Use Search

If your CD collection is like ours, you won’t want to scroll through all your albums, no matter how well organized they are. That’s where the Search function comes in handy—go to the Start screen, and scroll to Music. Scroll right, and click Search.

This is the same kind of letter entry you’ve seen before in Media Center; you can use your keyboard, mouse, or remote to enter the search term you want. As you search, Media Center will continue to refine the results for you.

For example, let’s say we’re searching for Bette Midler in our collection. We type Be and see the following results—not exactly what we wanted!

Use Search

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