Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 11
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An Unmatched segment is a block of programming in which Snaptune has yet to find any Songs.
Snaptune will likely eventually find content in them if the Unmatched segment contains songs.
To-Be-Matched segments are blocks of programming that Snaptune has not yet searched for songs.
Leave Snaptune running long enough until all To-Be-Matched segments have gone away. You will know
when there are still To-Be-Matched segments when the name of the Snaptune application in the
Application title bar is prefixed with Searching.
When you click on a song in the Playlists view, it will play in the built-in music player. There are a
number of ways to control the Playlists view. At the top middle of this view you will notice a station
selection control. Click on the down arrow to select which station for which you want to display a play
list. Below the station selector you will see a date selection control. Select a date for which you want a
play list displayed. (Note: It is possible to select a date for a radio station that has no recorded content.)
At the top on the left and right hand sides of the Playlists view you will see left and right arrows,
respectively. You can use these to go back or forward a day at a time.
Lastly, there is a check box labeled Songs only. If that box is checked, the Playlists view will not
display Unmatched and To-Be-Matched segments. In addition, while playing songs from the Playlists
view, it will not play any programming between the songs (e.g., DJ or advertisements) if the Songs only
box is checked. It will simply skip from song to song in the chronological order the songs were played on
that station that day. If the Songs only box is not checked, when you click on a song in the Playlists
view, it will start playing from that point in time when the song was played and then play the recording
stream continuously from there, including all the DJ speak, advertisements, etc. If you drag the progress
indicator in the music player, it will automatically highlight the song playing in the play list.
Note: When recording a station 24x7, Snaptune records in 4 hour intervals. So you may notice as you
drag the progress indicator it will not actually span all the songs in the play list. That is because not all of
them may be contained in the same 4 hour interval. You would need to manually select a song outside this
interval.
Songs view
The Songs view, visible when you select the Songs tab at the top of the application, should be familiar
to you. Most media player applications such as Windows Media Player and iTunes have a similar view.
All of the usual sorting and scrolling options are there. To sort on any column simply click the header.
To reverse the sort order, simply click it again. You can even create cascading sorts by clicking the
columns in the order you want. Try clicking Artist then Genre, for example. You should see each Genre
sorted in alphabetical order sorted by Artist.
The Rating column allows you to rate a song and sort all the songs by these ratings. As an added
benefit, songs rated 1 – 3 stars will be deleted last when Snaptune is running out of space. To rate a
song select the first, second or third star for that song. To un-rate a song select the first star and then
select that star again. The Rating column also allows you to hide songs you don’t want to see any more.
If you click on the trash can in the Rating column, Snaptune will hide it from your view. If you decide
later you want to bring it back, just select the Options tab at the top of the application and select the
Show hidden songs button. From there you can unhide any song you’ve hidden.
The Chart column has nothing to do with the normal charts you see for music. This chart is totally
personal to you, to the radio stations and times you have chosen and to this copy of Snaptune. It shows
whether this song has been played more, less or about the same as last week. And, if Snaptune hasn’t
seen this song before (as will be the case for all the songs it just found for you), this column will show
new. If this song was once discovered by Snaptune but was later expired due to space limitations, and
then plays again on the radio, this column will show re-entry. This gives you an easy way to find the
new music that was added to your favorite radio station this week bypassing all of the songs you’ve been
listening to for weeks on end as you drive around.
The Count column similarly shows a totally personal view on how popular each song is on the radio
stations and schedule you record.