Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Freevo Wiki" for change notification.
The following page has been changed by 80.141.68.38: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DocumentationPage_2fUsageInfo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ PleaseUpdate: This info is a little outdated. Anyone is welcome to double check it and update it to how Freevo works today! = General = - +[[Anchor(navigation)]] == Navigation == You can use your keyboard or a remote to controll freevo. @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT are used to navigate in the menus. Depending on configuration and skin, some menus have a two dimensional layout and others are just a long list from top to bottom. -If this is the case, UP and DOWN takes you one entry up or down, whereas LEFT and RIGHT scroll the whole page up and down. -If the menu is just one page long, DOWN will bring you to the last entry and UP back to the first. +If this is the case, UP and DOWN takes you one entry up or down, whereas LEFT and RIGHT jumps to the begining or the end of the viewable page. +If you press LEFT or RIGHT again it scrolls to the next or last page. So you can use LEFT and RIGHT to navigate faster through a very long menu. SELECT selects the current item, or more precisely the default action for that item. Pressing ENTER usually brings up a submenu with more possible actions. For example pressing SELECT on a DVD just starts the movie, whereas by pressing ENTER you can select DVD tracks, change play settings like audio language and subtitles. @@ -140,7 +140,15 @@ == Navigation == -You can navigate through folders to get to your music files (MP3 and Ogg Vorbis). +You can navigate in the usual way through folders to get to your music files (MP3 and Ogg Vorbis). + +When you press SELECT or PLAY on a song, freevo starts playing that file. +You can stop the song with STOP or with EXIT. +Moreover there are the following commands available: PAUSE, REW, FFWD. + +LEFT has the same effect as REW and RIGHT the same as FFWD, while playing music files. + +( For keymapping see [#navigation General Navigation] ) == Streaming == @@ -165,13 +173,20 @@ Depending on your configuration in .freevo/local_conf.py, directories of songs may have two implicit playlists. * First, you can play all songs in order by playing the first song. When complete, Freevo will continue on to the next song. + This behavior deppends on DIRECTORY_CREATE_PLAYLIST, you can change it by adding or removing 'audio' from that list. +* Second, folders can have an entry at the top called "PL: Random Playlist" which will play all songs in this folder in random order. + You can controll this with DIRECTORY_ADD_RANDOM_PLAYLIST. +Irrespective of your choice in local_conf.py you can get these playlists by pressing ENTER when you have selected a folder. +The submenu which is opened then does contain both options among others. -* Second, they can have an entry at the top called "PL: Random Playlist" which will play all songs in this folder in random order. - - +Moreover the variable DIRECTORY_ADD_PLAYLIST_FILES determines, whether any other playlist files that freevo finds in a directory should be displayed, or not. +Playlists should have the extension 'm3u'. (see PLAYLIST_SUFFIX in local_conf.py) + +There is a plugin which allows to manually create playlists with freevo. +Consult the documentation on [wiki:Self:DocumentationPage/PluginInfo#playlist Playlist Plugin] -To manually create a playlist, consult the documentation on [http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DocumentationPage_2fPluginInfo?action=highlight&value=PleaseUpdate#head-cd95b41f85ddc0922e3fce8844279c55e9e3cdd9 plugins] +While freevo is playing a playlist, you can skip to the next song with DOWN or go back to the last song with UP. = Images = ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Freevo-wikilog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-wikilog
