This guide provides brief instructions on getting started with MiuTunes.

Features

MiuTunes transforms your BlackBerry into one of the coolest music players. The best way to explore MiuTunes is to install the software and experience it yourself.

The following is a summary of MiuTunes's features:

• Browse your music collection like the way you flip through CD albums.
• Browse and play music by albums, artists, song titles, genres or years.
• Create, modify and delete playlists.
• Shuffle and repeat songs.
• Support popular music file formats: MP3, AAC, M4A and WMA*.
• Auto pause the player when there is an incoming call.
• Browser integration to allow you to learn more about your music.

Requirements

• BlackBerry OS 4.2 or above.
• Media card with minimum 2MB free space.

Installation

You can install MiuTunes over the air (OTA) on your BlackBerry. This is the recommended way to install MiuTunes. Please use your BlackBerry browser and go to the MiuTunes website at www.miutunes.com to download and install the software.

Alternatively, you can also download the software to your PC and install it with BlackBerry Desktop Manager:

1. Use your PC browser to download MiuTunes at www.miutunes.com
2. Unzip the MiuTunes package.
3. Connect your BlackBerry smartphone to your PC.
4. Start the BlackBerry Desktop Manager and launch the Application Loader.
5. Proceed to the Device Application Selection screen and press Add button to add sxt.alx to the Application Loader.
6. Follow the instructions of the Application Loader Wizard to install the software.
7. Reset your smartphone after the installation.

Registration

A free and fully functional 7-day trial is provided for you to try MiuTunes before buying.

After you buy the software, you will receive an unlock key. You can use the unlock key to unlock the software. Reinstallation of MiuTunes software is not required.

To unlock your MiuTunes software:

1. Launch MiuTunes.
2. Click Options on the menu.
3. Click About on the menu.
4. Enter your unlock key EXACTLY as it appears on your order confirmation email.
5. Click OK.

Music Library

MiuTunes organizes your music in the MiuTunes music library. This enables you to browse your music collection in various grouping.

When you launch MiuTunes for the first time, you will be asked to perform a full scan of your media card. This will add music in your media card to the music library.

MiuTunes will only scan your music in the music root folder and its subfolders. If you want to change the music root folder, click Options on the menu and then click Music root on the menu to toggle between different settings.

When there are changes in your media card, MiuTunes will modify the music library automatically. In normal cases, you are not required to do anything manually.

However, if you want to force MiuTunes to update the music library immediately after you add new music or change the music root folder, you can perform a quick or a full rescan of your media card:

1. Click Artwork & Library on the menu.
2. Click Rescan Music Folder (Quick) or Rescan Music Folder (Full) on the menu.

If you know the particular folder that contains the changes, you can also scan the folder only:

1. Click Explore to Folder.
2. Select the folder you want to update.
3. Click Scan This Folder on the menu.

Browsing and Playing Music

After your music have been added to the MiuTunes music library, you can start browsing and playing your music.

Unlike a folder view, MiuTunes allows you to find and access your music in different views. As you notice in the MiuTunes main screen, there are Artwork, Albums, Artists, Songs, Genres and Years views. Roll your trackball and click one of them. This will bring you to the selected view.

Trackball is used intensively in MiuTunes. You can roll your trackball to flip through your album artworks. Click your trackball to perform a default action, such as navigating to the next screen or flipping an album artwork.

MiuTunes allows you to play your music in various grouping. Just select the item you want to play, it can be either an album artwork or an artist. Press the SPACE key to start playing the selected group of music.

While playing the music, you can press the SPACE key to pause the player or hold the SPACE key for a short while to stop the player. To skip the current playing song and go to the next song, press ENTER key.

If you prefer to play your music in shuffle mode, press Alt-S to toggle the shuffle mode on/off.

Want to learn more? Check out the Player Control on the menu or the Shortcut Keys section for a complete list of supported shortcut keys.

Playlists

MiuTunes allows you to create multiple playlists. Go to the Playlists screen and click the Playlist on the menu for more information.

However, there is only one active playlist in the system and you can only add songs to the active playlist. If you want to add songs to another playlist, go to the Playlists screen by pressing Alt-L and make the playlist as an active playlist first.

Like playing music, you can also add various grouping of music to the active playlist by pressing Alt key and click your trackball after selecting an item.

Displaying Music Information

1. Navigate to the music or the album you want to display its information.
2. Press SYM key.

In the Song Info screen, you can roll your trackball to select an album artwork. Click the album artwork to download a new artwork from the Internet.

You can also roll your trackball to select the artist or album hyperlink. Click the hyperlink to explore more about your music.

Permission Settings

It is recommended that you allow MiuTunes to access all file connections and phone logs*.

If you accidentally answer deny permission to one of the prompt that asks to allow access to file/folder or phone logs, MiuTunes will fail to function properly. If this happens, please follow the below instructions to reset the permission settings:

1. From the BlackBerry's Home screen, click Options.
2. Click Advanced Options and then click Applications.
3. Select MiuTunes and then press Menu button.
4. Click Edit Permissions on the menu.
5. Permissions: MiuTunes will appear, click Reset firewall prompts on the menu.
6. On the the same screen, set the permission of User Data/Files to Allow.
7. Click Save on the menu.

Shortcut Keys

This is a list of useful shortcut keys for MiuTunes. Shortcut keys can help you bypass menus and execute commands directly.

Cannot remember all of them? Not a problem. You can always refer to the shortcut keys on the right hand side of the menus while you are using MiuTunes.