User manual SLIMDEVICES SQUEEZEBOX2 OWNERS GUIDE

[. . . ] Squeezebox2 Owner's Guide 1 Owner's Guide SLIM DEVICES Squeezebox2 Owner's Guide 1 Table of Contents About Squeezebox2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Installing the SlimServer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Installing on Windows: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Installing on Mac OS X: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Installing on Linux or Other Operating System: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Connecting Squeezebox2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Configuring Squeezebox2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Set Up Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Connecting to SlimServer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Using the Remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Playing Your Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Using the Remote to Play Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Searching for Music with the Remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Creating and Saving a Playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Listening to Internet Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Special Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Graphic Visualizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Using Squeezebox2 as a Wireless Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Crossfading Between Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 RSS News Ticker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Controlling Multiple Squeezeboxes with One SlimServer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Getting More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 SLIM DEVICES 2 Squeezebox2 Owner's Guide SLIM DEVICES Squeezebox2 Owner's Guide 3 About Squeezebox2 Thank you for purchasing a Squeezebox2 network music player. Squeezebox2 lets you play your digitized music collection through your stereo system using your wireless or ethernet network. With Squeezebox2, you can also listen to internet radio stations, set alarms, display RSS feeds, and more!This user guide includes setup and basic operating instructions for your new player. [. . . ] When you locate a song, album, artist or genre you want to put in the playlist, click the plus (+) sign next to it. To change the order of the tracks in the playlist, use the up and down arrows to move tracks up and down the list. To save the playlist, click the Save button on the right side of the page. Search or browse through your music library for music you want to put in the playlist. When you locate a song, album, artist or genre you want to put in the playlist, press ADD. To save the playlist, press NOW PLAYING and then press and hold PLAY on the remote. Using the remote keypad, enter the name you want to give this playlist and press the RIGHT arrow. To find it again, use Browse Playlists. SLIM DEVICES 16 Squeezebox2 Owner's Guide Listening to Internet Radio You can listen to hundreds of internet radio stations with Squeezebox2. Slim Devices Picks is a frequently updated list of stations recommended by Slim Devices. Other providers show more stations organized by genre, type, name, popularity or recommendation. Use the arrow buttons to navigate through the choices to display the station you'd like to tune to. To play an internet radio station that's not shown in the Internet Radio area: 1. Enter the URL for the radio station you want to listen to in the Radio URL field and click Tune In. SLIM DEVICES Squeezebox2 Owner's Guide 17 Special Features Squeezebox2 has a beautiful high-resolution vacuum fluorescent display. In addition to displaying the name of the track or internet radio station you're currently listening to, you can tell Squeezebox2 to show you dynamic content via RSS feeds, gorgeous graphic music visualizers, as well as a variety of screensavers, games and more. You won't be sorry. Graphic Visualizers Squeezebox2 can display graphic visualizers such as spectrum analyzers and VU meters that beat to the music as it's playing. You can choose to show visualizers on the display all the time or as a screensaver. To choose a graphic visualizer to display all the time: Press NOW PLAYING several times to cycle through the visualizer choices. From the web interface, choose Player Settings, then scroll to Screensavers. Click Change. Using Squeezebox2 as a Wireless Bridge Squeezebox2 Wireless has both 802. 11g and ethernet connections. You can easily connect non-wireless devices (such as a TiVo, Playstation, XBox, or a home theatre PC) to your wireless network. Plug the device that you want to connect to your wireless network into the ethernet port on the back of Squeezebox2 using an ethernet crossover cable. Press and hold the LEFT arrow on the remote for five seconds to enter the Squeezebox2 setup screens. [. . . ] If it is correct, try changing it to a different folder and then change it back to the correct folder. iTunes will then update the information about your music and export that data correctly. (This process won't move any of your music, but it will force iTunes to scan your music library and update the paths to all the songs. iTunes may prompt you to organize your music library-- letting it do this will move and rename your songs. ) Getting More Information Where can I find more documentation? [. . . ]