Albrecht DR 410 User manual

Portable
INTERNET & FM RADIO
DR
410
User Manua
l

Functional Modes and Features
The product is a small, lightweight and stylish design battery operated Internet Radio.
This
radio incorporates an Internet
radio, an FM radio and additionally a Music
streaming
feature to be used with a Wi-Fi home network. Powered by alkaline
batteries or external
DC Power Adaptor, the
product provides hours of
network
audio
streaming from Internet radio stations and music steaming from your own
networked
PC connected to your Wi-Fi access point.
A
brief description of the features is listed below:
Internet Radio gets you connected to various radio
stations around the world via Wi-Fi connection.
Media Stream plays music streams from your Windows
media player version11 application
in your PC or Notebook
running Windows XP or Vista OS over Wi-Fi connection.
FM radio - connects to the local FM
Radio Stations
Setting , used for performing all the settings in your
product
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Product Button Definition
1 Earphone
socket
3.5 mm Stereo socket, for connecting e arphones. Insert the
plug
until it clicks. Socket can also be used to connect home
stereo am
p
lifier.
2
DC input +6V DC adaptor input
3 Power Power On/Off
4 Mode Direct access button to access to Internet Radio, Media
Stream
and FM functions
5 Dot Matrix 2X16 dot matrix LCM display
6 TUNE / OK
Turn to scroll through the menu listing in down or up
directions / play previous or next song / go down or up
in
pop up menu list and use button as Enter (OK) key to
select an item.
7 BACK Press to go up one list screen level or to return to
previous menu
8 Mute Mute the speaker output or the earphone jack output
9 MENU Press this button to bring you back to top main menu
10 P1 – P5
Preset (Memory) Station Buttons. Press and hold to save
a station to that preset memory number, and press particular
memory button to call back the saved station
11 Volume Up Increase volume level
12 Volume Down Decrease volume level
13
Battery
Compartment
To hold 4 X AA-size battery dry cell or rechargeable
NiMH (in that case an External battery charger
is necessary)
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Getting Started
The package contents:
• Internet & FM radio unit
• Power Adaptor
•
User Manual
To Power on your radio , press and hold the Power key , you will see the Albrecht Internet
Radio screen.
A
fter the startup is complete, you will see the Main Menu screen that shows you the
Internet
Radio, Media Stream, FM Radio and Setting modes as option in a list. Use the
Navigation
Knob to scroll through the list as you like and press the Navigation Knob to
con
f
irm the selection.
A
t any time in any of this mode, if you press the Menu button it will bring you back to the
Main Menu.
Setting up the Wi-Fi
Your radio can be easily connected to the Wi-Fi networks. When a Wi-Fi connection is
required (for instance, to play Internet Radio or Media stream) the unit will automatically
look for a network and try to connect to it.
When you are connecting the radio for the first time, you will have to setup the
network by select the Network
Configure option from the Setting mode in the Main Menu. To do this pleases following
the steps listed below:
From the main menu select the Setting option
b
y
usin
g
the Tune/OK knob
Next select the Network Configure option from
the list using the
Tune/OK Knob .
< Use Wi-Fi
Select Wi-Fi Setup from the menu list by using
Tune/OK
to
navigate and select it.
Of course, if you directly enter into the “Internet radio” menu, the unit can pop up
the wizard also as below
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For the case of using the Wi-Fi network you will
see this screen that
list two options for you, the Load profile and
Search network o
p
tion res
p
ectivel
y
.
The
Load profile option let you load back a profile that you have
saved in the previous section, please use the Tune/ OK Knob to
navigate and select it. If the saved profile has the correct information
that
match to the current AP you are going to connect to, product will try to
connect
to it and put a tick beside the AP name once the product
successfully connected to the AP.
To search for a new wireless Access Point before
using the Wi-Fi
connectivity, please select the Search network from the
above screen.
Then you will see a screen showing “Searching” while
the product
trying to search and show you all the available Access
Points
that the product able to find. The product will
then
show all the Wi-Fi networks SSID in the range as
shown
in the screen for example.
Once you have got the list of Wi-Fi AP SSID’s use
Tune/OK
to navigate and select the AP SSID that
you wish to use. Once the network AP is selected the
radio
will prompt you for the d efault network key
which is the WEP/WPA default secure key of the
Wi-Fi n
e
tw
o
rk
access
po
int.
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Use Tune/OK to key in the network key. Turning
the knob left and right
will change the numbers,
characters and symbols that you wish to show in the
center of upper line of the screen. In this example, the
‘5’ is the current active number, to select it press
Tune/OK once.
Turning the knob counter clockwise
or right will shift the ‘character’ to the center of the
screen for selection and pressing the k nob will select
it. Use the Back button to delete a selected character.
Once the Network Key has been completed, next press and hold
Tune/OK
to confirm the n etwork ke
y
.
Now
the product should try to access the Access point that you
have selected
Once the product managed to connect to the AP it
will now put a star next
to the network AP SSID
name that you have selected. Press Tune/OK and
save the profile. So that the future connection to this
Wi-Fi
AP you don’t have to go through the Wi-Fi AP
selection process again, if you are using the same
Wi-Fi AP for Internet Radio or Media Streaming
Once you select to save the profile, it will prompt
where to save as shown.
Use Tune/OK to select
Yes or No.
Now
y
our Wi-Fi AP connection setu
p
is com
p
leted.
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Remark for troubleshooting: When the device connects with the AP and can’
t
get IP address from DHCP server automatically, it will prompt an erro
r
message as IP 0.0.0.0.
Please check whether router's DHCP service is enabled or not, and try to
connect with the AP again. In company networks it can often happen, that the
network administrator does not provide any DHCP service. In such cases you
can enter the local IP address manually together with Subnet mask, Gateway
and DNS address.(You may ask network administrator for these numbers).
For example: IP Address: 192.168. 0.15 Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0 ,
Gatewa
y
& DNS 192.168.0.1
(
ever
y
thin
g
de
p
ends on LAN settin
g
s b
y

Internet
Internet radio gives you the access to all the Radio stations available worldwide. Once
your
product is connected to Wi-Fi,
you can listen to either all the preset memory
channels by direct memory buttons1 to 5 or select any Internet Radio Station
worldwide from
Radio Search option. Here you can find all your favorite Radio
channels, which are
arranged in different categories. Please refer to Radio Search
sec
ti
o
n
be
l
o
w f
o
r
de
t
a
il
s
.
Listening to the Internet Radio
To listen to the Internet Radio, first connect the radio to the Internet as explained on
the above section, then select Internet Radio from the Main Menu .
Radio Search is an advance search which is organized into
different categories.
Please read on the below section on
Radio Search for details.
Press Memory 1-5 to access to the saved preset station,
then you turning Tune/OK button to the left or right to select
one preset station, then pressing Tune/OK knob button to
confirm. If you want to save the current station to one of the
memories
, you can turn Tune/OK to the left or right and
select the position, then press Tune/OK button to save it.
Radio Search
The Radio Search is organized to search the stations in the following groups:
Local stations includes stations organized by the type of stations( All stations,
A
dult contemporary, Business news, Classical, Comedy, News , News Talk ,
S
p
orts , Talk , To
p
40, Varit
y
,World Asia
)
Genres includes stations organized by the type of music
played (e.g. Ambient Big
Band, Blues, Classic Rock,
Classical, Country, Dance, Electronic, Folk, Hard Rock,
Hip Hop, Jazz, New Age, News, Oldies, Public,
Religious, RnB, Rock, Soft Rock, Soundtracks, Sports, Talk ,
Weather, Web Audio and World).
Countries are a search based on the different
geographical locations of the world.
New Stations Contains list of new Radio Stations.
Most Popular Stations include stations based on the
popularity.
Note: All above listings are Music Portal side dependent it
may vary from time to time.
In the Internet Radio mode, if you turn the Tune/OK knob, it will show the options -
Radio Search and Preset (Memory buttons 1 to 5).
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Media Streaming
Now after setup of the connection, you can access any songs from your PC that
running Windows Media Player Version 11
in Windows XP or Vista OS.
Listenin
g
to Media
Select the Media Stream from the Main Menu. It will start
scanning the WIFI network to find a music server on You
r
PC
. It will prompt you the menu screen as shown after
successful connection. If you should already got a
successful connection
previously , the display will
d
ir
ec
tl
y
s
h
o
w
you
th
e
li
s
t
o
f f
ou
n
d
se
rv
e
r
s
.
Now
you can select the server that you want to access by
using Tune/OK . Scroll through
it and lastly confirm by
pressing it.
Depending on the Media Server you are accessing it may
be organized into a few folders and you can select the
Music or Playlists to stream your favorite music
Select the folder by Tune/OK and confirm by pressing the
same Knob. Below may be the folder that you may see:
Music , has the list of the Music
Make
sure that you have your PC or Notebook turned-on and
it is running the Windows Media Player (Version 11) in
Windows XP or the Vista OS. You should also share the
Music streaming to new device in your PC or Notebook
Media Player. [See Setting up PC Media Player 11].
If it should display “ server id not available ” after scanning,
then
o
back
to
previous
menu.
Streaming the Music
Once you select the Music folder in your PC server,
you can stream and listen
to all the music from your PC’s
Media Player over Wi-Fi.
Select the Music Folder or Song that you wish to listen to
by turn and press the Tune / OK k nob and the product
will start to play the song as shown.
A
fter a song has finished it will continue to play the next
song under the same folder.
Now you can stream your favorite music from your PC, acting as your Juke
Box for the product.
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Setting up Windows Media Player version 11
You should be running Windows XP OS on your PC/Laptop, and Windows Media
Player version 11. Now open the
Windows Media Player, and choose Library . From the drop down list of the menu select
the Media sharing .
Now tick the ‘Share my media to’ and select settings
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Please un-tick Pictures and video under Media type.
Next tick the ‘Allow new devices and computers automatically
and press OK
To select the folders for monitor and for sharing, choose Library .
From the drop down list of the menu select the Add to Library
. Select
the folders to monitor as below
A
fter selected the folders to monitor and share in the Player Library, click OK
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