TiVo DVR tivo desktop home media features User Manual

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TiVo Desktop & Home Media  
Features  
Connecting Your TiVo® DVR to a Home Network  
Music & Photos  
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TiVo Desktop & Home Media Features  
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Music & Photos  
The Digital Music Player and Digital Photo Viewer let you use your DVR to play MP3 music  
files and playlists, and view photos that are stored on a computer. Now you can enjoy your  
digital music collection on the best sound system in the house, or watch slideshows of digital  
photos in the comfort of your living room.  
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See “Home Media Features Guide” on  
page 11.  
A computer connected to your DVR via a home network (see page 38).  
TiVo Desktop software (see page 38).  
File Types  
TiVo Desktop plays music in the MP3 format, and supports playlists in the following formats  
used by common music players: M3U, PLS, ASX, and B4S. On a Mac, TiVo Desktop works  
with music organized by iTunes 3.0 or later.  
TiVo Desktop for Windows works with digital photos in these formats: BMP, DIB, GIF, JPG,  
PNG. TiVo Desktop for Mac works with digital photos organized by iPhoto 2.0 in these  
formats: JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and PNG.  
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Playing Your Music and Viewing Your Photos  
Using the Digital Music Player and Digital Photo Viewer is easy. Just select Music, Photos,  
Products, & More from the TiVo Central® screen.  
Listening to music on the DVR  
On your computer, use TiVo Desktop to “publish” music that you want to access through your  
DVR. (Publishing is a process that makes digital music and photos available to your DVR. It is  
usually as simple as selecting music and clicking a Publish button.)  
On your DVR, go to TiVo Central and select Music, Photos, Products, & More. You should see  
a selection something like “My Music on My Computer.”  
When you select this, you’ll see a list of music you published with TiVo Desktop. Select the  
music you want to listen to and press the PLAY button. In a few seconds, the music plays.  
Viewing photos on the DVR  
On your computer, use TiVo Desktop to “publish” photos that you want to access through your  
DVR. (Publishing is a process that makes digital music and photos available to your DVR. It is  
usually as simple as selecting photos and clicking a Publish button.)  
Published music and photos aren’t  
copied to your DVR, so they don’t  
On your DVR, go to TiVo Central and select Music, Photos, Products, & More. You should see  
a selection something like “My Photos on My Computer.”  
When you select this, you’ll see a list of the photos you published with TiVo Desktop. Select the  
photos you want to view and press the PLAY button. In a few seconds, the photos start to appear  
on your television screen.  
consume space used by your recordings.  
Publishing simply allows your DVR to  
access the music and photos stored on  
your computer.  
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