Rhapsody Controls

Music information and trivia (such as the name of the album of origin, artist biographical data, current media releases, and links to related sites) are displayed to the right of the player controls while a track is playing. If you have rated a track, your rating displays here, or you have the opportunity to rate it. This information will appear for tracks and albums played from the Music Guide, Rhapsody channels, and Playlist Central, as well as tracks from My Library and your own playlists when available.

• Click the album art to go to that album page in the Music Guide.

• Click the album name to go to that album page  in the Music Guide.

• Click the artist name to go to that artist page in the Music Guide.

• Click a star or the ban icon in the rating selector to rate the track.

If you are using your Rhapsody-Free subscription, your remaining free streams count will be displayed at the right of the album info, where additional information would normally be displayed.

 

Note: Music info in the player controls is not the same thing as Track Info.

The status of the track you are currently playing is shown in the Player Control area, just below the Music Info.

• At the right of the status display is the timer. This indicates time played/total track length. For example, 6 seconds of this three-minute and 18-second track have been played.

• In the center is the progress slider.  The button on the progress slider displays the progress of the track that is playing, and the percentage remaining to play. When playing streamed tracks, the dark bar displays the percentage of the track that has been streamed to your computer. You can move the tracking button by clicking and dragging it along the bar in either direction. When you release the button, Rhapsody will begin playing the track from that point. You can do this with Rhapsody tracks (a track that has been streamed, downloaded, or purchased from Rhapsody) or local (computer resources such as drives or files that are part of a computer, or available on a Local Area Network; music files located on your computer's hard drive(s) are referred to as "local.") tracks, but not Rhapsody Channel tracks.

• If you are playing a track from an album, My Library, a playlist, or Now Playing, the next track queued up to be play is listed beneath the progress slider.

 To open the equalizer (Rhapsody feature that allows you to fine-tune your audio playback by increasing or decreasing the volume within specific frequency ranges):

Click in the Rhapsody Controls or select Tools > Equalizerin the Rhapsody menus.

Click (or select) again to hide the equalizer with the current settings in place.

The equalizer panel allows you to better customize your listening experience by breaking up the standard bass and treble controls into smaller frequency bands of audio output. You can select a preset optimized for your favorite kind of music, or adjust the bands individually. Each vertical slider controls the signal gain (amount of signal amplification) for a specific frequency range.

The Rhapsody Mini Player is a small version of the Rhapsody controls that you can use on your desktop, even when Rhapsody is minimized. You can choose to use the Mini Player from the General preferences.