Jhana Music Portal User Manual

8/6/2019 Jhana Music Portal User Manual

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USER MANUAL

JHANA MUSIC PORTAL SOFTWARE

MAC & PC

J H A N A M U S I C P O R T A L

J h a n a M u s i c G r o u p w w w : j h a n a m u s i c . c o m 2011


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Overview

The Jhana Music Portal is an web integrated application that allows you to organize your 5.1 surround music files

and albums that you purchase from Jhana Music Group into libraries and playlists. Using the Portal, you can, play

your 5.1 surround music files directly from the Portal in both stereo or 5.1 surround either in your computer or exter-

nally to your home theater system - or you can create and burn your own DVD music albums that will play in any

DVD or BluRay player.

Jhana Portal windows and buttons:

Browser

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Hide/Closeforward/back

Navigation/Burn ImagePlaylists/Dis

Library window Audio Menu Playback/Transport Playlist window


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Installation: Mac or PC:

Double click on the Jhana Music Portal Installer and follow the prompts to install your software.

Important - On a Mac:

The Mac version of the Jhana Music Portal installer places a small file titled sense.txt on the

root level of your hard drive. This file is necessary for the Portal to function correctly. Do not

move or delete it. If this file is moved or deleted, the Portal will not function properly.

SET UP:

Let's start with the buttons you need to set up first:

"Audio" Menu button

Clicking on the Audio button opens your Audio set up menu. Before using the Portal you will need to set up thismenu. You will be setting three things: 1 - your audio outputs, 2 - the location of your file libraries and temp files,and 3 - which CD/DVD burner in your computer you will use to burn DVD albums. The Mac version looks like this:


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The PC version will look like this:

Audio Outputs:

Note the "Audio Output Device" on the upper left side. This is where you set the outputs of your computer fromwhich the Portal will play audio from the built in player. There are three sets of two channel outputs. Left/Right -Center/Lfe (low frequency effects channel) - and Left Rear/Right Rear (left surround/right surround) Each set ofoutput pairs has a pull down menu. Pull down the menu and you will see the possible outputs available in yourcomputer for that pair of outputs. If you want to listen to your 5.1 surround music files on your computer in stereohave a stereo sound card, assign each output as follows for Mac or PC:


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For Mac: Listening in stereo:

Set only the first pair of outputs L/R to Built-In Output. Set the other outputs to None. Make sure the DecodeAC3 Files is checked so that the files will play in your computer. The Portal will down-mix your 5.1 files to stereo.

For PC: Listening in Stereo:

Set all three of the output pairs to the same audio output. Make the Enable AC3 Decode box is checked so the Por-tal can play your files. The Portal will down-mix your 5.1 files to stereo.

For Mac: Listening in 5.1 surround:

To listen in 5.1 surround from your Mac, you must have a 5.1 audio output device connected to your computer. Macsdo not have internal 5.1 outputs, but if you have an external 5.1 channel output box - such as an M-Audio Fast TrackUltra or a MOTU Ultralite Mk3, you can listen to your 5.1 surround music files directly played from your computer.On a Mac for this application, set your output pairs to appropriate corresponding outputs on your external outputdevice. Make sure the Decode AC3 Files box is checked so the Portal can play your files. (note: built in outputsabove are just illustrating an example of setting all outputs. Macs do not support 5.1 output internally.)


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For PC: Listening in 5.1 surround:

To listen in 5.1 surround from your PC, you must have a either a 5.1 output device connected to your computer -such as an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra or a MOTU Ultralite Mk3 - or a 5.1 surround capable sound card. If you haveeither of these installed in your PC, you can listen to your 5.1 surround music files directly played from your com-puter. On a PC, for this application, set your output pairs to appropriate corresponding outputs on your externaloutput device or sound card. Make sure the Decode AC3 Files box is checked so the Portal can play your files.

For Mac and PC: Listening in 5.1 surround to an external decoder and home theater system:

If you have a digital (spdif) output on your computer, the Portal software can stream your 5.1 surround music filesfrom this output to an external decoder and home theater system. Your computer must have a digital audio output,(typically an optical output) and be connected via a digital cable to the digital input of your home theater system. Todo this, set the Portal outputs as illustrated below. For a Mac, set only the L/R outputs to Built-In Output. Set theother outputs to None. Make sure you un-check the Decode AC3 Files so that the Portal does play your 5.1 sur-round files internally, but instead will stream the file to the digital output of your computer. (note: for PC version,PC settings should be similar - set the output to your PCs digital output, and un-check the Enable AC3 Decode

box)


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File Locations:

The next setting in the audio menu is File Locations. There are two windows here. The first, Audio Files windowis where you select and designate the folder and tracks that you wish to appear in the Portals Library window. Youcan either type in the directory path to the folder where the files you want to use are on your computers hard drive,or click the browse button and navigate to the folder with your 5.1 surround music files you want to use. On a Mac itwill look like this:

On a PC it will look like this:

The Temp files window is where the Portal application puts a folder for the temporary files it creates when it is inthe process of creating and burning a DVD disc. The Portal creates this folder and a location for it when you install it.However, you can create a Temp file folder in another location and navigate to it by typing in the directory path or

clicking the browse button and selecting it on your hard drive.

CD/DVD Burner:

This window shows you which CD/DVD burner you are using on your computer, internal or external, to burn yourdiscs created by the Jhana Music Portal. Use the pull down menu to select the burner you want to use. On a Mac itlooks like this:


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On a PC it looks like this:

Use the pull down menu to select which CD/DVD Burner you wish to use to burn your discs. You can use internalor external burners.

Thats it for the Audio menu ! Click OK or Apply and OK and return to the Portal.


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WINDOW AREAS

Browser WindowThe Portal Browser window connects to a Portal website. The Home window will always take you to the begin-ning window you seen when you launch the Portal application. Here there will be news and interest items aboutnew artists, albums and promotions from Jhana Music Group.

The Portal Browser will alsotake you to the Radio sectionof the Portal site where you canlisten to podcasts, interviewswith artists, or radio style pres-entations of music availablefrom Jhana Music Group. Mostof the programming on thePortal Radio will be pre-sented in personal surroundwhere the 5.1 surround musictracks are processed with avirtual headphone algorithmthat simulates a 5.1 surround

music experience on any set ofheadphones or earbuds to giveyou a taste of a 5.1 surroundmusic experience.


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The Help button takes you toa help section on the Portal

browser where you will find ausers manual and video in-struction on how to use thePortal.

Library and Playlist Windows:

The Portal has two window areas below the browser. These are the Library window (on the left) and the Playlistwindow (on the right). As described in the first section, (Set Up) when you designate a folder containing your 5.1surround music files in the File Location in the Audio Menu, the files in that folder will show up in the left side win-dow - which is your Library window. From the Library window, you can drag and drop or double click on the filesto move them to the right side window which is your Playlist window. From the Playlist window, you can eitherplay the files in the Portal, or Burn a DVD album.


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Library Playlist


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BUTTONS

LEFT SIDE: Navigation and Burn Image Buttons

On the left side of the Portal you will see four buttons. From top to bottom they are, Home,Radio, Help and Burn Image. The first three, Home, Radio and Help, are directnavigation buttons for the Portal browser Clicking on them will take you to specific locationson the Portal site.

Home: Takes you directly to the start page of the Portal Browser site.

Radio: Takes you directly to the Radio Jhana area on the Portal site where you can listen topodcasts, and preview artists, and music in personal surround

Help: Takes you directly to a help and instruction page where you can find a user manual andvideo instructions on how to use the Portal.

Burn Image: This button is for burning a DVD or CD directly from a disc image.

RIGHT SIDE: Playlist and Make My Disc Buttons

On the right side of the Portal, there are four buttons. These are to create, manage and savePlaylists, and to create and burn DVDs from your playlist.


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Make My Disc: This button is a one click solution to burn your own DVD 5.1 sur-round music albums from your files. Follow the steps below to create and burn a 5.1surround DVD Album.

1 - Insert a blank DVD into your computers DVD burner drive. Do this first.

2 - Create and add tracks to a playlist by double clicking or dragging and dropping tracks from your Library list inthe left window to the Playlist window on the right.

3 - Now, click the Make My Disc button, and the Portal will prompt you to give your disc and album a title. Fill in thetitle - click OK.

4 - The disc burning process will begin. This will take a little while as the Portal creates and burns your your disc.The Portal will give you periodic status of your disc, and will eject it when its finished. You will see:

The Portal first makes the disc

Burns or writes the disc


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Finishes and ejects the disc

Note that while the Portal is burning a disc there is anadditional status display on the lower left below theLibrary window

New Playlist: Click on this button when you want to clear the Playlist window and starta new Playlist. You can then begin adding tracks from the Library window by draggingand dropping across or double clicking on files in the Library that go into the Playlist.Drag or double click files you want in the playlist from the Library in the order you want

them to appear in the Playlist

Save Playlist: Once you create a playlist, you can save it for future use to play or burn aDVD in the Portal.

Click on Save Playlist and the Portal will ask you to give theplaylist a name with a save as window, and to select a folderor location to store it on your hard drive. Give the playlist aname, pick a location on your hard drive and click save. Younow have the playlist saved for later use. Its is recommendedthat you save all your playlists in the same folder for easy refer-ence.

Open Playlist: Once you have created and saved a Playlist, with the Save Playlist but-ton, you can open that Playlist anytime and the tracks you assembled in that Playlistwill re-appear in the Playlist window for you to edit, play or burn a disc.

When you click on the Open Playlist button , the Portal will ask you for the location of the playlist you want to open.

Navigate to it and click open, and the Playlist will appear in the Playlist window.


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Transport / Playback: On the lower right area of thePortal, you will see the Playback transport buttons -Stop, Play, forward, rewind, begin and end playback

buttons to play the files. The knob and bar on the topallow you to scroll back and forth in your song file.The digital readout tells you the time of the track

playback.

Forward/Back ButtonsOn the left hand side at the top of the Browser window are two buttons, Forward andBack. These are additional navigation buttons for navigating in the Portal Browser toprevious or next pages.

Hide/Close Buttons: In the upper right hand corner, the hide/close buttons operate like onany standard application. Click on the - button to hide or minimize the Portal - click onthe x button to close the Portal application completely.

Notes & Tech Information

PLATFORMS SUPPORTED:

MAC: OSX Tiger (10.4) Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6 and above)

PC: XP and Windows 7 recommended

AUDIO FILE TYPES SUPPORTED:

Dolby Digital: up to 640 kbs - up to 5.1 channels (Mac & PC)

REQUIREMENTS:

Internal 5.1 capable sound card or external I/O device required for 5.1 surround playback

DVD/CD disc burner


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Documents

Jhana Music Portal User Manual