Windows Media Player, available on your Companion CD, allows you to play sound files on your PAC Mate. It supports a wide range of audio file formats (.wma, .asf, .mp3, .wav, and .wmp) including streaming audio, which is used primarily by Internet radio. Because Windows Media Player for Pocket PC has limited support on PAC Mate, the following description offers you detailed instructions on the functions available, but does not endorse their reliability. You find Windows Media Player in the Start Menu by pressing Windows Logo Key, W.
Ensure that Active Sync is installed on your desktop computer, and that the PAC Mate is connected to your computer with either a full or guest partnership.
You can copy sound files to your PAC Mate by synchronizing them with ActiveSync or if you have Windows Media Player 7 or later on your PC you can use its Portable Device feature. For more information on this feature, please see the online Help for Windows Media Player on the PC.
After synchronizing or copying files to the PAC Mate, open up Windows Media Player and press ALT and press ENTER on Select. This will bring up the Playlist Manager. This displays all of the media available on the PAC Mate and lets you arrange it however you want. Press the Application Key on a track to perform actions such as play selection, move earlier, move later and/or delete. Any subsequent synchronizing of audio files to PAC Mate may not display in the Playlist Manager. To access these audio files, please use File Explorer.
Note: Once you access an audio file with File Explorer, you must continue using File Explorer thereafter as you will no longer be able to access them from the Playlist.
With Windows Media Player you can listen to music on the PAC Mate while reading e-mail or editing a file. To do this, simply open Windows Media Player (Windows Logo Key, W) and press ALT and press ENTER on Select. Use the arrow keys to select the song you want to play, and then press the Application Key and choose “Play Selection” from the Context Menu. Next, open the program you want to work in. If you want to listen to the whole playlist, just open Windows Media Player and press CTRL+P. To pause or stop the audio file, you must leave the program you are working in and return to Windows Media Player for the pause (CTRL+P) and the stop (CTRL+S) commands to work. If you have only Windows Media Player open, then you only need to press the second letter as they then work as layered commands.
To disable Background Play, press ALT and press ENTER on Tools. Move to Settings and press ENTER. On the Settings submenu press ENTER on Audio & Video. When the Audio & Video dialog opens, press TAB three times to move to the “Background Play” combo box and use the arrow keys to select Pause. When you are done, press ENTER to close the dialog. Now when you move into another program to work, Windows Media Player will automatically pause the audio file. Pressing ALT+TAB switches to Windows Media Player and play resumes.
To decrease or increase the volume, use INSERT+S, DOWN ARROW or UP ARROW.
Note: The volume of JAWS and Windows Media Player are not independent of one another.
To view the list of commands available in Windows Media Player, please see Appendix A: PAC Mate Commands.
To open a Website to listen to Internet radio, press ALT and press ENTER on Tools. On the Tools menu move to Open URL and press ENTER again. In the Edit Combo box, type in the URL of the Website and then press ENTER.
You are encouraged to explore the Tools menu, as there are more items that may enhance your experience with Windows Media Player.