The AT&T digitalphono music player is a new CD-quality audio product for the PC. In contrast to the CD player on your PC, which plays music from CDs inserted into your CD-ROM unit, the digitalphono music player manages and plays compressed and encrypted digtalphono music files stored on your disk. This product offers new technology to the music industry, opening your horizons to downloadable music from our digitalphono music Store World Wide Web site music page and enabling you to turn your PC into a true music server. 

The key to enabling timely downloading and efficient storage of music on a PC is AT&T's audio compression technology, which reduces the size of an audio file without sacrificing sound quality. AT&T's encryption technology is utilized to ensure the security of your music download. Finally, AT&T's PolicyMaker trust system provides you a unique digital identification and licensing management to protect not only you but also the recording artists. 

The digitalphono music player provides options which enable you to create customized song playlists, thus creating your own virtual song collection for custom playing. Music downloaded from the digitalphono music Store, in addition to containing CD-quality compressed audio, also contains text and art which            enable the digitalphono music player to deliver a rich musical experience on your home or office PC. 

operating the player 

 The digitalphono music player is operationally much like your PC's CD player application, Volume Control application, and File Manager application all rolled into one. Play Selection enables you to play through song or a collection of songs in the order you desire from digitalphono music files chosen with            the File Menu Bar tab. You can adjust Volume Control easily within our application; Song Control lets you skip over parts of a song or move to the next track in a playlist. 

The digitalphono music player, in addition to providing CD-quality audio, also provides visual information. In the center of the expanded digitalphono music player window you can select one of the Display Setting buttons to see the CD cover, song lyrics, or credits. 

important note: 

The digitalphono music player only plays music downloaded from the digitalphono music Store or other digitalphono music partners. See the Help section on Downloading Music for more information. 
 
display setting 

The three green buttons dictate what is shown in the center of the digitalphono music player (in the Figure above it is Art). The center area contains the digitalphono music logo if no song is currently loaded. Otherwise, you can select one of the three buttons: 

• credits 
• lyrics 
•  art 

play selection 

The seven red buttons along the bottom of the player provide the standard functionality of a tape/CD player for play selection of the loaded song. From left to right they are: 

• Play 
• Pause 
• Stop 
• Previous track 
• Fast forward 
• Next track 

The slider with a red button in the top right hand corner of the player changes the volume. You can move it up or down to increase/decrease the current volume for your speaker or headset output. You can also click on the speaker icon to mute the volume. 
 
song control  

The slider along the lower right hand side of the player governs where you are on the current song track. You can grab it with the mouse and move forward or backward in the song. In addition, the Fast forward and Rewind buttons provide similar functionality. 
 
menu bar 

Pull-down menus are provided within the digitalphono music player to provide one with a full spectrum of operations requisite for playing music. See the Help section on Playing Music for more information on when and how to use these menus. 
 
the file tab  

• Open - loads a song or playlist into the player 
• Close - unloads a song or playlist from the player 
• Playlist Manager - create/edit playlists 
• Recent Songs - selection list of songs or playlists recently opened 
• Exit - closes the player window 

• Preferences -general and directory options 
• Expanded - full player display 
• Collapsed - collapsed player display (see below) 
• Auto Play - continuous play 
• Mute Volume - or click on the speaker icon 

• Loop - loop continuously through all tracks in a song or all songs in a playlist 
• Shuffle - play songs randomly 
• Repeat - repeat current song 
• Intro - play the first 10 seconds of this song (you can modify this in User Preferences) 

• Artwork - show CD cover in center 
• Credits - show credits in center 
• Lyrics - show lyrics in center 

• Contents - brings up your browser with our local player Help pages 
• Technical Support - brings up your browser with the digitalphono music website 
• About digitalphono music player - brings up the About box, with information about the product and your PC characteristics. 

 

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