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- Page 1 Getting Started with Snaptune™ One ADS Instant FM Music™ Edition August, 2006 © Snaptune Inc., 2006...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Getting started with Snaptune One... 1 System requirements ... 1 Audio sources... 1 ADS Technologies Instant FM Music™ ... 2 Web radio... 2 Line-in audio sources ... 2 Installation and configuration... 3 Installing the Snaptune software... 3 Configuring Snaptune ... -
Page 3: Getting Started With Snaptune One
Snaptune shows you the music it found on the radio System requirements • Audio Sources: An ADS Technologies Instant FM Music connected to a USB port on your PC, and Internet connection for Web Radio Recording • A minimum of 1GB (5GB recommended) of free disk space •... -
Page 4: Ads Technologies Instant Fm Music
Page 2 ADS Technologies Instant FM Music™ The ADS Technologies Instant FM Music is an FM radio which connects to a standard USB port on your PC. Using an Instant FM Music provides Snaptune with significant capabilities since Snaptune can automatically tune one of these tuners to a particular radio station based on the schedule you provide. -
Page 5: Installation And Configuration
Our web site at http://www.snaptune.com/snaptuneone/help/hardware.htm options. Installation and configuration We recommend that you install Snaptune on a desktop PC that can be left on all day long every day of the week. Snaptune works on laptops too, but because they are typically moved around and powered off frequently it will be harder for Snaptune to consistently record the radio and you may miss songs and shows that you wanted to hear. - Page 6 First, Snaptune provides a brief introduction. Click Next. After this brief introduction, Snaptune asks for your location. It will use this to provide an accurate and up-to-date list of radio stations in your area. Snaptune Inc.’s current radio station database covers USA, Canada, and the UK.
- Page 7 Click Next. Snaptune next needs to know where you want to store the recordings it will make. Initially Snaptune shows you just a single choice – the best location it has found. It does this by scanning all of your hard drives to locate free space and a suitable subdirectory on each. So if your C: drive is almost full, but you have a brand new 500GB E: drive, Snaptune will do the right thing and you can just hit Next.
- Page 8 Continuously recording radio can consume a significant chunk of disk space. Each week of radio recording will consume about 5 GB of disk space. Stations play approximately 200 songs per day depending upon the station format. So a week’s worth of recordings will contain about 1400 songs (not all unique, of course, since songs repeat on the radio).
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Page 9: Snaptune Is Now Running
You can choose between FM or Web by selecting the “radio” button next to the medium you wish to record. For FM select the FM radio button and then select a preset or specific frequency. Before clicking Next make sure the reception sounds good. If it does not, try moving your radio or its antenna until reception improves. - Page 10 Note: At this point you can close the main Snaptune application. You can even logout of your PC, so long as you don’t power it off, and Snaptune will keep recording. But remember, Snaptune One can only find new music in those recordings when the Snaptune One application is running. So be sure to start it up again or leave it running whenever you can.
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Page 11: Using Snaptune One
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 9 Using Snaptune One Once Snaptune has found some new songs for you, select the tab at the top of the application labeled Songs and click on one of those songs. It should begin playing over your speakers and you should see something like the picture below. -
Page 12: Exploring Music
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 10 radio-play edit too, and the live-session they did on your local station, and perhaps an interview with them that aired last month. If you do see what appears to be a duplicate in the Songs view, listen carefully: chances are it is a different version of the song that Snaptune has found for you, maybe a live version, a remix, a mashup, or often just the radio-play edit of the song. -
Page 13: Songs View
An Unmatched segment is a block of programming in which Snaptune has yet to find any Songs. Snaptune will likely eventually find content in them if the Unmatched segment contains songs. To-Be-Matched segments are blocks of programming that Snaptune has not yet searched for songs. Leave Snaptune running long enough until all To-Be-Matched segments have gone away. -
Page 14: Two Types Of Songs - With Or Without
The Date column shows you the date a song was last played across all stations on which it’s been found. Tip: If you click on a song in the Date column, it will take you to the Playlists view the most recent time it played on the radio. -
Page 15: Back To Basics
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 13 There are, however, a few unique features about the Snaptune media player. First, we show the date and time below the progress control. This is the actual date and time of the radio show you are currently listening to. This comes in handy if, for example, you hear something on NPR while driving to work. - Page 16 The preset FM radio stations listed here were found when you told Snaptune where you are located. So if entered “90210” and don’t live there, click on the Options tab now and go change it. If you are worried about privacy issues, check our extensive privacy policy online and don’t panic, a ZIP code is a pretty big area, and we aren’t tracking you.
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Page 17: Record Page
Record page On the record tab you can create custom recording schedules allowing you to multiplex a single tuner across multiple stations or to record a specific show at a specific time on a specific station. You can even simultaneously record multiple stations using Web radio, Line-in, and/or PC-based radio tuners. As mentioned earlier we recommend you leave the recording schedule Snaptune has created for you until it has found lots of songs because multiplexing between stations will reduce your song find rate considerably during the initial phase when Snaptune is learning patterns. -
Page 18: The Right Hand Side
The right hand side When the Songs view or Playlists view is selected the right hand side contains a series of tabs you can select. These relate to the song you’ve selected, so go ahead and click on a song now. You should see something like the picture below. -
Page 19: More Info Panel
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 17 Click on the arrow right of the Song, Artist or Title and you can purchase that from iTunes. The same goes for clicking on the cover of an Album in this view, if one is available. This feature requires that you have Apple iTunes 4.9 or later installed on your computer. -
Page 20: Edit Song Panel
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 18 Edit Song panel With the Edit Song tab selected you can add or correct the metadata for any song you see in the Songs or Playlists view. You can edit the song Artist, Title, and Genre. You also have easy access to a search engine if you need to check that you’ve tagged the song correctly. -
Page 21: Exporting Shows From Snaptune
Tip: Snaptune will make multiple attempts to identify each song it finds. However, if a song has not been identified by Snaptune within about 2 weeks, it will no longer try. We encourage you to enter the information if you know the identity of the song. This will benefit all Snaptune users. Tip: Snaptune provides a search feature that uses Google to find songs based on their lyrics. -
Page 22: The Snaptune Recording Service
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 20 When Snaptune is recording the icon is red and pulses gently. If it is not recording the icon will be blue and you need to check your schedule to see if it should be recording or make more disk space available if that is the reason it has stopped recording. -
Page 23: Contacting Snaptune
Contacting Snaptune By now you should have a good idea about what Snaptune One is and how you can use it to discover new music to buy. Please use the following to contact Snaptune Inc: Company web site: www.snaptune.com General info email: info@snaptune.com Support email: support@snaptune.com...
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