Overview The Librarian Utility breaks down into the following sections: Music Collection is where you choose the album, songs, artist, genre, year, radio station, or playlist for which you want to create an icon. Action Buttons Also available through Tools option of main menu. Available Images is where you choose the image to link as an icon. Left is a navigator showing the folders. Image Name lists the image files in the folder. The Image Preview Pane displays the selected image.
The Easy Way Creating an Album Icon from a .jpg File 1. Scan the album cover and create an image file Using an external image scanner (not included), scan the album or CD cover. The graphic should be saved as a .jpg file using the album title as a filename with the following format: Album.jpg For example: Coffee Break.jpg The graphic file should be copied into the album folder with the rest of the audio tracks. The album folder should have the same name, for example: Format 2.
Advanced Librarian Utility The Music Library The Music Library contains information about all the audio files on your PC, and on all networked PCs. This database also stores the location of the actual audio files, so the system knows where to go to transmit a track to a TerraPlayer receiver. The database does not store the audio files themselves—just the song information and location. Song.mp3 -Filepath Music Info Album Icon Music Library -Filepath to Song.
Custom Icons The JPG Directory When you want to associate a custom graphic with an audio file (or a genre, artist, album, year, or playlist), you will first need to create a folder called ‘JPG’. The JPG folder can be located anywhere, but it is easiest to maintain if you keep it in the same folder as your music collection. The JPG folder is where you should store custom graphics. 1. Create a JPG folder Using the Windows Explorer, create a folder called ‘JPG’.
Create a custom icon You can create icons to represent different categories: artists, albums, radio stations, playlists, or years. Each one of these has a default icon: Artist Album Genre Radio Playlist Year For most albums, the default icon will be replaced by a copy of the real album cover downloaded over the Internet from an online data source when converting a CD with the Ripper Utility, or updating Music Information with the MusicInfo Wizard.
Click the Find button to load all shared image files, or… Use the navigator to locate a specific folder. Select the image file in the Image Names field. 5. Link the image file to the Once you have selected the image file and the album, artist, genre, or year with which you wish to associate an icon for, click the Link Artwork button: The selected image will be associated as an icon for subsequent display on the TerraPlayer.
View Options The information in the Librarian Utility can be viewed in different modes according to the types of icons you’d like to create: Album View Default. Displays information sorted alphabetically by album title. Can be used to search by album, or to assign image files to albums or songs. Activate by clicking the Album view button. Also activated from the main menu by selecting View ►Album-Song. Artist View Displays information sorted alphabetically by artist name.
Adding Images There are several ways of adding new image files to the Available Images field. Add Available Images Selecting Tools ►Add to Available Images from the main menu will bring up a navigator allowing you to add any specific folder to Available Images. Auto-Find Images Find Artwork Perform a search for all image files in file shared folders by clicking the Find Artwork button, or by selecting Tools ►Auto-Find Images from the main menu.
Buy CDs Now At the TerraPlayer touchscreen, you can indicate if you would like to buy a CD by pressing the Buy Now button on the Music Information screen for that album. When you press Buy Now, the TerraPlayer will keep track of that album in a list of CDs you would like to purchase. Tap Buy Now to add to a list of albums you’d like to buy. To view these albums, select Actions ►Buy CDs Now from the main menu of the Librarian Utility.
Setting Up AM/FM Radio Station Display Names with Local Call Letters (TR-100 only) The Display Name of a radio station is the text that is displayed in the TerraTouch OS. You can set up the Display Names with call letters (for example: WKRP, WJNK) for AM/FM radio stations (BT-100 only) for a given geographic location. When you do this, radio station icons in the TerraPlayer will list the call letters as well as the frequency for each radio station.
3. Select stations Choose the call letters for your area by double-clicking on each. As you do, the station information will appear in the list on the left, and will be stored in the Music Library Database, from where the TerraPlayer Radio will retrieve the information. Helpful Hint Overlapping radio stations in some places may have different call letters for the same frequency.
Radio Alerts from the TerraPlayer Remote Control If you have indicated that an audio file is broken or the Music Information is corrupt, you can find those audio files listed in the Radio Alerts window of the Librarian Utility. From here, you can look at which audio files are listed, and decide which ones you want to fix. 1. Access Alerts from Radio From the main menu, select the following: File ►Check Alerts from Radio.
Chapter 7: The Ripper Utility You already have a vast collection of CDs that you would like to play through the TerraPlayer? No problem—the Ripper Utility can convert, or ‘rip’, audio CDs into audio files. And there are a range of options available to accommodate both novice users and power users.
The Easy Way Ripping a Collection of Audio CDs in Batch Mode For the novice user, or for anyone wanting to convert a large number of audio CDs at one time, there is Batch Mode. In Batch Mode, the Ripper Utility reads the CD, automatically downloads Music Information from an online data source over the Internet, and creates digital audio files. Then, it spits out the CD when done and asks you for another one.
Advanced Ripper Utility For the power user, there are Advanced Options. Advanced options include: manual Music Information editing, read/write buffer options, jitter correction, encoder options, and proxy server parameters if you are running on a network with an Internet connection through a proxy server. Ripping a CD – Entering Music Information Manually Sometimes, the Music Information for an album or track might not be available from the online data source.
Pick Image… Pick Image allows you to manually associate an image file with a ripped D. The image is then available for display as an icon on the TerraPlayer Radio touchscreen. When you click the Pick Image… button a Select window will appear, and you can navigate to the folder containing the image file (.jpg format) that will be then be associated with the album. Advanced Ripper Options Using Advanced Options, you can fully customize and control a variety of ripping parameters to suit your needs.
Album Name, Song Title, Artist Name, and Genre must all be defined If none of these have been defined, the folders will not be created. Or if one of them has been left out, it will create a folder at that level, but the folder will be unnamed. The default folder naming convention is: …\Album Artist\Album Name For example: …\Zoot Brute\Final Vinyl But if you wanted to redefine the path to add a genre folder, you would select ‘Album Genre’ in the first field, then move ‘Album Artist’ and ‘Album Name’ into th
Reader Options When you select the ‘Reader’ tab, you can change the performance parameters of the CD reader while it is reading the audio CD for converting files. The options below are available. Read Mode The quality the CD will read with is defined by the Read Mode. ¾ High Performance. This mode reads at the fastest speed possible. This mode works only with systems that have Adaptec ASPI drivers installed, and will not appear as on option in system without them.
High Performance Options – Jitter Correction Jitter occurs when a CD-ROM drive cannot find a specific frame, or sector, while it is reading. This results in pops or breaks in the audio. Jitter correction is a way of improving audio through overlapping or multiple reading of the same frames to help ensure a high-quality conversion. On an audio CD, the tracks are written and read in spirals, much like on vinyl.
Encoder options When you select the ‘Encoder’ tab, you can change the format and write parameters the Ripper Utility uses in creating the file. The options below are available. Encoder The Encoder field defines the format the audio tracks will be converted to. Available options are .mp3 and .wma. MP3 If you select .mp3 as the convert format, you can define the settings of the file using the following parameters. Bit rate is the setting if you wish to use a Constant Bit Rate (CBR).
VBR Methods are different means of varying the bit rate at which you will rip a CD. Variable Bit Rate (VBR) is a type of data compression where complex sounds are encoded at a higher rate, while simple sounds are at a lower rate. The Ripper Utility will adjust the bit rate according to the complexity of the sound. You can either try the different options below to find which method produces the compression/sound quality most to your liking, or use the default setting. ¾ None. ¾ Default. ¾ Old. ¾ New.
Music Lookup options When the TerraPlayer displays Music Information (ID3 tags, metadata) – album titles, artists, song titles, and even album covers – it pulls the information over the internet from an online database by a Music Lookup Service provider. Music Lookup Service The Music Lookup Service field uses radio buttons to indicate how and where the Ripper Utility will search for music information. ¾ Deferred/No Lookup. This option deactivates metadata lookup. ¾ Gracenote.
Proxy options If you are on a network with a proxy server, you will need to set up the following in order to access online data sources over the Internet: ¾ Use Proxy for Music Lookup Services. Check this to activate communication through a prosy server. ¾ Proxy Name or IP. Enter the HOSTNAME or IP Address of the proxy server. ¾ Port. The port number of the internet proxy server on the LAN. Should be provided by your system administrator. ¾ User Name.
Chapter 8: The MusicInfo Utility and Wizard Music Information is detail about a song that you get from the album cover: album name, artist name, song title, etc. This information is added to the audio files and stored in the Music Library to make it available for display on the TerraPlayer touchscreen. And so, you can still find the song details in the TerraTouch OS on the touchscreen, without keeping the CD or album covers around.
The Easy Way The Easy Way—Updating Music Information with the MusicInfo Wizard The MusicInfo Wizard automatically reads all of your audio files and compares them against an online data source over the Internet, updating your audio files with the most up-to-date information available. Depending on the size of your digital audio collection and the speed of your Internet connection, this process will take some time.
3. Select the desired audio files then click Next > The wizard will prompt you to select the audio files you wish to update. By default, all audio files are selected. Unselect audio files you don’t wish to update. You can expand the window to see all the Music Information columns. Select the drive or folder, then click on the Next > button. 4. Select the updated audio files to save, then click Next > The wizard will prompt you with a list containing which files have been cleaned.
Advanced MusicInfo Utility If you need to write your own music information, you can use MusicInfo. Accessing the MusicInfo Utility The MusicInfo Utility can be accessed by clicking on the MusicInfo button of the TerraLaunch window: Overview The MusicInfo window is broken down into the following: Action Buttons Current tags Lists track information (ID3 tag metadata) for each track. Also available through File and Tools options of main menu, or by right-clicking on a track.
Modifying Music Information for an Album Using the MusicInfo Utility, creating or modifying track information is a breeze: n Select the folder with your audio files. o Edit Music Information for all tracks Genre Click on the arrow button to open a list of available genres and subgenres. 1. Select the folder with the audio files Using the navigator on the left, search out and highlight the folder with the album. 2. Edit Music Information for all tracks Make sure all tracks are selected.
Updating Music Information for Individual Tracks Using the MusicInfo Utility, you can also clean selected or individual tracks: n Select the folder with your audio files. o Select Track(s) p Click on the Clean button to update. 1. Select the folder with the audio files Using the navigator on the left, search out and highlight the folder with the album. 2. Select the track(s) In the # column, select the track(s) you want to update. 3.
Chapter 9: The Playlist Utility The Playlist Utility lets you create ahead of time lists of music you would like to play later on. Say you are planning a party and you want to DJ the music, but you don’t want to stand by the stereo all night because you want to socialize. You can have it both ways by using the TerraPlayer Utility Suite’s Playlist Utility to organize of all the tunes you want to play before the party begins.
The Easy Way Creating a Playlist Create a new playlist as follows: n Click the New button or… Select File ►New from the main menu. o Select the file and click the Add button p Save when finished by clicking: or… Drag and drop it in the playlist. Repeat for all tracks. 1. Create a new playlist From the main menu of the Playlist Editor window, select File ►New. Or, click the Create a New Playlist button: A blank playlist will appear in the current playlist area. 2.
Advanced Playlist Utility View Options You can select which Music Information will be displayed, and the column width of that information from the View options menu. The View options menu is available from one of two places: View options are available from the View in the main menu, or by rightclicking on the File column. Music Information You can choose to display the Music Information by checking or unchecking the option in the View menu. ) Refer to Music Information on page 98 for more information.
Chapter 10: The Configuration Wizard In order to find and play audio files on the PC, the TerraPlayer requires that you configure the folders containing those audio files for file sharing. The Configuration Wizard can do this for you automatically. ) Refer to Shared Music Folders on page 13 for more information. Accessing the Configuration Wizard The Configuration Wizard can be accessed by clicking on the Configuration button of the TerraLaunch window. The Configuration Wizard 1.
3. Choose the hard drive to search for music 4. Choose the folders containing audio files that you wish to share 5.
Appendix A: Troubleshooting There are no album covers Since digital audio files do not come packaged with album covers, they must be downloaded from on online data source, then ‘associated’, or connected, with the digital audio files before they will appear on the TerraTouch OS. Things to look for Have you run the MusicInfo Wizard while connected to the Internet? The MusicInfo Wizard will scan your digital audio files.
The TerraPlayer cannot find music on the computer(s) If the TerraTouch OS comes up, but cannot find music you know to be on the computer or network: Things to look for Is the Base Transceiver connected by USB or Ethernet? A Base connected through USB will see only the files on the computer it is directly connected to, whether or not it is on a network. If you want the Base to locate files over a network, it must be connected via Ethernet.
A Firewall is blocking the TerraPlayer If you have a firewall, the setting of the security level can affect the TerraPlayer. Things to look for Norton Personal Firewall 2003 -High Level Protection. When you install the TerraPlayer Utility Suite, each executable must be added as permitted application to the “Manual Program Control” list to work properly. When you run configuration.exe, Firewall will ask you to accept it – if you accept, it should work fine.
Appendix B: Specifications* TerraPlayer Radio Operating Environment +5° to +40° C Dimensions Expansion TR-100: 13.85″ wide x 4.11″ tall x 10.05″ deep CR-100: 17.0″ wide x 4.07″ tall x 12.17″ deep External – SmartMedia CR-100 only: Internal – Up to 256 MB, SDRAM, 100-pin DIMM Weight TR-100: 8.75 lbs. CR-100: 7.6 lbs. Wireless RF Link Power Supply Reliable high-speed link, up to 500’ range 120 Vac, 60 Hz (U.S.
Appendix C: Index Index AM/FM Radio, 10, 11, 19, 22, 23, 42, 45, 46, 56, 67, 86 call letters, 56, 58, 67, 75, 86, 87, 88 audio files broken, 56, 88 Bit rate, 97 component stereo system, 11, 18 component stereo systems, 10 Connection Ethernet, 10, 11, 12, 14, 20, 114 LAN, 10, 14, 99, 114 USB, 10, 11, 12, 14, 20, 114 Connections, 17, 22 digital audio formats .mp3, 12, 96, 97 .
