Playback With Home Media Gallery Inputs; Enjoying The Home Media Gallery; Features Of Home Media Gallery; Steps To Enjoy The Home Media Gallery - Pioneer SC-LX81 Operating Instructions Manual

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Playback with HOME MEDIA GALLERY inputs

Chapter 10:
Playback with HOME MEDIA GALLERY
inputs

Enjoying the Home Media Gallery

This receiver's Home Media Gallery function allows you
to listen to audio files, play photo files or listen to Internet
radio stations on a computer or other component
connected to the receiver's LAN terminal. Home Media
Gallery also allows you to play audio or photo files stored
on a USB memory device connected to the receiver's
USB terminal, or by connecting an iPod to play audio files
stored on the iPod. This chapter describes the
connection, setup, and playback procedures required to
enjoy these features. It is advisory that you also refer to
the operation manual supplied with your network
component.

Features of Home Media Gallery

This receiver is equipped with the LAN terminal and the
USB terminal, and you can enjoy the following features
by connecting your components to these terminals.
• Playback the music or photo files stored in PCs
You can playback a lot of musics and photos stored
in your PCs using this unit.
See Playback with Home Media Gallery on page 73
and Playing back audio files stored on components on
the network on page 75.
See Playing back photo files stored in components
on the network or USB memory device on page 77.
• Listening to Internet radio stations
You can select and listen to your favorite Internet
radio station from the list of Internet radio stations
created, edited, and managed by the vTuner
database service exclusively for use with the Pioneer
products. Also, you can listen to Internet radio station
managed by Neural THX.
See Playback with Home Media Gallery on page 73
and Listening to Internet radio stations on page 77
and Listening to Neural Music Direct on page 79.
Note
1 Besides a PC, you can also play back audio or photo files stored on your other components with the built-in media server function based on
DLNA 1.0 framework and protocols (i.e. network-capable hard disks and audio systems).
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• Playing audio or photo files stored on a USB
memory device or audio files stored on an iPod
The desired audio or photo file can be played directly
by selecting it on the folder/file list displayed on the
screen.
See Playback with Home Media Gallery on page 73,
Playing back audio files stored on a USB memory
device on page 76 and Playing back audio files stored
on an iPod on page 75.
See Playing back photo files stored in components
on the network or USB memory device on page 77.

Steps to enjoy the Home Media Gallery

Playing back audio files on the network and
listening to Internet radio stations
1 Connect to the network through LAN interface.
See Connecting to the network through LAN interface on
page 71 for more on this.
2 Configure the network settings.
The setup is necessary only when the router to be
connected does not have the built-in DHCP server
1
function.
See Setting up the network on page 81 for more on this.
3 Playback with Home Media Gallery.
See Playback with Home Media Gallery on page 73 for
more on this.
Playing back audio or photo files stored on a
USB memory device
1 Connect USB memory device to the iPod DIRECT
USB terminal.
See Connecting a USB device on page 72 for more on this.
2 Playback with Home Media Gallery.
See Playback with Home Media Gallery on page 73 for
more on this.