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Show Me How Click for text instructions. How do I play a CD? How do I Import the tracks on a CD into My Library? How do I manually retrieve CD Info for a CD I'm playing? How do I enter CD Info for a CD I'm playing or burning?

Rhapsody offers two custom playback options in the Rhapsody Player controls. Click Shuffle or Repeat to turn that feature on or off.

Shuffle and Repeat can be combined for playback so that the CD (or the track list in the Mixer) will repeat, randomizing the order of playback after each full play-through of the list or CD.

Button			What does it do?
	Shuffle		Plays a CD, playlist, or track list in the Mixer in random order.
	Repeat		Repeats playback of the CD, playlist or track list in the Mixer until manually stopped.

In your CD Importing and Playback Preferences, you can:

• Set Rhapsody to automatically show you the list of tracks on a CD, or to do nothing when a prerecorded CD is inserted.
• Set Rhapsody to automatically retrieve the CD title and track information (CD Info) by looking at information sources on the internet when a prerecorded CD is inserted.
  
  (If you have this option selected and you are offline when you play or import a CD, Rhapsody will store each CD Info request and attempt to retrieve the information the next time you sign in to your Rhapsody account. When you're not connected to the internet, information that was previously retrieved will still be available.)
• Choose the format(encoding and compression formats for files; for example, MP3, RA, AAC) and qualityThe quality of digital sound recordings is dependent on sampling rate (measured in kilobits per second). The higher the sampling rate, the higher the quality. of the files you import from a prerecorded CD into My Library,  so there will never be a conflict with your portable device.
• Choose to use error correction while importing a CD. (Recommended.)
• Eject the CD when importing is complete.

See Audio Formats and Quality for additional information about import formats.

Rhapsody can access all the compatible CD drives installed on your computer. Whenever you insert a prerecorded CD and Rhapsody is running, a CD icon ( ) and the name of the CD (if available) will appear in the Sources area. Click the CD icon to view the contents of the CD in the Display area (below).

From the CD view of the Display area, you can:

• Drag and drop tracks to a blank CD for burning. (Click Burn a CD in the Sources area to open the blank CD view.)
• Play CD tracks from a prerecorded CD.
• Import tracks from a prerecorded CD to My Library.
• Retrieve CD information for a prerecorded CD.
• Edit the CD information for a prerecorded CD, or a CD that you burn.
• Eject the CD from your CD drive.

Viewing CD Contents

In your CD Importing and Playback Preferences, you can set Rhapsody to automatically display the contents of a CD as soon as it is inserted. If that preference is not selected, click the CD icon ( ) in the Sources area (left) to display a CD's contents. All CD drives that contain an audio CD appear in the Sources area. If your CD drive is equipped with a CD burner, you can create your own music CDs. If you have more than one CD burner on your computer, you can choose your default burner in CD Burning Preferences.

Edit CD Info Using Track Info

You can edit the CD information displayed in the CD view of the Display Area using Track Info. To use Track Info, highlight the track you wish to edit, then select Edit Track Info from the right-click menu(menu of alternate commands; available when you click the right mouse button while using an application). CD information changed in Track Info will be retained on the computer on which it was edited.

Buttons in the CD View of the Display Area

Depending on whether you select Burn a CD or a prerecorded CD in the Sources area, different buttons will appear in the Display area.

Button		What does it do?
CD Options		This button appears only in the prerecorded CD view. Click to Get CD Info, View CD Options (opens your CD Importing and Playback Preferences), or Clear CD Info.
		This button appears only in the prerecorded CD view. Click to play the CD.
Eject		This button appears only in the prerecorded CD view. Click to eject the CD from your computer's CD drive.
Import CD		This button appears only in the prerecorded CD view. Click to import tracks from the CD to My Library.
Clear All		This button is available in the Burn a CD view, and only when you are adding tracks to a Burn queue. Click to clear your entire queue. To delete individual tracks from your queue, select the track and press [DELETE] on your keyboard.
Stop Burn		This button is available in the Burn a CD view, and only during the CD burning process. Click to stop your burn. (The CD will no longer be usable.)
Erase CD		This button is available in the Burn a CD view, and only when you have inserted a CD-RWCD-Rewritable. The term can refer to a recording drive on your computer, or a type of CD disc that enables you to write onto it in multiple sessions. Click to erase the contents of the CD-RW. You can then add songs to the disc if you wish, and burn a new CD.

Burning tracks to a CD-RWCD-Rewritable. The term can refer to a recording drive on your computer, or a type of CD disc that enables you to write onto it in multiple sessions. is almost the same as burning tracks to a CD-RCD-Recordable. The term can refer to a recording drive on your computer, or the recordable disks used with the drive. CD-R disks can be recorded only once. If there is no content on the CD-RW, the process is exactly the same.

If there is content on the CD-RW, an Erase Disc button will appear in the CD view of the Display area.

• Click Erase Disc to clear the contents of the CD-RW so you can burn tracks to it.
• Click the Stop Erase button if you wish to stop erasing content from the CD-RW.
  
  Note: Some content may already be erased.
  
  
• Once the disc is clear, click Start Burn.

If Rhapsody does not find the CD InfoRefers to either information associated with a prerecorded CD (such as artist, album, and track names), or information that you add to a prerecorded CD using Track Info. Rhapsody can retrieve CD Info for most commercial CDs. for a CD you are attempting to import or play, you can enter it manually using Track Info. Access Track Info by selecting a track in the CD view of the Display area, then select Edit Track Info from the right-click menu(menu of alternate commands; available when you click the right mouse button while using an application). The next time you play that CD on that computer, the CD Info you entered will be available.

You can also use Edit Track Info to enter CD Info for a custom CD (a CD you have burned) and Track Info in My Library.

• CD Info you enter using the Track Info will be available only on the computer you used to enter that CD's  information. It will not be available if you sign in to your Rhapsody account from another computer.
• If you edit CD Info for a CD using Track Info, then Import tracks from that CD, the CD Info you entered will be retained for the imported tracks, and will appear in My Library.

• Remix them and burn them to CD, creating your own custom discs for every occasion.
• Collect them into playlists, and then burn your playlists to CD.
• Transfer them to a portable player or device, and take them with you wherever you go.  
• Play them with Rhapsody when you are online or offline.

These columns are available in CD view of the Display area.

These columns cannot be removed, and there are no columns to add. You cannot sort columns in the CD view of the Display area.

(import status and track number) Track Artist Time

Note:  To add tracks to My Library from a source other than Rhapsody, you must import the files from your hard drive.

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