Locating And Playing Media Files Using Upnp - Roberts iStream 3 Manual

Locating and playing media files using UPnP
Once the UPnP server has been configured to share media files with your radio,
you may select the files that you wish to play as follows:-
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
highlight which category you wish to browse, then press the control to confirm
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.
When you first set up sharing with a UPnP server, not all of your files will be available
immediately. The UPnP server must look inside each file to identify the artist and
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
files this can take some time.
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.
JENNY: Jenny's music
Music
Video
Pictures
Playlists
The iStream 3 is able to display the album art for the track being
played. The ability of the radio to display art depends on the
presence of the art in the file being played, the art 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 also send a
default icon if no art is found within the file being 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.
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DAB
Music Player
Music player
Pair
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
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