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User Guide | Software v 2.0
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Welcome Thanks for purchasing a Roku SoundBridge! We hope you enjoy using it as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it. SoundBridge lets you play music you have stored on your PC or Mac anywhere in your home. It also lets you access many of the thousands of Internet radio stations that broadcast on the web. Roku’s media players are designed to be upgradeable in the field, and we are always working on improving the software for our products. Your SoundBridge has a menu option to check for, and
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TABLE OF CONTENTS GETTING STARTED To use SoundBridge you will need to: Getting Started Pausing Music Playback.................................................22 I. Make sure you have a compatible music server installed. Compatible music servers include I. Music Server Software Requirements ............. 3 Skipping Tracks During Playback...............................23 ® ® ® ® iTunes, Microsoft Windows Media Connect, Musicmatch, and others. II. Hooking Up Your Home Network Playing a Playl
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With 2.0, you have several options for connecting your music library to SoundBridge: B. Instructions for Installing Musicmatch Jukebox 1. If not already installed, download, install and launch Musicmatch Jukebox 9.0 on your PC Music Server Recommended Notes (the free download is available at www.musicmatch.com). for Users of . . . 2. Continue to Section II, “Hooking Up Your Home Network Hardware,” below. Windows Windows XP A free media server from Microsoft, available October 2004. Media wit
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Your SoundBridge has several audio connection options: a. Connect your SoundBridge to a set of powered speakers, using the RCA-to-mini (1/8 inch) Y-audio cable included with your SoundBridge. Insert your Wi-Fi AC Power card with the Roku ��������������� ������������������������������ ����������� label facing the Ethernet port RCA Analog Out �������������������� ������������������� ����������� ���������������������� ������������������ ��������������������� ������������� ��������� Optical Tosl
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IV. Connecting SoundBridge to AC Power VI. Establishing a Network Connection Plug the small power cord into the SoundBridge unit, and plug the other end into to a wall Wired Ethernet Network: After you have connected SoundBridge to your computer via a outlet. Note that the back of the end cap has a hole for routing your audio and power cables switch/hub/router (or directly to your computer via crossover cable) and powered up the unit, SoundBridge will auto-configure its network settings (usin
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Personal Firewall (iTunes Users) VII. Enabling Music Sharing If you have trouble connecting and your computer has a firewall installed, make sure your Enable any music sharing options required by your music server: firewall is configured to allow iTunes music sharing: 1. Windows Media Connect: Authorize SoundBridge as a permitted client for Windows Mac: Open System Preferences. Select the Sharing icon and click on the Firewall tab. Select the Media Player via Windows Media Connect by clickin
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VIII. Choosing Your Music Library X. Setting Display Preferences (optional) Once your SoundBridge is successfully connected to your network and your server’s music The brightness of your display can be adjusted by pressing the Bright button. sharing options are enabled, it will automatically find your computer’s music server and detect Text size can also be controlled for the SoundBridge M1000 and M2000’s VFD display by any supported music libraries. After SoundBridge detects your music li
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You should see a screen with a progress bar: MUSIC PLAYBACK — OVERVIEW CONTACTING SERVER Audio File Formats Supported [********] You are now ready to begin playing music. SoundBridge supports a wide variety of audio You will then see one of the following two screens: formats, including: MP3, AAC, WMA, DRM WMA, AIFF, and WAV. (FLAC and Ogg-Vorbis are supported only with the optional third-party SlimServer software.) Please note that AAC files YOUR SOFTWARE IS UP TO DATE purchased from the App
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Pressing the Exit button repeatedly will display the “Now Playing” screen, which displays MUSIC PLAYBACK — TUTORIAL information about the currently playing song. The Main Menu Screen Icons Quick Reference To begin navigating through your music, start on your “Main” menu, by pressing the Menu button. The display on SoundBridge should look something like this: On your “Song Queue” screen: Ë PLAYLISTS The music note icon denotes a single track (as opposed to a collection of tracks). BROWSE
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Please note that the artist and album information may be abbreviated, or appear one line Browsing by Album at a time, if the total number of characters exceeds what can be displayed at once. See the Press the Down 6 button until you see the BROWSE option highlighted and press Select on “Settings” chapter at the end of this manual for more information on display options. your remote control. You will see a listing of browsing options: Hint : If you would like to go back to the above “Now Pla
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If you choose “Play songs” on any track in your selection, the entire list is added to the Song Building a Song Queue Queue, but playback starts on the chosen track. If you have the Repeat option selected, the Let’s say you would now like to choose several different songs or selections to play in a row. earlier tracks in the queue will play after the last song (and so on indefinitely). If you have the This is called building a “Song Queue.” SoundBridge automatically builds a Song Queue e
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Queue that you can save and recall at will, please build a Playlist in your music jukebox software When the Song Queue has played all the way through, it will stop. You will see the Stop icon (see “Playing a Saved Playlist” below). < on the right side of your display. To start playing your Song Queue again at the beginning, press the Play 4 button. Erasing a Song Queue Hint : Press Repeat if you would like your Song Queue to play continuously. You will see the Repeat icon q displayed on t
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Song Queue, highlight that Genre and press Add (or Select to open additional options for Browsing by Artist, Song or Composer playback). From the Main Menu, use the Down 6 arrow to highlight BROWSE and then press Select. Navigate To browse within a genre, such as Hip Hop/Rap, press Select on your desired genre. You will to BROWSE ARTISTS and press Select. Your screen will look something like this: have the option to see all available artists in that genre, and a list of individual albums by
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Hint: Partial spelling is OK — for example, if searching for Radiohead, you can enter only the first two letters, “RA”, and the results will return all Artists matching that search (Radiohead, Ratt, etc). Hint: Band names starting with “the,” such as The Beatles, will be found under the first letter of the word following “the” — in this case, “B” for “Beatles.” When you find the music you like, use the Add button to add it to your Song Queue. If searching for albums or artists, you can pres
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standards. The only sure way to know if a radio station will play on SoundBridge is simply to ADVANCED FEATURES try it. Control Brightness, Contrast and Text Display The Bright button on your remote lets you change the brightness of your display using the Changing Music Libraries Up/Down arrows 5 6. For some SoundBridge models, you will also see the option to change Press Menu on your remote control. Navigate down to “Change Library or Configuration” and contrast using the left/right arrows
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While in Safe Mode, your stored network settings will not be recalled. Therefore it may be WI-FI SETUP AND PASSWORD HELP necessary to configure your network before SoundBridge can connect to the Internet in order to download new software. Background Safe Mode can also be entered manually by powering SoundBridge off (by unplugging it from Why Wi-Fi? power) and on again, while at the same time pressing and holding any button on the remote With SoundBridge’s wireless functionality, you can now
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6. Turn on your SoundBridge by plugging the power cord into the right side of the device, If the connection is successful, all the available music libraries will be listed on your screen. Use then into the wall AC outlet. Verify that the screen displays the Roku logo. the up and down arrows on your remote to navigate to your desired library and press Select to begin browsing your music library. 7. Upon startup, SoundBridge will attempt to connect to any wireless access point within range tha
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You may need to enter the password for your base station. You should then see the screen Example 1: Apple AirPort (Mac Users) below. The line labeled “Wireless Network Name”: is the name of your network, also known as The Apple Airport is a very popular access point. To see its configuration, open your AirPort an “SSID.” You will either select this network on the SoundBridge screen or enter it manually if Admin Utility on your Mac (it is in the Utilities folder). Select your AirPort and
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If your network is password protected, you should choose “Equivalent Network Password” from Example 2: Apple AirPort (PC Users) the “Base Station” menu (see illustration above) and write down the value that appears in the Step 1: Open the AirPort Admin utility (Start/Programs/Airport Admin Utility). Select the dialog (see illustration below). This is the value you will enter into SoundBridge’s wireless setup network you would like to configure. You should then see the configuration screen b
