Specifications

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Understanding Media Types

Viewing items from a Folder in your web browser

When you create a Folder of items, you may wish to view individual items to test them. To view a single media item in your

web browser, follow theses steps:

1. Select Media from the menu bar and then select Files and Folders.

2. Navigate through the folders and files to the content item you want to see.

3. Click the item to display it in your web browser.

Some items such as videos may take a considerable time to download and display. Some media items may not be

supported on your PC.

3.2.8.1 Folder Play properties

You can define the following properties for a Folder Play:

Management

When Ad hoc Management is enabled, the iCOMPEL plays the media files in the specified Ad hoc Folder, and if this

directory contains no suitable media files the iCOMPEL plays the contents of the Media Folder instead.

An Ad hoc User may modify files in the Ad hoc Folder using the Media Folder page in the Ad hoc Customization

section.

If the iCOMPEL is a Subscriber , then only media files in the Media Folder are replaced during Subscription. Media in the

Ad hoc Folder is left unchanged. This mechanism allows local media content to be used by the Subscriber.

Item Selection

You can determine how media items are selected from files in a folder:

Play all Items - the iCOMPEL plays every supported media item in the folder for the specified duration. The media items

are selected sequentially (alphabetically based on filename or randomly, depending on the Select Items setting).

Play only the first n items - the iCOMPEL plays the first n media items. Media items are sorted alphabetically based

on filename then picked sequentially or randomly, depending on the Select Items setting. This option means some items

are not played.

Play all Items in groups of n items - the iCOMPEL plays all items in a random order, but ensures that each media

item is played the same number of times, by stepping through each group of items in turn.

Example

You can combine Folder Play properties to create sequences that meet specific requirements. For example, you may

wish to set up a Playlist that showed a sequence of music videos in a fixed order, and between each video show two

randomly selected advertisements followed by a corporate logo for a fixed time.

To create this sequence of folders, follow these steps.

1. Create three folders on the iCOMPEL as follows:

Music