Sony Ericsson P990i - Manual (Page 29)

White Paper P990i
29 January 2006
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Entertainment/multimedia
Media player
From the Media player the user can access four
media functions:
• Music
Select to access music tracks. Songs may be
collected in numerous ways, including Internet
download, file transfer from the PC and via the
Memory Stick™.
Music can be organize and listen to on the
P990i. Music is grouped by Album, Artist and
track in the music library. The Tracks view dis-
plays all the music available. Tracks can be
added to the music library manually.
• Video
Select to access video clips.
• Radio
Select to launch the FM radio. See “FM radio”
on page 33 for more details.
• Online
Access saved bookmarks to music and video’s.
The Media Player can be used in flip open and flip
closed. Only the FM radio and Music applications
are available for use in flip closed.
The Media player features an equalizer with prede-
fined settings like MegaBass, Pop, Classical. It
supports different audio and video formats,
streaming, download and playback.
The Media player is intelligently aware of other
applications in P990i, playback is paused when a
telephone call is made or received.
You can play and pause the Media player from flip
closed.
Any recording made on the phone can be played
using the Media player.
Playlists
One of the most central Media player features is
the use of playlists. This feature allows users to
create their own ‘collections’ of songs and gives
easy access them. It is possible to create, sort or
manage playlists using audio files that are stored
on the Memory Stick or in the phone memory.
To avoid including ringtones in the music library
you can specify content that should be excluded.
Pre installed ringtones are already placed in a sep-
arate ringtone folder.
Play modes
The Media player has two different play modes:
shuffle and loop.
• Shuffle plays a randomly selected file from the
current playlist. Played files are de-selected and
not repeated.
• Loop restarts the playlist when the last item in
the list is reached.
DRM protection
In P990i the following types of DRM protection are
used: FWL (forward lock), CD (Combined Delivery)
and SD (Separate Delivery). All protection types
can be applied on MP3, AAC and MPEG4 files. See
“DRM” on page 47 for more details.
All protection types can be applied to all types of
multimedia content such as audio, video, images
and Java midlets.
Ringtones
Ringtones can be played in the Media player. Any
file in a supported audio format can be used as a
ringtone as long the operator has not disabled that
format for ringtone use.
Ringtones can be downloaded using PlayNow™ or
created using MusicDJ™.