Media Player; Shared Media - auna Worldwide Bedienungsanleitung

The Music Player mode plays audio files such as MP3s, AACs, WMAs or FLACs from a computer on the local
network. ln order for the radio to play music files from a computer, the computer must be setup to share
files or media.
UPnP media sharing allows devices like you radio to play music from a shared media library, navigating
through tag menus such as Artist, Album or Genre. lf you are running a suitable serversystem such as a PC
with Windows Media Player 10 or later (WMP), and you music library is well-tagged, then it is recommended
to use media sharing. Only the UPnP server needs to be set up. To set up WMP for media sharing, perform
the following steps:
• Ensure that the PC is connected to the network.
• Ensure that the radio is powered an and connected to the same network.
• ln WMP, add to the media library the audio files and folders you want to share with your radio.
(Library>add to Library ... ).
• ln WMP, enable media sharing (Library>Media sharing ... ).
• Make sure that the radio has access to the shared media by selecting it and clicking „ALLOW". You can
also set a name for the shared media in „Settings ... „. Click „OK"to close the dialogue boxes.
• The PC is now ready to stream the music to the radio, The WMP UPnP service runs in the background;
there is no need to start WMP explicitly.
Note:
iTunes does not currently work as a UPnP media server, but there are add-ons available to work with an
iTunes library.
To enter Music Player mode, either press MODE until the display shows „Music player" or select „Music
player" in the main menu by the use of the SELECT control.
• Press the BACK button to quickly move back to the previous menu during playback of a title.
• Press the or
• Press and hold the
• Press the button to interrupt playback or resume playback.
The name of the track/title and the artist is displayed during playback. A progress bar indicating the elapsed
and total playing time is also displayed. An icon in the lower part of the display indicates the selected re-
source. To view further information, press the INFO button- upon each press, another set of information is
displayed cycling through track or title/artist/progress/track or title duration, album, codec/sampling rate,
playback buffer and current date.
lf you have set up shared media, you should see an entry consisting of <computer name>: <Shared media
name>. lf you have more than one computer sharing media, the alternatives are listed. Select the shared
media you want to play.
From this point on, the shared files menus are generated by the server. The first menu shows a list of media
types, e.g. music, videos, images and playlists. The radio can playback titles from music and playlist sec-
tions.
There is a also search function for finding tracks or titles which is similar to the Internet radio search. For
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button to select previous or next track.
or button to rewind or fastforward.

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