User manual TOSHIBA SATELLITE 1900-703

[. . . ] TOSHIBA AMERICA INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC. ("TOSHIBA"), ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS DO NOT WARRANT THAT OPERATION OF THE PRODUCT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. YOU AGREE THAT TOSHIBA, ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS SHALL HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE TO OR LOSS OF ANY BUSINESS, PROFITS, PROGRAMS, DATA, NETWORK SYSTEMS OR REMOVABLE STORAGE MEDIA ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE PRODUCT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. Protection of Stored Data For your important data, please make periodic back-up copies of all the data stored on the hard disk or other storage devices as a precaution against possible failures, alteration, or loss of the data. IF YOUR DATA IS ALTERED OR LOST DUE TO ANY TROUBLE, FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF THE HARD DISK DRIVE OR OTHER STORAGE DEVICES AND THE DATA CANNOT BE RECOVERED, TOSHIBA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE RESULTING THEREFROM. [. . . ] For more information about adding music files to the Media Library, use the Windows Media Player Help menu. Deleting Music Files To delete a file from the Windows Media Player Library, select the music file, right-click the mouse, and then select Delete. Adding Music from Your Hard Drive to Windows Media Player Library You can place all your music files into the My Music folder or into other folders on your hard drive, however, you need to add those files to the Windows Media Player Library for Media Center to be able to find and play them. You may have already copied and organized your music files on your hard drive. If so, you need to add them to the Windows Media Player Library to access them with the Media Center. 156 1 2 Getting to Know the Windows ® XP Media Center Edition 2005 Listening to Music To add music files that are stored in your My Music or Shared Music folder on your hard drive: Click Start on the taskbar, and then click Windows Media Player. Select Search for Media Files from the Library tab's Tools menu. Sample Add to Library by Searching Computer screen 3 4 5 Select an option from the Search on drop-down menu. Select Search to search all drives or select Browse to search through a specific drive. Windows Media Player searches the selected drives for all supported audio files and adds them to the Media Library. If Windows Media Player does not recognize all of your audio files, try copying the files directly into Windows Media Player. Refer to Windows Media Player Help for more information. Your music files can now be found and played in the My Music window in the Media Center. You may need to close and open Media Center for the added music files to appear in My Music. Getting to Know the Windows ® XP Media Center Edition 2005 Listening to Music 157 Playing Digital Music Files When you first open the Media Center and open the My Music window, you may not find any music files listed unless there is a music CD in your CD drive or unless you have already added audio files to your Windows Media Player Library. If you do not have any music files listed, you need to add music files to the Windows Media Player Library, and then restart Media Center to play your music files in Media Center. The program displays all the songs in your media library. Use the arrow keys to select a song, and then press OK or Play. Use the controls at the bottom of the screen to stop or pause the song, advance to another song, or increase or decrease the volume. Setting Up an Automatic Disc Jockey You can select to have Media Center randomly play all the available songs in one genre: 1 2 3 Click Start, then Media Center to open the Media Center main window. The list displays all the genres available in your Media Library. 4 5 Use the arrow keys to select a genre, and then press OK. Use the arrow keys to select Shuffle, and then press OK. All songs in that genre are randomly played. 160 1 2 3 4 Getting to Know the Windows ® XP Media Center Edition 2005 Listening to Music Finding and Playing an Album Click Start, then Media Center to open the Media Center main window. Use the arrow keys to select an album, and then press OK. Media Center begins to play the album and displays the Now Playing screen. Use the options on this screen to perform the following tasks: View Cover (this is the default option) View Queue (view a list of all tracks on the album) Shuffle (rearrange the play order of the music tracks on the album) Repeat (play the album again) Play (play the selected album) When you select Play, the Now Playing window opens, and the album starts playing. Buy Music (connect to the Internet, find CD information, and buy music CDs) To go back to Media Center, press Start. Visualize (view an image) Edit Queue (edit the songs in the queue) 5 NOTE Press Back to return to the previous window. [. . . ] A diskette is one example of a removable disk. 296 Glossary resolution -- A measure of the sharpness of the images that can be produced by a printer or displayed on a screen. For a printer, resolution is expressed in dots per inch (dpi). For a screen, it is expressed as the number of pixels available horizontally and vertically. To reset the computer by reloading the operating system without turning the computer off. [. . . ]