Olive OPUS User manual

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olive Home audio solution
- user manual -
edition 5, JanuarY 2009
Welcome!
Congratulations and thank you for purchasing an Olive OPUS and/or MELODY. Your Olive units
will provide you with a whole new concept of high delity listening throughout your home in this
era of innovative technology. Relax and enjoy the ease of your new OPUS and MELODY – and
their beautiful sound!
• To ensure the best possible performance, please read this manual carefully. Keep it in a safe
place for future reference.
• This manual applies for both OPUS and MELODY as they are part of an integrated Home
Audio Solution, though they also stand very well on their own. In many respects they are
similar in their operation, though of course the OPUS includes the storage and CD capabilit-
ies. Additional features or other differences are outlined in the text.
• Since the OPUS and MELODY software continues to be maintained and updated, the
version on your OPUS and MELODY may differ from the one that is referenced here in
screen messages or design. The most current version of this user manual can always be
found on the Olive website (www.olive.us).

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Contents
1 Quick-Start Guide 04
1.1 Adding Music to Your Home 04
1.2 OPUS 06
1.3 MELODY 12
2 Playing Music 19
2.1 Playing a CD on Your OPUS 19
2.2 Playing Music from Your Music Library on both OPUS and MELODY 20
2.3 Listening to Internet Radio 28
2.4 Playing Music from a Networked PC/Mac/NAS 30
2.5 Playing Music from Your Apple® iPod™ 31
2.6 More on Using the Touchscreen and Remote Control 32
3 Making it Your Olive: Settings and System Services 38
3.1 General Settings, Alarm and Sleep Timer 38
3.2 CD Settings 39
3.3 Network Settings 41
3.4 System Services 45
3.5 Information about your Library and OPUS or MELODY 48
4 Editing Your Music Library 50
4.1 Information to Describe Your Music 50
4.2 Maestro Music Management Software (OPUS only) 58
4.3 Making the Most of Your Music: Shared and Private Playlists 62

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5 Importing and Exporting Music on Your OPUS 64
5.1 Importing CDs 64
5.2 Importing From a Computer 65
5.3 Burning CDs 66
6 Tips and Troubleshooting 68
6.1 Icons and messages explained 68
6.2 First aid 70
6.3 Networking Issues 72
7 Further Resources 73
8 Safety and Cleaning 74
9 Regulatory and Environmental Compliance 77
9.1 Legal Notices 77
9.2 Environmental Compliance 84

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1. Quick-start Guide
1.1 Adding Music to Your Home
With Olive’s Home Audio Solution we bring together the components you need to make the
most of your home network and HiFi system in an integrated solution. The key advantage is that
you simplify your music listening:
•
You have one place to keep and manage your music – in high quality.
•
You have your music right with your HiFi system for immediate listening, there’s no
computer to start rst.
•
The way you browse and play music looks the same on the OPUS as well as on the
MELODYs, no new interfaces to learn.
•
OPUS and MELODY are made to work together. Once you have made them part of your
home network and HiFi system, it is all about the music and relaxing.
Layout
Here is a view of what a typical home setup looks like, with an OPUS to store all your music in
the living room and as part of the HiFi system, and MELODYs around the home to extend your
music library wherever you are:

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Floorplan Layout
Both OPUS and MELODY are intended for use with an existing stereo amplier and/or (active)
speakers, with all the usual analog and digital connections to easily hook them up to your exist-
ing equipment. If you are installing both OPUS and MELODY(s), it makes sense to start with the
OPUS.

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How many streams?
We test with standard networking gear available at the usual retailers, and look for reliable
connection build-up and uninterrupted playback as key indicators. In our most recent test we
achieved the following:
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Wired (Ethernet): 15 MELODYs playing the same album off one OPUS.
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Wireless: 5 MELODYs playing the same album off one OPUS.
In both cases the OPUS was connected to the router per wired connection. Our benchmark test
involves using a high-denition music stream of 4608 kbit/s throughput, which is equivalent to
music sampled at 96 kHz and recorded with 24 bit depth, without any compression. This goes
way beyond normal bit streams of uncompressed CD quality of 1411 kbit/s, or losslessly (FLAC)
compressed music streams of between 400 to 900 kbit/s, and so depending on the music you
are streaming you will usually have a very safe margin of additional bandwidth.
1.2 OPUS
Step 1: Unpacking your OPUS
Your package includes the following items:
•
OPUS
•
Remote control (w/ batteries)
•
Wireless antenna

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Power cable
• Software: Recovery CD, User manual
Step 2: Setting up your OPUS
Backpanel OPUS
• Place your OPUS close to your stereo system, in a cool, well-ventilated place.
•Attach the wireless antenna to the back of the OPUS.
• Connect it via its RCA (analog) or digital output to the input of your stereo system.
•Plug the power cable into your OPUS and into the power outlet.
• Turn on the OPUS and your stereo system.
Your OPUS takes about 40 seconds to perform an initial start-up. It should then stay on or be in

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power save mode to be immediately available at any time you wish, with a sophisticated power
saving ensuring that it powers down components that are not needed. Please never unplug your
device while it is turned on or in sleep mode, it might damage your device. Please make sure to
turn off a connected amplier or speakers before disconnecting the audio-out of the OPUS.
Step 3: Navigating your OPUS
Your OPUS provides the following navigational controls:
OPUS Frontside
•
Once the OPUS is on, you’ll be using the 5 navigation keys to get around the menu
screens, and the play keys to control the actual playback like on any CD-player. Then
there’s the ON/OFF key, that’s about it.
OPUS No4
Touchscreen/Display
Infrared Navigation Keys
Play Keys
On/Off

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• Tip 1: Use the remote control just like the keys on the OPUS – while sitting down. It doesn’t
get much easier than that.
•
Tip 2: The touchscreen feature allows you to more directly point to what you want the
OPUS to do, the logic of the menu screens stays the same.
•
Tip 3: The menu screens start with the main menu. Then navigating to the right you
get to the music. To get back is to the left again. With the double panel display you can
easily tell where you are going and what options are available. Holding the left arrow
allows to jump back to the top menu (“Home” on the remote control). Holding the pause
button allows to stop current playback.
•
Tip 4: The main musical genres are color coded to easily tell them apart. Some of the
information that is shown on the track detail screen is different per genre to allow you to nd
out more about what you are listening to.
•
Tip 5: The lower part of the display consists of a status bar that allows you to quickly
view play mode (pause, repeat, shufe, etc.), alarm or timer set, track progress, volume
level, background progress and network status.
To put your OPUS to sleep, just press the ON/OFF button shortly. When you press it again (or
any other key) the OPUS will turn on again in a couple of seconds and return to the spot where
you left off.
Note: Within this user manual we will refer to screen menu options in CAPITAL letters for easier
readability. Starting point will always be the main menu, the top most menu to which you can
always return by navigating all the way to the left.

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Step 4: Play a CD
Insert a CD into the slot and choose play from the pop-up menu.
Step 5: Connecting your OPUS to a home network
This is an important step to access music stored elsewhere on your network, listen to Internet
radio, use the web browser on a computer or PDA to browse your music, use the Maestro ap-
plication to manage your music or to be able to receive online system updates:
•
Go to SETTINGS > NETWORK SETTINGS > NETWORK SETUP.
•
Select the mode that applies to your network, whether wired or wireless, automatic or
manual hookup, and press SAVE to continue. In the wired case you are usually done at this
point and will see a conrmation. In the wireless case you will have to choose the right
network, WEP or WPA encryption and enter a KEY if your network is protected. Often
wireless networks are quirky to set up, so be patient. If you experience problems we are
always happy to help, please call us toll-free at 1.877.BY.OLIVE.
Your OPUS is now integrated into your home network.
Step 6: Getting music into your OPUS and start listening
To add and listen to music to your OPUS you can …
• … import from CD: Just insert an audio CD and select IMPORT CD from the pop-up menu.
The CD is ripped, tagged and archived automatically. You can import CDs in different
qualities/formats. Go to SETTINGS > CD SETTINGS > CD IMPORT QUALITY and choose

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the format you want. We recommend FLAC to retain CD quality audio but reduce size at
what is called “lossless” compression for the best compromise between quality and le size.
To leave the music in its original format, choose WAV.
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… transfer music from a PC: Under NETWORK SETTINGS > NETWORK INFORMATION
you will nd the current IP-address of your OPUS. Use it on your PC to open a network
connection to the import folder that is shown, and simply drag & drop music to the OPUS.
Note: Only music formats that are supported by your OPUS can be imported (WAV, FLAC,
MP3, AAC). The OPUS does not play stored music protected by Digital Rights
Management (DRM).
•
… look under MUSIC SOURCES to nd other UPnP supported servers to browse and play
music from these.
•
… listen to Internet radio: In the main menu select INTERNET RADIO and choose from
a wide variety of stations that are sorted by genre, regions, public & information or favorites
you have added (play will start immediately, you might have to wait a few seconds until their
current stream information is loaded to the OPUS via the network).
Step 7: Creating playlists
Now that you have music on your OPUS, you can easily create playlists for every mood or occa-
sion. There are two ways:
1) On the OPUS:
o
Go to MUSIC LIBRARY > PLAYLISTS, ADD PLAYLIST and enter the name of your play
list and save it.

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o
Browse your music library and play the tracks you want to add to the playlist. Once a
song is playing you press the OK button to get a pop-up that allows you to rst rate and
delete a track, then on second press to add the track to a playlist, which you select from
the list of available playlists. Or just hit the ADD button on the remote control.
2) Via the Maestro library management application: 1) Simply enter the IP-address of your
OPUS into a browser on your PC/Mac replacing the x’s:
o http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8163/maestro.php
The Maestro application allows you to conveniently create new playlists and drag & drop single
tracks, albums or works to your list of playlists. The Maestro application is discussed in more
detail further down in this manual.
Step 8: Burn your music to CD
Choose the playlist that you want to burn and press the OK button for a popup menu that allows
you to initiate the burning process. Insert an audio CD and choose CONTINUE.
1.3 MELODY
Step 1: Unpacking your MELODY
Your package includes the following items:
•
MELODY networked player
•
Remote control (w/ batteries)

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Wireless antenna
•
DC power supply
•
User manual
Step 2: Setting up your MELODY
Backpanel MELODY
•
Place your MELODY close to your stereo system, in a cool, well-ventilated place.
•
Attach the wireless antenna to the back of the MELODY.

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•
Connect it via its RCA or digital output to the input of your amplier or active speakers.
•
Connect the power supply to the MELODY and the power outlet.
•
Turn on the MELODY and your amplier or active speakers.
Your MELODY takes about 40 seconds to perform an initial start-up. It should then stay on or be
in power save mode to be immediately available at any time you wish. Please make sure to turn
off a connected amplier or speakers before disconnecting the audio-out of the MELODY.
Step 3: Navigating your MELODY
Your MELODY provides the following navigational controls:
MELODY Frontside
MELODY No2
Touchscreen/Display
Infrared
Navigation Keys
Play Keys
On/Off

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• Once the MELODY is on, you’ll be using the 5 navigation keys to get around the menu
screens, and the play keys to control the actual playback like on any CD-player. Then
there’s the ON/OFF key, that’s about it.
•
Tip 1: Use the remote control just like the keys on the MELODY – while sitting down. It
doesn’t get much easier than that.
•
Tip 2: The touchscreen feature allows you to more directly point to what you want the
MELODY to do, the logic of the menu screens stays the same.
•
Tip 3: The menu screens start with the main menu. Then navigating to the right you get to
the music. To get back is to the left again. With the double panel display you can easily tell
where you are going and what options are available. Holding the left arrow allows to jump
back to the top menu (“Home” on the remote control).
•
Tip 4: The main musical genres are color coded to easily tell them apart. Some of the
information that is shown on the track detail screen is different per genre to allow you to nd
out more about what you are listening to.
•
Tip 5: The lower part of the display consists of a status bar that allows you to quickly view
play mode (pause, repeat, shufe, etc.), alarm or timer set, track progress, volume level,
background progress and network status.
To put your MELODY to sleep, just press the ON/OFF button shortly. When you press it again the
MELODY will turn on again and return to the spot where you left off.
Note: Within this user manual we will refer to screen menu options in CAPITAL letters for easier

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readability. Starting point will always be the main menu, the top most menu to which you can
always return by navigating all the way to the left.
Step 4: Connecting your MELODY to a home network
This is an important step to access music stored on your OPUS, elsewhere on your network,
listen to Internet radio, use the web browser on a computer or PDA to browse your music, or be
able to receive online system updates:
•
Go to SETTINGS > NETWORK SETTINGS > NETWORK SETUP.
•
Select the mode that applies to your network, whether wired or wireless, automatic or
manual hookup, and press SAVE to continue. In the wired case you are usually done at this
point and will see a conrmation when successful. In the wireless case you will have to
choose the right network, WEP or WPA encryption and enter a KEY if your network is
protected. Often wireless networks are quirky to set up, so be patient. If you experience
problems we are always happy to help, please call us toll-free at 1.877.BY.OLIVE.
Your MELODY is now integrated into your home network.
Step 5: Listening
To listen to music you can …
• … browse the music stored on your OPUS: If there is an OPUS in your home network the
MELODY will automatically select it as the main source. Simply select MUSIC LIBRARY and
browse and play your music as if you were directly navigating your OPUS.

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• … look under MUSIC SOURCES to nd other UPnP supported servers to browse and play
music from these.
• … listen to Internet radio: In the main menu select INTERNET RADIO and choose from a
wide variety of stations that are sorted by genre, regions, public & information or favorites
you have added (play will start immediately, you might have to wait a few seconds until their
current stream information is loaded to the MELODY via the network).
Step 6: Creating playlists
Now that you have your MELODY connected, you can easily create playlists based on your
library in the OPUS for every mood or occasion. There are two ways:
•
On the MELODY:
o Go to MUSIC LIBRARY > PLAYLISTS, ADD PLAYLIST and enter the name of your
playlist and save it.
o Browse your music library and play the tracks you want to add to the playlist. Once a
song is playing you press the OK button to get a pop-up that allows you to rst rate and
delete a track, then on second press to add the track to a playlist, which you select from
the list of available playlists.
•
Via the Maestro library management application that looks onto your OPUS: 1) Enter the
IP-address of your OPUS into a browser on your PC/Mac replacing the x’s:
o http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8163/maestro.php

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The Maestro application allows you to conveniently create new playlists and drag & drop
single tracks, albums or works to your list of playlists.
All playlists created on the OPUS are available for all MELODYs or other networked receivers
to see. Playlists created on the MELODY are private in that they are only relevant for that room
and only seen on that MELODY, e.g. if you have the MELODY in the bedroom you could have a
special “wake-up” or “sleepy” playlist there that you don’t need in the living or other rooms.
Keep in touch
Please register your Olive products online at our website (www.olive.us) to activate your warranty
and stay up-to-date with our latest product releases.
Great, now you can get back to your music!