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1.4 Media Center
UPNP
Description: Visit the shared folder from your PC, if you select 'UPnP Severs' menu.
Locating and playing media files using the radio and UPnP
1. Once the UPnP server is configure to share media files with the internet radio, you can play the files by
doing the following on the radio.
2. Keep pressing "left" to get to the radio's top-level menu and then rotate the dial to select 'Media Player'.
3. Press SELECT and then rotate the dial to highlight 'UPnP Severs'.
4. Press SELECT and the radio will scan for all available UPnP servers. Note, this may take a few seconds for
the radio to complete its scan and before the scan has completed, the radio will display '[Empty]'. The
radio will continue to display '[Empty] if no UPnP servers are found.
5. After a successful scan, select your UPnP server, by rotating the dial if there is more than on UPnP
server, and then press SELECT.
6. The radio will now list the media categories available from the UPnP server, e.g. 'Music', 'Playlists' etc.
Press the "right" to select which category you wish to browse, press SELECT and rotate the dial to
highlight a sub category and press SELECT again. For example, you could select 'Music' and then
'Album'.
7. Press the up&down to highlight the media files that you wish to play and press SELECT and begin playing
them automatically.
Setup a Windows PC to allow the radio to access you audio files via an UPnP serves
1. If your PC is running Microsoft Windows XP, then you can use Windows Media Player 11(WMP11) to act
as your UPnP( Universal Plug and Play) media server 1.0. Windows Media Player 11 may be downloaded
from Microsoft's website and install by following the instructions detailed in its installation wizard.
2. Once installed, Windows Media Player 11 will create a library from all the media files available to it on
your PC. To add new media files to the library, select' File > Add to Library...> Advanced Options', Click
'Add' and choose the files you wish to add and click' OK'.
3. You will now need to connect your Internet radio to Windows Media Player 11 and configure it to allow
the radio to access your media library. In order to this, you will need to do the following:
a.
Keep pressing BACK to get to the radio's top-level menu and then rotate the dial to select 'Media
Player'.
b.
Press SELECT and then rotate the dial to highlight 'UPnP Serves'.
c. Press SELECT and the radio will scan for all available UPnP servers. Note, this may take a few
seconds for the radio to complete its scan and before the scan has completed, the radio will display
'[Empty]'. The radio will continue to display '[Empty]' if no UPnP servers and found.
d. After a successful scan. Select your UPnP server, by rotating the dial if there is more than one UPnP
server, and then press SELECT (note, your radio will display' Access Denied' at this stage)
4. Your PC will now prompt you that a device has attempted to connect to your UPnP server. In order to
allow the radio to have access to the media files, you will need to click the 'Library' tab from Windows
Media Player 11 and select the 'Media Sharing...' item to open the 'Media Sharing' window.
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