# This is a user tutorial for the Firefox extension OMusic

Introduction

OMusic is a Firefox music extension with which you can listen to mp3s while browsing. It supports online and local music playback, as well as sharing music list with your friends.

Unlike the others, OMusic is not a modeless player. It has two modes:

• A 'simple file' mode to test online music links and listen to it before putting it into your list
• A 'play list' mode to enjoy your collection of music and have fun.

Features

OMusic enhance your Firefox music experience with following featues:

• Full music playback control:
• play/pause, stop, progress bar
• playlist, shuffle, repeat

• Mp3 Playback:
• online mp3 stream
• local mp3 files

• Music list:
• make music list of online mp3s'
• make music list of local mp3 files
• share music list with friends

• Lyrics:
• search & display .lrc lyrics automatically

• Light-weight:
• space-saving, resides in status bar, could be minimized into icon
• small in size
• little system resource consume

• Cross platform:
• supports Firefox 1.5~3.0 on Windows/Linux/Mac

Usage

• Online music explorer:

You may want to put OMusic into 'single file' mode before use it as an online music explorer.

1. Bring up the OMusic main menu (click the note icon), choose 'To single file mode' if not yet
2. Browse your favorite web page with music files on it (mp3 search engine maybe)
3. Search for some bands
4. Right click on the music link and choose 'Play it'
5. See if it works (chances are it may be a dead link)
6. See if you like it
7. Then bring up the main menu and choose 'Add to list' if you want to
8. And it is in your list

• Local music manager:

Of course you may use OMusic to manage your local music collections.

1. Bring up the main menu, choose 'To play list mode' if not yet
2. Now you have 3 ways to open your songs:
• in main menu, choose 'open file', navigate to your music folder in the dialog and select a song (it gets added to your list)
• in main menu, choose 'open directory', this way your add all your songs inside a directory to your list
• you may input 'file:///path/to/your/songs' in your address bar, and right click your song and 'Add n play' it
• Now you can enjoy your local songs

• Playback control:

You have full control of your OMusic player:

• play/pause, stop, shuffle & repeat in your main menu
• control play/pause, next/previous, progress bar & volume in your player
• jump to a song in your music list, download current playing song in your main menu
• delete a song from your music list, add new ones into it in your main menu
• modify the title and the singer of your song so that OMusic displays the correct lyrics for you

• Share music list:
• bring up main menu, in 'List management', you can export/open/merge music list
• export your music list to a XML file and send it to your friend by EMail/IM, or post it in your blog
• right click a music list on web page and play it, then it gets added into your collection
• if you have received a list and saved it on your disk, you may open it, merge it into your current one

• That's it. Enjoy and rock with Firefox!