With Creative MediaSource, you can:

- Manage, create, burn, play, record, search and enhance digital music easily
- Organize and manage your music and MP3 library with features such as quick music search engine, automatic music library import and MP3 tag editing feature.
- Create your own music files with a high quality, full bit rate 320 kbps encoder and 24x accelerated MP3 ripper and burn them to create your own mixes (CDR/CDRW required)
- Playback Dolby Digital audio (AC3), CD-Audio, MP3, WMA and more!
- Provides single click access to EAX ADVANCED HD for music customization or enhancement features

To play WMA, MP3 or CD Audio music:

Creating Your Music Library Easily

One of Creative's considerations when designing the Organizer view in MediaSource was to help those users who have collected huge music libraries to find an individual song, hidden among thousands of others, very quickly.

Music Library Search Engine

The Find feature will retrieve the relevant songs, in seconds, by inputting a simple keyword or two. For example, if you want to look for a song entitled Space Between, just type "Space" in the Find textbox and any song that contains the word space in its title, artist, genre or album field will be displayed.

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Tri-filters

The find feature helps if you already know what to look for. But if you are just browsing through your music library, the tri-filter feature provides a more user-friendly and efficient way to browse. It works by filtering out the Genre, Artist, Albums you do not want to view, a stage at a time.

- To open the tri-filter window, click on the icon, located just right of the Find textbox and the filter window will be displayed. You can choose to display 1,2 or 3 filters by clicking the down arrow. (See picture below)

- If you want to look for some Funk music. Click Funk in the Genre filter window, and only the Funk artists and albums will be displayed in the main track window. To narrow the display further, you can select a particular funk artist, say "Dave Matthews Band". You will then see all the tracks by "Dave Matthews Band" in the main track window.

- If you proceed downwards to select a particular album, the main track window will be updated and will display only the tracks from the selected album

- This feature is only available in the PC Music Library view and requires your songs to be imported into the PC Music Library with correct & valid tag information.

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If you want to:

-listen only to new songs added in the last month
-listen to your favourite tracks
-listen to tracks that you haven't heard in a while
-fit exactly 1 hour of music onto a device
-listen only to songs whose tempo is 95bpm (beats per minute)

Smart Playlist makes all the above scenarios simple to handle! It remembers how often you play a song and when you last played it and allows you to give each song a rating. This information along with the genre, artist and album data allows Smart Playlist to automatically generate playlists that match your exact requirements (such as your favorite songs, recently-added songs, unheard songs, old favorites, etc)

You can also auto generate playlists that based on tempo (i.e. how fast or slow a song is). For instance, you can automatically generate "1 hr of your favorite dance music" or "all songs whose tempo is 95bpm". To achieve this the Music Analyzer utility need to perform a once-over analysis of all your songs for tempo information and dependant on the size of your library and the speed of your machine this could take anything from a few minutes to a few hours. To analyze your songs go to the Tools menu and select Analyze Music.

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There are two pre-requisites before Smart Playlist can work:

- You need to import all your music files into the PC Music Library.
- Metadata such as Genre, Artist, Album, My ratings and Tempo should be present and correct.

To start you off, Creative MediaSource has included 12 default Smart Playlist Presets:

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For example, if you click on New - Songs added in the past month, all the songs you've just added in the past month will appear. If you try this again one and a half months later, you should see only the latest additions.