My Library

Think of My Library as a "jukebox" for your music files, videos, imported CDs, and media from the internet. The Organizer helps you manage all the clips you have saved, imported, or downloaded. From My Library you can use clips to create your own custom CDs and DVDs, and put together your own custom playlists for quick playback. Clips in My Library can also be copied to an MP3 player or other portable device.

Open My Library by clicking on the My Library tab. Select any of the media categories or options from the sidebar.

Organizing Your Clips

Categories

To help you find media clips quickly within My Library, RealPlayer sorts the clips into categories based on their media types and other properties (for example, Music, Videos, or Playlists). See Clip Categories for details.

Custom Categories

In addition to the default media categories, you can create and name custom categories to help you organize your clips. For example, you might create a custom category called "Party Favorites" that includes your favorite dance tunes, and another custom category called "Holiday Videos" for home movies of birthdays and other observances. See Custom Categories for details.

Columns and Clip Info

Within each category, you can sort your clips by a variety of parameters (arranged as vertical columns across the My Library Display area) such as Clip Name, Artist, Album, Genre, My Rating, Length, and Format, or the dates they were imported into My Library. See Clip Info for more information about viewing and editing these properties.

Search My Library

Your library of clips will grow rapidly as you use RealPlayer. Even with the Organizer to help, you may want to quickly search for specific or similar clips based on criteria you set.

For instance, you can search or sort your clips by a particular artist, song, or album.

Open My Library.
In the Search field, located in the upper right corner, select Search My Library from the drop-down list.
Type a search term or terms. When entering multiple search terms, separate words with spaces only. Do not use commas. Search terms are not case sensitive.
Click or press [ENTER] to start the search.
Search results appear as a list of clips in the My Library Display area. You can sort by clicking on any of the column headers.

Add Clips to My Library

Here are three ways to add media clips to My Library:

Import Tracks from a CD

Import Clips on Your Computer into My Library

Download from the Internet

Configure Columns

To configure the default column headings in My Library:

Open My Library.
Click any column header to sort the list of clips in that category, A to Z. (Clicking again will reverse the sort, Z to A.)
Click and drag any column header to rearrange the order of the columns.
Click and drag a header divider to change the width of a column.
Double-click a header divider to open a column to the width needed to view the longest entry.

To specify which columns are displayed in My Library:

Open Tools > Preferences > My Library.
Click Configure Columns... This opens the "Column Settings" dialog.
Select the current view by category (All Media, Music, Videos, etc.).
Select the column fields you want displayed within the current view. Use the Move Up and Move Down commands to adjust their order, and the "pixels wide" field to specify their size.

To create new columns:

Open Tools > Preferences > My Library.
Click Configure Custom Columns... This opens the "Configure Column Settings" dialog.
In the "Column Display Name" field, enter a name for the custom column you want to create.
In the "Show Info From" field, use the drop-down list of database categories to select the info you want the custom column to display.

Tabs: My Library

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