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Meridian Sooloos User Manual

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  • Page 1 Control Web / Mac / PC User Guide...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Deleting Albums .............................. 13 Importing Music .............................. 14 Exporting Music .............................. 19 Manual Backups and Restores ........................23 Settings and Information ..........................26 Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

  • Page 3: What Is Control Web/Pc/Mac

    Sooloos control, which works for all functions except music export and import. It supports Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox, on Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

  • Page 4: Playback Information And Controls

    PC for Windows-based computers or Control Mac for Apple Macintosh computers. Once you have installed this application, you probably will find it more convenient than the browser-based version, regardless of which functions you are using, as running it does not require looking up the Source or Ensemble IP address, which may change from session to session. It is still essential that the computer and the Sooloos system be connected to the same network router and that all components of the Sooloos system be turned on, however. Once Control PC is running, you will notice that Windows Explorer shows an S: drive on your computer. On a Macintosh, you will find a “Sooloos” network volume on your desktop. This is a virtual hard drive that gives access to all of the music, playlists, and tags on your Sooloos Store or Ensemble, which your computer now sees as a networked external hard drive.

  • Page 5: Music Selection And Playlist Creation

    The bottom pane is a browser for adding music from your collection to the playlist. To change the relative sizes of the two panes, just grab the separator (it has a small dot in the middle) with your mouse and slide it up or down. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 6 Play Now (Albums and Songs). Insert after the current track and begin playing immediately. • Queue Album Picks (Albums). Add the album’s best tracks to the Playlist. (For more on Album Picks, see “Editing Album Metadata,” page 7.) Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

  • Page 7: Editing Album Metadata

    Show Album Details in the pop-up window to bring up the Album Details window: Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 8 If you close the window (by tapping the X in the upper right-hand corner of the window) without clicking Save, your edits will be lost. Info The Edit Album window opens in this tab. Manual editing on this page is mostly a matter of typing new information into the available fields, but a number of items work distinctively: Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 9 Save button at the bottom to make them permanent; tapping the X in the upper right corner closes the window and cancels any unsaved changes. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 10 (Clicking the button collapses a list.) To associate a style with the album, click the button to its right. Note that associations must be at the style level. To dissociate a style, go to the pane’s right-hand column and click the button to the style’s right. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 11 Highlight the new style’s subgenre with your mouse. Then type the new style’s name in the field at the bottom of the window and click the Create button. The window will close, and the new style will now appear under the chosen subgenre in the Edit Album Information window. To close the window without adding a new style, just click the X at the upper right. Credits Clicking the Credits tab switches the panel to a list of credits for the album. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 12 To associate a new label with the album, enter its name in the Enter Labels field at the top of the window. As you type, a list of labels already in the system that contain the sequence of letters you’ve typed will pop up, and if the label is in that list you can simply highlight it with your mouse. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

  • Page 13: Deleting Albums

    Click the Play tab to enter the music manager and use the browsing pane at the bottom of the screen to locate the album you want to delete (see “Music Selection and Playlist Creation,” page 5). Then click the [image] at the right of the album name Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

  • Page 14: Importing Music

    NOTE: You must install Control Mac or Control PC to use import functions. In the import tab, you can import MP3 music files from your computer or CDs from your computer’s CD or DVD drive. Begin by clicking the Import tab, which will switch to the import screen (top of screen shown below). Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 15 To import a CD via your computer’s CD or DVD drive, click the Import CD button at the top of the page. If you have not already loaded the CD, you will be prompted you to do so. After you have inserted the disc, the system will contact the Sooloos Metadata Service and look for information about the album. It will then pop up a window indicating what it found and, unless you clicked “Automatically approve albums with complete metadata” in , ask you how to proceed. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 16 CD you import displays as a separate transfer-progress bar, with its title at the top. Once you’ve finished all imports for a session, click Clean Up List to clear all the bars. To remove an individual transfer-progress bar while leaving the others, click the X at its top right. Importing Folders It is also easy to import music files already organized into folders (in an iTunes library, for example). Click the Import Folder button, and a Browse for Folder window will pop up. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 17 Unalbumize button will move them to the loose files bin (see below.) If the system does not recognize files as comprising all or part of an album, or if you choose the Unalbumize option, it will list them individually in a Loose Files pane at the bottom of the page. (You can resize the pane by grabbing the separator bar — it has a small dot in the middle — with your mouse and dragging it up or down.) Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 18 Navigate to the folder containing the files you want to import. Highlight the files you want with your mouse, then click the Open button at the bottom of the window. The application will then list them in a Loose Files pane at the bottom of the Import page. (You can resize the pane by grabbing the separator bar — it has a small dot in the middle — with your mouse and dragging it up or down.) Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

  • Page 19: Exporting Music

    NOTE: You must install Control Mac or Control PC to use export functions. Control PC or Control Mac can export music from your Sooloos system to an iTunes Library, to a folder on your computer’s hard drive, or to an MP3 player. (The exported files will be in 192- kb/s MP3 format.) Begin by clicking on the Export tab, which will switch you to the music-export screen. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 20 You choose the type of export as a preference in iTunes (not Control PC or Control Mac). Start iTunes and select Preferences from the Edit menu. Then click the Advanced tab. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 21 Begin the export by clicking the Export Music to iTunes Library button on the Sooloos export page, which will open the iTunes Export window. Use your mouse (click the appropriate radio button) to select whether you want to export all the albums in your collection or only those associated with selected Focuses or Tags (all saved Focuses and Tags are listed in the two panes directly below). If you choose the latter, you must check the boxes next to the Focuses and Tags you want to include. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 22 Artists folder contains subfolders for each artist represented in your Media Library, and each of those contains album subfolders that hold the actual music files. The other three main folders contain subfolders for your various saved Focuses, Playlists, and Tags, which in turn hold M3U and PLS files associated with them. Use your mouse to highlight the files you want to export and copy them to the target location or device. M3U files are standard playlist files used by most portable devices. Copying an M3U file to a phone/player will prompt the copying of the audio files that accompany it. PLS files are used by Zune players and will act as M3U files when accessed for a Zune. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

  • Page 23: Manual Backups And Restores

    Find or create the folder you want to use for the backup and click OK. Then click the Next button in the Backup window to proceed to the next step. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 24 If the location of the backup you want to use does not appear in the dropdown, click the button to its right to open a Browse for Folder window. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 25 You may also click unchecked boxes to include items not pre-selected, but this will result in the backup files overwriting corresponding files already on the system (which you may want to do if the files on the system are corrupt or incomplete for some reason). Once you’ve finished choosing the items to be restored, click the Run Restore button at the window’s bottom right. The window will close, and the restore-progress indicator will appear. To go back to a previous step, click the Back button. To cancel before starting a restore, click the Cancel button at the window’s lower left or the X at its upper right. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

  • Page 26: Settings And Information

    192 kbps, but if you experience dropouts because of high traffic on your network, try ratcheting down to a lower data rate. Zone Configuration To edit a zone’s configuration, click the Configure button to the right of its name on the list. That will bring up a Configure Zone window. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...
  • Page 27 Settings do not take effect until you click the Apply button at the bottom right. Clicking the Cancel button closes the window without making any changes. Meridian Audio Ltd, Latham Road, Huntingdon, Cambridge PE 29 6 YE , United Kingdom | www.meridian - audio.com...

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