Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product RDX-155-EF ADS Technologies
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© Snaptune Inc., 2006 Getting Started with Snaptune™ One ADS Instant FM Music™ Edition August, 2006.
Table of Contents Getting started with Snaptune One .............................................................................................. ...... 1 System requ iremen ts .........................................................................
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 1 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Getting st arted with Snaptune One This guide explains how to install and run Snaptune One. It includes a guided tour with screen shots and captions to help you understand how Sn aptune works.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 2 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 ADS Technologies Instant FM Music™ The ADS Technologies Instant FM Music is an FM ra dio which connects to a standard USB port on your PC.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 3 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Our web site at http://www.snaptune.c om/snaptuneone/help/hardware.htm e xplains all of the available options. Installation and configuration We recommend that you install Snaptune on a desktop PC that can be left on all day long every day of the week.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 4 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 First, Snaptune provides a brief introduction. Click Next . After this brief introduction, Snaptune asks for your lo cation. It will use this to provide an accu rate and up-to-date list of radio stations in your area.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 5 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Click Next . Snaptune next needs to know where you want to store the recordi ngs it will make.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 6 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Continuously recording radio can consum e a significan t chunk of disk space. Each week of radio recording will consume about 5 GB of disk space. S tations play approximately 200 songs per day depending upon the station format.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 7 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 You can choose between FM or Web by selecting the “radio” button next to the medium you wish to record. For FM select the FM radio button and then select a preset or specific fr equency.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 8 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Note: At this point you can close the main Snaptune application. You can even logout of your PC, so long as you don’t power it off, and Snaptu ne will keep recording.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 9 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Using Snaptune One Once Snaptune has found some new songs for you, se lect the tab at the top of the application labeled Songs and click on one of thos e songs. It should be gin playing over your speakers and you should see something like the picture below.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 10 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 radio-play edit too, and the live-session they did on your local station, and perh aps an interview with them that aired last month.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 11 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 An Unmatched segment is a block of programming in which Snaptune has yet to find any Songs. Snaptune will likely eventually find content in them if the Unm atched segment contains songs.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 12 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 The Date column shows you the date a song was last played across all st ations on which it’s been found. Tip: If you click on a song in the Date column, it will take you to the Playlists view the most recent time it played on the radio.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 13 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 There are, however, a few unique features about the Snaptune m edia player. First, we show the date and time below the progress co ntrol. This is the actual date and time of the radio show you are currently listening to.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 14 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 The preset FM radio stations listed here were found when you told Snap tune w here you are located. So if entered “90210” and don’t live there, click on the Options tab now and go change it.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 15 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Record page On the record tab you can create custom recording schedules allowing you to multiplex a single tuner across multiple stations or to record a sp ecific show at a specific time on a specifi c station.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 16 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 The right hand side When the Songs view or Playlists view is selected the right hand side co ntains a series of tabs you can select. These relate to the song you’ve selected, so go ahead and click on a son g now.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 17 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Click on the arrow right of the Song, Artist or Title and you can purchase that from iTunes. Th e same goes for clicking on the cover of an Album in this view, if one is available. This f eature requires that you have Apple iTunes 4.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 18 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Edit Song panel With the Edit Song tab selected you can add or correct the me tadata for any song you see in the Songs or Playlists view.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 19 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Tip: Snaptune will make multiple attempts to identify ea ch song it finds. However, if a song has not been identified by Snaptune within about 2 weeks, it wi ll no longer try. We encourage you to enter the information if you know the identity of the song.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 20 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 When Snaptune is recording the icon is red and pulses ge ntly. If it is not r ecording the icon will be blue and you need to check your schedule to see if it should be recording or make more disk spac e available if that is the reason it has stopped recording.
Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 21 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Cont acting Snaptune By now you should have a good idea ab out what Sn aptune One is and how you can use it to discover new music to buy. Please use the following to contact Snaptune Inc: Company web site: www.
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