User manual SANGEAN WFR-20

[. . . ] 9-10 Connecting your radio to your computer network . 12-14 After you have connected to your network . 28-29 Set up a Windows PC to allow the radio to access your audio files via a UPnP server. 30 Locating and playing media files when using UPnP . [. . . ] Set up a Windows PC to allow the radio to access your audio files via a UPnP server 1. If your PC is running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista then you can use Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11 (WMP 11) to act as your UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) media server. If not already installed on your PC, Windows Media Player 11 may be downloaded from Microsoft's website and installed by following the instructions detailed in its installation wizard, or by using Microsoft's Windows Update facility. Once installed, WMP 11 can create a library from all the media files available to it on your PC. to add new media files to the library , select `File > Add to Library. > Advanced Options', click `Add' and choose the files you wish to add and click `OK'. You will now need to connect your Internet radio to Windows Media Player 11 and configure it to allow the radio to access your media library. In order to this, you will need to follow these next steps. 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'. After scanning, select your UPnP server (rotate the Select control if more than one UpnP server is found), and then press the Select control. Your radio will normally display `Access Denied' at this stage. Your PC may now prompt you that a device has attempted to connect to your UPnP server. Whether you are prompted or not, in order to allow the radio to have access to the media files, you will need to click the `Library' tab in WMP 11 and select the `Media Sharing. From the `Media Sharing' window, the radio will be listed as an unknown device. Click on the unknown device shown to select it, then click the `Allow' button and then click `OK'. Note: If you are using Microsoft Windows' firewall software, this should be correctly configured by WMP 11. If you are using third party firewall software you may need to manually configure it to allow your radio and WMP 11 to communicate (see 'Troubleshooting'). Select the named server again using the Select control. If WMP 11 is now able to communicate with your radio you will be presented with some media selection options by the server software. Locating and playing media files when using UPnP Once the UPnP server has been configured to share media files with your Internet radio, you select the files that you wish to play as follows: 1. Use the Select control to switch on your radio and to access the menus. Note that it may take a few seconds for the radio to complete its scan, and that before the scan has completed the radio may display `Empty'. [. . . ] Then, re-apply power while simultaneously pressing and holding the front panel rotary control. Keep this pressed as the radio powers up and until it displays `Factory Reset Complete'. This should normally only take between 10 and 15 few seconds. Then, release the control while the radio restarts. [. . . ]