Music

General settings

• Player

  Choose between BASS engine and Internal dshow player. BASS engine gives you better technology than DirectSound, and a lot of music formats are supported by default, like FLAC and AAC.

  • BASS engine: - Default
  • Internal dshow player

• Sound Device
  Choose which soundcard you want to use when playing music, or Default Sound Device to follow the Windows settings.

Playback settings (BASS player only)

• Output level - Default: 85
  Change the maximum output level here. Lower the value if you hear any distortion.

• Upmix stereo to 5.1/7.1 - Default: Off
  Selecting this option will allow you to hear music on all of the speakers even if the music is only stereo.

• Fade-in on start / fade-out on stop - Default: Off
  Selecting this will slowly start and stop the music volume.

• Gapless playback - Default: Off
  When selecting this option, no silence is heard between two tracks.

• Cross-fading: - Default: 4.00
  Cross-fading mixes the next song into the current song. The amount of seconds changes the time the two songs are heard simultaneously.

• Bufering: - Default: 5.00
  Buffering is the amount of seconds MediaPortal reads ahead to avoid stuttering. Change if you experience any stuttering.

OK / Enter / Select Button

• Play  (default) - use the Enter key to play tracks (the same as the play button)\
• Queue - to add tracks for the selected item (track, artist or album) to the playlist
• Add all tracks to playlist - Default: on
  If you are browsing a list of tracks (eg. an album) this option determines whether clicking play or Enter / OK will add all tracks to the playlist or only the selected track

Jump To Behaviour

• Jump on "Play now"  - default = None 
• Select the behavior you prefer when pressing the Play button remote (this is not the same button as the OK button)
  • None - Pressing play will: play song (this is the same action as the OK button on an MCE remote)
  • Now Playing [always]  - Pressing play will: play the song and jump to the playing now screen
  • Now Playing [if multiple items] - Pressing play will: play the song and jump to the playing now screen if there are more songs in the playlist
  • Current playlist [always] - Pressing play will: Jump to the playing now screen
  • Current playlist [if multiple items] - Pressing play will: Jump to the playing now screen if there are more songs in the playlist
  • Fullscreen [always] (internal player only) - Pressing play will: Jump to the fullscreen showing the selected visualizations if enabled
  • Fullscreen [if multiple items] - Pressing play will: Jump to the fullscreen showing the selected visualizations if enabled if there are more songs in the playlist

Note: The controls in this section determine what happens when you press Play and Enter / OK when browsing music.

Dynamic content (Internet Lookups)

• Disable internet lookups for cover art - Default: on
  MediaPortal will not automatically look for CD covers on the internet
• Disable internet lookups for best album tracks - Default: on
  MediaPortal will not automatically look for the best album tracks on the internet
• Disable internet lookups for track suggestions - Default: on
  MediaPortal will not automatically look for track suggestions (which display as "Other tracks tagged with" on the internet
• Switch artist on internet lookup. i.e. LastName, Firstname -> FirstName Lastname - Default: off
  Use this option if your artists are stored in LastName, FirstName format and you want to submit tracks to last.fm

Visualization options

• Show visualization - Default: off
  This setting enables or disables visualization display, but is only supported when using the default BASS player
  Visualizations must also be enabled on the Visualiztions tab (see below)

VUMeter (BASS player only)

MediaPortal supports the display of VU (Volume Unit) Meters on the Now Playing screen but only when using the default BASS player. 

These are very similar to the VU Meters. or volume indicators, often included in audio equipment to display a signal level in Volume Units.

• None
  No VU Meter is displayed - the skin uses MyMusicPlayingNow.xml
• Analog
  Displays an anlog VU meter - the skin uses MyMusicPlayingNowAnVU.xml
  
• LED
  Displays a LED (light-emitting diode) VU Meter - the skin uses MyMusicPlayingNowLedVU.xml
  

Playlist Settings

• Playlist folder - Default: <windows (My) Documents folder>\\My Playlists
  Here you specify the place to store your playlists.
  Tip: Select a different folder than the one you use for video playlists so you can view only your music playlists in MediaPortal
• Repeat/loop music playlists (m3u. b4, pls) - Default: off
  When you want MediaPortal to continuously play your playlist, check this option.
• Auto shuffle playlists - Default: off
  When you want to shuffle the playlist after it loads, check this option.
• Save playlist as default when leaving MediaPortal - Default: on
  This option will save your playlist and show it as it was when you leave the playlist screen
• Load default playlist on MediaPortal startup - Default: on
  If you exit Music to do something else and after that re-enter Music, the last playlist is resumed
• Playlist screen shows current playlist - Default: on