[SET pageicon help] [SET title Using the Slim Devices Remote] [INCLUDE helpheader.html]
Squeezebox uses a system of menus that are navigated using the gray LEFT, RIGHT, UP, and DOWN buttons on the Slim Devices remote control. There are four ways to locate songs in your music library:
Songs, playlists, and directories can be located and added to the current playlist with the remote control.
The Squeezebox player main menu is the starting point for browsing music, searching, and editing the current playlist. You can get back to Squeezebox Home by pressing the gray LEFT button on the remote control.
Here is an example of the Squeezebox Home menu (what you see on your Squeezebox player may vary):
Squeezebox Home Browse Albums -> |
The top line of the display shows your current location. The bottom line shows the item currently selected. In the example above, you could press the gray RIGHT button to browse the albums available for playing.
Repeatedly pressing the gray UP or DOWN buttons cycles through the other available choices:
You can browse your music collection directly from the Squeezebox player by using the Slim Devices remote control. In this section we-ll use browsing the Music Library as an example-but browsing Genres, Albums, or Artists works the same way.
Note: The Browse Music Library menu choice is not available if you are using a Mac OS X computer as your Squeezebox server, and the server software is accessing your iTunes folder as its source of music files.From the Squeezebox player Home menu, press the gray UP or DOWN button on the remote control until you see:
Squeezebox Home Browse Music Folder -> |
Press the gray RIGHT button to enter the Music Library. The Squeezebox player displays a list of the items at the top level of the hard disk hierarchy:
Music Folder (6 of 10) Punk -> |
The above example shows:
Notice the arrow in the bottom right corner of the Squeezebox displayÑit indicates that you can use the gray RIGHT button on the remote control, and therefore this is a directory that you can enter.
Pressing the gray DOWN button scrolls to the next item in the folder:
Music Folder (7 of 10) Rock -> |
If you want to open this folder ("Rock") press the gray RIGHT button on the remote control:
Rock (16 of 33) Led Zeppelin -> |
In the Rock folder there are 33 subfolders. At this point, you can either:
Note: If you want to scroll quickly, you can hold down the button.
Rock/Led Zeppelin (1 of 6) Early Days & Latter Days -> |
In this example, the Squeezebox player is displaying a selection that is two folders deep, so it displays "Rock/Led Zeppelin". You can press the gray UP or DOWN buttons on the remote control to scroll through the Led Zeppelin albums:
Rock/Led Zeppelin (2 of 6) Houses Of The Holy -> |
Press the gray RIGHT button to select the Led Zeppelin album, Houses of the Holy.
Led Zeppelin/Houses Of The Holy (6 of 8) 06 D'yer Mak'er * |
In this example, the Squeezebox player automatically goes to track 6 on the album. The Squeezebox player remembers the selection you were listening to the last time you played this album, and opens the album on that selection.
Notice that instead of an arrow in the lower-right corner of the Squeezebox player display (indicating that there are more choices available if you press the gray RIGHT button), there is a music note symbol (indicating that an album track is displayed).
On the remote control, press the gray UP button a few times to choose track 3:
Led Zeppelin/Houses Of The Holy (6 of 8) 03 Over The Hills And Far * |
Now press the light blue PLAY button. The track plays. Even as a track is playing, you can browse in other folders.
The Squeezebox player maintains a current playlist at all times. You can add individual tracks, entire albums, even large folders of music files to the playlist.
There are two ways to add an item to the playlist:
Example:To create a playlist of all the songs by Sublime
Artists (1 of 622) Abba -> |
Press the gray DOWN button until you get to "Sublime":
Artists (611 of 622) Sublime -> |
Press the gray RIGHT button on the remote control to browse albums and tracks by Sublime, or
Press the light blue PLAY button to create a playlist of all the Sublime tracks.
To append all of the Sublime tracks to the current queue, press the gray ADD button. The Squeezebox player briefly displays:
Adding to the end of playlist: Sublime |
The Squeezebox player returns to browsing mode, and you can add more items to the playlist.
To access the current playlist, press the gray NOW PLAYING button at any time.
Now playing (8 of 125) 01:37 21 Rivers Of Babylon -> |
This example shows that there are 125 items currently in the playlist, and the one playing at the moment is the eighth one, Rivers of Babylon. Pressing the gray UP and DOWN buttons scrolls through the items in the list, while pressing the gray ADD button removes an item.
To exit the playlist view, press the gray LEFT button.
From either the playlist view or the browser, you can view additional information about an item by pressing the gray RIGHT button when the item is selected.
In the Summer Time * Title: In the Summer Time |
Press the gray UP or DOWN buttons to view additional information about the track:
In the Summer Time * Artist: Mungo Jerry |
In the Summer Time * Bitrate: 128kbps CBR |
Keep pressing the remote control gray UP or DOWN buttons repeatedly until you see the artist name again, indicating that you have seen all available information for that track.
The Squeezebox player provides an advanced search mechanism to help you locate songs in large collections. You can search by song title, artist, or album.
The Squeezebox player displays your choiceÑin this example, Search for songs:
Search for songs A-> |
You can enter the text (or numbers) you are looking for in either of two ways:
Method 1: Use the gray LEFT, RIGHT, UP, and DOWN buttons to enter letters or numbers.
Method 2: For each character position, press the black number buttons one, two, or three times until the desired letter or number appears. Use this method:
The cursor automatically advances to the right three seconds after you press a button. If the button you want next is different from the last button you pressed, you can proceed as quickly as you wish. If you need to press the same button consecutively, wait for the cursor to advance before pressing the button again or press the RIGHT arrow button to move on.
Note: You don't necessarily need to enter the entire album name, artist name, or song title to successfully search successfully. For example, this search:
Search for song titles containing: ZUT-> |
can yield what you are looking for:
Song titles matching "ZUT" (1 of 23) 01 Zut Alors! * |