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Table of Contents

About Squeezebox™ .............................................................................................. 2

System Requirements ............................................................................................ 2

Before You Begin ................................................................................................... 3

Installing the SlimServer Software .......................................................................... 4

Installing on Windows® ...................................................................................... 4

Installing on Mac OS X ....................................................................................... 5

Installing on Linux® or Other Operating System .................................................. 5

Connecting Squeezebox ....................................................................................... 6

Conﬁguring Squeezebox ....................................................................................... 7

Set Up Networking ............................................................................................ 7

Connecting to SlimServer .................................................................................. 8

Using the Remote ................................................................................................. 8

Playing Your Music .................................................................................................12

Using the Remote to Play Music .........................................................................12

Searching for Music with the Remote ................................................................13

Creating and Saving a Playlist ............................................................................14

Listening to Internet Radio .....................................................................................15

SqueezeNetwork ...................................................................................................16

Special Features .....................................................................................................17

Alarm Clock .......................................................................................................17

Graphic Visualizers ............................................................................................18

Using Squeezebox as a Wireless Bridge .............................................................18

Crossfading Between Tracks .............................................................................19

RSS News Ticker .................................................................................................20

Controlling Multiple Squeezeboxes with one SlimServer ....................................21

Wake-on-LAN ....................................................................................................21

Troubleshooting ....................................................................................................22

Getting More Information ......................................................................................25

AC POWERED PRODUCTS: IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION ............................26

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About Squeezebox

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Thank you for purchasing the Squeezebox™ music player. Squeezebox™ lets you play your digitized music collection through your stereo system using your wireless or ethernet network. With Squeezebox™, 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. Because new features are being added to Squeezebox™ on a continuous basis, some new capabilities may not be covered here. You can ﬁnd additional information about the latest Squeezebox™ features, as well as detailed documentation for developers, at

http://www.slimdevices.com/.

Squeezebox™ is powered by the open source SlimServer™ software, which is the result of the efforts of software developers worldwide working together in an open community. We are grateful to everyone who has helped to create Squeezebox™.

We hope you enjoy Squeezebox™ and that you’ll tell a friend about your new music player.

System Requirements

• Macintosh®: Mac OS X 10.3 or later, 256MB RAM, ethernet or wireless network, and 20MB of hard disk space for SlimServer

• Windows network, and 20MB hard disk space for SlimServer

• Linux network, and 20MB hard disk space for SlimServer

• Broadband internet connection for internet radio and SqueezeNetwork

XP/2000/NT: 733 MHz Pentium, 256MB RAM, ethernet or wireless

/BSD/Solaris®/Other: Perl 5.8.3 or later, 256MB RAM, ethernet or wireless

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Before You Begin

If you already have a wireless or ethernet network and a computer to use as a server, setting up Squeezebox your music playing through Squeezebox

1. First, collect your digitized music into one place on your computer. You can put all the ﬁles in a single directory, or create a series of subdirectories. The software you use to ‘rip’ your CDs, such as iTunes, may already do this and organize your music ﬁles by album or by artist.

2. Next, download the latest version of the SlimServer software to the same computer as your music collection. You can ﬁnd the latest version of SlimServer™ here:

http://www.slimdevices.com/download

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and SlimServer™ takes just a few minutes—all you need to get

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is in this owner’s guide.

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Installing the SlimServer Software

Installing on Windows

1. Download the SlimServer installer program to a location you can ﬁnd again on your computer. Your Desktop is a good choice.

2. When the ﬁle has ﬁnished downloading, double-click on the SlimServer installer icon. The SlimServer Setup Wizard starts.

Tip: You may see an ‘Open File - Security Warning’, if so, click Run.

3. Follow the instructions to set up SlimServer, and specify:

• Where to install the SlimServer software

• Where on your computer your music collection is (you can change this later)

• Where to save and look for any playlists you create

• Where to place shortcuts and icons for the application

4. Click NEXT change your selection, click BACK.

When you have ﬁnished conﬁguring your installation, the Setup Wizard displays

a summary of your choices.

5. Click INSTALL

SlimServer is installed and the “Completing the SlimServer Setup Wizard” panel is

displayed.

6. Click OK

7. A Squeezebox icon will appear in your Windows of your screen, right-click on this icon to show a menu and choose to open the SlimServer software, Stop SlimServer or go to the Slim Devices web site.

to accept the default value at each panel. If you want to go back and

System Tray at the bottom right

Installing on Mac OS X

1. Save the .dmg ﬁle to your Desktop.

2. When the ﬁle has ﬁnished downloading, double-click on the disk image ﬁle (.dmg) to make it appear on your desktop. Your web browser may do this for you automatically.

3. Double-click on the SlimServer Installer icon. The SlimServer Installer will start.

4. You can choose whether you want to install SlimServer for all users or just for the current user. If you want to install SlimServer for all users, you must provide an administrator password. (If you install SlimServer for all users, the user that starts SlimServer will be the only user who can stop SlimServer later on.)

5. Click INSTALL

6. System Preferences will open and show you the SlimServer preference pane. Here you can choose whether you would like the SlimServer to start automatically whenever you start or log in to your computer.

7. Click START SERVER The SlimServer web interface will open in your web browser. Feel free to bookmark this page so you can get back to it quickly in the future.

. After the Installer completes the installation, click OK.

. After a few seconds you can click on the Web Access button.

Installing on Linux® or Other Operating System

If you are running Red Hat Linux® or other compatible distributions, you can install the RPM ﬁle using the rpm tool.

If you are using another Unix® platform, you can download the SlimServer software perl scripts available in gzipped tar or zip format. Instructions for starting the perl server are included with the scripts.

Additional information about installing SlimServer on other platforms can be found on our web site at http://wiki.slimdevices.com or in our forums at

http://forums.slimdevices.com.

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Connecting Squeezebox

Headphone

Mini Jack

1. Connect Squeezebox to your stereo ampliﬁer or receiver using the included RCA cable with the red and white connectors.

You can also connect a digital optical cable to the square connector or digital

coaxial cable to the orange connector. (These cables are not included.) If you are using headphones or powered speakers, you can connect them to the 1/8” mini-jack.

2. Connect an ethernet cable from your hub or switch to Squeezebox.

3. Put the two AA batteries into the remote control.

4. Connect the power supply to Squeezebox and plug it in. You can leave Squeezebox plugged in at all times. When not in use, it enters standby mode and powers down the display.

Note: Squeezebox comes with a regulated power adaptor. Do not use a different power supply; this may damage the player.

Analog Audio

(RCA)

Digital Optical Output

Digital

Coax

Output

Ethernet Power

Conﬁguring Squeezebox

When you plug in Squeezebox, a logo is displayed brieﬂy, followed by a welcome message.

Set Up Networking

1. Press the RIGHT arrow on the remote control. The SET UP NETWORKING menu

option is displayed.

2. Press the

3. Choose whether you want to connect Squeezebox to a wireless or wired network

by pressing the UP and DOWN arrows on the remote. When you have made your selection, press the RIGHT arrow.

4. Squeezebox asks you for your local region or country. Scroll using the DOWN

arrow on the remote until you ﬁnd the local region. Press the your region.

Note: Failure to select the appropriate region may violate local laws.

5. Squeezebox will scan to ﬁnd your wireless network. Select your network name

(SSID) and press the RIGHT arrow.

If you are in an area where there are multiple wireless networks, you can scroll

down using the remote until you ﬁnd the one you want to use. If your router is not broadcasting your network name, you will need to select “Enter a network name”.

Tip: You can use the number buttons on the remote to enter text as you might on a cell phone. Use the ADD button on the remote as a backspace and the PLAY button to insert a letter.

6. If your network is secured with WEP or WPA encryption, you’ll need to enter the network password or key using the numbers and letters on the remote and press the RIGHT arrow. If your network supports more than one type of encryption at a time or is not broadcasting its SSID, Squeezebox may ask you to choose your encryption method ﬁrst.

Tip: WEP keys consist of a string of ten or twenty-six digits or letters A through F. WPA passwords are a string of letters, numbers or punctuation.

Squeezebox connects to your wireless network. If Squeezebox does not connect

to your wireless access point, you can press the LEFT arrow to go back and ﬁx your settings. If you are still having trouble, check the Troubleshooting section at the end of this guide.

RIGHT arrow to enter networking setup.

RIGHT arrow to select

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7. Choose whether you want the Squeezebox to obtain an IP address automatically using DHCP, or whether you want to assign it a static IP address. Most networks will let Squeezebox obtain an address automatically. Press the If you chose to assign Squeezebox a static IP, enter it using the numbers on the remote. Press the RIGHT arrow to save the address.

Tip: Use leading zeroes to specify numbers with fewer than 3 digits, for example, you would enter 010.001.004.281 for 10.1.4.281.

Enter the subnet mask for the network, the default gateway IP address,

and the address of your DNS server, pressing the right arrow on the remote to move to each one.

RIGHT arrow.

Connecting to SlimServer

1. If SlimServer isn’t already running, start it now.

Squeezebox will scan your local network to ﬁnd the computer that’s running

SlimServer. If you started SlimServer after conﬁguring Squeezebox, you may need to scroll to ﬁnd it.

2. Select the computer you want to use. If you are running SlimServer on multiple computers on your local network, you can use the DOWN arrow to scroll to the one you want to use.

3. Press the

Setup is complete.

Tip: If you want to go back to setup later press the left arrow on the remote down and hold it for ﬁve seconds. Squeezebox will return to the

RIGHT arrow on the remote to connect.

Set Up Networking menu.

Press FWD to skip to the next song. Press and hold FWD to scan forward through the current song.

Use the UP, DOWN, LEFT, and RIGHT arrows to navigate within the music library. UP next item. Press LEFT to go out of the current list. Press RIGHT to go into the item or to display additional information about a song.

Press PLAY to play the songs contained within the displayed selection. If you press PLAY

• Genre, artist or album—Squeezebox plays all the songs for the displayed genre, artist, or album

• Song—Squeezebox plays that song. If that song is displayed within the rest of an album, the whole album is played, starting at the song on the display.

• Playlist—Squeezebox plays all of the songs in that playlist.

• Folder—Squeezebox plays all songs in that folder and subfolders.

Tip: To save a playlist, press NOW PLAYING then press and hold PLAY. You will be prompted to save the current playlist for use later.

Press ADD to append the displayed selection to the end of the current playlist. If you press ADD while displaying a

• Genre, artist or album—Squeezebox adds all the songs for the displayed genre, artist, or album to the end of the Now Playing playlist

• Song—Squeezebox adds that song to the end of the list.

• Playlist—Squeezebox adds all of the songs in that playlist.

• Folder—Squeezebox adds all the songs in that folder and sub-folders.

displays the previous item within a list, DOWN the

while displaying:

Using the Remote

Press POWER to put Squeezebox into standby mode. This will dim the display, stop the music and show a clock. Press POWER again to wake Squeezebox.

Use the VOLUME buttons to adjust the loudness of the audio Squeezebox is producing.

Press REW to immediately begin the current song again. Press REW twice to skip to the previous song. Press and hold REW

Press PAUSE to pause the current song. Press PAUSE again to continue. Press and hold

PAUSE

to stop playback.

to scan backwards through the current song.

Tip: You can press and hold ADD to insert the item on the screen to be played immediately after the currently playing song.

Tip: When in the Now Playing list: Press ADD to remove the visible song from the playlist. Press and hold ADD to move the song from the current playlist to the end of the Zapped Songs playlist.

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Press FAVORITES to jump to the list of favorite items you’ve saved. Press and hold FAVORITES while displaying a song, radio station or playlist name to add it to your favorites list

Press BROWSE to browse through your music library by Genre, Artist, Album, and more.

Press SEARCH to search for Albums, Artists, or Songs. When Squeezebox displays SEARCH Music, press the RIGHT arrow to enter your search text.

Use the number buttons to enter letters (just like entering text with a cell phone.) For example, press the 2 button once for “A,” twice for “B,” three times for “C,” and four times for “2”. Use 0 for spaces. Press 1 to cycle through punctuation. Press RIGHT to see the results of your search.

Tip: In sorted lists such as lists of artists, albums or genres, press the number buttons to jump to the ﬁrst item that starts with the corresponding letter.

Tip: In unsorted lists such as playlists, press a number button to jump proportionally through the list.

Press SHUFFLE to cycle between the following settings:

• Shufﬂe All Songs

• Shufﬂe By Album

• No Shufﬂe

Press REPEAT to cycle between the following settings:

• Repeat Off (stop playing at the end of the current playlist)

• Repeat Current Song

• Repeat All Songs

Press NOW PLAYING to display the song you are listening to. Press NOW PLAYING again to cycle through different display formats for the now playing song, including graphic visualizers and progress meters.

Press SIZE to cycle between different display font sizes. You can do this while Squeezebox is powered on or off.

Press BRIGHTNESS to cycle through Squeezebox display brightness levels. You can do this while Squeezebox is powered either on or off. If you want to dim the display completely, press BRIGHTNESS to cycle to a completely dark screen. If Squeezebox is powered off, it will stay dark until you power it back on or press BRIGHTNESS again. If Squeezebox is powered on, press any button on the remote to turn on the display.

Press SLEEP to tell Squeezebox to turn itself off in 15 minutes. Add 15 minute increments (up to a total of 90 minutes) by pressing SLEEP repeatedly. If you wish to cancel the Sleep function, press SLEEP until the player displays SLEEP CANCELLED.

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Playing Your Music

Squeezebox plays music that you select with the remote control or the web interface.

Using the Remote to Play Music

1. Use the LEFT arrow to go to SQUEEZEBOX HOME. You may have to press the LEFT

arrow more than once to get there.

2. Use the UP

3. Press the down to browse by artist, genre, year, new music, existing playlists, or browse the contents of your music folder.

4. To browse an album, artist, or genre, press the then the UP and DOWN arrows to scroll through the list.

5. When you ﬁnd an album, artist, genre or song you want to listen to, press PLAY play all the songs associated with the displayed item.

Tip: If you want to play the selected songs after the songs that you are already listening to, press ADD and they will be added to the end of the list.

6. Press NOW PLAYING to jump to the list of songs that you have selected to play. Scroll through the list with the UP and DOWN arrows. Press the LEFT arrow to return to the main SQUEEZEBOX HOME menu.

Using the Web Interface to Play Music

1. Open the web interface in your browser. If you are using the computer where you installed SlimServer, go to http://localhost:9000/

If you are using a different computer on the same local network as the SlimServer

computer, use “http://<IPaddress>:9000/” where <IPaddress> is the IP address or name of the SlimServer computer. See the Troubleshooting section at the end of this guide for details.

Tip: Windows® users can use the SlimServer System Tray icon to bring up the web interface automatically on their SlimServer computer. Mac users can use the SlimServer pane in System Preferences to bring up the web interface.

and DOWN arrows to ﬁnd the BROWSE MUSIC option.

RIGHT arrow. The BROWSE ALBUMS option is displayed. You can scroll

RIGHT arrow to select it,

2. From the left pane of the web interface, you can browse by a variety of categories, including album, artist, genre, album cover art (if available), new music, by year, and more.

3. When you ﬁnd an album, artist, track, or playlist you want to listen to, click on the play icon to the right of it to hear it immediately. To add an item to be played at the end of the playlist, click on the add icon.

Searching for Music with the Remote

You can enter the name of the song, artist or album you are looking for in two ways. In each case, the cursor automatically advances three seconds after you press a button. If the button you want next is different from the last button you pressed, you can proceed as quickly as you want. If you have to press the same button consecutively, wait for the cursor to advance before pressing the button again, or press the RIGHT arrow to move on.

Tip: You don’t have to enter the entire album name, artist name, or song title to search successfully; just enter the ﬁrst few letters and press right, then scroll down through the results using the DOWN arrow.

Using the LEFT, RIGHT, UP, and DOWN arrows to enter letters or numbers:

1. Press the UP

2. Press the

3. Fix errors by pressing the LEFT

4. After you’ve entered all of the text you want to use for the search, press the arrow twice to run the search.

Using the “cellphone” method to enter letters or numbers:

1. Press the black number buttons ( and numbers.

2. Press the

3. Press the

4. Press the LEFT character.

5. Press the

or DOWN arrows until the character you want is displayed.

RIGHT arrow once to advance one space to the right.

arrow.

RIGHT

2 – 9) one, two, three or four times for letters

0 (zero) button for a space.

1 button repeatedly to cycle through punctuation.

arrow to erase letters. Press and hold to erase more than one

RIGHT arrow when you are ﬁnished entering text to run the search.

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Creating and Saving a Playlist

You can use the remote control or the web interface to create playlists and save them for later. Before you create and save a playlist, make sure you have speciﬁed a folder for Squeezebox to use for saving playlists.

To specify a playlists folder:

1. From the web interface, click the SERVER SETTINGS

2. In the Playlists Folder section, enter the path to the folder on your hard drive

that you want Squeezebox to use for saving playlists, and click CHANGE

To create a playlist using the web interface:

1. Search or browse through your music library for music you want to put in the playlist.

2. When you locate a song, album, artist or genre you want to put in the playlist, click the plus (+) sign next to it. It is added to the current NOW PLAYING

3. To change the order of the tracks in the playlist, use the up and down arrows to move tracks up and down the list.

4. To save the playlist, click the SAVE button at the top of the current playlist, on the right half of the page. The new playlist should appear on the left side of the page. Enter the name you want to give this playlist and click Save. The playlist is saved to the folder you speciﬁed. To ﬁnd it again, use the Browse Playlists feature.

To create a playlist using the remote control:

1. Search or browse through your music library for music you want to put in the playlist.

link.

playlist.

Listening to Internet Radio

You can listen to thousands of internet radio stations with Squeezebox. To access internet radio stations using the remote:

1. Press LEFT

more than once.)

2. Press DOWN

3. Press DOWN

PICKS

Other providers show more stations organized by genre, type, name, popularity or recommendation.

4. Press the choices to display the station you’d like to tune to.

4. Press PLAY internet radio station.

To play an internet radio station that’s not shown in the Internet Radio area:

1. Using the SlimServer web interface, click the RADIO TUNE

2. Enter the URL for the radio station you want to listen to in the Radio URL ﬁeld and click Tune In.

to go back to SQUEEZEBOX HOME. (You may have to press LEFT

to scroll to Internet Radio, then press RIGHT.

to scroll through a list of internet radio providers.

is a frequently updated list of stations recommended by Slim Devices.

RIGHT to enter a provider’s area. Use the arrow buttons to navigate through

to tune into the station. It may take a few seconds to connect to an

In link.

2. When you locate a song, album, artist or genre you want to put in the playlist,

press ADD

3. To save the playlist, press NOW PLAYING

the remote. Using the remote keypad, enter the name you want to give this playlist and press the RIGHT arrow.

4. The playlist is saved. To ﬁnd it again, use BROWSE PLAYLISTS

. It is added to the NOW PLAYING playlist.

and then press and hold PLAY on

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SqueezeNetwork

SqueezeNetwork is an always-on service that provides access to Internet Radio, alarm clock, natural sounds, news feeds and more, even when your computer is off. Your Squeezebox connects to SqueezeNetwork using your broadband Internet connection. When your Squeezebox is connected to SqueezeNetwork, it’s not connected to your SlimServer computer.

To connect to SqueezeNetwork, press the left button until SQUEEZEBOX SETUP or SQUEEZEBOX HOME to SQUEEZENETWORK and press RIGHT.

The ﬁrst time you connect to SqueezeNetwork, you’ll be asked to choose a language and time zone. You’ll then be provided with a Personal Identiﬁcation Number (PIN) for your Squeezebox.

Visit http://www.squeezenetwork.com/ with your web browser to create an account on SqueezeNetwork and enter your PIN to register. From that web site you can add favorites to your SqueezeNetwork account, add and modify your favorite radio stations, RSS News feeds and more.

If you ever need to ﬁnd your PIN again later, connect to SqueezeNetwork with your remote and scroll DOWN to SETTINGS, press RIGHT, then scroll to SQUEEZEBOX PIN and press RIGHT again.

To switch back to your SlimServer from SqueezeNetwork, press LEFT until you see

SQUEEZENETWORK RIGHT.

Tip: “Where am I?” Press LEFT repeatedly until you get to the top most menu. If you are connected to SqueezeNetwork, you’ll see SqueezeNetwork on the top line. If you are connected to your SlimServer computer, you’ll see Squeezebox Home.

are displayed on the screen. Then use the DOWN button to scroll

on the top line of the display, then scroll to LOG OFF, then press

Special Features

Squeezebox 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 Squeezebox to show you dynamic content via RSS feeds, gorgeous graphic music visualizers, as well as a variety of screensavers, games and more.

There are a wide range of settings to let you customize your Squeezebox to your liking. Explore! You won’t be sorry. Here are a few to get you started.

Alarm Clock

Squeezebox has a built-in alarm clock feature with eight alarms—one for each day of the week and another that goes off every day at the same time.

To set the alarms using the remote control:

1. Press the left arrow until you see SQUEEZEBOX HOME on the top line of the display. Scroll down until you see SETTINGS and press the

RIGHT arrow.

2. Scroll down until you see ALARM CLOCK

3. To set an alarm that goes off every day:

Press

Press DOWN

RIGHT when displaying SET ALARM TIME to enter the alarm time.

Use the arrow keys to move and set the time. Press LEFT when you’ve set the time.

DOWN to see Alarm Playlist, then press right. Choose from this list the playlist

that you’d like to hear when the alarm goes off. Press left once you’ve chosen your playlist.

to see ALARM VOLUME, then press RIGHT. Use the UP and DOWN

buttons to adjust the volume for the alarm. Press RIGHT when you’ve ﬁnished.

Press

to see ALARM CLOCK OFF. Press right to turn on the alarm.

RIGHT again to turn it off.

then press the right arrow.

or SQUEEZENETWORK

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