Music Player Mode - Roberts Stream 218 Manual List

1. Switch on the radio. Press Mode as needed until the Music Player mode display
is shown. The main Music Player menu will then be displayed.
2. Rotate Tuning until 'Shared media' is highlighted on the display and then press
the control to cause the radio to scan for UPnP servers. Note that it may take
a few seconds for the radio to complete its scan. The display will return to the
Music Player menu if no UPnP servers are found.
3. After a successful scan, rotate Tuning to highlight your UPnP server and then
press Tuning. If the display shows multiple media types, select 'Music'. (Some
UPnP servers can serve pictures and video content to suitable devices.)
4. The radio will now list the media categories which are made available by the
UPnP server - for example, 'Album', 'Artist' and 'Genre'. Rotate Tuning to
your choice.
If you wish to use the search function rotate Tuning until 'Search' is selected
on the display. You may select characters to build a keyword for searching for
content to play.
album information from 'tags' embedded in them. The server may also need time
to access the Internet to obtain additional information such as 'album art' which it
can display when you examine your music library on your PC. For a library of many
Media selection
When searching via UPnP you will have a selection of search criteria as determined
by the UPnP server software on your computer. This allows you to search by a given
information type (Album, Artist, Genre, etc.) and then to narrow the search to an
album or to a particular track within an album.
Some UPnP server applications allow the search options to be customised. The
searches described here are just examples of the possibilities.
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JENNY: Jenny's music
Music
Video
Pictures
Playlists
The Stream 218 is able to display the album art for the track
being played. The ability of the radio to display art depends
being not too large (or being re-sized by the server), and the
ability of the UPnP server to send the art to the radio. Art sent
to the radio needs to be in a JPEG format and no larger than
640 x 480 pixels. If the radio does not receive any art then a
default icon is displayed. Some UPnP server applications will
played. Due to the wide variations in album art formats and
UPnP/DLNA standards, the failure of the radio to display album
art is not considered to be a fault.
Music player
Shared media
USB playback
My playlist
Repeat play: Off
Shuffle play: Off
Clear My playlist
Shared media
JENNY: Jenny's music
HOME_PC: Mum's music
Music
All music
Genre
All Artists
Contributing Artists
Album Artists
Composers