The FirstView Music library contains thousands of songs and dozens of ready-made playlists, from which you can create music that suits your space. You can build your own playlist from the library's ready-made moods, by searching for songs by artist or genre, for example, or by combining music in different ways.
Audio playlist = The content of an audio playlist consists of one or more music collections, audio ads and announcements, which you can schedule and prioritize like other content. All music is added to the audio playlist, so add a new playlist first, if one is not ready, see instructions here ».
Audio collection = You can build a collection from ready-made moods in the library by combining entire moods, or by picking songs one at a time. Instructions for this can be found below.
Mood = A ready-made music list from the FirstView Music library.
1. Start with the plus button, select FirstView Music and create a collection
You can create a collection from one or more pre-made moods, individual songs, or a mix of these.
FirstView Music library icons
Preplay
Add all songs to collection
Find and add songs one by one
Adding songs to a collection
Add all songs to an audio playlist collection or select individual songs.
The music collection added to a playlist can be scheduled as desired. Multiple different collections can be added to one audio playlist.
2. Name the collection
Name the collection clearly. By default, the collection is named after the name of the first selected mood.
3. Shuffle
Shuffle plays the songs in random order. If this option is turned off, the songs will be played in the order they are in the list.
4. Edit the schedules
By default, the content starts to play as soon as it is added. You can schedule the content to start later by selecting a time from the calendar. When you turn off the 'endless' option, you can also add an end time, at which point the content will automatically disappear from the screen. More instructions on schedules can be found here ».
Tip! You can use schedules to set different music rhythms for mornings and afternoons, for example. In this case, add own collection for the morning and schedule it to end daily, for example, at 12 PM. After this, add another collection for the afternoon, which you schedule to start at 12 PM and end when the store closes.
There are no power saving settings for SoundCube, so if your store is open from 10 AM to 8 PM, schedule the music to play at that time.
5. Playback mode
The setting is related to the timing of announcements and ads, read more here ».
6. Adjust the volume if necessary
It is best to adjust the volume from the sound system so that you can use the same volume for all audio content.
With MediaCloud's volume, you can fine-tune the volume of, for example for audio ads or announcements. We recommend always using the same volume for playing music content, for example 75, depending on the sound system settings).
7. Change the priority if necessary
Read more about priorities here ».
8. Select the audio playlists to which the collection will be linked
9. Finally, save the content!
You can add music from the FirstView Music library to an existing collection. Add entire moods or select songs individually.
1. Select the collection to edit in the playlist view
2. Select FirstView Music
3. Select the desired mood, or select individual songs from the magnifying glass.
4. Merge or replace
By merging moods, all songs of the new mood are added to the music collection in addition to the existing ones.
By replacing, the current songs in the collection are deleted and replaced with completely new ones.
Open the collection editing view
You can add songs from the library to the collection, remove individual songs, change the order, or upload your own mp3 files.
You can change the order of songs by dragging. By clicking on an individual song, you can also delete a song or move it to the first place in the list, for example.
You can copy a collection to another playlist, unlink a playlist, or delete the collection entirely.
Copy
There are two ways to copy a mood. Copying a mood in the playlist view creates a copy of it with the same settings.
If you want to save a copy with new settings, open the collection's edit view, make the desired changes to the collection, and select Save as copy. This creates a new version of the collection with the selected changes and preserves the original.
Remove a playlist linking
Open the collection edit mode from the pen icon and remove or add the playlist links you want. Finally, save.
Deleting
Deleting a collection removes the collection from all playlists it is linked to.