Specifications

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• Create a smart playlist—This is a playlist that is created and updated automatically based on certain rules. You could create one
that contained all sources with the word “News” in their name, for example.
• Other Web services—You can access content already stored on common Web services such as Flickr
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and YouTube
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. Over time,
we plan to integrate with many other services this way.
You can try it now. If you have a photo on your PC, for example, or a PDF file, try uploading it to MFLY-X. You can always delete
it later. As you’ve seen in the Content Formats page, some source types need to be handled in particular ways. For instance,
PowerPoint files must be uploaded to our servers if you want them to appear on your MFLY-X box, because the server converts
them to a format that the MFLY-X hardware can understand. Similarly, RSS feeds, by their very nature, are live data and only work
when bookmarked by their URL.
Previewing Sources
Select any content item and click “Preview” to bring up a window showing the content. This works for playlists, videos, Flash,
Web pages, images, and so on. This is helpful if you are trying to remember exactly which version of the presentation you’ve
uploaded, or want to see how the items in a playlist might work together.
CAUTION: The Preview function doesn’t work in Internet Explorer
®
6 or 7.
Managing Playlists
A playlist is a ordered slideshow of content, with each item being displayed for a given duration. You can put multiple sources into
a playlist as a way of creating a running order for when they appear on a screen.
Figure 4-3. Content Management screen.
To create a new playlist, click the “+” button at the bottom of the Library column. To delete a playlist, select it in the Library col-
umn and press the “-” button. To modify a playlist’s name or other attributes, select it in the Library column and then press the
“EDIT” button under the column, or double-click on the playlist in the column.
To add items to a playlist, go to the “All Sources” view, find the source you want in the main panel, and drag it onto the playlist
you want in the Library column. When you do this, the source is added to the end of the playlist with its default duration—for
things like images that don’t have a intrinsic duration of their own, this defaults to 30 seconds, but you can change it.