Table of Contents
Chapter 1 :
Welcome !
Chapter 2 :
Installing Virtuosa™
A/
System Requirements
B/
Installation Instructions
C/
Starting Virtuosa
D/
Support
Chapter 3 :
Description of the Menus and Shortcuts
A/
The Main Menu bars
B/
The Music Database window
C/
The Now Playing and Volume/Balance windows
D/
The CD Collection, CD Player and CD R windows
E/
The Playlist windows
F/
Keyboard shortcuts
G/
Options menu
Chapter 4 :
Basic Concepts and Functions
A/
Overview of capabilities
B/
Essential concepts at a glance
C/
How to play and stop a music or movie track?
D/
How to play an Audio CD?
E/
How to change the volume and balance?
F/
How to fast forward and rewind tracks?
G/
How to transfer a track from an Audio CD to your computer (CD Ripping)?
H/
How to make a Playlist or Custom Compilation?
I/
How to remove a track from the Music Database or from your computer?
J/
How to burn a compilation CD with Virtuosa™ (CD Burning)?
Chapter 5 :
Tutorial : Intermediate
A/
How to change the appearance of Virtuosa™ with skins and backgrounds ?
B/
How to extend and resize Virtuosa™ windows ?
C/
How to change the views and zoom effect in the various windows and see more tracks at once ?
D/
How to activate and deactivate the visualization and full-screen video viewing modes ?
E/
How to best adapt the graphic resolution level according to my computer's capabilities ?
F/
How to return to the default window layout ?
G/
What are the detailed differences between the analog and digital transfer modes ?
H/
What is the multiple selection feature within Virtuosa™ ?
I/
How to transfer and encode multiple tracks from an Audio CD automatically ?
J/
How to add, search and import other tracks from your hard disk into the Music Database ?
K/
How to add or download tracks from the Internet into the Music Database ?
L/
How to change the track information in Virtuosa™ ?
M/
How to search for tracks in large collections ?
N/
How to sort tracks ?
O/
How to take advantage of the Style (Genre) and Sub-Style (Subgenre) database structure in making Playlists ?
P/
How to see the number of tracks and total playing time within a window ?
Q/
How to activate and deactivate the Random, Loop and Intro playing modes ?
R/
How to manually indentify Audio CDs online ?
S/
What is the CD Collection window ?
T/
How to prevent people from modifying your playlists by locking the Drag-and-Drop mode ?
Chapter 6 :
Tutorial : Advanced
A/
How to access the Options window ?
B/
How to best choose the compression formats to use less hard disk space while maintaining quality ?
C/
How to convert audio or video tracks between various file formats ?
D/
How to configure the CDDB online Audio CD identification feature ?
E/
How to modify the CD burning options in Virtuosa™ ?
F/
How to control Virtuosa™ via keyboard controls ?
G/
Advanced Playlist concepts
H/
How to add more skins ?
I/
How to add more plugins ?
J/
What are the embedded DRM systems within Virtuosa™ ?
K/
How to move .as sound files from a PC towards a laptop, from a hard disk to another, from a hard disk to a peripheral with Virtuosa™ ?
L/
How to change the default songs, covers, export and temporary folders locations within Virtuosa™ ?
M/
How to import a playlist of files and their related track information in the Music Database in Virtuosa™ ?
N/
How to export a playlist of tracks with or without its related tracks from the Music Database ?
O/
How to drag-and-drop tracks and playlists to external applications and hardware players ?
P/
How to allocate a higher priority to the audio decoding, in order to avoid hickups in the playing ?
Chapter 7 :
Appendixes
A/
SPECIAL FEATURE FOR iTouch™ keyboards from Logitech™ : how to directly play music tracks from your iTouch™ keyboard ?
B/
SPECIAL FEATURE FOR iTouch™ keyboards from Logitech™ : What is the text overlay while playing music tracks within Virtuosa™ ?
C/
Pictures specifications for skins and background screens.