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© Snaptune Inc., 2006 Getting Started with Snaptune™ One ADS Instant FM Music™ Edition August, 2006[...]

Table of Contents Getting started with Snaptune One .............................................................................................. ...... 1 System requ iremen ts ............................................................................................................ ........ 1 Audio so urces .....................................[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 1 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Getting st arted with Snaptune One This guide explains how to install and run Snaptune One. It includes a guided tour with screen shots and captions to help you understand how Sn aptune works. Snaptune shows you the mu sic it found on the radio System requirements • Audio Sources: o [...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 2 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 ADS Technologies Instant FM Music™ The ADS Technologies Instant FM Music is an FM ra dio which connects to a standard USB port on your PC. Using an Instant FM Music provides Snaptune with significant capabilities since Snaptune can automatically tune one of these tu ners to a particu[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 3 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Our web site at http://www.snaptune.c om/snaptuneone/help/hardware.htm e xplains all of the available options. Installation and configuration We recommend that you install Snaptune on a desktop PC that can be left on all day long every day of the week. Snaptune works on laptops too, bu[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 4 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 First, Snaptune provides a brief introduction. Click Next . After this brief introduction, Snaptune asks for your lo cation. It will use this to provide an accu rate and up-to-date list of radio stations in your area. Snaptune Inc.’s current radio station database covers USA, Canada,[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 5 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Click Next . Snaptune next needs to know where you want to store the recordi ngs it will make. Initially Snaptune shows you just a singl e choice – the best location it has found . It does this by scanning all of your hard drives to locate free space and a suitable subdirectory on ea[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 6 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Continuously recording radio can consum e a significan t chunk of disk space. Each week of radio recording will consume about 5 GB of disk space. S tations play approximately 200 songs per day depending upon the station format. So a week’s worth of recordings will contain about 1400 [...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 7 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 You can choose between FM or Web by selecting the “radio” button next to the medium you wish to record. For FM select the FM radio button and then select a preset or specific fr equency. Before clicking Next make sure the reception sounds good. If it do es not, try moving your radi[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 8 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Note: At this point you can close the main Snaptune application. You can even logout of your PC, so long as you don’t power it off, and Snaptu ne will keep recording. But remember, Snaptune One can only find new music in those recordings when the Snaptune One ap plication is running [...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 9 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Using Snaptune One Once Snaptune has found some new songs for you, se lect the tab at the top of the application labeled Songs and click on one of thos e songs. It should be gin playing over your speakers and you should see something like the picture below. Well, you might not have 2 8[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 10 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 radio-play edit too, and the live-session they did on your local station, and perh aps an interview with them that aired last month. If you do see what appears to be a dupli cate in the Songs view, listen carefully: chances are it is a different version of the song that Sn aptune has [...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 11 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 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 Unm atched segment contains songs. To-Be-Matched segments are blocks of programming that Sn aptune has not yet searc hed for songs. L[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 12 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 The Date column shows you the date a song was last played across all st ations on which it’s been found. Tip: If you click on a song in the Date column, it will take you to the Playlists view the most recent time it played on the radio. You can copy lists of songs directly from the [...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 13 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 There are, however, a few unique features about the Snaptune m edia player. First, we show the date and time below the progress co ntrol. This is the actual date and time of the radio show you are currently listening to. This c omes in handy if, for example, you hear som ething on NPR[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 14 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 The preset FM radio stations listed here were found when you told Snap tune w here you are located. So if entered “90210” and don’t live there, click on the Options tab now and go change it. If you are worried about privacy issues, check our extensive privacy policy online and d[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 15 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Record page On the record tab you can create custom recording schedules allowing you to multiplex a single tuner across multiple stations or to record a sp ecific show at a specific time on a specifi c station. You can even simultaneously record multi p le station s using We b radio, [...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 16 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 The right hand side When the Songs view or Playlists view is selected the right hand side co ntains a series of tabs you can select. These relate to the song you’ve selected, so go ahead and click on a son g now. You should see something like the picture below. Buy CD pan el With th[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 17 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Click on the arrow right of the Song, Artist or Title and you can purchase that from iTunes. Th e same goes for clicking on the cover of an Album in this view, if one is available. This f eature requires that you have Apple iTunes 4.9 or later installed on your comput er. Again, make [...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 18 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Edit Song panel With the Edit Song tab selected you can add or correct the me tadata for any song you see in the Songs or Playlists view. You can edit the song Artist, Title, and Genre. You al so have easy access to a search engine if you need to check that you’ve tagged the song co[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 19 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Tip: Snaptune will make multiple attempts to identify ea ch song it finds. However, if a song has not been identified by Snaptune within about 2 weeks, it wi ll no longer try. We encourage you to enter the information if you know the identity of the song. This will benefit all Snapt u[...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 20 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 When Snaptune is recording the icon is red and pulses ge ntly. If it is not r ecording the icon will be blue and you need to check your schedule to see if it should be recording or make more disk spac e available if that is the reason it has stopped recording. Right click on the tray [...]

Getting Started with Snaptune One Page 21 © Snaptune Inc., 2006 Cont acting Snaptune By now you should have a good idea ab out what Sn aptune One is and how you can use it to discover new music to buy. Please use the following to contact Snaptune Inc: Company web site: www.snaptune.com General info email: info@snaptune. com Support email: support@[...]