Bose WavePC interactive system Sold from May 2001 to June 2002 User Manual

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Operating the CD Player/Recorder
Playing tracks from the music finder window
The music finder gives you great flexibility in playing single or multiple music selections.
• To start playback: Double-click the first title you want to play, or select the first title and click 
the Play/pause ( ) button.
•To play only a single track: Select the title and click the Play Selection button.
•To play a consecutive list of tracks: Select the first track you want to play. While holding...

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Operating the CD Player/Recorder
Recording an audio CD
In addition to playing CDs from your computer’s CD-ROM drive, you can record and save 
them as music files on your computer’s hard drive. When you insert a CD into your com-
puter’s CD-ROM drive, the Wave/PC
™ software prepares itself to record all tracks on the CD. 
It indicates this by placing a check mark next to each track title in the music finder window 
(see the Record column in Figure 16).
Figure 16
Example of the...

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Operating the CD Player/Recorder
Recording CDs when disconnected from the Internet
If your computer is disconnected from the Internet and you insert a CD into the CD-ROM 
drive, the track titles are numbered because CDDB information cannot be downloaded. How-
ever, you can record the CD and get CDDB information the next time you go on the Internet.
The next time you connect to the Internet, select the CD player, insert any CD and click the 
Get Track Info button. This...

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Setting CD player/recorder setup options
To access the CD player/recorder setup options (Figure 18) and change the configuration, 
click the Setup button and click the CD tab.
After selecting the options you want,
•Click the OK button to save your settings and close the setup window, or
•Click the Cancel button to close the setup window without saving any changes, or
•Click the Help button to open the on-line help information window.
Figure...

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Operating the CD Player/Recorder
By default, when you insert an audio CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive, the Wave/PC™ 
system automatically switches to the CD mode and starts playing the CD. To disable auto-
matic playing, remove the check next to “Automatically play CDs when inserted.”
Normally, when the Wave/PC system plays a CD for the first time, the Wave/PC application 
downloads detailed information for that CD from the CDDB website. If you do not want the 
Wave/PC...

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Operating the CD Player/Recorder
Select “Record using error correction” to decrease the probability of audio errors during 
recording.
The Wave/PC
™ application can test your CD-ROM drive to determine its digital audio extrac-
tion speed and tell you whether or not it can support simultaneous record and playback. 
To test your CD-ROM drive:
1. Insert the Wave/PC installation disk in your CD-ROM drive.
2. If you have more than one CD-ROM drive, select the drive you will use...

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Listening to Music Files
Selecting the Music Files player
The Music Files player gives you one-touch selection of any MP3 or WAV file stored on your 
computer’s hard drive. To select the Music Files player (Figure 20), click the Music Files but-
ton on the Wave/PC
™ application window, or press the File button on the remote control to 
start playing music recorded on your hard drive. For your convenience, the Wave/PC system 
also provides six preset buttons each of which can...

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Listening to Music Files
Navigating the music finder
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...

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Listening to Music Files
Sorting lists in the music finder window
You can sort the list in the music finder window by column heading in ascending or descend-
ing order. Click on a column heading and you’ll see a small triangle appear on the right-hand 
side of the heading. The sorting order is indicated by the direction of the triangle. Click the 
heading again to change the sorting order.
Sorting Example:
•Sorting album names in ascending order:
•Sorting album names in...

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Listening to Music Files
To find and play all the music of a certain type (jazz, rock, etc.):
1. Click the Types button. A list of music types is displayed in the music finder.
2. Enter the music type name (or part of the name) in the Search box. As you type, the 
music finder will reduce the number of displayed music types to only those that contain 
the string of characters entered in the Search box.
3. Select the music type and click the Play Selection button. The Wave/PC...