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Media player, Music, Playlists

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Media player Media player works as a music player, video player and FM radio all-in-one. You can play music and video clips that are stored on your phone. You can also receive streaming video and music from the Internet. For a list of supported media formats, see Media formats on page 147. You can start the Music player or the FM radio simply by pressing and holding the media player button . For information on how to configure the media player button, see Hardware buttons on page 124. Music Note: Copyright-protection may prevent content from being copied, modified or transferred. If a file is copyright-protected, or if an access key has expired or is unavailable, an icon is displayed at the file name. Select Media player > Music. The first time you open Music, tap the Update button, or select More > Update music with the flip closed, to search the phone memory and the Memory Stick for sound files. This process may take a while, especially if you have a high capacity Memory Stick with a lot of sound files. You can select if this update should be performed automatically each time you open the Media player, or if you want to do it manually. If you select to do it manually, the command Update will be available as a button and in the menu. You can also select which types of sound files an update should search for. See Preferences on page 72. All tracks, including those that do not contain any album or artist information, can be found under Tracks. My recordings contain clips that you have recorded with Sound recorder. To further organize your music files, you can create Playlists. Playlists A playlist is simply a list of links to some of your music files, and it describes which songs to play and in which order. This also means that when you remove a track from a playlist, the sound file itself is not deleted. A playlist can contain links to tracks both in the phone and on a Memory Stick, and you can add a track to more than one playlist. 70 Media player P990i This is the Internet version of the user guide. © Print only for private use.

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Media player
P990i
This is the Internet version of the user guide. © Print only for private use.
Media player
Media player works as a music player, video player and
FM radio all-in-one. You can play music and video clips
that are stored on your phone. You can also receive
streaming video and music from the Internet. For a list
of supported media formats, see
Media formats
on
page 147.
You can start the Music player or the FM radio simply
by pressing and holding the media player button
.
For information on how to configure the media player
button, see
Hardware buttons
on page 124.
Music
Note:
Copyright-protection may prevent content from
being copied, modified or transferred. If a file is
copyright-protected, or if an access key has expired or is
unavailable, an icon is displayed at the file name.
Select
Media player > Music
. The first time you open
Music, tap the
Update
button, or select
More > Update
music
with the flip closed, to search the phone memory
and the Memory Stick for sound files. This process may
take a while, especially if you have a high capacity
Memory Stick with a lot of sound files. You can select if
this update should be performed automatically each time
you open the Media player, or if you want to do it
manually. If you select to do it manually, the command
Update
will be available as a button and in the menu.
You can also select which types of sound files an update
should search for. See
Preferences
on page 72.
All tracks, including those that do not contain any album
or artist information, can be found under
Tracks
.
My recordings
contain clips that you have recorded with
Sound recorder. To further organize your music files,
you can create
Playlists
.
Playlists
A playlist is simply a list of links to some of your music
files, and it describes which songs to play and in which
order. This also means that when you remove a track
from a playlist, the sound file itself is not deleted.
A playlist can contain links to tracks both in the phone
and on a Memory Stick, and you can add a track to more
than one playlist.