Listening To Music; Before You Begin - Seagate GoFlex Cinema User Manual

5. Listening to Music

This chapter explains how to find and play your digital music from the GoFlex Cinema™
multimedia drive. Follow the instructions in this chapter to:
• Get started listening to music (see "Before You Begin" below).
• Play music (see page 29).
• Set up continuous play and shuffling (see page 29).
• Display album cover art on the Music screen (see page 30).

Before You Begin

You can use the multimedia drive to listen to music in supported formats stored on:
• The GoFlex Cinema multimedia drive
• An external USB drive connected to the multimedia drive's USB port
Supported Audio File Formats
The multimedia drive supports these songs in these formats:
.AAC .M4A
.APE .M4R
.FLAC .MKA
Note: Some Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected content may not be supported on the
GoFlex Cinema multimedia drive.
For a list of supported file extensions and codecs (compressor/decompressor technologies,
such as MPEG), see "Supported audio file formats:" on page 49.
Supported Playlist Formats
The multimedia drive supports playlists in these formats:
.M3U .PLS
GoFlex Cinema™ Multimedia Drive User Guide
.MP2 .OGG
.MP3 .WAV
.MPA .WMA
.WPL (static only)
Before You Begin
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