Chapter 20 . Playing Music and Video 519 (Web site construction)
Saturday, May 5th, 2007Chapter 20 . Playing Music and Video 519 the current directory. To add audio files from your file system, browse your files and directories and click the same buttons to add the audio files you want. Select Close. 5. Click the Play List button (the tiny button marked PL) on the console. A Playlist Editor window appears. 6. Double-click the music file, and it starts to play. 7. With a file selected and playing, here are a few actions you can take: Control play Buttons for controlling play are what you would expect to see on a standalone CD player. From left to right, the buttons let you go to a previous track, play, pause, stop, go to the next track, and eject the CD. The eject button opens a window, enabling you to load the next file. Adjust sound Use the left slider bar to adjust the volume. Use the right slider bar to change the right-to-left balance. Display time Click in the elapsed time area to toggle between elapsed time and time remaining. View file information Click the button in the upper-left corner of the screen to see the XMMS menu. Then select View File Info. You can often find out a lot of information about the file: title, artist, album, comments, and genre. For an Ogg Vorbis file, you can see specific information about the file itself, such as the format, bit rate, sample rate, frames, file size, and more. You can change or add to the tag information and click Save to keep it. 8. When you are done playing music, click the Stop button to stop the current song. Then click the X in the upper-right corner of the display to close the window. Special features of the XMMS audio player let you adjust frequencies using a graphic equalizer and gather and play songs using a Playlist Editor. Click the button marked EQ next to the balance bar on the player to open the Equalizer. Using the Equalizer The Equalizer lets you use slider bars to set different levels to different frequencies played. Bars on the left adjust lower frequencies, and those on the right adjust higher frequencies. Click the EQ button to open the Equalizer. Here are tasks you can perform with the Equalizer: . If you like the settings you have for a particular song, you can save them as a Preset. Set each frequency as you like it and click the Preset button. Then choose Save.Preset. Type a name for the preset and click OK. . To reload a preset you created earlier, click the Preset button and select Load.Preset. Select the preset you want and click OK.
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