Sources Area

Sources area item

What can I do with it?

Music Guide

Click Rhapsody Music Guide to view the Music Guide, where you can find over two million streaming tracks. From the Music Guide pages, you can also access:

• What's New, a page that presents the latest and hottest music and videos on Rhapsody.
• Playlist Central, an online community for Rhapsody users.
• The Channel Guide, where you can listen to commercial-free streaming Rhapsody Channels, live internet radio stations, and even create your own custom Rhapsody Channels.
• My Rhapsody, your personalized Rhapsody page.

My Library

Click My Library to view the contents of My Library, your Rhapsody music collection.
 

Drag and drop the following items to My Library to add them to your collection:

• Tracks and albums from the Music Guide.
• Playlists and tracks from playlists in Playlist Central.
• Playlists and tracks from playlists from your collection in the Playlists area.
• Tracks and albums from My Rhapsody.
• Tracks from the Mixer.

My Channels

Click My Channels to view the Rhapsody Channels and live radio stations you have added to your personal collection from the Channel Guide pages, and custom stations you have created.

Drag and drop Channels and stations from the Channel Guide pages to My Channels, or click   beside the Channel name to add them to your collection.

a prerecorded CD

When you insert a prerecorded CD into your computer's CD drive(s), a CD icon ( ) along with the CD name (if available) will appear in the Sources area. If you insert multiple CDs into multiple drives, each CD will appear in the Sources area separately.

Click a CD name to view the contents of the CD in the Display area. From the CD view, you can play the CD or import it to your Library.

Burn a CD

When you insert a blank 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. or 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. into your computer's CD drive, Burn a CD becomes active. Drag and drop the following items to Burn a CD to create a burn queue:

• Tracks and albums from My Library.
• Tracks and albums from the Music Guide.
• Playlists and tracks from playlists in Playlist Central.
• Playlists and tracks from playlists from your collection in the Playlists area.
• Tracks and albums from My Rhapsody.
• Tracks from the Mixer.

Click Burn a CD to view your burn queue. You can add, delete, or change the order of tracks in the burn view of the Display area before you actually start your burn.
 

Note: Streaming(large audio or video file that is broken into smaller pieces and transferred from a server piece by piece, so it can be viewed immediately rather than waiting for the whole file to be downloaded) and downloaded Rhapsody tracks will need to be purchased before they can be burned to a CD.

a portable device

When you attach a portable player or device to your computer, the portable device icon ( ) and name will appear in the Sources area. You can drag and drop tracks and albums to the device name, or choose to automatically transfer the local(computer resources such as drives or files that are part of a computer, or available on a Local Area Network; music files located on your computer's hard drive(s) are referred to as "local") contents of My Library to the device each time you sign in.

Drag and drop the following items to your portable device in the Sources area to add them to the device:

• Tracks and albums from My Library.
• Tracks and albums from the Music Guide.
• Playlists and tracks from playlists in Playlist Central.
• Playlists and tracks from playlists from your collection in the Playlists area.
• Tracks and albums from My Rhapsody.
• Rhapsody Channels  from the Channel Guide pages.*
• Tracks from the Mixer.

Click your portable device to view manage the contents of the device.

If you have a Rhapsody MP3 Player and you have marked tracks on it for purchase, the Purchase Bin ()will appear in this area. Click the Purchase Bin to view the tracks you have saved there. You can choose to purchase any, all, or none of the tracks.
 

*You must have a Rhapsody to Go membership and a Rhapsody MP3 Player to transfer Rhapsody Channels to your device. A transferred Rhapsody Channel will over three hours of music onto your Rhapsody MP3 Player, and the Channel will be updated with fresh content each time you connect your device to your computer while signed in to your Rhapsody account.

Note: If you do not have a Rhapsody to Go membership, streaming tracks and downloaded Rhapsody tracks will need to be purchased before transfer.