Yamaha MCX-2000 - MusicCAST Digital Audio Server Setup Manual page 65

Alphabetical index search Buttons
Unlike the PAGE scroll buttons, the Alphabetical index search
buttons only work with lists that sort items in alphabetical order.
If you select All Songs for the search category, you will always
have an alphabetical list of all archived songs, and this list may
be long enough—spanning across multiple screens, depending
on how many songs you have.
n The alphabetical order of the MCX-2000 list view sorts items
according to the following order: ASCII-based English first,
followed by other Latin languages and Japanese Kana-Kanji
characters.
In the above screen, you know there are a total of196 songs and
you must scroll down the list no fewer than 19 times to see all
song titles, even if you use the PAGE scroll buttons. If you know
a target song's title, however, you can conveniently use two
Alphabetical index search buttons to quickly find the song. Use
the down arrow button to jump in an A-to-Z direction, or use the
up arrow button to jump in a Z-to-A direction, to the first song in
each alphabetical index.
Identifying an List Item
If there are two or more songs (or albums) that have a duplicate
name in your music archive, they might be confusing in a list
view of All Songs (or Albums). You must play them just for
identification? No. Simply use the Information command from the
Submenu in each list view screen.
Move the selection (highlight) to your target item, and then select
Information from the Submenu. A dialog box appears, showing
detailed information of the current item. If it is an album, you can
see information including how many song the album contains, who
performed the album songs, which genre the album has been
categorized into, and when the album has been archived. If the
current item is a song, in addition to the album information, you will
see the audio format (data format for archiving the song) and how
many times it was played.
By confirming such detailed information, you can identify each
list item even though it has a duplicate name with others. You
don't always need to play it just for identification.
You may also encounter a duplicate name if the MCX-2000
couldn't get song data while importing a music CD into the music
archive. In this case, the MCX-2000 has given a generic name
"Unknown" to the album title, as well as "Track" to each song in the
album. As a result, you may have a number of "Unknown" albums
and "Track" songs in your music archive. To solve this problem,
move the selection (highlight) to a list item with a generic name,
and then select CDDB Info from the Submenu. If the CDDB
database has been updated since you archived the album, the
MCX-2000 will be able to retrieve appropriate song data and
update titles of the relevant album and songs.
n For quicker access of CDDB data, the MCX-2000 is designed
to keep song data for last 100 music CDs (maximum) retrieved
from the online CDDB database. However, you can ignore
existing data by retrieving the latest data using the CDDB Info
command available from the Submenu in several Music Archive
screens.
n Don't worry if you still see generic names after executing the
CDDB Info command. The rest of the Submenu commands let
you manually edit the title or name of a list item currently
selected. But, be careful when using these commands. They
can break links in the song data—relationship among song title,
album title, artist name and categorized genre—or even delete
song audio data itself. See "Editing the Library" (page 75) on
how to use these Submenu commands.
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