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Music Player

Use with Windows, Apple Mac, Linux, USB memory

The Music Player allows you to play audio ﬁ les which are stored on a

computer on your network or on a USB memory device plugged into the radio.

In order to play ﬁ les from a computer on your network, your sound system

must connect to a ﬁ le server program on your computer which uses the

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol (often known as DLNA). If your

computer uses Windows 7 or Windows 8 then your computer already

has a UPnP server program available. This is Windows Media Player

(version 12), and it can share your audio ﬁ les with your sound system.

It allows you to select ﬁ les by Album, Artist, and so on using your radio's

controls. Throughout this section, where Windows 8 is mentioned, this

also includes Windows 8.1.

Windows Media Player can serve MP3, WMA, AAC and WAV ﬁ les to your

radio. If you are an Apple Mac or Linux user, or if you have your audio

ﬁ les stored in other formats, such as FLAC, there are other UPnP server

programs which you may use with your sound system. Note that Apple

computers do not support UPnP streaming natively and that Apple does not

license their own equivalent streaming protocol (DAAP) to third parties.

The Music Player on the sound system can playback audio ﬁ les in MP3,

WMA, AAC, FLAC and WAV formats. WMA Lossless ﬁ les can also be

played when using Windows Media Player as the UPnP server. Note that

the playback of ﬁ les encoded using WMA Voice, WMA 10 Professional, and

of ﬁ les which have DRM protection is not supported by the sound system.

When using a UPnP server, the search and selection criteria are determined

by the server software, not by the sound system, but typically include

searching by Artist, Album and Genre. Many server applications also

allow you to access your ﬁ les according to the folders within which they are

stored as well as other criteria. Windows Media Player is less ﬂ exible than

some other UPnP servers in this regard, but is generally easier to set up.

Many UPnP server applications are also capable of sharing pictures and

video ﬁ les to other network connected devices. If this is the case (as it is

with Windows Media Player) you may see the option of choosing between

'Music', 'Video' and 'Pictures' on the Music Player's menu. Clearly you

should only select the 'Music' option. Content offered via the alternative

options will not be playable on your sound system.

Some third party server applications allow customisation of the search

criteria and indexing methods. This can be useful if you have a very large

collection of stored music ﬁ les.

Here is a short selection of alternative UPnP server programs, although

many others are available:

AssetUPnP (Windows) * **

Mezzmo (Windows) *

MediaTomb (Linux, Mac OS X) *

Serviio (Windows, Linux, Max OS X) *

TVersity (Windows) *

Twonky Media Server (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) *

* = free of charge or trial versions with limited functionality are available

at the time of writing. ** = other platforms in development.

Please refer to the documentation for your chosen server program for full

details of its conﬁ guration and usage. Some Network Attached Storage

(NAS) devices and some routers include UPnP/DLNA server software.

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