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Listening to Music Files
Navigating the music finder
Figure 21
Moving down through the
Music finder views
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The music finder makes it easy for you to view your music database and find the music you
want to hear. The music database is organized into a hierarchy of views (Figure 21) to group
your music into logical collections.
• Types – categories or genres of music (Highest level)
• Artists – those who perform the music
• Composers – those who wrote the music
• Albums – names of music collections
• Tracks – individual songs (Lowest level)
You can view your music in each grouping by clicking the appropriate Views button located
to the right of the music finder in the application window. For example, if you select the clas-
sical category in the Types view and then click the Artists button, all your classical artists
appear in the music finder. If you click the Composers button and select a composer from
the list, and then click Albums, all albums with music by this composer are listed. You can
also skip levels. For example, if you select Classical in the Types view, you can then click the
Tracks button to display all your classical tracks.
You can move down through the hierarchy of views quickly by double-clicking an item in the
current view. For example, double-clicking the classical category in the Types view displays
all your classical artists. Double-clicking one of your classical artists displays all albums con-
taining tracks by that artist. The detailed rules for double-clicking down through the hierarchy
are given in Figure 21.
Click the Types button.
(Highest level)
Double-clicking in the Types
view opens the Artists view
which shows you artists who
perform that type of music.
Double-clicking in the Artists
view opens the Albums view
which shows you all your al-
bums containing tracks by
that Artist.
Double-clicking in the Al-
bums view opens the Tracks
view which shows you all
tracks in that album.
Double-clicking an item in
Tracks view starts the song
playing.
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Double-click a
music type
Double-click
Double-click in
an artist
Composers
view
Double-click
an Album
Double-click
in Tracks view
to play song
Click the Composers
button.
Double-clicking in the
Composers view opens
the Album view which
shows you all your albums
by that composer.
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