BayCom OSCAR-MP3
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Advanced Operation of OSCAR
Find and play a song
In the normal selectmode, navigate through the file hierarchiy by pushing the SELECT and UP
buttons. Turning the SELECT wheel moves between the files and directories on each level.
SELECT enters a subdirectory, UP moves one step up in the hierarchy. .MP3 files are
displayed for each hierarchy. To play a selected song, push SELECT. If you do not use a
playlist, OSCAR plays the songs according to their order on the CD or hard disk. When one
directory is finished, OSCAR automatically jumps into the next directory and continues
playing there.
Programming a playing order
There are three different mechanism to control the order of songs to be played.
- Programming a playlist in OSCAR via program mode
- Selection of a playlist stored on CD-ROM or hard disk.
- Selecting the radio mode and preselect some titles while others are playing.
Programming a playlist
By entering the PROGRAM mode (via MENU – MODE – PLAYMODE) a sequence of songs to
be played can be programmed. When you have entered the PROGRAM mode, songs can be
selected from the file hierarchy with the UP/SELECT buttons. By pushing the HOTKEY (PRG),
the currently selected song is added to the playlist. As soon as a program exists, OSCAR
plays the programmed titles only (push SELECT to start playing). To play other songs, you
can either select a different play mode or delete the program by CLEAR PROGRAM (to be
found in MENU-MODE).
When switching OSCAR off the mains, any playlist is deleted. If you have a hard disk in your
OSCAR, a programmed playlist can be saved as an .M3U file permanently to hard disk. This
is done by pressing MENU - MODE – SAVE PROGRAM. OSCAR then asks for a name for
the playlist, this can be entered by turning (select letter, UP toggles between Uppercase and
lowercase) and pushing SELECT (enter next letter). Save by pressing the HOTKEY. If you
want to save the playlist into a specific directory, a target directory must be selected before
storing the playlist via MENU – HD-OPERATIONS-SET DESTINATION.
Playlist on hard disk are directly visible in the display when you are scrolling through the file
structure. They are marked by an = before the playlist name. If you click on such a playlist
symbol when it is in the display by pushing SELECT, OSCAR goes to program mode and
starts playing the playlist.
The content of the actual play list can be displayed via MENU – MODE – VIEW PLAYLIST.
Playlists on CD ROM or hard disk (.M3U-Files)
OSCAR is able to process the wide spread WINAMP playlists (format .m3u). A playlist is a
simple text file with the suffix .m3u, which lists the exact path of the .MP3 file to be played.
Only relevant paths without drive-prefix should be used.
Examples for valid entries are:
My_Song.mp3 (same directory)
Demos\son1.mp3 (in subdirectory Demos)
\mp3\disk1\nice_song.mp3 (absolute path beginning with drive root)
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