Section 3. Navigating Around Your Nomad
This section describes the major functional areas of a typical Notmad Explorer window, the top-level folders for each device, and the Configuration dialog for Notmad.
3.1.1 Major Functional Areas
The screenshot below shows a typical Notmad Explorer window with the major functional areas highlighted.
- Toolbar
To the standard Windows Explorer toolbar, Notmad 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 Notmad 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 Nomad device in Notmad 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 Notmad. 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 Notmad 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 Notmad 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 Notmad 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 Notmad 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, Notmad won't let you.
For Jukebox models, make sure playback is stopped before deleting files.
To open the Notmad Explorer configuration dialog, click on the 
red chair button (or screaming woman in pre-6.4.2 versions) in the toolbar. This dialog gives you access to all of Notmad's configuration options and settings.
The dialog is divided into tabs. The first tab is "About". It displays what version of Notmad Explorer you have installed. You can compare the number reported here to the number reported by the Notmad Manager menu item "About Notmad 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.
3.3 Top-Level Folders
This section describes the top-level folders that appear in Notmad Explorer for each device.
3.3.1 Nomad II-Series
- Internal Memory: Represents the internal memory storage of a Nomad II-series device. Open this folder to view the files you have stored in internal memory. Some models of the Nomad II (0MB) do not have internal memory. If you have such a unit, go to the Configuration dialog, click the Nomad II/CardReader tab, and check the "Hide Internal Memory (for Nomad II 0MB)" option to hide the non-functional folder.
- SmartMedia Card: Represents the SmartMedia card you have inserted into the external memory slot. Open this folder to view the files you have stored on your SmartMedia card. This folder doesn't do anything when there is no card inserted.
- FM Tuner: Contains the FM tuner station presets for your Nomad II. Inside this folder you can change the frequency to which each preset is configured. If your Nomad II does not have an FM tuner, go to the Configuration dialog, click the Nomad II/CardReader tab, and check the "Hide FM Tuner (for Nomad IIc)" option.
- Tunes2Go: This pseudo-folder is a shortcut that opens the Tunes2Go feature. Tunes2Go is discussed in detail in the Nomad II-specific features section.
- Device Information: Reports information about your Nomad device including model name, time/date (if applicable), hardware and firmware versions (if applicable), owner name (if applicable), and the various Notmad functional groups supported for this device.
3.3.2 Nomad MuVo
- Nomad MuVo (drive letter): Represents the memory of your MuVo. Open this folder to view the files you have stored on your MuVo.
- Tunes2Go: This psuedo-folder is a shortcut that opens the Tunes2Go feature. Tunes2Go is discussed in detail in the MuVo-specific features section.
- Device Information: Reports information about your Nomad device including model name, time/date (if applicable), hardware and firmware versions (if applicable), owner name (if applicable), and the various Notmad functional groups supported for this device.
3.3.3 Nomad CardReader
- SmartMedia Card: Represents the Smart Media card inserted in your card reader drive. Open this folder to view the files you have stored on the card.
- Device Information: Reports information about your Nomad device including model name, time/date (if applicable), hardware and firmware versions (if applicable), owner name (if applicable), and the various Notmad functional groups supported for this device.
3.3.4 Nomad Jukebox, Jukebox 2, Jukebox 3, Jukebox Zen
- 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 Nomad device including model name, time/date (if applicable), hardware and firmware versions (if applicable), owner name (if applicable), and the various Notmad functional groups supported for this device.
The Notmad OmniTome 