ADS Technologies RDX-155-EF User manual

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Getting Started with Snaptune™ One
ADS Instant FM Music™ Edition
August, 2006

Table of Contents
Getting started with Snaptune One....................................................................................................1
System requirements....................................................................................................................1
Audio sources...............................................................................................................................1
ADS Technologies Instant FM Music™.........................................................................................2
Web radio.................................................................................................................................2
Line-in audio sources.................................................................................................................2
Installation and configuration.........................................................................................................3
Installing the Snaptune software.................................................................................................3
Configuring Snaptune ................................................................................................................3
Snaptune is now running............................................................................................................7
Using Snaptune One ........................................................................................................................9
Exploring music.......................................................................................................................... 10
Playlists view........................................................................................................................... 10
Songs view ............................................................................................................................. 11
Two types of songs – with or without........................................................................................ 12
Playing music............................................................................................................................. 12
Back to basics ............................................................................................................................ 13
OnAir page ............................................................................................................................. 13
Record page ........................................................................................................................... 15
Options page .......................................................................................................................... 15
The right hand side ................................................................................................................. 16
Buy CD panel....................................................................................................................... 16
Buy Song panel.................................................................................................................... 16
More Info panel ................................................................................................................... 17
Edit Song panel.................................................................................................................... 18
Exporting Shows from Snaptune ..................................................................................................19
Controlling Snaptune from the task tray........................................................................................ 19
The Snaptune recording service................................................................................................... 20
International support .................................................................................................................. 20
Contacting Snaptune...................................................................................................................... 21

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Getting started 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 Snaptune works.
Snaptune shows you the music it found on the radio
System requirements
•Audio Sources:
oAn ADS Technologies Instant FM Music connected to a USB port on your PC, and
oInternet connection for Web Radio Recording
•A minimum of 1GB (5GB recommended) of free disk space
•1GHz CPU, 256MB RAM (512MB recommended)
•Windows XP or Windows XP Media Center Edition Service Pack 2 or later (Including
Windows Vista)
•Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (this will be installed if not currently installed on your PC)
•Windows Media Player 10.0 or higher
•An Internet connection if you want to use Web Radio Stations or if you want the songs
identified and have access to associated information (e.g., album art, reviews, etc.)
Audio sources
Snaptune needs an audio source. Snaptune provides a number of ways to receive audio streams. They
include Web Radio, PC-based radio tuners and line-in.

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ADS Technologies Instant FM Music™
The ADS Technologies Instant FM Music is an FM radio 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 tuners to a particular radio station based on the schedule you provide.
Web radio
Snaptune provides the capability to pause, rewind and record Web radio stations. Along with this
capability is a directory of Web radio stations Snaptune is known to work well with. Snaptune also works
well with many other Web radio stations, including Shoutcast™ stations.
Snaptune’s Web Radio Directory
Line-in audio sources
Your input here can be any audio device when connected to your PC’s line-in jack with a 3.5mm cable
like the one shown below.

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Our web site at http://www.snaptune.com/snaptuneone/help/hardware.htm explains 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, but because they are typically moved around and powered off
frequently it will be harder for Snaptune to consistently record the radio and you may miss songs and
shows that you wanted to hear. If your laptop spends less than half its time recording radio broadcasts,
we recommend you find another PC on which to try Snaptune.
Installing the Snaptune software
1. Plug the Instant FM Music into any USB port on your PC.
2. Insert the Instant FM Music software CD into your PCs CD-ROM drive. If setup does not start
automatically, do the following:
• Click the Start button, and the click Run.
• Type [drive]:setup. For example, if your CD drive is D, type d:setup.
3. Follow the setup Wizard instructions on your screen to install Snaptune One. You will see the
following window.
4. It will prompt, if necessary, for you to install any necessary updates to Windows including
the .NET 1.1. Framework if you do not already have it. It will also install the Snaptune One
Jumpstart packs.
5. Once the installation has completed run Snaptune for the first time.
Configuring Snaptune
On first run, Snaptune will walk you through the process of getting started and selecting an initial radio
station to record.

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First, Snaptune provides a brief introduction.
Click Next.
After this brief introduction, Snaptune asks for your location. It will use this to provide an accurate and
up-to-date list of radio stations in your area. Snaptune Inc.’s current radio station database covers USA,
Canada, and the UK. Users anywhere else in the world can still use Snaptune but they will need to enter
their own radio presets. Snaptune Inc. hopes to include data for other countries in the future.
Note: the list of radio stations shown below the ZIP code field is for information only at this point to
confirm that you entered the correct location. Later, Snaptune will ask you to pick a station to record.

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Click Next.
Snaptune next needs to know where you want to store the recordings it will make.
Initially Snaptune shows you just a single 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 each. So if your C:
drive is almost full, but you have a brand new 500GB E: drive, Snaptune will do the right thing and you
can just hit Next. Review the selection and choose a more appropriate location if the one selected by
Snaptune is not appropriate.
Note: You cannot select a network drive (e.g., a PC network share or network attached storage device)
for the location of your recording files.
Click Next.
In the next screen, Snaptune asks you to set a limit on how much disk space it will consume.

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Continuously recording radio can consume a significant chunk of disk space. Each week of radio
recording will consume about 5 GB of disk space. Stations play approximately 200 songs per day
depending upon the station format. So a week’s worth of recordings will contain about 1400 songs (not
all unique, of course, since songs repeat on the radio). For this walkthrough we recommend you allocate
at least 5GB of space.
When it reaches the limit you set it will first start deleting old recording files. Then, if it still cannot make
enough free space it will stop recording and issue a warning.
Note: You can prevent Snaptune from deleting songs you like by Rating those songs. We will explore this
topic a little later.
Click Next.
At this point, Snaptune will display a radio. From here you can select which source you’d like to record
from: FM or Web.

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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 frequency. Before clicking
Next make sure the reception sounds good. If it does not, try moving your radio or its antenna until
reception improves. Poor radio reception will interfere with the effectiveness of Snaptune One, limiting
the number of songs it finds and/or identifies.
For Web, you should select the radio button next to Web. At this point, you should create a preset for
the web radio station you wish to record. To start with, we recommend you select a Web radio station
from the directory we’ve provided. Listen to the Web station for a while to make sure it’s playing
properly.
Note: Sometimes there will be a noticeable delay before you hear the audio after tuning into a Web radio
station. Watch the tuner status at the top to see if there is a problem connecting.
Click Next.
Snaptune is now running
Congratulations, you’ve completed the setup process. At this point you can go to work, go to bed, go
watch a movie or do whatever else you want to do because it will take a while for Snaptune to record
enough radio to start finding songs.
But before you go, check the tray icon for Snaptune.
It should show a pulsing red musical symbol like you see here. If it’s not red, then Snaptune isn’t
recording, so make sure it is red and pulsing gently.
Right-click on the Snaptune tray icon and select Hear what’s recording. Select the source Snaptune is
recording and you should hear your radio station. Right-click, select Hear what’s recording again and
Quiet to turn if off. Now you can go do whatever else you need to get done and we’ll see you again in
eight hours time. Better still, keep reading and we’ll explain what you’ll be able to do when you come
back.

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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 Snaptune will keep recording. But remember, Snaptune One can only find
new music in those recordings when the Snaptune One application is running. So be sure to start it up
again or leave it running whenever you can. If you don’t run it for a while you will notice that when you do
it has a lot of catching up to do and your computer will be very active for a while. You can keep working
while it is searching for new music, the tray icon will alert you whenever it finds a new song.
It will probably be around eight hours before the first songs start to show up. They appear slowly at first,
but then as Snaptune learns the patterns for your radio station the find rate accelerates such that you
should have several hundred after the first week and within a few months you might have several
thousand. A little patience at this point will pay off.