Playlists
The Solisto.Home supports playlists of the type M3U. M3U is established as a quasi-
standard and is supported by many different programmes. The Solisto.Home treats a
playlist exactly like a directory. All functions that are available for directories will work
with playlists as well.
Background information about M3U playlists can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
.
Playlists will make the use of the Solisto.Home even easier. Playlists can easily be
created at the PC with whatever software the user prefers. After saving the playlists
on the USB drive you will have access to all kinds of different music compilations
without the need of changing the directory layout.
Non valid entries in a playlist will simply be skipped by the Solisto.Home.
Bookmarks
To be able to access your favourite music as easily as possible, you can specify up
to five “bookmarks”. A bookmark can be either a directory or a playlist. Assign a key
of the remote control to each bookmark. Pushing that button will then switch to the
assigned bookmark. The bookmarks can point at directories or playlists on multiple
USB drives. The association between the key and the bookmark is retained after
removing the USB device.
To create a bookmark, first select the respective directory or playlist and press the
“
Bookmarks”
key. Switch through the five slots for your bookmarks by using the
keys
Next
and
Previous
.
The lower line of the display will show the number of the slot (
Bookmark 01
to
Bookmark 05
); the upper line will show which directory or playlist has been
bookmarked. If the selected bookmark slot is not assigned to a key yet, the upper line
will remain empty.
If the bookmarked directory or playlist resides on a different USB drive “
not
available”
will be displayed. After selecting the desired slot (e. g.
Bookmark 04
),
press the key on the remote control that you wish to use to directly access the
bookmarked directory or playlist. Do this as often as necessary to make the progress
bar hit the right hand side of the display and get an “
OK”
as a confirmation.
The Solisto.Home returns to normal playback mode after the successful assignment.
From now on, simply press that key to access the bookmark.
If you wish to leave the bookmarks without making any changes press the
Stop
key.
Hint
: many remote controls feature numeric keys from 0 to 9. These would suit very
nicely as direct access keys for the five bookmarks.
Order of the Songs
The order of the songs and the directories follow their order in the file system of the
USB drive.
Volume Control
The sound level of the Solisto.Home can be decreased by 5% steps by pressing the
Volume Down
key. Pressing the
Volume Up
key will raise the sound level again
until the normal volume of 100% is reached again.
Suitable Storage Devices
Solisto features a USB interface, so most devices with a USB connector can be
used; for example: USB flash drives, external hard disks, and USB adaptors for
different kinds of flash memory (SD, Compact Flash, Memory Card etc).
