Niles Audio DMS4 Home Theater Server User Manual


 
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Press and release any Genres listed on the screen and the user
will now be presented will all of the albums for the chosen
Genre.
Fig. 6-12 ICS CONTACT interface: accessing the Genres menu
Years and Eras are listed on the second screen of the Main
Menu, to access the second screen press the PageV button.
Entering YEARS the user is presented with ALL and a list of years
that the albums were originally released in. Eras will present the
user with a list of eras that applies to the music on the DMS4.
Below is a CONTACT screen sample for both years and eras
Menus.
Fig. 6-13 ICS CONTACT interface: the Years and Eras screens
Within the tracks, album, artists, genres, years and eras menus
the user can perform an alphanumeric search for a specific
music title contained on the DMS4. When available the menu
will present the user with an ABC’s button. After pressing the
ABC’s button the user sees an alphanumeric screen where he
can now enter up to 4 characters to refine his search. The user
would press the # button to show the music that starts with non-
alphabetic characters.
Fig. 6-14 ICS CONTACT interface: accessing the alphanumeric menu
In the above example, if the user wanted to find all of the artists
whose first name starts with M, he would press the letter M then
the Enter button. The user interface would then show all artists
that start with M.
PLAYING MUSIC FROM THE DMS4
LIBRARY USING THE IREMOTE
®
OR
DISPLAY USER INTERFACE
The above section detailed how the user would navigate
the menus of the DMS4 using the CONTACT keypad. The
CONTACT is a touch screen interface where the user just
touches his selection on the screen shown. The DISPLAY and
iREMOTE
®
user interfaces have a display area that shows the
metadata and instead of pressing selections on the display
area the end-user uses the menu navigation, soft keys and
alphanumeric hard keys to navigate through the choices in the
display area. For example, to navigate the DMS4 to find and
start playing music from Mark Knopfler the user would press
the soft Key under Menu in the Now playing screen. The
user would then use the UP and DOWN arrows to move the
highlight bar up and down on the listed items in the display
area.
Fig. 6-15 Playing music using the iREMOTE
®
or DISPLAY user interface
When the user has moved the highlight to the item he wants
ARTISTS, the user then presses the SELECT button. Then move
the highlight down on the ARTISTS screen to highlight Mark
Knopfler, press select. The user then moves the highlight down
to the album from that artist and presses select. On the TRACKS
menu the user can press SELECT to choose all of the songs from
that album.
Fig. 6-16 Navigating the Track, Artist and Album menus on the
iREMOTE
®
and DISPLAY user interfaces
Alphanumeric search is also available on the iREMOTE
®
and
DISPLAY keypad. The user can use the alphanumeric hard
buttons like a cell phone by using multiple presses of the 5
number the display area will show “J” and each successive
press of the 5 button cycles through the letters then the number.
(i.e. multiple presses of the 5 button will show the user “J”, “K”,
“L” then “5”) When the user has the letter or number he wants,
he then presses the right arrow to move over to enter the next
letter/number, left arrow to go back 1 character or SELECT to
start the search.