User manual CAMBRIDGE AUDIO NP30

[. . . ] NP30 Your music + our passion Network Player User's manual 2 ENGLISH Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Important safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Wi-Fi information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Limited warranty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Rear panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Front panel controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Getting connected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Operating the NP30. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Settings menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 UuVol Remote. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Technical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Introduction Thank you for purchasing your Sonata NP30 Network Music Player. We are confident that you will enjoy many years of listening pleasure from it. Like all Cambridge Audio products the Sonata NP30 adheres to three core principles ­ stunning performance, ease of use and incredible value. The Sonata NP30 can access a wide range of audio from UPnP servers or local media and directly from the internet such as from our own Uuvol Internet Radio service or Streaming Services from other suppliers. [. . . ] IMPORTANT: Network Media Before you continue, make sure that your wireless access point or router is powered up and working with your broadband internet service (use your computer to verify this). To get this part of the system working you must read the instructions supplied with the wireless access point or router. The NP30 can be configured to connect to a Wired or Wireless network or has a (default) Auto setting. In Auto the NP30 looks for a each connection type and selects whichever is present. You can also force the unit to one or the other connection type, see later Settings section. Connecting to a wired network Note: For this to work your server will also need to support the CODEC you wish Also for lossless/uncompressed formats both the server and network connection will need to sustain the high bitrate necessary. to play as some have limitations and may not serve FLAC for instance. Always check that the server you wish to use also supports your favoured CODECs. Plug one end of a network cable (Category 5/5E straight through Ethernet cable) into the LAN port on the back of the unit. Note: It is not recommended to use Wi-Fi connections for content above 16 bits 44. 1/48kHz if lossless/uncompressed. Local Media The NP30 also supports local media from USB Flash-disks or USB hard-drives and has two USB1. 1 ports for this purpose. Here the NP30 simply browses the folders present on the media attached and displays them. Only content that the NP30 can play will be shown. This feature is provided for convenient access to temporary storage devices. Internet It is however highly recommended that UPnP is used for continued use of stored media as the UPnP system is able to support album art, sophisticated content browsing and filtering and other features not possible with simple folder browsing. Note: Currently only the FAT32 file system is supported. Podcasts The NP30 supports various third party podcast services, navigate to Podcasts on the unit for the list available in your area. In addition the NP30 supports your own personal choice of podcasts where you know its URL (weblink) via the UuVol portal, see later section. Podcasts are archived audio recordings downloadable over the internet. Often podcasts are recordings of previous live broadcasts or episodic content. Note: Only connect the LAN port of the player to an Ethernet port that supports 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. Connecting to any other ports or jacks, such as a phone jack, can damage the unit The NP30 should automatically connect to your network as below via DHCP; this means it will be given an IP address by your router automatically. 9 Getting connected cont. Connecting to a wireless network Place the NP30 in range of your wireless network (usually 10-30m of a suitable wireless transmitter, although this is affected by walls and the construction of your building) and turn it on, via the back panel switch and then on the front panel. Operating the NP30 The NP30 home menu consists of 5 items: UuVol Radio Streaming Services Media Podcasts Settings These allow acess to the four basic types of media choice plus a Settings menu for the unit. You can return to this menu at any time by pressing the Simply scroll through the items with the scroll wheel or navigator buttons on the remote control and press in the scroll wheel or use the select button on the remote to select the item you want. button. Internet 10-30m distance Uuvol Radio The UuVol Radio service brings thousands of internet radio stations to you. The sheer choice available on the internet allows you to find new music, listen to stations in your native language (or perhaps if you are learning another one), from your home town or by your Genre of choice. Wireless broadband Router/Modem The NP30 will automatically connect and obtain an IP address from your wireless network. For advanced users, if you would like to give your NP30 a static IP address, then see the 'Network config' section of the manual. Note: If you make a mistake at any point, you can always press the to go back to the previous screen. button It has to be said that the audio quality of internet radio varies greatly dependant on the bitrate and compression technology used by the broadcaster, but the choice more than makes up for this. UuVol Radio allows you to explore and find new music from all over the world. Note: As an 'aggregator' service we are simply organising the browsing and connection process for these stations so that you don't have to manually search for them or type in any URLs (web links) etc to access them. Whilst we regularly check the stations to make sure they are still transmitting reliably and in reasonable quality we are not responsible for their content in any way. As well as the thousands of stations we offer if you want to listen to a particular station that is not included in our service you can add it via UuVol portal at UuVol. com, see later section. You can also visit the UuVol. com portal on the web and put in a request suggesting new stations for us to add to the service. It is not necessary to register your NP30 to use the free UuVol service but by registering you will be able to edit settings on your NP30 via your own portal on our website, manage your presets, set up new 3rd party Streaming Services and more. The unit will now scan for all available wireless networks and will display "Scanning". [. . . ] If you have problems with UPnP playback always check the following: If you can play back the station with a PC, you can use the form at www. UuVol. com to notify us so that we can investigate. · Ensure your chosen UPnP server software is capable of serving the file type you are trying to access. Some servers do not serve FLAC for instance. 270 x 285 x 67mm 2. 1Kg/4. 6lbs * iRadio/Streaming Services are output as 16 bit data at the appropriate sample rate for the decompressed data. The sample rate will be 32kHz, 44. 1kHz or 48kHz depending on the streams sample rate. Incoming streams of less than 32kHz sample rate cannot be output over S/P DIF /Toslink. [. . . ]