Roku Radio Wi-Fi Music System User Manual

SoundBridge™ Radio Wi-Fi Music System

User Guide | Software v2.5

Welcome

Thanks for purchasing Roku SoundBridge Radio! We hope you enjoy using it as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it. SoundBridge Radio is a simple, high-performance tabletop radio that’s ready for the digital world.

Run the Latest Software!

We are always working on improving the software for our products. Your SoundBridge Radio will let you know when a software update is available. We recommend you accept new software updates when they are offered. The update just takes two minutes, and enhances the features of your SoundBridge Radio. All you need is an active Internet connection.

It’s quick, easy and ensures that you are notiﬁed of the latest software updates for SoundBridge Radio. Of course, we won’t share your personal information with anyone else. Visit www.rokulabs.com/support.

Download the Latest User Guide!

When our software changes, so does our user guide. Visit www.rokulabs.com/support to download the latest version as a PDF document and learn about the latest features.

Visit www.rokulabs.com/support to register your SoundBridge Radio.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION 1: GETTING STARTED......................4

Introduction...........................................................4

Package Contents.................................................4

Important Safety Information ..........................4

Setting Up Your SoundBridge Radio...............5

Conﬁguring Your SoundBridge Radio.............6

Navigating SoundBridge Radio Menus ..........6

Changing Music Sources.....................................7

Using Headphones................................................8

Turning Off Your SoundBridge Radio...............8

SECTION 2: PLAYING AM/FM RADIO...........9

SoundBridge Radio Buttons...............................9

Remote Control Buttons....................................10

Storing Your Favorite Radio

Stations to Presets.....................................12

SECTION 3: PLAYING INTERNET RADIO....12

Selecting Internet Radio Stations....................13

Browsing Internet Radio Stations....................13

Find Station URLs

Using Roku Radio Snooper......................15

Playing Internet Radio from iTunes ................15

Customizing Favorites and Presets for

Internet Radio.............................................17

Saving Stations Originating in

iTunes to Presets........................................20

Memorizing a Radio Playlist.............................20

Playing Stations Saved as

“My Favorites” or “Presets”......................21

Playback Limitations of Internet

Radio Streams............................................22

Discovering More Internet Radio Stations....22

SECTION 4: SHARING YOUR PC OR MAC MUSIC LIBRARY

Music Server..........................................................23

Music Servers and SoundBridge

Radio Features...........................................23

Installing a Compatible Music Server............25

Enabling Music Sharing.....................................26

Personal Firewall.................................................28

SECTION 5: BROWSING MUSIC....................29

Choosing Your Music Library...........................29

Remote Control Quick Reference....................29

Home Menu Overview.......................................30

Browsing Your Music by Album......................31

Browsing by Artist or Composer.....................33

Browsing by Song...............................................34

Browsing by Genre.............................................34

Browsing Server Containers............................34

SECTION 6: THE SONG QUEUE.....................35

Building a Song Queue......................................35

Reviewing a Song Queue..................................36

Erasing a Song Queue .......................................37

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SECTION 7: ADDITIONAL

PLAYBACK OPTIONS...........................................38

Playing a Playlist.....................................................38

Repeat and Shufﬂe................................................38

Search Options.......................................................39

SECTION 8: PRESETS..........................................40

Recalling Presets....................................................40

Editing Presets Using the Web Interface.........40

Presets in a Universal Remote Control.............41

SECTION 9: SOUNDBRIDGE RADIO WEB INTERFACE

Launching the Web Interface.............................41

Now Playing ...........................................................43

Presets .....................................................................44

Conﬁguration ........................................................46

Status ......................................................................47

SECTION 10: ALARM CLOCK...........................48

Setting the Alarm..................................................48

Wake-Up Selections.............................................49

Sleep Function.......................................................49

SECTION 11: ADVANCED FEATURES............50

Display Options.....................................................50

Light Sensor............................................................50

Settings....................................................................50

Clock Settings ........................................................52

Date Format............................................................54

Language Setup....................................................54

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Standby and Reboot Options...........................55

WMA Lossless Transcoding...............................55

FLAC and Ogg-Vorbis Transcoding.................55

Programming a Universal Remote Control...55

Safe Mode..............................................................56

Using SD Cards.....................................................57

Roku Control Protocol (RCP).............................57

Geeks – Read This................................................57

SECTION 12:OPTIONS

FOR SYSTEM CONFIGURATION....................58

Software Version & Updates.............................58

Select Wi-Fi SSID & Password...........................58

Show Wi-Fi Status................................................58

Network Control...................................................58

Reset to Factory Defaults...................................58

Restart SoundBridge Radio...............................58

SECTION 13: APPENDICES

Appendix 1A: Menus Overview.......................59

Appendix 1B: Remote Control Buttons.........61

Appendix 1C: Screen Icons and

Quick Reference..........................................62

Appendix 1D: Music Visualizer Options.......64

Appendix 2: Wi-Fi Setup Help.........................64

Appendix 3: End User Software

License Agreement....................................76

Appendix 4: Limited Warranty........................77

Appendix 5: Regulations and Safety.............79

SECTION 1: GETTING STARTED

Introduction

Your SoundBridge Radio makes listening to Internet radio as easy as listening to AM/FM radio with easy browsing of a variety of Internet radio stations and the ability to save your favorites with the press of a button. You can import your own station URL’s to hear over 10,000 stations from around the globe in every music or talk format. You can also stream your Mac or PC music libraries stored on any computer that’s connected to your Wi-Fi home network. At your bedside, SoundBridge Radio can gently wake you with your choice of music or radio station. A built-in light sensor dims the display when you turn off the lights.

SoundBridge Radio was created with an advanced speaker system designed by audio legend Dr. Godehard Guenther. The result is a set of speakers and subwoofer that work together seamlessly to deliver unusually transparent and powerful acoustic performance not seen previously from a system of this size. Please note: If you choose to listen to highly compressed digital music (like low-bitrate MP3 ﬁles or Internet radio) you may ﬁnd that the speaker system reveals the audio limitations in the source material quite clearly. This is not a ﬂaw of the system, but rather a demonstration of the accurate audio reproduction possible with SoundBridge Radio. Higher-bitrate audio (192kbps or greater) using advanced codecs like AAC and WMA will sound very pleasing.

Package Contents

Before proceeding, check your package and verify that you received the following items:

• Roku SoundBridge Radio

• Remote control (two AAA batteries included)

• Power cord

• External AM antenna

• AM antenna adaptor

• External FM antenna

• User guide (this document)

Important Safety Information

We recommend that you read “Appendix 5: Regulations & Safety Information.”

Section 1: Getting Started

Setting Up Your SoundBridge Radio

To use SoundBridge Radio you will need to:

1. Put the included AAA batteries into your remote control. Make sure there is no object blocking the IR receiver located on the right side of your SoundBridge Radio display.

2. Attach the AM and FM radio antennas. At the rear of the unit, the FM antenna plugs into the FM connector labeled “FM” and the AM antenna plugs into the AM connector labeled “AM.”

3. Plug the power cord into the back of SoundBridge Radio, then into an electric AC power outlet. There is no power switch to turn on SoundBridge Radio. As soon as you plug in the power, you should see the Roku logo and the SoundBridge Radio welcome message.

4. Answer the questions on your display to conﬁgure SoundBridge Radio. SoundBridge Radio will then search for your Wi-Fi network and automatically connect (or prompt you to enter a WEP password). If SoundBridge Radio cannot ﬁnd a network and you only want to listen to AM/FM radio or music from your SD card, press Exit [ ] on your remote control and begin tuning to a radio station. If you want to conﬁgure the network connection later, have more than one network, or use a security key, see Appendix 2: “Wi-Fi Setup Help.”

Note: The included AM antenna works well for strong, local stations. If you ﬁnd that a particular station does not come in clearly or is “noisy”, you may wish to consider an alternative antenna. (We’ve found that the Terk AM-1000 “AM Advantage” works well.) Since many AM antennas come with two bare wires, we have included a small adaptor. If you have this bare wire type of antenna, plug the adaptor into the AM antenna jack on the unit, and then connect each wire of your antenna to one of the two wires of the adaptor by twisting the wires together. Then wrap some tape around the bare wire so that the two wires don’t touch.

When a software update is available, your SoundBridge Radio will automatically offer you the choice to upgrade. Please take a minute to do so. You’ll just need SoundBridge Radio connected to a network with a high-speed Internet connection. Roku will release a revised user guide in PDF format periodically to explain new features or functions that have been added to the SoundBridge software. Please visit www.rokulabs.com/support to download the latest manual.

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Conﬁguring Your SoundBridge Radio

SoundBridge Radio allows you to customize your product by choosing from multiple languages, and a range of time zones and geographic locations. Your country information is used to select the correct Wi-Fi format. Note that it may be illegal for you to select an incorrect country. SoundBridge Radio uses your time zone selection to set the time from an external “atomic clock” time server from the Internet.

During this process, if you want to move back to a prior menu, use the Back [] key on your remote control. If at a later time you change your mind about your selections, you can change them singly using SoundBridge Radio’s Web Interface or start fresh using “Reset to Factory Defaults”. See the “SoundBridge Radio Web Interface” and “Advanced Features” chapters of this manual for more information.

After completing these selections, SoundBridge Radio looks for a Wi-Fi connection, and then connects to the Internet and to any networked computers with shared music servers (see “Sharing Your PC or Mac Music Library”). You can now begin listening to AM/FM radio or Internet radio.

Navigating SoundBridge Radio Menus

As you use your remote control to navigate between menus on SoundBridge Radio, you will see just the ﬁrst few lines of each menu. You can use the Bright button on your remote control to adjust text size between 1, 2, or 4 lines of text. Use the Up/ Down arrows on the remote control to see the complete a list of menu options, then press Select [4] to choose a menu item.

Below are the ﬁrst two levels of SoundBridge Radio menus:

To choose a music source to play, simply navigate to it and press Select. You will then see the “Home Menu” for that source. Scroll down to see all the available commands for your music source.

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Changing Music Sources

The “Change Library or Conﬁguration” Menu

Play Dan’s Music

The Home Menu

Ë Play Joe’s Music

Play AM Radio Play FM Radio Play Internet Radio

  SystemConguration

You easily navigate between different music servers on your network, as well as your Internet Radio Library and AM/FM radio. You can use the Source [ ] button on the top of the unit to access another music source. Or, you can also use your remote control as follows:

1. Press Home[

2. Press Down [ 6 ] and navigate to “Change Library or Conﬁguration” and then press Select [4]. All your available libraries are displayed.

3. Navigate to the library you would like and press library.

Browse Play Preset

ShowSongQueue ShowNowPlaying Settings ChangeLibraryorConguration

Select [4] to access your desired music

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Using Headphones

For private listening, connect headphones to the headphone jack on the side of the unit. The speakers are automatically muted when you plug in headphones. To change the volume level of the headphones, use the volume knob on SoundBridge Radio or the volume buttons on the remote control.

You won’t miss your alarm! The alarm is designed to sound from the built-in speakers even if your headphones are connected.

Turning Off Your SoundBridge Radio

When you are ﬁnished playing music on your SoundBridge Radio, press Standby [] on your remote. In Standby mode, SoundBridge Radio’s display is blank or shows the time. See “Advanced Features” for more information on SoundBridge Radio’s standby settings.

If you plan to disconnect SoundBridge Radio from AC power, be sure to press Standby [] ﬁrst. This logs you out of the music server software running on your computer. Wait approximately ﬁve seconds after pressing Standby [] before unplugging SoundBridge Radio. This gives it time to ﬂush its settings for a clean reboot.

If you want to disconnect the power cord from your SoundBridge Radio, please place one hand ﬁrmly on the subwoofer enclosure when removing the power cord from the unit.

Note: If you unplug SoundBridge Radio from AC power ﬁve times without pressing Standby [] on your remote ﬁrst, iTunes may lock you out of connecting to the server. This is

because iTunes allows a maximum of ﬁve users to connect at one time. If you do not ﬁrst put SoundBridge Radio in standby mode, iTunes thinks you are still connected. To restore your access to the iTunes server, close iTunes and then restart it.

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SECTION 2: PLAYING AM/FM RADIO

Introduction

Listening to AM/FM radio stations is similar to your experience with other radios. You can scan for available stations and then store up to 18 of them as Presets.

If SoundBridge Radio is turned off, press the Standby [] button on the remote control or press any of the Preset buttons (numbered 1-6) or the Source [ ] button on SoundBridge Radio. To tune in to an AM/FM station, press the Source [ ] button until “FM Radio” or “AM Radio” is displayed, and then use the Scan Up [ ] and Scan Down [ ] buttons on the radio or the Next Track/Previous Track [ : 9 ] buttons on the remote control to ﬁnd stations. SoundBridge Radio will rapidly search for radio stations with a strong signal. To tune in to a speciﬁc station by frequency, press the up or down arrow on your remote at any point while listening to the radio. You will see a list of frequencies similar to this:

X)) 105.3 FM

105.5 FM

105.7 FM

The speaker icon X)) indicates the station currently playing. Use the Up/Down arrows on your remote to move through the list one by one, or the Left/Right arrows to move by larger increments. Your selection is denoted by an arrow. Press Select to play a selected frequency.

SoundBridge Radio Buttons

On the top of the unit, you will see the following buttons.

Icon Name Actio n

Sou rce Sele cts betw een AM /FM, SD Card/ Intern et rad io, or a Music Libra ry.

Sca n Up (F orwar d)

Sca n Down (Ba ckwar d)

Sca ns or s crolls forw ard. (S ame as the Ne xt Tra ck 9 bu tton on you r remot e cont rol.)

Sca ns or s crolls back ward. ( Same a s the P reviou s Track : but ton on your remo te cont rol.)

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Icon Name Actio n

PRESETS

VOLUME

Alar m Sh ows al arm se ttin gs; hol d to se t the a larm.

SNOOZE

large r ound knob

at top/l eft

1–6

Sno oze/Sle ep Pre ss once to sno oze th e alarm by 7 mi nutes . Pres s repe atedly to set the R adio to go to

sle ep in a chose n time inter val (or press to canc el the Sleep func tion).

Stan dby/Vol ume Pre ss to to ggle S tandby mode; turn t o adju st vol ume.

Pre sets 1 –6 Sele cts one of 6 dif feren t pres et sta tions or pla ylist s. Use with A -B-C butto n to ac cess

the next set of six pr eset s.

A-B - C Pre set Ba nk Selec ts on e of 3 “ banks ” of 6 prese ts, gi ving y ou acce ss to a total of 18 pr esets .

Remote Control Buttons

You can also use your remote control with AM and FM radio as described below.

Current Remote New Remote (Rendering)

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Button

old remo te

Button

new remote

Name Actio n

4 4

; ;

 

‚·

ﬂ ‡

Up/D own Navi gates throug h avail able s elect ions i n the list.

Lef t/Ri ght “Fas tBrow se.” Whe n brow sing fo r an ar tist alpha betic ally, yo u skip from o ne let ter of

the alphab et to a nother.

Sele ct Sele cts any ite m show n on So undBr idge R adio’s di splay. P ressi ng Sel ect is like c lickin g

your mouse on a h ighlig hted i tem.

Play Beg ins pl aying c urren t sele ction .

Paus e Pau ses c urrent ly play ing so ng.

Hom e Takes y ou to t he Sou rce or Home M enu.

Ex it Takes you on e step back ward an d work s like the Ba ck bu tton o n your Intern et

brow ser. Pr essin g Exi t repea tedly displa ys inf ormat ion ab out th e song curre ntly play ing.

Stan dby Stops p laying the cu rrent selec tion and put s Sou ndBri dge Ra dio in stand by mode .

Adju st Dis play Adju sts b right ness a nd size of dis play in forma tion w hen us ed wit h Up/D own an d

Lef t/Ri ght bu ttons .

Volum e Ad justs the vo lume.

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Storing Your Favorite Radio Stations to Presets

A Preset is a quick way to play your favorite music on your SoundBridge Radio. Any music you can play on the SoundBridge Radio can be saved as a Preset. This includes AM/FM and Internet radio stations, playlists, albums, tracks by a particular artist, and so on. The SoundBridge Radio presets are not “source speciﬁc” — there are not separate presets for FM, AM and Internet radio. This allows you to arrange your Presets any way you like, and gives you one-button access to any source.

SoundBridge Radio supports 18 presets in three banks of six: A1–A6, B1–B6 and C1–C6. Press the A-B-C button to access each set of six presets.

To program an AM/FM radio station as a preset, press and hold one of the Preset buttons while listening to the station until you hear a beep. To change the name of the preset as it appears in your display, see the “SoundBridge Radio Web Interface” chapter of this user guide.

SECTION 3: PLAYING INTERNET RADIO

Introduction

What is Internet radio? It’s thousands of radio stations, broadcast by a variety of entities, from large companies to independent broadcasters, streaming digital audio over the Internet. There are free Internet radio stations for BBC, NPR, ESPN, jazz, rock, hip hop, and many, many other formats. With Internet radio, you can hear more of the music you love or discover new favorites; you can also listen to free news, sports, weather, and talk radio. You can listen to stations in other countries, or from the home town where you grew up. Internet radio offers the most music selection of any type of radio, and most stations are free.

You can listen to Internet radio in one of four ways. First, you can listen to SoundBridge Radio’s built-in set of radio stations located in the “Internet Radio” Library. Your computer does not need to be on - all you need is an active Internet connection on your home network. Second, you can enter a URL of a radio station playlist on the Presets tab of the SoundBridge Radio web page. (This feature is described more in the “SoundBridge Radio Web Interface” chapter of this user guide.) Third, you can use Roku Radio Snooper to ﬁnd, test and set a radio station url

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you’re listening to on your computer to be a new SoundBridge Radio preset. Fourth, you can use iTunes to tune in to other stations, and then play them back on SoundBridge Radio. (Note: You can use iTunes for radio tuning even if you normally use Windows Media Connect as your music server.)

Selecting Internet Radio Stations

To listen to one of SoundBridge Radio’s eighteen preset stations, you can either:

• Push a Preset button; or

• Press the

Source [ ] button until you see “Internet Radio” on the display. The ﬁrst available Internet radio station will begin playing. Use the Scan Up [ ] and Scan Down [ ] buttons to scan through the Preset stations preprogrammed in your SoundBridge Radio.

When you ﬁnd a station to play, make sure the selection arrow [4] is pointing to the station and wait – the station will begin playing in a few moments. (Or, if you are using your remote Control to scroll through the list, press Select to choose a station to play.)

When the station is playing, the “Now Playing” screen looks similar to this:

Michelle Shocked — Black Widow

http://www.radioparadise.com RadioParadise.com

Note: The song and artist information is provided by each Internet radio station. Therefore, it may not be available for every station, or it may look slightly different.

Browsing Internet Radio Stations

You can also use your remote control to browse radio stations by Name, Genre, Language, and Location. (There are about 100 pre-selected stations shipping in SoundBridge Radio now, and this number is expected to increase in future software releases.)

To navigate to the “Internet Radio” Library using your remote control, follow these steps:

1. Press Home Menu

Conﬁguration” and press Select [4].

[ ] button on your remote. Navigate down to ”Change Library or

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2. Your available music libraries will be displayed, including the one named “Internet Radio.” Select that library and you will see a list of Internet radio stations. These are your Presets, and they are pre-loaded when your SoundBridge Radio is ﬁrst set up. See below for more information on how to edit these Presets.

3. Press Home Menu[

] button to access your browsing options.

You will see the following options:

My Favorites

Browse Play Preset ShowNowPlaying (Etc.)

Select “Browse” and select the method of browsing that you prefer:

Browse Names

Browse Genres

BrowseLocations(bycountryoforigin) BrowseLanguages

Scroll down to the station you would like to hear and press Select [4] for more information about the stream, or Play to begin playback.

: You can “Fast Browse” a list of results by pressing the Left/Right arrows on your remote;

Hint

your results will skip to the next letter of the alphabet.

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Find Station URLs Using Roku Radio Snooper

Roku Radio Snooper is a free Windows application that enables you to quickly and easily discover the URL for your favorite Internet radio stations and determine if the station is supported by SoundBridge Radio and then make it one of your 18 SoundBridge Radio presets with the click of a button. Go to www.rokulabs.com/snooper to download Roku Radio Snooper. Once launched, the lightweight application runs in the background. And while you are listening to any Internet radio stream on your PC, Snooper will test the stream, determine compatibility in an instant, and then present you with the option to set a compatible station as a preset with one button click. Snooper requires software version 2.5 or later running on your SoundBridge Radio.

Playing Internet Radio from iTunes

If you want to listen to a station that is not among SoundBridge Radio’s built-in list of stations, you can use iTunes to “tune in” to that station, and then listen to it on SoundBridge Radio. (Windows Media Connect users can continue to use WMC for your music library, and just use iTunes for this feature.)

To play Internet radio stations with the iTunes music server on SoundBridge Radio:

1. In iTunes, create a new playlist (for example, let’s call it “RadioFavorites”).

2. Find the stations that you would like to play on SoundBridge Radio; browse the iTunes Internet radio station list by clicking on the Radio button on the Source tray of iTunes, or import a speciﬁc URL from its online source.

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3. Drag and drop the stations you like into the “RadioFavorites” playlist.

The result is an iTunes playlist that contains your favorite radio stations (see next image).

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4. Play this playlist on SoundBridge Radio. Connect to your iTunes Music Library by choosing the “Change Library or Conﬁguration” option from your Home Menu and select the name of your library. Once connected, select “Playlists.” Scroll down to the saved playlist (in our example, “RadioFavorites”) and select it. You can now scroll through your favorite radio stations. Press Play to start playing your desired station.

Customizing Favorites and Presets for Internet Radio

There are two ways to save Internet radio stations for easy playback.

The ﬁrst way is to save the station as a Preset. Whether the station was found by browsing SoundBridge Radio’s built-in Internet Radio Library, by playing it from iTunes, or by entering it manually on the web page, it can be stored as a Preset by pressing one of the Preset buttons on

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the top of your SoundBridge Radio. You can also use Roku Radio Snooper. Or using the remote control, press Select while the station is playing. You will see the following list of options:

 Getinfofor“[Stationname]”

PlayPreset…(thisdisplaysalistofyour18presets) SavePreset:[Stationname]

Add Station to My Favor ites Stop

Select the option “Save Preset: [Station name]” and press Select [4]. Scroll down to the position you want to replace and press Select. Next time you view Presets, you will see that station displayed in the position you have chosen. You will also see Presets displayed ﬁrst in the list of My Favorites.

The second way is to mark a station from the built-in Internet Radio Library as a Favorite. When a station is marked as a favorite, it appears in the “My Favorites” list in the Internet Radio Library, but does not use up one of the 18 Preset slots.

There are several important differences between Presets and My Favorites:

Ë Presets are accessible from any Library, while My Favorites only appear in the Internet

Radio Library.

Ë My Favorites may only contain stations found by browsing the Internet Radio Library.

Presets may contain stations from the Internet Radio Library, or saved from Roku Radio Snooper, or saved from iTunes, or entered via the web page.

Ë Presets can recall content other than Internet radio stations, like playlists or selections

that you have browsed to from SoundBridge Radio (such as all songs by a particular artist, etc). My Favorites include only Internet radio stations.

Ë When displaying My Favorites, Internet radio station Presets are also included at the

beginning of the list.

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Ë Presets can be programmed and played from the preset web page (see the

“SoundBridge Radio Web Interface” chapter for more information.)

Ë Presets can be programmed as discrete commands on a custom remote control. (For

more information about customizing your remote for SoundBridge Radio control and a Pronto CCF ﬁle, please visit the Support section of our web site.)

To save an Internet radio station to My Favorites:

1. From the “Internet Radio” library, Scroll down to the “Browse” menu item. Navigate to the station you would like to save.

2. Press

 Play[Stationname]

3. Scroll down to the option “Add Station to My Favorites” and press Select. You will see the

You can also save a station to My Favorites while it is playing. Simply press Select to display these options:

Select [4]then press the Down arrow on your remote to display these options:

GetStationInfo Add Station to My Favorites

message “Station added to your favorites”. Next time you view My Favorites, you will see that station displayed in the list.

 Getinfofor“[Stationname]”

Play Preset SavePreset:[Stationname] Add Station to My Favor ites Stop

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Scroll down to the option “Add Station to My Favorites” and press Select.

Note: Only stations that you have accessed via the browse feature in the Internet Radio Library

can be saved to your Favorites. Stations that are played from an iTunes playlist or from a URL manually entered as a preset cannot be saved to your Favorites.

Saving Stations Originating in iTunes to Presets

You can save Internet radio stations from an iTunes playlist to a Preset by pressing Select while the station is playing in SoundBridge Radio. You will see the following options:

 Getinfofor[Stationname]

Play Preset SavePreset:[Stationname] Stop

StopandClearSongQueue TurnScreenOff

Scroll down to “Save Preset” and press Select. You will see a numbered list of existing presets starting with A1, A2, etc. Scroll to the preset you would like to replace and press Select. You will see the conﬁrmation message “Preset Saved”.

: You cannot save stations imported from iTunes as Favorites, only Presets. (However,

Hint

stations saved as Presets will be displayed at the front of the list of “My Favorites”.)

Memorizing a Radio Playlist

You can also replace some or all of your existing presets with the contents of an Internet radio playlist in iTunes. This is the fastest way to import a number of Internet radio stations into SoundBridge Radio at once.

1. If you are still in the “Internet Radio” music library, exit it and enter your iTunes library. (See the “Choosing Your Music Library” section of the “Browsing Music” chapter for more about changing music libraries.)

2. Create a playlist in iTunes containing your favorite radio stations, as described previously in this section.}

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Hint: Your playlist can contain as many Internet radio stations as you like, but only the ﬁrst

eighteen will be saved to your Presets. You can rearrange them by dragging and dropping to their desired order inside the iTunes playlist, or (after saving them) on the SoundBridge Radio web page (see the “SoundBridge Radio Web Interface” chapter of this document for more information).

3. On the Home Menu of your iTunes music library, select “Settings”, then “Memorize Radio Playlist”.

4. Follow the instructions to navigate to the playlist you want to save, and press OK.

5. You will receive a conﬁrmation of what Internet radio streams were saved (up to the ﬁrst 30 characters of the name will be saved). You can press Back, or navigate to your desired audio stream and press Select to play it immediately.

Note: If your list contains fewer than eighteen stations, SoundBridge Radio will replace the Presets in the corresponding slots (starting with A1), and the remaining Presets will remain unchanged.

Playing Stations Saved as “My Favorites” and “Presets”

From anywhere in the Internet Radio Library, press the Home Menu [ ]. Choose the “My Favorites” option. You will see a list of your Internet radio Presets followed by your Favorites. Navigate to the station you would like to play and press Select [4]. You will have the option to play it, get station info, or “Remove station from My Favorites”.

You can also just press the Down arrow [6] on the Now Playing screen of an Internet radio station. Since there is no Song Queue when listening to Internet radio, this shortcut takes you directly to “My Favorites”. If the currently-playing station appears in “My Favorites,” it will be marked with the speaker icon X)) .

To play your Presets, you can either use the Preset buttons on the top of SoundBridge Radio, or choose the Play Preset option from the Home Menu of any music library (not just the Internet Radio Library). Choose the station you would like to play, then press Select.

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Playback Limitations of Internet Radio Streams

SoundBridge Radio currently supports MP3 and WMA Internet radio stations. RealAudio and AACplus stations are not supported at this time. However, stay tuned for additional formats that may be supported in future software releases.

Unfortunately, there are few standards in Internet radio (especially for MP3 stations), and sometimes a station will do something out of the ordinary that will prevent SoundBridge Radio from being able to play it. See our online FAQ at www.rokulabs.com/support/internetradio.php for more information.

Discovering More Internet Radio Stations

Our online user forums have an active discussion dedicated to helping SoundBridge users ﬁnd good Internet radio stations in a variety of genres. Visit our Forums (accessible from www. rokulabs.com/support) and look for the discussion topics related to Internet radio stations if you would like to ﬁnd more stations in a particular genre. You can import a station URL using SoundBridge Radio’s web interface (see SoundBridge Radio Web Interface for more information). Please also visit our forums if you would like to suggest a station or post advice to other SoundBridge users.

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SECTION 4: SHARING YOUR PC OR MAC MUSIC LIBRARY

Introduction

In addition to playing AM/FM and Internet radio, SoundBridge Radio is a network music player. That is, you can play music ﬁles that are stored on a computer connected to your Wi-Fi home network. To browse, search and play these ﬁles stored on your computer, SoundBridge Radio needs to receive data from software installed on the computer called a “music server.”

Music Servers

You probably already have a music server but perhaps didn’t realize it. For example, iTunes® acts as a music server when it shares music to another iTunes user on the network. Microsoft® has released its own music server, called Windows® Media® Connect.

The most common music servers are iTunes, Windows Media Connect, and Rhapsody™ but there are others. There is no single standard for music servers; they are almost all different. One of the beneﬁts of SoundBridge Radio is that it supports all of the common music servers out there with an easy-to-use interface.

Music Servers and SoundBridge Radio Features

SoundBridge Radio can play music from most Mac or PC music libraries, including WMA, MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF. It can also play DRM WMA (protected Windows Media Audio ﬁles) purchased from popular online music stores such as Napster,™ MSN® Music, Walmart.com, etc. Although SoundBridge Radio can play AAC music, it cannot play the protected music that you purchase from Apple’s iTunes online music store (Apple does not allow this).

You’ll want to start by launching a music server that is compatible with your SoundBridge Radio. Compatible music servers include iTunes, Windows Media Connect, Rhapsody, Musicmatch and others. If you want to use a PlaysForSure™ music service, you must use Windows Media Connect as your music server. If you want to use the Rhapsody music service, you must use Rhapsody as your music server. See the following table. Music servers behave differently with SoundBridge Radio’s user interface features.

To experience the full SoundBridge Radio searching and robust browsing modes, you must use a server that supports these functions, such as iTunes or Windows Media Connect. You will

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ﬁnd that some servers are not equipped for SoundBridge Radio’s search feature and that the browse mode varies by server.

Music Ser ver Recomme nded for

Wind ows Me dia Co nnect (UPn P Wind ows Me dia DR M 10 prot ocols)

iTune s (Bo njour, f ormer ly kno wn as Rend ezvo us, fo r disc overy; iTunes DAAP for co mmunic ation)

Rhap sody (UPnP a nd pro priet ary Rhap sody protoc ol)

Musi cmatc h Jukeb ox (UPn P AV prot ocol)

Fir efly Media Serv er PC/ Mac/L inux Thi s high qualit y “ope n sou rce” me dia se rver will s erve music in man y

Users of . . .

Wind ows XP with SP2

PC/ Mac A fr ee mus ic ser ver an d juke box sof twa re fro m Appl e. Play s: AAC , MP3,

Rhap sody Subs crib ers

Wind ows 98 SE/ Me/ XP/200 0 (SP3 o r abov e)

Notes

A fr ee me dia ser ver f rom Mi croso ft. Wo rks w ith an y musi c jukeb ox, bu t opt imized for Wi ndows Media Player v.10. Su ppor ts Sou ndBri dge Ra dio’s ful l Brow se, Sea rch an d Displ ay fea ture s et. Pla ys: WM A, DRM WMA*, WMA Los sless, MP3, WAV, pla ylist s crea ted in jukebo x sof tware such a s Wind ows Med ia Play er 10.

WAV, AIFF (no sup port for pr otect ed AAC iTunes Music S tore f iles). A lso play s play lists and Sm art Pl aylist s cre ated in iTunes . Buil t-in Int ernet radio tun er str eams In terne t radi o to So undBr idge R adio.

Ser ver re quire d to ru n the R hapso dy Mus ic Ser vice, which i nclud es acce ss to pop ular mu sic and Inter net ra dio.

Popu lar juk ebox s oftw are an d music serv ice. Ha s a bui lt-in U PnP AV s erver supp orte d by So undBr idge R adio. You c an als o use W indows Media Conne ct wit h Musi cmatch, which is mor e feat ure-r ich. P lays: W MA, MP3, WAV (DRM WMA a nd Mus icmatc h playl ists suppo rted only if using Window s Med ia Conn ect S erver ).

for mats (WMA, MP3, AA C, FL AC, App le Los sles s and O gg Vor bis). It inte grate s dir ectl y with iTunes and c an sha re you r iTune s musi c libr ary, or a ny mus ic lib rary. As wi th all non-a pple p roduc ts, i t doe s NOT s uppor t Prot ecte d AAC files . It d oes n ot sup port prote cted WMA fi les. It doe s sup port Sound Bridg e’s ful l Brow se, S earch a nd Di splay f eatur e set as wel l as p laylis ts an d Smar t Pla ylist s crea ted i n iTune s.

* Protected WMA (DRM WMA) ﬁles cannot yet be played from an SD/MMC card.

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For a more detailed comparison of compatible music servers and links to download them, visit www.rokulabs.com/products/SoundBridge/servernotes.php.

Installing a Compatible Music Server

To access network music sharing, you ﬁrst need to install a music server. Below are instructions for installing the most common music server software – you only need one.

Installing Windows Media Connect

1. If not already installed, download Windows XP Service Pack 2, a free download from Microsoft or by using Windows Update Installer.

2. If not already installed, download the latest version of Windows Media Player, v.10, a free download from Microsoft or by using Windows Update Installer.

3. If not already installed, download Windows Media Connect, a free download from Microsoft, or by using Windows Update Installer.

4. Continue to “Enabling Windows Media Connect.”

Installing iTunes

1. If not already installed, download iTunes from requires v. 4.0 or later.

2. Continue to “Enabling iTunes.”

Installing Rhapsody

1. If not already installed, download Real Networks’ Rhapsody client from

2. Continue to “Instructions for Enabling Rhapsody.”

www.itunes.com. SoundBridge Radio

rhapsody.com.

Installing Musicmatch Jukebox

1. If not already installed, download a free version of Musicmatch Jukebox 9.0 on your PC from musicmatch.com.

2. Continue to “Enabling Musicmatch Jukebox.”

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