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About Wireless Audio Device Manager (WADM)

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With Wireless Audio Device Manager (WADM),you can:

– Connect Philips Wireless Music Center and your PC through the supplied Ethernet cable (see

the manual Connect to your PC)

– Manage the contents of Philips Wireless Music Center on your PC, including:

• Tr ansfer music files from your PC to Philips Wireless Music Center;

• Edit track information;

• Create and rename playlists;

• Backup Philips Wireless Music Center’s music files on your PC;

• Restore the backup files to Philips Wireless Music Center

– Manage the settings of Philips Wireless Music Center on your PC, including:

• Manage the network settings of Philips Wireless Music Center;

• Update Center’s built-in Gracenote

music recognition service database to obtain the latest disc

information;

• Upgrade the firmware of Philips Wireless Music Center

Summary of content (21 pages)

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About Wireless Audio Device Manager (WADM) With Wireless Audio Device Manager (WADM), you can: – Connect Philips Wireless Music Center and your PC through the supplied Ethernet cable (see the manual Connect to your PC) – Manage the contents of Philips Wireless Music Center on your PC, including: • Transfer music files from your PC to Philips Wireless Music Center; • Edit track information; • Create and rename playlists; • Backup Philips Wireless Music Center’s music files on your PC; • Restore the backup fi
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Using Wireless Audio Device Manager (WADM) Launch the Wireless Audio Device Manager (WADM) after you have setup the connection between the center and your PC and installed the WADM (see Connect to your PC) There are 4 functional buttons: Content management, Device configuration, Backup content, Restore content.
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Content management Click the Content management button to enter the content management screen. The screen consists of two windows.The upper My Computer window is to display your PC’s contents; the lower window is the device window, showing the contents of connected Philips Wireless Music Center.
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8 Status bar: appears when transferring music is in progress.
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Transferring music files from your PC to Philips Wireless Music Center • Check your PC’s music files 1 On the selector panel of My Computer window, click the folder/sub-folder where your music files are stored ➜ You will find the stored music files on the content panel ✔ Tips: - You can only find the music files in supported formats or 2 • Open your music management software if you are using it for music management Transfer music files from PC There are 3 file-transfer-options: Always Overwrite, Al
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• To import music files form PC 1 Go to the pull-down menu File ➜ Transfer Tracks.
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✔ Tips: - Click the Hide button to hide the dialog box.You will go back to the content management screen. A status bar will appear under the device window if transferring music is still in progress.
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Re-organize your music files in the device window • Edit track information By editing the track information of your music files, you will have those files re-organized under the device’s categories of Artists, Albums and Genres. 1 On the selector panel of the device window, click to select an album or a playlist.
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• Create playlists of your favorite music You can create up to 99 playlists consisting of your favorite tracks in the desired sequence. To create a playlist 1 Click the button on the device window or Go to the pull-down menu File ➜ New Playlist. Click to select ➜ A playlist is created ➜ A default playlist name (e.g. Playlist _xxx) is assigned 2 To rename the playlist, a. Right click on your mouse. Click Rename ➜ Text box becomes blue and the cursor flashes b.
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To create a playlist of selected tracks 1 On the selector panel of the device window, click once or more to select an album, artist or a genre If necessary, click once or more on the content panel to select one or more tracks 2 Go to the pull-down menu File ➜ New Playlist from Selection.
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Make Use of Different Views In the Content management windows, you can select your view options as needed. • Adjust the window area Drag the border area between My Computer window and the device window • Adjust the panel area Drag the border area between the selector panel and the content panel • Adjust the column area Click on the separator between columns.
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Start up Content management when launching WADM 1 On the Wireless Audio Device Manager main menu, go to the pull-down menu Settings ➜ Start up WADM automatically.
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Backup content This feature allows you to make a copy of Philips Wireless Music Center’s music library on PC. 1 Click the Backup content button to start ➜ The IE browser is launched 2 As prompted, specify the location where you wish to store the backup files on your PC ➜ Backup starts ➜ Backup files are saved to the specified location and named after current date ✔ Tips: – If you did backup previously, only the newly added music will be saved to PC.
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Restore content This feature restores the backup on your PC to Philips Wireless Music Center 1 Click the Restore content button to start 2 Click to select the desired files 3 Click the Open button to start restoring files ➜ The backup files will be restored to Philips Wireless Music Center ✔ Tips: - Press and hold on your PC keyboard and click to select more than one item.
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Device configuration 1 Click the Device configuration button to start ➜ The IE browser is launched 2 On the selector panel of Device configuration screen, click your desired sub-menu, System, Wired Network, Wireless Network, Internet Setting, Firmware Upgrade, CD database Update or Status 15
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Display the name of Philips Wireless Music Center • 1 Click to enter the System sub-menu ➜ The name of the connected device appears Manage the network settings of your Philips Wireless Music Center • On your PC, you can do network setting for Philips Wireless Music Center in a more straight-forward way. With your PC, you can easily connect the device with external wired/wireless network or Internet (for CD information update).
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3 Click Apply to confirm View the device’s connection status with external network • 1 Click to enter the Status sub-menu ➜ The device’s connection status appears on the screen 17
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Firmware upgrade • On Philips Wireless Music Center: 1 Place Center on a flat and firm surface 2 Connect Center to power supply ➜ HD screen appears on Center O On your PC: 3 Register your Philips Wireless Music Center with www.club.philips.
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CD Database update • With the Gracenote® music recognition service (also known as Gracenote CD Database music recognition service), your set will look up audio CD information from its built-in database (e.g. album, artist, genre, track information). It allows the recorded CD tracks to be properly categorized (for example, under Artists, Albums, Genres or All tracks) and also merged with the existing tracks in the harddisk. 1 Register your Philips wireless audio product with www.club.philips.
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Switch device Without re-launching WADM, you can switch the PC connection from one device to another one. 1 On the Wireless Audio Device Manager main menu, go to the pull-down menu File ➜ Switch Device.
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Select WADM’s display language 1 On the Wireless Audio Device Manager main menu, go to the pull-down menu Settings ➜ Language.