Overview
What really differentiates the Meridian
Sooloos Digital Media System from
other music server products is the
experience enabled via its intelligent
graphical user interface. Through
this, the user can browse their entire
collection if they choose to, but even
more importantly, they can elect to
make a choice that is a simple as
a mood or a genre, and then trust
the system to use its rich metadata
services to find other albums and other
tracks that fit within these criteria.
The new Meridian Sooloos Core
Control App brings this experience to
the iPad, providing simple yet powerful
control of any Meridian Sooloos
Digital Media system from a device
that is portable enough to hold in your
hand or rest on your lap while you
enjoy the perfect choice of music from
the comfort of your favourite seat.
Control from your iPad
The new Sooloos Core Control App is a
free app for iPad that extends the Meridian
Sooloos user experience from fixed Control
devices, such as Control 15, to the iPad,
providing a graphically rich, immersive
experience when browsing and searching
the content on your Meridian Sooloos
Digital Media System.
Meridian Sooloos Core Control
Meridian Sooloos systems are designed
around the idea of browsing, rather than
the common approach of simply displaying
a list of tracks. This gives the user a
graphically rich, interactive experience,
driven by information about music, not files
or formats. Instead of solely displaying a list
of tracks, Sooloos provides and immersive
view of your content, in a way that keys
directly into how we enjoy and think about
music.
At the heart of the Meridian Sooloos Core
Control App for iPad is a series of screens
that show you your music collection from
a number of different directions, both
graphical and text-based.
Cover Browser – arrange the graphical
display of your music collection by Artist,
by Import Date, by Release Date, by Play
Count, or to show your favourite internet
radio channels. The browser allows you
to visualise your entire music library – an
experience reminiscent of flicking through
album covers, an experience that’s far
superior to trawling through lists.
Focus – This powerful navigation tool
enables you to target how you view your
collection. Focus on almost any criterion
Application for iPad
Product highlights
Provides many of the features
of the award-winning Meridian
Sooloos Control touchscreen GUI
to iPad users.
Build a complete system with just
a Media Core 200 or Media Core
600 and iPad(s) running the App.
Free download for Meridian
Sooloos owners from the Apple
iPad App Store.
Graphical display of your music
collection by Artist, by Import
Date, by Release Date, by Play
Count, or to show your favourite
internet radio channels – in
landscape or portrait modes.
Focus on almost any criterion from
album info, Genres, Composers
and Credits, to Labels, Tags,
Moods, and even ‘forensic’ detail
such as quality, or when a track
was last played.
Use Swim, Meridian Sooloos’
unique and intelligent function that
continually and intuitively selects
more tracks and adds them to
your Play Queue.
Reorder, remove, replay, loop or
shuffle the contents of the Play
Queue.
Enjoy album artwork, see other
related albums – even read online
reviews.
Instantly access a powerful textbased search facility, transport
and volume controls and zone
selection.
Manage Play Queues and transfer
them between zones.
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Meridian Sooloos Core Control
Application for iPad
Sample screens from the Meridian Sooloos Core Control Application for iPad. L to R: Album Browser, Internet Radio browser, Play Queue, Album
Tracks. All screens have portrait and landscape modes.
from album info, Genres, Composers and
Credits, to Labels, Tags, Moods, and even
‘forensic’ detail such as quality, or when a
track was last played. You can also recall
previous saved Focus selections.
Sooloos’ unique and powerful Focus
feature allows you to search your collection
in a way that better mirrors how we think
about our music – letting you find what
you want to hear without needing to know
exactly which album, track or artist you are
looking for.
Swim – Accessible from any of the
main display modes, Swim is Meridian
Sooloos’ unique and intelligent function
that continually and intuitively selects more
tracks and adds them to your Play Queue.
Especially if we have a large library, we
generally only listen to a tiny fraction of
the music we have on hand. Swim helps
you rediscover music you had forgotten –
providing a truly inspiring experience as you
enjoy again a long-lost musical memory.
Select and Edit modes – allow you to
update frequently-accessed album details.
You can also create and edit album ‘sets’
– groups of recordings that are related in
some way.
This feature allows you to update and
correct Genre and Tags while you listen
– when the current piece is at the front of
your mind.
Play Queue – offers a dynamic list of
albums and tracks that you have chosen
to play. From the Play Queue view of your
Meridian Sooloos Digital Media System you
can manage the order in which your chosen
tracks will play. Choose to reorder, remove,
replay, loop or shuffle the contents of the
Play Queue. You can even save a Play
Queue as a Playlist, making it available to
listen to again at any time.
Album Details – places the equivalent of
traditional sleeve liner notes in the palm of
your hand. Enjoy album artwork, see other
related albums – even read online reviews.
There is also track-level detail including
play count, duration, and Track Pick/
Skip status (selecting whether a track is a
favourite or to be omitted when complete
albums are played).
Search – provides instant access to a
powerful text-based search facility covering
combinations of Album, Artist, and Track
detail. Search is perfect when you know
part of the information about what you want
to listen to.
Transport and Volume Controls –
elegant on-screen buttons give you
immediate control over what you’re listening
to – how you listen to it – in any zone of a
Meridian Sooloos Digital Media System,
providing control of all Meridian Sooloos
Source devices.
Zone Selector – the App can control all
the zones of your Digital Media System.
Use the Zone Selector to choose your
zone, link zones, and even transfer Play
Queues between one zone and another.
Start listening in the living room and take
your chosen music with you as you move
around the house.
Explore – browse your music collection
in a more traditional, linear fashion, based
on specific criteria. Choose to play either
albums or individual tracks now, next, or by
adding to the current Play Queue.
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