Section 3. Navigating Around Your Jukebox
This section describes the major functional areas of a typical Dudebox Explorer window, the top-level folders for each device, and the Configuration dialog for Dudebox.
3.1.1 Major Functional Areas
The screenshot below shows a typical Dudebox Explorer window.
- Toolbar
To the standard Windows Explorer toolbar, Dudebox adds a few buttons of it own. The exact button set varies depending on which device model you're accessing, and will be described in detail the device-specific other sections. However, every toolbar will always have at least the following buttons:
- Configuration - Opens the Configuration dialog box with various Dudebox Explorer settings and options.
- Help - Launches your web browser to the Support section of our website.
For blind users, the button toolbar may be inconvenient, so we've duplicated all the toolbar button functions in a context menu that can be invoked by holding down the "Control" key and hitting the "Context Menu" key on your keyboard (next to the "Windows" key).
- Left Pane Folder Tree
The left pane of Windows Explorer shows the folder structure of the filesystem while the right pane shows the contents of each folder. Likewise, when browsing a Jukebox device in Dudebox Explorer the left pane shows the content and functional structure of your device while the right pane shows the contents of the currently selected folder. In some rare instances, the left pane of Windows Explorer may not keep up with changes you make using Dudebox. When this happens, just right-click on any left pane folder and choose the "Rebuild Left Pane Tree" command, or just close and re-open the Dudebox window. The left pane of Windows Explorer can be alternately shown and hidden using the "Folders" button in the toolbar. Finally, after some types of tag edit operations, the left pane folder tree will need to be rebuilt. If this rebuild causes you to lose your place in terms of what folder you were in, just click the "Back" button in the Explorer toolbar to return.
- Right Pane View
The right pane displays the contents of the currently selected folder. You can open a folder either by single-clicking it in the left pane or double-clicking it in the right pane. When a particular folder is open in the right pane, right-clicking anywhere in the blank area (as opposed to on a particular item in the folder) will bring up a context menu of options for the whole folder. Right-clicking on a particular item will bring up a context menu for just that item. Every folder has at least the "Refresh" item in its context menu, which refreshes the contents of that folder view.
- Status Bar
The status bar displays additional folder or selection information. In Dudebox Explorer, it typically displays the number of items and total size of those items in the current folder. If items in the right pane are selected, the status bar will display the same information about the selected items. When you are using Dudebox to control playback on your Jukebox device, the status bar displays the name of the track currently playing and the playback status. Note that in Windows XP, Microsoft has decided to turn the status bar off by default, so you will have to turn it back on. To do this, choose "View" in the menu bar and select "Status Bar".
3.1.2 Deleting Items
Various items inside Dudebox Explorer can be deleted, such as files, playlists, etc. There are two ways to delete items. First, you can select an item in the right pane, and then hit the "Delete" key on your keyboard. Or, you can right-click on an item and select "Delete" from the context menu.
If you try to delete an item that cannot be deleted, or doesn't make sense to delete, Dudebox won't let you.
Make sure playback on the Jukebox is stopped before deleting files.
To open the Dudebox Explorer configuration dialog, click on the 
red chair button in the toolbar. This dialog gives you access to all of Dudebox's configuration options and settings.
The dialog is divided into tabs. The first tab is "About". It displays what version of Dudebox Explorer you have installed. You can compare the number reported here to the number reported by the Dudebox Manager menu item "About Dudebox Manager". If they are the same then you know that your installation is complete and you don't have a version mismatch. The "About" tab also contains a clickable link to our website and a button that brings up information about the driver used for your device.
The other tabs are function-specific and are discussed in detail in other sections.
This section describes the top-level folders that appear in Dudebox Explorer.
- Audio Tracks: Sorted view of all the music tracks stored on your Jukebox.
- Data Files: List of the non-music data files stored on your Jukebox.
- Search: Find music files on your Jukebox using various criteria.
- Active Queue: The queue for playback of tracks on the Jukebox itself (speakers or headphones must be plugged into the Jukebox). This is different from playing back Jukebox tracks on your computer.
- Playlists: Contains all of the playlists on-board your Jukebox.
- Artists: Alphabetized list of all the artists found in your Jukebox music collection. Under each artist are the albums by that artist, and inside those are actual music tracks.
- Albums: Alphabetized list of all albums found on your Jukebox. The sort is by album name only, and there is no organization by artist in this folder.
- Genres: Alphabetized list of all genres found among your Jukebox music tracks.
- Last Transfer: List of all music files added to your Jukebox during the last transfer. Convenient for making playlists out of the files you just transferred.
- Device Information: Reports information about your Jukebox device including model name, time/date (if applicable), hardware and firmware versions (if applicable), owner name (if applicable), and the various Dudebox functional groups supported for this device.
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