User manual PINNACLE MOBILE MEDIA ORGANIZER

[. . . ] Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer User's Guide GB/US May 2006 © Pinnacle Systems GmbH 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transferred to other media without explicit written permission from Pinnacle Systems GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany. All brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Content providers are using the digital rights management technology for Windows Media contained in this device ("WM-DRM") to protect the integrity of their content ("Secure Content") so that their intellectual property, including copyright, in such content is not misappropriated. This device uses WM-DRM software to play Secure Content ("WM-DRM Software"). [. . . ] If a Smart Playlist has been created, you can automatically add newly imported files to the already existing media in the list if they meet certain pre-defined requirements. This means you can only create playlists for music or movies or photos. It is not possible to mix media in a playlist. Examples of Smart Playlists Here are a few suggestions for the contents of Smart Playlists: All the titles in the music genre, Jazz, however only those with a rating of at least 4 stars All the titles from the years 1990 to 2000 All the titles from this year All the movies with your favorite actor or with a 5 start rating The 20 movies you watch most often All the photos from 1990 67 Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Creating a New Smart Playlist button in the Media Catalog to create a new Smart Playlist. The Click the following dialog opens for specifying conditions for the Smart Playlist: Name Enter the name you want for the playlist in the field displayed. 68 Using Playlists Tags To the left, a hierarchical structure is displayed with all the tag words assigned to the currently selected media type. If you select tag words here, the Smart Playlist only displays the media that these tag words have been assigned to. Conditions In this field, you can define the conditions that should be applied to the new Smart Playlist. This means that newly imported media files are only added to the playlist if they meet the conditions defined here. Defining a new condition To define a new condition, first click the provides the following options: button. The Conditions field now The conditions set here can be made up of text, numbers, a listing or a date. Depending on the type of sorting criteria you select from the the first dropdown menu, the corresponding options are provided in the second dropdown menu and in the entry field to the right. In the first dropdown menu, you can select between several organizational criteria, for example, Name, Album, Artist. For example, if you have selected "Name", enter the words into the entry field to the right that should be compared to the name of a new media file in order to automatically determine whether this file should be added to the Smart Playlist. Use the second dropdown menu to determine how much of the categorization criteria selected should be met. For instance, how the name of the title of a new media file should be structured in order for it to be added to the Smart Playlist. For example, you can choose whether the name of a media file must correspond exactly to the condition or need only be similar. Note that the sorting criteria available depends on the media type currently selected. Different criteria apply for music files than for movie files or photos. All the conditions Click the defined are displayed in a list. 69 Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Deleting a condition To the right next to each condition, there is a condition. button for deleting this Defining to what extent the conditions must be met Once you have defined all the conditions your want, use the dropdown menu beneath the list to decide whether all or only some of the conditions or tag words must be met for adding a file to this Smart Playlist: Defining the scope and sorting criteria for the Smart Playlist The scope and sort order for the Smart Playlist is defined in the section displayed here: Scope Select or clear the Limit to check box to determine whether the scope of the Smart playlist should be limited or not. Use the number entry field and the dropdown menu next to it to define the scope based on list entries, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, seconds, minutes or hours. Sort criteria Use the dropdown menu sorted by to define the sorting order of the media within the Smart Playlist. This is done based on all of the meta data available to the currently selected media type: Name, Album, Artist, Date, etc. If you do not want to apply these settings to the database, click Cancel. Modifying an Existing Smart Playlist Changing the name of a Smart Playlist If you would like to change the name of a Smart Playlist, either slowly left-click the list two times or select the Rename option from the context menu. The name of the playlist is now highlighted and can be changed. 70 Using Playlists Changing the settings of a Smart Playlist If you would like to change the settings for an existing Smart Playlist, select this list and select the Edit option from the context menu. This opens the dialog described above where you can change all the settings for the Smart Playlist. Deleting a Smart Playlist If you would like to delete a Smart Playlist, select the list with your mouse and then click the button or press the Delete key. [. . . ] It uses a composite signal that combines brightness and color information into one signal. (see also "Composite Video", S-VHS) Video-on-Demand (Vod): A multimedia application that allows users to access a video server and view photos/images or videos/movies. Video for Windows: Video for Windows, a Microsoft Windows system expansion, allows users to record, store and play back digital video sequences. (see also "AVI") 118 Glossary W Web Server: A computer on which HTML pages and network software are stored. [. . . ]