Gateway M500 Quick start guide

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Using the Gateway M500 Music
Player
You can use the audio system on the M500 to play .MP3 and .WMA files
stored on CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, Secured Digital memory cards, or the hard drive
while your notebook is turned off. You can insert discs and SD memory cards
into the notebook and play them using the Audio Player controls. To play
songs stored on your hard drive, you must store the files on the D: hard
drive, create a playlist, then use the Audio Player controls.
To create the playlist for songs on the hard drive:
1Turn on your notebook.
2Use My Computer or Windows Explorer to copy or move the music files
you want to play to your D: hard drive.
3Click Start, All Programs, SMI Bluebird Playlist Editor, then click
Bluebird Playlist Editor. The Playlist Editor window opens.
Help and
Support
For more information about copying or moving files in
Windows XP, click Start, then click Help and Support.
Type the keyword copying files and folders or moving
files and folders in the Help and Support Search box
, then click the arrow.

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4Click Create. The Create new/Change existing dialog box opens.
5Type the name of the playlist in the Playlist Name box, then click OK.
6Click Add Audio. The Open dialog box opens.
7Click the file you want to add to your playlist (hold down the CTRL key
when you click to select multiple files), then click OK. The songs appear
in the Song Name column.
8If you have more than one playlist, the playlist at the top of the Playlist
Name column is the one that will be played. To set a different playlist to
be the current playlist, click the playlist, then click Set Current. The
highlighted playlist moves to the top of the Playlist Name column.
To play your playlist, CD-R, DVD-R, or SD memory card:
1Turn off your notebook.
2If you are playing a CD-R, DVD-R, or SD memory card, insert the disc or
card.
3Press the AV control panel Power button to turn on the audio system.
4Press the Source button to select the location of your music files. It may
take a few moments for the notebook to recognize a disc.
5Press the Play button. The track number counter will count from 01 to 99.
It will start over at 00 if you have more than 99 songs in your playlist or
on a disc.
Important You cannot specify the order of the songs if you use the
CTRL key method. To specify the song order, add one
song at a time to your playlist.
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