

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FIREBALL UTILITIES 

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Getting Information about Your FireBall 

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Restarting the System 

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Updating the Software 

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

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ESCIENT SUPPORT 

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Содержание Web User Interface

Страница 1: ...WEB User Interface USER S MANUAL...

Страница 2: ...O FIREBALL 11 RECORDING FROM THE INTERNAL CD 11 RECORDING FROM AN EXTERNAL CHANGER 12 MANAGING YOUR MEDIA 13 CREATING PLAYLISTS 13 CREATING GROUPS 14 ADDING INTERNET RADIO STATIONS15 UPDATING THE INTE...

Страница 3: ...r more music tracks or songs Title a collection of music tracks commonly referred to as a CD Album or Playlist Key refers to one of the buttons on your remote or keyboard MP3 a compressed digital audi...

Страница 4: ...er browser From this web page you can control almost every aspect of your FireBall just as you would from the original IR remote and TV The familiar FireBall Guide Player Options and Setup mode are al...

Страница 5: ...ou will expand the current Title to reveal a list of the Title s Tracks Select the Title again to collapse the current Title and hide the track names PLAYING THE CURRENT TITLE Playing the currently hi...

Страница 6: ...sort your Music Library is by using the Music Views There are four Views that you can toggle through using the MENU VIEW button on the left edge of the screen View By Artist View By Title View By Song...

Страница 7: ...he current Play Mode select the PLAY MODE key on the left edge of the screen Each press of the PLAY MODE key will switch to the next Play Mode Stop pressing the PLAY MODE key when you see the desired...

Страница 8: ...location genre genre cover art and status about the current Internet Radio station stream FireBall will attempt to locate the station to make sure it is currently broadcasting over the Internet connec...

Страница 9: ...play You ll notice that a new screen appears with a description of the movie a large cover image and DVD controls This is the Movies Player screen The Movies Player displays information about the curr...

Страница 10: ...all DVDs in your Movie Library LEFT and RIGHT arrow buttons appear on the left and right edges of the Group Bar when more Groups are available Selecting these arrows scrolls the Group Bar horizontall...

Страница 11: ...no additional equipment and is very fast as the internal CD drive can rip audio at several times the speed of normal playback This is known as fast ripping Follow these steps to record using the inter...

Страница 12: ...Recording from an external changer is much slower than recording from the internal CD drive because each CD must be played and recorded in real time compared to the fast ripping speed of recording fro...

Страница 13: ...n screen to advance to the Edit Playlist Select Guide The Edit Playlist Select Guide works just like the Music Guide Page up and down the list and select the OPEN or CLOSE button expand or collapse mu...

Страница 14: ...m Radio Group 2 Select the OPTIONS button to display the Options Menu 3 Select the New Group menu item 4 Using the popup keyboard enter a name for your Group 5 Select the CONTINUE button on screen to...

Страница 15: ...u have a valid URL for a station follow these steps to add your own Internet Radio Station to the Radio Guide 1 Make sure you are in the Radio source mode by selecting the RADIO source mode on the lef...

Страница 16: ...tations you may have added from your Radio Guide It WILL replace the Escient supplied stations with a fresh new list If you want to replace the current Internet Radio Stations with a new list of stati...

Страница 17: ...tem to display the Edit Music Information screen 4 Using the popup keyboard change the artist name album title label year of release or genre 5 Select the SAVE button to save your changes and return t...

Страница 18: ...isc 1 Select the Music or Movie Title you want to edit in the Music or Movies Guide 2 Select the OPTIONS button to display the Options Menu 3 Select the EDIT MUSIC or EDIT MOVIE menu item to display t...

Страница 19: ...You can change either one of these to modify the search Note that editing the Artist Name or Title WILL NOT change them in the Music Library These edits are ONLY used to search for a new cover 6 Sele...

Страница 20: ...tle in the list of covers Notice that a preview of the selected cover appears on the right of the list as you highlight each name Note that it may take several minutes to display all the covers availa...

Страница 21: ...utton to make sure you are in the Radio source 2 Select the OPTIONS button to display the Options Menu 3 Select the Edit Station menu item to display the Edit Station screen 4 Using the popup keyboard...

Страница 22: ...ct the CONTINUE button on screen to keep the current name and advance to the Edit Playlist Select Guide 6 For each song you want to add to the Playlist select the box to the left of the song A checkma...

Страница 23: ...to advance to the Edit Group Select Guide 6 For each item you want to add to the Group select the white box to the left of the Title A checkmark appears on the box of each selected Title or Station in...

Страница 24: ...the Delete Music screen 4 For each Track you want to delete highlight the Track and select the SELECT key on the remote A checkmark appears to the right of each selected Track indicating that it will...

Страница 25: ...select the SAVE button to permanently remove and delete the checked Playlists DELETING GROUPS Deleting Groups from the Group Bar is very similar to deleting Playlists The contents of the Group the Mus...

Страница 26: ...t Mode your computer becomes the playback device This means that anytime you play pause stop or use any other transport control the your computer s playback system is affected This mode is useful beca...

Страница 27: ...enable the Retail Demo Mode in your FireBall display model 1 Follow the Quick Start instructions to connect and register your demo FireBall 2 When your FireBall is con gured and you see the Music Gui...

Страница 28: ...he password eld 2 Re enter the same password into the VERIFY eld 3 Select the SAVE button to save your password and enable Password Protection on the Setup Menus You must exit Setup and re enter setup...

Страница 29: ...y reconnect to the FireBall Ethernet Settings Ethernet is the preferred networking choice which provides you with the best network performance and allows your FireBall to act as a server to deliver yo...

Страница 30: ...ting service on your phone line you should enter 70 or any other code to temporarily disable it while using FireBall This prevents a Call Waiting call from interrupting any FireBall Internet functions...

Страница 31: ...dio and will use less space for each song allowing you to store more songs on your FireBall FLAC audio will always take up approximately 50 of the original WAV AIFF le size The FLAC compression level...

Страница 32: ...were added and then checks each previously occupied slot in the changer to see if any discs were removed One by one the Table of Contents is read from each CD and compared to the local music database...

Страница 33: ...If you have more than 1 changer select which changer you want to use 5 Select the CHECK RANGE button 6 The Lookup Range screen displays the progress and results for each disc in the selected range Get...

Страница 34: ...have both the digital and analog audio connections from your changers connected to FireBall FireBall will use the digital inputs rst but if there is digital copy protection on a CD FireBall will then...

Страница 35: ...cord If you have more than 1 changer select which changer you want to use 5 Select the RECORD RANGE button 6 The Record Range screen displays the recording progress for each disc in the selected range...

Страница 36: ...o display the Setup menu 2 Select the Restart System menu item under Utilities 3 Con rm that you want to restart the system and select the RESTART button 4 When the blue LED on the front panel glows s...

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