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  • Page 1 ® live better. Olive Music center. Userʼs Guide.
  • Page 2 For your own safety do not attempt to open the case of the Olive music center, or disassemble it. You run the risk of electric shock and Heed Warnings - All warnings on the product and in the operating voiding the limited warranty.
  • Page 3 Ventilation - Slots and openings in the cabinet are provided for Unauthorized substitutions may result in fi re, electric shock, or other ventilation and to ensure reliable operation of the product and to hazards. protect it from overheating. Do not block any ventilation openings. The openings should never be blocked by placing the product on a Safety Check - Upon completion of any service or repairs to this bed, sofa, rug or other similar surface.
  • Page 4 TRADEMARKS & SERVICE MARKS those specifi ed herein may result in hazardous radiation exposure. The Olive logo is a trademark of Olive Media Products, Inc. Other product • The use of optical instruments with this product will increase eye hazard.
  • Page 5 This offer is valid for a period of three years after the date of purchase of this product. Exclusions and Limitations Olive is not liable for any damage to or loss of any programs, data, or other GPL PACKAGE WRITTEN OFFER information stored on any media not covered by this warranty. Recovery and reinstallation of system and application software and user data are not This product contains Linux 2.4.26, that is made available under the GNU...
  • Page 6 TO OR REPLACEMENT OF EQUIPMENT AND PROPERTY, ANY COSTS OF RECOVERING, REPROGRAMMING, OR REPRODUCING ANY PROGRAM OR DATA STORED IN OR USED WITH OLIVE PRODUCTS, AND ANY FAIL- URE TO MAINTAIN THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF DATA STORED ON THE PRODUCT. OLIVE SPECIFICALLY DOES NOT REPRESENT THAT IT WILL BE...
  • Page 8 San Francisco, CA 94105 http://www.olive.us Tel.: +1 415.908.3870 Fax: +1 415.908.3932 SUPPORT Should you need some help with your music center, please contact Olive Media Products as follows: Email: care@olive.us Hotline: +1 415.908.3870 (Monday – Friday: 8am - 5pm, Pacifi c Standard Time)

  • Page 9: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS 2.1.8 Analog recording 3.5.4 Receiving a radio broadcast INTRODUCTION 2.1.9 Settings Connecting an MP3 player About this user manual 2.1.10 Info Backup your music collection What is a music center? 2.1.11 Music server First steps SETTINGS 2.1.12 Internet Radio 1.3.1 Checking parts list and fi...
  • Page 10 CONTENTS WLAN Copying music from a PC to your music center Copying music from your music center to a PC HELP! “My music center is dead...” Recovery CD Software update 8.3.1 Software update via Internet 8.3.2 Software update using a CD Useful key combinations Overview of all menu options Frequently Asked Questions...

  • Page 11: Introduction

    Connect the output from the music center“AUDIO OUT” (25) to the input jacks This manual applies for both music centers, the Symphony and the Musica. of your stereo amplifi er or Hi-fi component, matching the red plug to R (right) Since the software of your music center is maintained and updated conti- and the black or white plug to L (left).

  • Page 12: Trying A Music Cd

    resp. Select function key 1 “English” to switch to the English language. Immediately The buttons beneath the CD slot look and operate identical to buttons on CD the display shows everything in English. players or similar equipment. You can skip tracks forward and backward, pause and restart the playing or stop it.

  • Page 13: Record

    The Previous Track (3 ) / Next Track (6 ) buttons skip a track of a CD or a list in the given direction on every short push. Keep these buttons pressed for fast forward or rewind within the track. While playing a list of songs (artist, album, playlist, ...) you may choose any other song and press the Previous Track (3 ) button.

  • Page 14: Control Buttons (3) To

    If headphones are connected and the music center is playing music the inner JKLjkl5 jklJKL5 jkl5 ring controls the volume of the headphones output. MNOmno6 mnoMNO6 mno6 PQRSpqrs7 pqrsPQRS7 pqrs7 TUVtuv8 tuvTUV8 tuv8 WXYZwxyz9 wxyzWXYZ9 wxyz9 1.5.2 Menu (31) A shortcut to the main menu of the music center. In edit mode this key toggles between upper case, lower case, and special characters (umlauts).

  • Page 15: The Basics

    THE BASICS This chapter explains the basic functionality of your music center. Some details are intentionally omitted to keep these sections simple. The next chapters go more into detail. Main menu Besides the buttons on the front panel or the remote control the menu option shown on the display are your main control of the music center.

  • Page 16: Songs

    2.1.4 Songs 2.1.6 Playlists This reveals an alphabetical list of all songs found on your music center. Using this option you can create your own selections of songs and group them together. The right music for every mood can be collected here. This list is fi...

  • Page 17: Analog Recording

    2.1.8 Analog recording The version number of the system software and the serial number can be ac- cessed here. You need it for the registration of your music center. Your music center can digitize and import sound from analogue sources, like You can see the available space, the number of stored songs, how many turntables, tape recorders, or cassette decks.

  • Page 18: Playing A Music Cd

    This shows that the music center is still encoding the fi les of the fi rst CD. Dur- ing this operation, the handling of the music center may be not as quick and smooth as usual. After inserting a music CD its title is shown as the topmost entry of the main menu.

  • Page 19: Copying A Music Cd

    Burning a music CD Choose an album or collect some songs into a playlist. Select the album or the playlist and press the Record button (7). The music center adds up the length of the songs and warns you if the total playing time exceeds the capacity of resp.

  • Page 20: Advanced Functions

    ADVANCED FUNCTIONS Animated The music center accesses the network, e.g. an iTunes server. This chapter discusses advanced options of the music center and shows their benefi ts using step-by-step explanations. Steady The iPod icon is shown in place of the music centerʼs icon: an iPod is connected to the music center and has Playlists been selected.

  • Page 21: Renaming Or Deleting An Existing Playlist

    You can use the function keys 2 “Up” and 3 “Down” to rearrange the position of songs inside a playlist. Function key 4 “More...” reveals the second part of the options, including deleting and adding songs. 3.1.2 Renaming or deleting an existing playlist You may rename or delete an existing playlist any time by selecting it from the list and using the appropriate function keys.
  • Page 22 Press function key 1 “OK” and the new, empty searchlist is created. Use function key 1 “Change” to let the list of genres appear. The list shows all available genres including those without assigned songs. Adding search criteria Choose the main menu option Searchlists, then your newly created list “The Best!”...

  • Page 23: Edit An Existing Searchlist

    The song, artist, and album information can be changed by you at any time. Changing a music genre can be done by selecting from the given list or you can add your own genres by pressing function key 3 “New”. If the searchlist shows no entries the music center contains no songs matching your criteria.

  • Page 24: Digitizing Sounds Of Vinyl Records And Analog Music Tapes

    Meta data of a single song Meta data of an album Use the Turn&Select wheel to navigate to the list of songs. Select a track show- Since the artist and the album title applies to all tracks, this meta data needs ing the generic “Track 05”...

  • Page 25: Connecting An Input Device

    3.4.1 Connecting an input device Auto adjust level On the back of the music center you fi nd an analog Audio In port (26) for If your music center is set to “Auto adjust level” (see section 4.6 «Analog tape decks, or similar components. Connecting a vintage turntable mostly recording»...

  • Page 26: Editing The Recorded Fi Le

    If “Auto dividing” is switched off, function key 2 “Divide” is enabled. Pressing Editing gaps this function key during the recording process separates individual tracks. Press function key 2 “Edit” to prepare your recorded fi le for the import. The display shows a representation of the fi...

  • Page 27: Importing The Tracks

    If the cursor is inside a track, pressing the function key 3 “Join” joins the cur- The meta data is displayed showing Artist, Album, and Genre according to rent track with its direct successor. your entries for the recorded fi le. You may now edit the Title information of this track.

  • Page 28: Internet Radio

    Internet Radio If you plan to use this feature we recommend that you have an Internet access tariff based on a fl at rate. Otherwise the fi gures on the Internet providerʼs in- voice may slightly reduce the pleasure. An example: 1000 MByte transferred data equals to about 17 hours of Internet radio listening.

  • Page 29: Receiving A Radio Broadcast

    Connecting an MP3 player The USB ports (22) on the back of your music center can be used for connect- ing an MP3 player. Then you can play the songs of the MP3 player via the music center and may edit meta data and playlists. After an MP3 player is plugged into the music center it is handled like a music CD and appears with its own name as a new entry in the main menu.

  • Page 30: Backup Your Music Collection

    To prepare for a worst-case scenario we highly recommend backing up the imported data to an external device. Connect an external Olive hard disk to one of the USB ports (22) on the back of the music center and save all or a selection of your songs to this backup de- vice.

  • Page 31: Settings

    SETTINGS This main menu option provides you with numerous settings to adapt the music center to your needs and tastes. Play mode Options for the behaviour of the music center while playing songs. In random mode ( ) songs of the selected artist, the selected album, or an- other selection are played in random order.

  • Page 32: Dynamics Compression

    Expert mode The function key 4 “Expert Mode” allows experts to set the parameters of dynamics compression. 4.3.1 Dynamics compression Dynamics compression adjust the volume of the played music dynamically: It limits the output level during playback to a preset value. This setting can be enabled or disabled for all tracks of the music library centrally.

  • Page 33: Appearance

    Attack: This sets the interval the compressor waits until it reacts. This interval The column layout of the menu tree is a matter of orientation. The way back should be not to short, to avoid kind of pumping effects. to the main menu is obvious and during the fi rst days this option may help the beginner.

  • Page 34: Analog Recording

    3 GB needed for the system fi les and the database. Encoding Quality Symphony Musica RAW (AIFF/WAV) no compression good - 128 kbit/s 1,280...

  • Page 35: Burning

    Recognition Method should set to Speech. computers in a local area network, wired and wireless. You can choose from three modes: “Symphony/Musica Network” is described Burning in the fi rst section of the chapter «Networking», “Home Network” shows up Here are the settings concerning the burning of music CDs.

  • Page 36: Device Name

    This affects ALL parameters of the Settings menu. Your imported music and their meta data is not endangered at all - all songs will still be available after executing this command. 4.13 Recovery The internal database containing the meta data of all stored tracks is dupli- cated on every startup of the system.

  • Page 37: Networking

    Technical buzz words like “computer network”, “LAN”, and “router” donʼt tell you anything? Sometimes you are using a stand alone Macintosh or Windows PC? No problem, the Olive music center can access, and connect, all your digital music in your home.

  • Page 38: A Member Of Your Home Network

    The antenna (23) for wireless communication (WLAN) is on the back of the You may notice that the header has changed from “Symphony” to the name music center, the plugs (21) for Ethernet cabling beneath. As soon as the mu- of the remote music server.

  • Page 39: Your Music Center And Upnp/Av Satellites

    UPnP/AV satellites. These are devices which fetch music from a server in a streaming mode. For optimum performance use Oliveʼs own music satellite, the Sonata. More details about the Sonata are available at www.olive.us The communication between satellites and server is organised by the UPnP/ AV protocol.

  • Page 40: Using A Web Browser For Managing Your Music Center

    The input fi eld Filter Text and the button Search can be used for reducing the “Info”. number of displayed items. If the music center is confi gured as “Symphony/Musica Network” You may click the name of an artist to reveal a list of his/her albums. you may enter the IP address “192.168.1.1”.
  • Page 41 Clicking the “Save” button confi rms your changes. Editing song meta data When you click the “Songs” button the list of stored songs is displayed. The The input fi eld Filter Text and the button Search can be used for reducing the small icons attached give you the option of Editing ( ) or Deleting ( ) the...

  • Page 42: Advanced Networking

    Network modes The music center allows you to choose from these three operating modes: • Symphony/Musica Network: The music center acts as central switch, optional WLAN Access Point, and DHCP server of the network. • Home Network: A working local area network already exists and the music center can be integrated as DHCP client and optional as WLAN client into it.

  • Page 43: Ip Addressing

    • Home Network: The music center acts as WLAN client. Network If the music center is confi gured as “Symphony/Musica Network” it assumes Name and Key must set to the corresponding values of the available being the central server of a private network (acc. RFC 1918). It provides Access Point.

  • Page 44: Additional Function Keys

    “Import”. Computer name is the name of the If the music center is confi gured as “Home Network” please enter network music center and it is registered in the workgroup “Olive”. No password is name and key of your existing network.

  • Page 45: Copying Music From Your Music Center To A Pc

    Copying music from your to a PC HELP! music center Besides the volume “Import” the music center publishes the volume “Record”. It contains the original uncompressed fi les of analogue recordings. As long “My music center is dead...” as they are not removed manually they stay there. For archiving purposes If pressing buttons and turning wheels do not produce any reaction of your you may transfer these fi...

  • Page 46: Software Update

    • Power off (F4): The music center is switched off. the Internet (www.olive.us). Press the appropriate function key and the chosen process starts, To download the CD image click the link on the update page.

  • Page 47: Overview Of All Menu Options

    Main menu Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 The CD in the CD drive is ejected. if already cut, a names of the list of the songs All pending tasks of your music center are stopped: Importing recorded or encoding of music, the iTunes cache is cleared and a fi...

  • Page 48: Frequently Asked Questions

    Free space center. The UPnP AV protocol is supported and the music center can commu- Artists nicate with all other components supporting this standard. In addition Olive Albums Songs offers a wireless music receiver called Sonata. For more details please visit us Genres at www.olive.us.
  • Page 49 You may attach an MP3 player (See section 3.6 «Connecting an MP3 player» Is it possible to synchronize my PC’s music fi le collection automatically with the collection on page 21), the Olive Backup Hard Disk (See section 3.7 «Backup your mu- sic collection» on page 20), or the Olive Keyboard.

  • Page 50: Technical Data

    TECHNICAL DATA Symphony Musica Symphony Musica Dynamics compression of loudness Features: • Night Mode • Hard disk capacity 80 GB 160 GB Activation Method Hard Knee Hard Knee • CD drive Threshold -24 dB (1 dB step) -24 dB (1 dB step) •...
  • Page 51 Symphony Musica Back panel: • Power connector • 4-Port-Switch 10/100 MBit auto-sense Ethernet • USB 1.1/2.0 ports • Antenna for wireless LAN • Analogue line-in Cinch Gold-plated • Analogue line-out Cinch Gold-plated • Digital line-out S/P DIF optical Toslink •...
  • Page 52 Olive Media Products Inc. 555 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 http://www.olive.us Tel.: +1 415.908.3870 Fax: +1 415.908.3932...

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