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The Contextual Player is displayed at the top of every screen, except for the Settings & Connect screens. The Contextual Player shows you what your Portable is playing. The information includes the song name, artist, upcoming artist, album art and elapsed time.
The top row of the Contextual Player shows you status information:
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Home icon: This is displayed when the Touch Strip is active. It is white when you can go back one screen. It is gray when you cannot.
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Music icon: The Portable displays an icon that corresponds to the type of music it is playing.
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Slacker Radio
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Personal content
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Title: This can display one of three titles:
Name of the Slacker Radio station
Name of your saved playlist
“Current Playlist” if you are playing music from the Library
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USB icon: This is displayed when the Portable is connected to a computer. (Not shown. To left of battery.)
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Wireless icon: This is displayed when the Portable is connected to a Wi-Fi network. (Not shown. To left of battery.)
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Battery icon: This icon always is displayed and shows the battery strength or AC power.
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This is the image of the album cover for the song that is playing. If you are playing your own music and don’t have album art for the song, then the Contextual Player will display the Slacker logo.
TIP: If you scroll up to the album art and click the scroll wheel once, the Portable will display the first Now Playing screen. Keep clicking the scroll wheel to scroll through the various Now Playing views, including Artist Info and Album Info. For details on Now Playing, refer to Change Library View.
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The Contextual Player shows you information about the currently playing song. It provides the song name, artist name, progress bar, and elapsed time. If you pause a song, the word Paused is displayed next to the elapsed time.
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There are icons displayed under the elapsed time. They vary depending upon whether you are playing a Slacker Radio station or personal music files.
| • | Slacker Radio station: Displays a Play/Pause indicator. You cannot scroll to this icon. |
| • | Personal music files: Displays Skip Back, Play/Pause, and Skip Forward icons. You scroll to them and click the scroll wheel to perform the function. You also can use the Pause and Skip Forward buttons on the right side of the Slacker Portable. |
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When you are playing music from the Library or a playlist, the Portable displays a drop-down menu. You scroll to it and click the scroll wheel to access the menu items. To back out of the menu without making a selection, press the Home button. The menu contains the following items.
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The next artist is displayed at the bottom of the Contextual Player, just below the album art. You can scroll to this artist and click the scroll wheel to skip forward to the next song. If there is no next artist - perhaps you are at the end of a playlist, then the Contextual Player will not show this line of text.
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