Playing Your Music; Using The Remote Or Front Panel To Play Music; Searching For Music With The Remote Or Front Panel; Creating And Saving A Playlist - Logitech Transporter Owner's Manual

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Playing Your Music

Transporter plays music that you select with the remote control, front panel controls or web
interface.

Using the Remote or Front Panel to Play Music

1. Press the BROWSE button to jump to the Browse list.
2. You can scroll down to browse by artist, genre, year, new music, existing playlists, or
browse the contents of your music folder.
3. To browse an album, artist, or genre, press the
knob) to select it, then scroll through the list.
4. When you fi nd an album, artist, genre or song you want to listen to, press
all the songs associated with the displayed item.
Tip: If you want to play the selected songs after the songs that you are already
listening to, press and they will be added to the end of the list.
ADD
5. Press to jump to the list of songs that you have selected to play. Scroll
NOW PLAYING
through the list with the and
UP DOWN
main Transporter Home menu.
Using the Web Interface to Play Music
1. Open the web interface in your browser.
If you are using the computer where you installed SqueezeCenter, go to
http://localhost:9000/
If you are using a different computer on the same local network as the
SqueezeCenter computer, use http://<IPaddress>:9000/
the IP address or name of the SqueezeCenter computer. See the Troubleshooting
section at the end of this guide for details.
Tip: Windows users can use the SqueezeCenter System Tray icon to bring up the
web interface automatically on their SqueezeCenter computer. Mac users can use
the SqueezeCenter pane in System Preferences to bring up the web interface.
2. From the left pane of the web interface, you can browse by a variety of categories,
including album, artist, genre, album cover art (if available), new music, by year, and
more.
3. When you fi nd an album, artist, track, or playlist you want to listen to, click on the play
icon to the right of it to hear it immediately. To add an item to be played at the end of
the playlist, click on the add icon.

Searching for Music with the Remote or Front Panel

You can enter the name of the song, artist or album you are looking for in two ways. In each
case, the cursor automatically advances three seconds after you press a button. If the button
you want next is different from the last button you pressed, you can proceed as quickly as
you want. If you have to press the same button consecutively, wait for the cursor to advance
before pressing the button again, or press the
Logitech ®
arrow (or the center of the
RIGHT
PLAY to play
arrows. Press the arrow to return to the
LEFT
where <IPaddress> is
arrow to move on.
RIGHT
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Tip: You don't have to enter the entire album name, artist name, or song title to
search successfully; just enter the fi rst few letters and press
through the results using the DOWN arrow.
Using the arrows or knob to enter letters or numbers:
1. Press the UP or DOWN arrows or turn the knob until the character you want is
displayed.
2. Press the arrow or center of the knob once to advance one space to the right.
RIGHT
3. Fix errors by pressing the arrow or the
LEFT
4. After you've entered all of the text you want to use for the search, press the
arrow twice to run the search.
Using the "cellphone" method to enter letters or numbers with the remote:
1. Press the black number buttons ( 2 –
numbers.
2. Press the (zero) button for a space.
0
3. Press the button repeatedly to cycle through punctuation.
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4. Press the arrow to erase letters. Press and hold to erase more than one character.
LEFT
5. Press the RIGHT arrow when you are fi nished entering text to run the search.

Creating and Saving a Playlist

You can use the remote control or the web interface to create playlists and save them for later.
Before you create and save a playlist, make sure you have specifi ed a folder for Transporter to
use for saving playlists.
To specify a playlists folder:
1. From the web interface, click the Server Settings link.
2. In the Playlists Folder section, enter the path to the folder on your hard drive that you
want Transporter to use for saving playlists, and click Change.
To create a playlist using the web interface:
1. Search or browse through your music library for music you want to put in the playlist.
2. When you locate a song, album, artist or genre you want to put in the playlist, click
the plus (+) sign next to it. It is added to the current Now Playing playlist.
3. To change the order of the tracks in the playlist, use the up and down arrows to move
tracks up and down the list.
4. To save the playlist, click the SAVE button at the top of the current playlist, on the
right half of the page. The new playlist should appear on the left side of the page.
Enter the name you want to give this playlist and click Save. The playlist is saved to the
folder you specifi ed. To fi nd it again, use the Browse Playlists feature.
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RIGHT , then scroll down
button.
BACK
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