Kaleidescape Conductor is a PC application that copies music from your Kaleidescape Music Library to your computer so that you can enjoy it with your iPod or other portable music player. Once you have installed Kaleidescape Conductor, you can choose the Music Collection you wish to copy to your computer. Kaleidescape Conductor updates the Kaleidescape music on your computer as you add or remove music from your chosen Music Collection.

Kaleidescape was founded with the goal of developing a new category of products that redefine the home entertainment experience. The Kaleidescape System is an entertainment server that has changed the way movies and music are collected and enjoyed in the home, yacht and private jet. The Kaleidescape System combines a compelling user interface, an outstanding industrial design, and services that set new standards in the consumer electronics industry.

The Kaleidescape System is an entertainment server that makes it much more fun and convenient to enjoy movies and music in your home. It lets you store your entire collection of DVDs and CDs on an array of fail-safe hard disk drives. It automatically documents and organizes them, and makes them instantaneously available for viewing or listening in every room of your home.

Kaleidescape is privately held and profitable. Kaleidescape's investors comprise fourteen individuals, most of whom have been successful entrepreneurs and investors in technology companies over the past 25 years.

The Movie Player 2 and the Music Player both have a DVD/CD drive, with which you can import CDs and DVDs. Most Kaleidescape Dealers and some third-party service companies provide bulk loading services that ease the importing of large collections of CDs and DVDs into Kaleidescape Systems.

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The Kaleidescape System solves the problem of managing a large collection of DVDs and CDs. Many of us have this problem in our home. The Kaleidescape System organizes DVDs and CDs, keeps them organized (and safe), catalogs them so you can find what you are looking for, and stores them for easy access. The Kaleidescape System has a fun and intuitive user interface that changes the "problem" of finding a movie or album into an entertaining experience for the whole family.

To delete a movie from your Kaleidescape System, you must use the Kaleidescape Web Utility. In the Web Utility, click on the Movies tab, check the box to the left of each movie you wish to delete, and click on "Move to Trash" at the bottom of the page. To delete the movies permanently, choose the "Trash Can" collection in the drop-down menu at the top left of the page, and click on "Delete Permanently" at the bottom of the page.

Kaleidescape provides dealers with control modules and touch panel templates suitable for a variety of control devices, using both RS-232 and TCP/IP. These include modules and sample code for Crestron 2-Series Processors and templates for the wide variety of Crestron touch panels and keypads and a module and sample code for AMX NetLinx Processors and templates for the wide variety of AMX touch panels.

In order to change the region code of a Kaleidescape Player or Reader, a DVD containing the new region code must be present in the Player or Reader's DVD/CD-ROM drive. Kaleidescape recommends the following procedure when changing region codes. Locate the component (Player or Reader) whose region code you wish to change on the Components tab of the Installer Web Utility. Set "When Import Finishes:" to "Keep disc in drive" and click "OK".

A DVD or CD changer can play only one DVD movie or audio CD at a time, and it is generally dedicated to one play-back zone in the home. The Kaleidescape System is based on hard-disk technology, which provides very fast, random access to your entire content collection, and makes it possible to use the system simultaneously from multiple play-back zones.

Yes, the Kaleidescape System now supports this feature with Kaleidescape Conductor. Kaleidescape Conductor copies all or part of your Kaleidescape Music Library to your computer so you can enjoy it with your iPod portable music player or other portable music player.

The Now Playing place shows the list of albums and songs that have been most recently played. This list is not remembered when you replace the music in Now Playing by something else. However, at any time, you can make a Mix Album from the music currently listed in Now Playing.

Yes. The hard disks of the Kaleidescape Server store exact (lossless) copies of the digital data imported from your CDs. The Kaleidescape Movie Player, Movie Player 2 or Music Player will convert these bit streams into digital and analog audio outputs just as if you were playing the CD in a reference-quality CD player.

The Kaleidescape System has the best user interface in the industry — finding and playing your music is easy, intuitive and fun for everyone. The Kaleidescape System provides the richest information about your music along with a very flexible way to navigate through such information onscreen. The Kaleidescape System is more reliable — it just works.

A single Kaleidescape 1U Server fully loaded with four 1 TB Disk Cartridges can hold approximately 450 DVDs or 5,000 CDs. A single Kaleidescape 3U Server fully loaded with fourteen 1 TB Disk Cartridges can hold approximately 1,800 DVDs or 20,000 CDs. The exact numbers will vary depending on the specific DVDs and CDs that you import. Larger collections can be accommodated by clustering multiple Servers to act as one very large storage system.

When a hard disk drive fails in a Kaleidescape System, you will still be able to enjoy all the Movies and Music in your library, but the System will not be able to import CDs or DVDs. Your Kaleidescape System will also be vulnerable to losing data from a second disk drive failure, until the first failed disk drive has been replaced and the data on it rebuilt. If you suspect that a disk drive has failed, then always call Kaleidescape Technical Support first.

Yes, we plan to introduce the Kaleidescape Blue-Laser Player in 2009. The Blue-Laser Player is designed to play all Blu-ray Discs in addition to DVDs, CDs, and content from other sources.

Typically, a Kaleidescape System will download approximately 100 MB of data per week to keep the Kaleidescape Movie Guide and Music Guide current. Upload varies, depending on the number of Players and other factors, but should be approximately 10 MB per week. Kaleidescape releases KEAOS upgrades a few times per year; a KEAOS release is less than 50 MB and is downloaded automatically by your Kaleidescape System.

You can access the Web Utility from outside your local area network by using either a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or by using port forwarding. By using a VPN, but not by using port forwarding, you can also access the Control Panels. The VPN can be either software or hardware and, with a VPN, you can use http://my-kaleidescape (on a Mac, use http://my-kaleidescape.local).

A Kaleidescape System is comprised of hardware components, a license to the Kaleidescape Entertainment Appliance Operating System (KEAOS), and subscriptions to the Kaleidescape Movie Guide and/or Music Guide Services and Software Update Service. A basic Kaleidescape System includes one Kaleidescape 1U Server with two Disk Cartridges (one for content storage and one for RAID-K protection), and one Movie Player 2.

Kaleidescape Conductor can copy your entire Kaleidescape Music Library or any single Music Collection to your computer. If you want to copy just one song from an album, then create a Mix Album containing that song, and add it to the Music Collection that is copied to your computer. Of course, you can also add other songs to that Mix Album and you can add other albums, mix albums, genres and artists to that Music Collection.