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HowToGetMediascapeOnMobileDeviceUsingLibrary
Get a mediascape onto your mobile device using mscape library
Downloading
When you download a mediascape from the web site you will be asked if your want to save it to your computer or open it from the current location. The easiest thing to do is to choose to open it from the current location. The mscape library manager starts up and the mediascape is automatically loaded into your library.
(If you do choose to download it to your computer you can choose where to save it to and once it has downloaded you can double click it to start the mscape library manager.)
The mscape library
The mscape library is a tool that you use to manage your collections of mediascapes and to shift them back and forth between your desktop computer and your mobile device. If you own an iPod you can think of the mscape library as being a sort of iTunes for mediascapes!
The main part of the screen shows the list of mediascapes that you have on your desktop computer. If you click on one, the right-hand panel shows an overview of what it is about.
In the left-hand panel is a list of the different places that you can put mediascapes. Some of them are on your computer and some of them are on your mobile device (when it is connected to your computer). When you click them the central panel shows the list of mediascapes that are in that location.
Mediascapes on your mobile device
If you have a mobile device connected when you are running the mscape library you will see the different folders available for mediascape storage listed under
Mobile Device on the left-hand panel.
Different mobile devices may offer different options here, but usually there will be folders called
Storage Card /
SD Card (if one is present), and
My Documents. It doesn't make much difference where you put your mediascapes, the mscape player plays mediascapes in all these locations. The only consideration you might make is that there is usually more space on the storage card than on the other internal locations.
Copying mediascapes
To copy mediascapes from from the desktop machine to the mobile device.
- Ensure that Library is selected under Desktop Computer in the left-hand panel.
- Select the mediascapes you want to move by clicking the tick boxes next to them. It is possible to copy multiple mediascapes in one go, simply check the boxes for those you wish to copy.
- Click the 'Copy To' button at the bottom right of the mediascape list. The list of destination folders on the mobile device will be shown - select the appropriate one. If there is an SD card in your device we recommend that you choose that.
- mscape library will copy the selected mediascapes over to the device.
You can also copy mediascapes from your device to your desktop machine.
- Click the mobile device's folder that contains the mediascapes to copy (e.g. Storage Card). This is listed under Mobile Device on the left-hand panel. The list will change to show mediascapes in that folder on the mobile device.
- Select the mediascapes you want to move by clicking the tick boxes next to them. It is possible to copy multiple mediascapes in one go, simply check the boxes for those you wish to copy.
 If your desktop machine has an SD Card reader, it's possible to copy mediascapes directly to it. This is often much faster than copying via the mobile device itself. Insert the SD Card into your machine, and it will appear underneath Desktop Machine in the left-hand panel. Now when you click the 'Copy To' button, the SD Card will be listed as a destination to copy to. |
When you are done
When you have copied the mediascape over you can view the contents of the location you copied it to, to confirm that it is there and then you can disconnect your mobile device.
