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Summary of Contents for Xiva musicm8
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Congratulations on your purchase of XiVA’s musicm8 product, and welcome to the XiVA Welcome ....................2 community. Because the XiVA team have done their utmost to ensure that your musicm8 is Set Up ......................1 of the highest quality, your machine should provide you with years of excellent service as The Home Page .................. -
Page 3: Set Up
Ethernet connection in your home. \\musicm8\pictures If you need to place your musicm8 in a room which does not have an Ethernet socket, we recommend you use a ‘Homeplug’ device, for example: \\musicm8\shared\Playlists http://catalog.belkin.com... - Page 4 Connect your supplied Ethernet cable to a spare port on your router. Connect your power supply to a mains power socket. (Plugs vary in each country) Then connect it to your musicm8 as shown below. Do this before you plug the Connect the power supply output to your musicm8 unit.
- Page 5 You will see the small, blue light on the front of the unit glow when it turns on. Af- ter a few moments, your musicm8 will beep to let you know that it has started up. For most media players no further configuration of musicm8 is required.
- Page 6 Recording your first CD with musicm8 Configure your musicm8 with the web interface Recording CDs is quick and easy - just insert the disc into your musicm8 and walk Depending on your operating system and network setup, there are a few ways to away! connect to the musicm8 web interface.
- Page 7 Vista. Folders with titles such as Shared on musicm8 and Pictures on Select Connect To Server. You will be prompted to enter the address of musicm8 should appear in the window. If not, click on Add a Network Place in musicm8.
- Page 8 To Update your XiVA Software From the Updates menu on the left sidebar, select Check for Updates to see if there is a more recent version of the software for your musicm8. To download and apply any available automatic updates, click Auto Updates.
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Page 9: The Home Page
View Photos – will open a photo gallery page with a slide show effect. Play Music – will open the musicm8 silverplay music player to allow you to play all of your music from any computer on your LAN. NOTE: this playout is password protected with the password musicm8 –... - Page 10 After connecting to your musicm8’s shared folders using the previous steps, it’s easy to copy music already on your computer to the musicm8. By copying your existing music to your musicm8 share you are now enabling your music to be shared over your home network for playback via a wide selection of media players.
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Page 11: Using The Main Features
To view in iTunes To Record a Disc: Open iTunes and from the left panel select musicm8. All of your content will be Insert the disc into the drive; musicm8 will record it and then eject it automatically once the recording is complete. -
Page 12: Backing Up And Recovery
You can continue to use the musicm8 while the backup is running. To view progress, just click the Space option on the menu and you will see a progress bar. All files will be backed up to a folder called musicm8 on your selected USB hard drive. -
Page 13: Configuring Media Players
You can find which version of Twonky you are currently running from the main tab. Twonky UI. • Content Location 1 will be listed with the default path to your musicm8 music Further Twonky setup information and troubleshooting steps are available from the share: /media/Music Support section of the Twonky Media web interface. -
Page 14: Slimdevices Squeezecenter 7.3
Configuring Media Players SlimDevices SqueezeCenter 7.3 Note: musicm8 installs by default an auto scan utility to ensure that every time Note: Slim SqueezeCenter is pre-configured. No additional configuration is required you record a CD it is immediately added to your squeezenetwork. -
Page 15: Firefly
The main fields will be pre-filled with musicm8’s default settings. musicm8 Default: MP3 Directory: /media/Music Once configured, click Submit. Once Firefly DAAP has been configured you can stream your musicm8 content through iTunes. Further Firefly help and support is available from... -
Page 16: Itunes
To access musicm8 through Windows Media Player, select Library from Windows Media Player Menu, right click and select Media Sharing. From the Media Sharing menu select musicm8 from the list of devices and select Allow. Your musicm8 content will now be shared to your Windows Media Player To play back musicm8 content through iTunes select musicm8 from the Library. -
Page 17: Linn Ds Series
Configuring Media Players Linn DS Series Nokia N800 Linn DS series requires Twonky Media to be configured from the musicm8 web The Nokia N800 can be used as a standalone playback device or as a remote interface (see page 11). -
Page 18: Wii
XiVA musicm8 User Guide Configuring Media Players Open the web page of musicm8 in your pc browser by typing musicm8. Take a note of the IP address on the bottom left corner of the screen it will look something line 192.168.1.20 Head on over to your TV with your Wii attached Ensure you have the Wii connected to your network. -
Page 19: Sonos
Next. musicm8 will be listed as a Network share. Browse to \\musicm8\Music and select this location. You can now browse musicm8 content once your music file indexing is complete. From the Set Up Music Library menu select Add A Share. - Page 20 Press Music. System Settings. Music Library Management. Music Library Setup. Add New. You will see musicm8 displayed in-screen. Click your centre button to add. If not shown: Press New. Key in the full path to the musicm8 music folder: \\musicm8\Music Enter Add.
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Page 21: Importing Photos From Your Camera
The process will not remove the pictures from your camera, but will provide a back up and it will only update the photos not previously transferred to the musicm8 storage system... -
Page 22: Manage Podcasts
XiVA musicm8 User Guide Manage Podcasts You can add your favorite podcasts to your musim8 and each new episode will download automatically on a daily basis to your system and be available to all devices on your network. In the Main Menu on the left sidebar, click Manage Podcasts... -
Page 23: Configuring Photo And Video Sharing
To configure video sharing from your musicm8 simply add Video content to a share /media/pictures. shared folder on your musicm8 and add the folder path to be shared to Twonky Media through the musicm8 web interface. When configured with musicm8 default setting, your Twonky interface should look like this: •... -
Page 24: Dyndns Control
Password Control DynDNS is a service provided by www.dyndns.org and allows your musicm8 to The web interface of your musicm8 is protected by a password. To disable this be accessed across the web. protection, open the NAS menu and select Password Off. -
Page 25: Advanced Settings
WAV: When recording to WAV be aware that no metadata is written to the WAV file. You also have the option to dual encode to either FLAC + MP3 or WAV + MP3. FLAC + MP3 selected musicm8 will encode to both FLAC and MP3. MP3 files will be stored in \\musicm8\shared\MP3. - Page 26 Eject disc on no metadata being found disc will be ejected, deleting any temporary files. When this option is checked, musicm8 will automatically eject a disc if no album Encoder Status information has been found via internet lookup, and will give you an audible indi- cation of this.
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Page 27: Run Script
XiVA musicm8 User Guide Run Script Run script feature is designed to run XiVA approved script. XiVA scripts perform a wide range of functions from software updates to bug fixes. XiVA regularly release new script. Script and instructions on how to run a scripts can be found by contacting musicm8 support. -
Page 28: Network Configuration
The IP address of your musicm8 can be assigned manually instead. If you wish to manually configure the IP settings of musicm8 you can do so by deselecting Use DHCP? and supplying the rest of the settings yourself. - Page 29 Your musicm8 will automatically be assigned to an existing workgroup, most likely MSHOME. If you wish to change the workgroup your musicm8 is assigned to, enter the new workgroup in the Set Workgroup Name box and click Update to apply the changes.
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Page 30: Adding Wireless Support
(if you have already configured your musicm8 for use with squeeze, these should not need to change) • Power on your musicm8 You will then be able to access your musicm8 as you would normally. You will then be able to access your musicm8 as you would normally. -
Page 31: Raid
USB hard drive. RAID expects the USB drive to be formatted with If you wish to disable RAID simply check Disable RAID radio button and click VFAT. When RAID is enabled for the first time musicm8 will back up its complete update. -
Page 32: Trouble Shooting Guide
Diagnostic files are created to help in the support process. All actions carried out by musicm8 are logged in one of the following files: Q. I have typed musicm8 into a web browser on a PC connected to the network and do not see the musicm8 web interface? View Running Processes From this menu you can view all system processes currently running on musicm8. -
Page 33: Specification And Features
XiVA musicm8 User Guide Specification and Features • Recently added playlist generation for Sonos • Size: 23 x 23 x 19 CM • Black or white casing • Linux OS • 110 - 240 V • Atom 1 GHz processor/1024MB RAM •... -
Page 34: Licensing
XiVA musicm8 User Guide Licensing Contact Certain elements of musicm8 are licensed under GPL, which supports the distribu- Imerge Ltd tion of open source software. Consequently some of the code base is available to Unit 6, download freely and may be modified or reused in any third party device. -
Page 35: Warranty
• Physical damage (however caused) When it is necessary for a musicm8 to be returned to XiVA (or its distribution • Theft partner) for repair, you will be issued with Return Material Authorization (RMA) •... - Page 36 All defective products should be returned with a copy of your proof of purchase. In no event shall XiVA’s liability exceed the price paid for the product from direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of the product, it’s accompanying software or it’s documentation.
- Page 37 XiVA musicm8 User Guide WEE Declaration of Conformity • The equipment that you have purchased has required the extraction and use of natural resources for this product. • The equipment may contain hazardous substances which could impact and the environment •...