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GDI-IR3000
Register your radio at iradio.gracedigitalaudio.com for additional features.
Grace Internet and Network Media Player
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  • Page 1 USER GUIDE GDI-IR3000 Register your radio at iradio.gracedigitalaudio.com for additional features. Grace Internet and Network Media Player...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Accessing Pandora Feedback Menu ...23 Media Player Quickstart Guide ... 24 Setup your Windows PC to allow the radio to access your audio files via Windows Shares ...24 Locate the shared audio files using the radio ...26 Listening to a single shared track ...26 Listening to a complete shared album ...27...
  • Page 3 Playing tracks in random order ...29 Playing tracks in the list (queue) repeatedly ...29 Set up a Windows PC to allow the radio to access your audio files via a UPnP server...30 Locating and playing media files using the radio and UPnP ...32 Browsing the list of tracks currently arranged (queued up) for playback ...33...
  • Page 4: Safety Warnings

    Please read before installation. If this Internet radio has been moved from a cold place to a warm place, DO NOT plug it in for 2-3 hours (e.g. from a cold car boot to a warm room). There is a possibility that moisture may have condensed in the Internet radio, this can cause damage to your Internet radio.
  • Page 5: Internet Radio And Network Music Player Quickstart Guide

    Internet radio to communicate with the network. • If your wireless network is configured for trusted stations you will need to enter the radio’s MAC address into your wireless access point. To find the radio’s MAC address use menu items as follows: Settings >...
  • Page 6: Radio Controls

    Press to turn on/off the Internet Radio REPLY Accesses the Pandora interactive menu when listening to www.pandora.com. Your radio must be registered with Grace Digital to activate this feature. BACK Go back to previous menu page Press and hold to save Preset station P1...
  • Page 7 Wi-Fi antenna Connect RCA cables to plug into your audio system for stereo playback Outputs of your internet radio music or computer audio files on your home stereo system. Headphone The headphone jack is a stereo headphone jack.
  • Page 8: Remote Control

    No Function MODE Selects the various equalizer settings (Flat, Bass, Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock) MEDIA PLAYER MODE Same Same Same Same No Function Same Same Play/Pause Stop Same No Function No Function No Function Same Grace Internet and Network Media Player...
  • Page 9: Steps For Connecting Your Radio To Your Wireless Network

    Steps For Connecting Your Radio To Your Wireless Network Step 1 - Power up the radio First, connect to the AC Power. The radio can be switched on or off with the STANDBY/ON button. The display on the front of the radio will light up and indicate:...
  • Page 10: Step 3 - Connect To The Wireless Network

    - for example: < It is possible, and in some locations highly likely, that your radio will find more than one wireless access point, in which case you can choose which one you want to connect to. Turn the knob on the radio to see the ESSID for each access point the radio has found.
  • Page 11 After the final character, use the knob to select the END character and press the ‘Select’ button. The radio should now be able to connect to the network. Your password will be saved in your Grace radio even if a power outage occurs.
  • Page 12: Choosing A Radio Station To Listen To

    If you are an active Sirius subscriber with a package that includes the ability to listen to Sirius internet radio you will be able to listen to those stations on the Grace Digital radio. You can either enter your Sirius user name and password onto the Grace Digital website or through this portion of the radio’s menu.
  • Page 13: Choosing A Pandora Radio Station

    This section allows for the new Grace Digital Personal radio services. The current service is Pandora. Prior to this feature working you must first register your radio on the Grace web site. Please see registering your radio. After this is complete you can enter in your Pandora user name and password.
  • Page 14: Changing The Volume

    To store a station to a double digit number press the ‘-/--’ button before assigning a number (10-99). * Please note presets 1-3 are the same for the remote & radio and can be stored using either the radio or remote.
  • Page 15: Requesting A Station That Is Currently Unavailable

    2. Select the number for the preset station you want to listen to (10-99). Requesting A Station That Is Currently Unavailable If you want to listen to a particular radio station which is currently not available online, you can visit the Grace Digital Audio web site at http://iradio.gracedigitalaudio.com/ and enter in a request to add the station to the list.
  • Page 16: Setting The Clock

    5. Program which enable you to choose the time also enable you to fast-forward and rewind to the part you want to into to while the radio is playing. The elapsed time is displayed. Using the Skip forward (P3) or Skip backward (P1). Skip forward or backward in 30 second intervals.
  • Page 17: Setting The Alarm

    The display shows <Set Time> with the new time shown beneath for 3 seconds, then returns to the menu, press the ‘Back’ button 2 times to go to the main menu. Grace Internet and Network Media Player Set Time/Date Set Alarm...
  • Page 18 Alarm 1. Choose < 1 Off 12:00 AM> < Stations Alarm Clock Media Player Set Time Set Alarm Disable all 1 OFF 2 OFF 3 OFF 4 OFF 5 OFF 1 Off 12:00 AM Grace Internet and Network Media Player > > >...
  • Page 19: Alarm Set

    Please note that when your Alarm turns on, the radio’s back light display will turn on and show a menu asking if you want to turn on the radio or not. If within 60 seconds after the display turns on your radio does not connect to your Wi-Fi network and the radio station starts playing, the buzzer will announce instead.
  • Page 20: Setting The Sleep Timer

    Push the ‘Select’ knob in to obtain your registration number. Configuring ‘My Profile’ 1. Once logged into you Grace Digital Audio account, you can edit your account’s details from your ‘My Profile’ section. 2. Click on the ‘My Profile’ link to view your account’s current information. This information will include various details such as your address, user name, password etc.
  • Page 21: Configuring 'My Stations

    Configuring ‘My Stations’ 1. It is possible to search for radio stations that are available in Grace Digital Audio’s stations’ database from Grace Digital Audio’s website. Whenever stations are searched for on the website, they will be displayed in a list of search results together with a link to ‘Add to My Stations’.
  • Page 22: Configuring 'My Pandora

    Configuring ‘My Pandora’ 1. In order to use the Pandora feature on the Grace Digital Internet radio you must 1st have an active Pandora account. You can create a Pandora account at www.pandora.com or on Grace’s web site. 2. Grace Digital is not affiliated in any way with Pandora nor do we guarantee any of Pandora’s services or streams.
  • Page 23: Accessing Pandora Feedback Menu

    < Accessing Pandora Feedback Menu 1. While listening to one of your Pandora radio stations choose the ‘Retrieve’ button on the internet radio. The ‘Retrieve’ button will allow you to perform the similar choices as you do with your regular Pandora on line account. Choosing the reply button will allow you to thumbs up / down a song, sleep up to 6 songs an hour, book mark songs and artist etc.
  • Page 24: Media Player Quickstart Guide

    Set Up Your Windows PC To Allow The Radio To Access Your Audio Files Via Windows Shares Windows XP 1. Please ensure that your PC is available on the network for your Internet radio, then, using Windows Explorer, locate the folder where your audio files are stored.
  • Page 25 Wait for a few minutes for the changes to take place. 5. The radio should now be able to access the MAC from its ‘Media Player > Windows Shares’ menu after entering in the MAC account’s short name and password on the radio.
  • Page 26: Locate The Shared Audio Files Using The Radio

    5. Press the SELECT button, turn the knob until ‘Scan for PCs’ is displayed and press SELECT again. 6. The radio will now display ‘Finding PCs’. Once the radio has finished, turn the knob to highlight the correct PC. 7. Press the SELECT button. The radio will search for shared folders.
  • Page 27: Listening To A Complete Shared Album

    Arranging (Queuing Up) Albums For Playback Later 1. Highlight the required album. 2. Press the SELECT button. 3. Turn the knob until ‘[Add To Queue]’ is displayed. 4. Press the SELECT button. ‘Tracks Added to Queue’ will be displayed. Grace Internet and Network Media Player...
  • Page 28: Controlling Playback

    2. Turn the knob to select the track you want to remove from the queue. 3. Press and hold the STOP button for 2 seconds and the radio will display: ‘Delete Track?’ 4. Turn the knob to highlight ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.
  • Page 29: Playing Tracks In Random Order

    8. Turn the knob to select YES/NO to confirm that repeat mode should be enabled. Note: 1. If the shared folders contain more songs than the Internet Radio memory limit, it will display “Too many files”. 2. Repeatedly pressing button P4 will toggle Repeat and Shuffle modes...
  • Page 30: Set Up A Windows Pc To Allow The Radio To Access Your Audio Files Via A Upnp Server

    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’...
  • Page 31 Selecting ‘Media Sharing…’ for Windows Media Player 11: 5. From the ‘Media Sharing’ window, the radio will be listed as an unknown device. Click on the unknown device listed, then click the ‘Allow’ button and then click ‘OK’. Allowing the Radio to Connect:...
  • Page 32: Locating And Playing Media Files Using The Radio And Upnp

    3. Press SELECT and then turn the knob to highlight ‘UPnP Servers’. 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]’.
  • Page 33: Browsing The List Of Tracks Currently Arranged (Queued Up) For Playback

    3. If you want to jump to a particular place in the queue then press the SELECT button when the required track is displayed. 4. It is important to note here that media files scanned from the radio’s ‘Windows Shares’ function can also be added to the radio’s queue.
  • Page 34: Controlling Playback

    7. To remove all tracks from the queue, keep pressing BACK until the ‘Media Player’ menu item is selected, press SELECT and then turn the knob to select ‘Clear Queue’ and press SELECT again. Grace Internet and Network Media Player...
  • Page 35: Playing Tracks In Random Order

    4. Turn the knob until ‘Playback Mode’ is displayed. 5. Press the ‘Select’ button. 6. Turn the knob until ‘Repeat’ is displayed. 7. Press the ‘Select’ button. 8. Turn the knob to select YES/NO to confirm that repeat mode should be enabled. Grace Internet and Network Media Player...
  • Page 36: Settings Menu

    Enables you to scan again for connection to another wireless network, or to manually configure the network parameters. Use this if you take the Internet radio to another building where you want to use it, or if you change your wireless router.
  • Page 37: Upgrade Firmware

    <Register> This will display a key that can be used to register the radio on the Grace Digital Audio Customer portal: http://iradio.gracedigitalaudio.com/ <Clock Setup>...
  • Page 38: Backlight

    1. After selecting the ‘Backlight’ menu item, the radio will display its list of three menu modes: ‘Inactive’, ‘Active’ and ‘Standby’. These three states are explained below: • The radio gets into its ‘inactive’ state when there is no button pressed for 30 seconds. • The ‘active’ state is when there is user activity.
  • Page 39: Troubleshooting

    TROUBLESHOOTING If you experience any trouble with your wireless Internet radio, then you may find it useful to visit the help section on: webpage: http://iradio.gracedigitalaudio.com/ If you have trouble connecting the radio to your wireless network, these steps may help to resolve the problem: 1.
  • Page 40: Specifications

    We suggest that you complete details of purchase now and keep this information in a safe place for future reference. Grace Digital provides their Canadian, Central & South American dealers, distributors, and retailers with a 1 year warranty.
  • Page 41: Appendix

    Player 11 After you download and install Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP and connect your radio to your network, you need to set up media sharing so that you can share music with your radio. The following steps describe how to set up media sharing in Windows Media Player 11.
  • Page 42 4. The display may show “Access Denied (801)” 5. Your device will now appear in the list. If you want to confirm this is your radio, right click the device and select Properties your radio’s MAC address will be shown.
  • Page 43: Step 2: Play Music On The Internet Radio

    Composers, Albums, Play lists, Folders or Star Ratings and then press Select. 4. Select the music track/tracks you want to play, and then press the ‘Select’ button. Enjoy! If you have any questions regarding your Grace Wireless Internet Radio please contact a Customer Representative at (858) 201-4340.
  • Page 44 Grace Digital Inc. Poway, CA Grace Internet and Network Media Player...

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