Teac WAP-4500 User manual

WAP-4500
INSTRUCTION MANUAL

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WAP-4500
INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Index
1. After unpacking......................................................................................................5
2. Controls and connectors........................................................................................6
3. Assembly ..............................................................................................................7
4. B C Battery installation.........................................................................................8
5. Pairing the B C and SM ....................................................................................9
6. Operation.............................................................................................................10
6.1 Audio Server operation ....................................................................................12
6.2 Internet adio....................................................................................................13
6.3 USB Audiomanager...........................................................................................15
6.4 PLAYLIST Direkt-/Playlist toggle function .........................................................16
7. Special functions..................................................................................................17
7.1 Multiroom-operation: select the SM for control................................................17
7.2 ecording of Internet adio contents.................................................................18
7.3 Import of Internet Stations by USB storage........................................................19
8. Settings................................................................................................................20
8.1 Multiroom: .........................................................................................................20
8.2 Language: .........................................................................................................21
8.3 Screen: ..............................................................................................................21
8.4 Autostart: ...........................................................................................................21
8.5 NTP:...................................................................................................................21
8.6 Date: .................................................................................................................21
8.7 Time: .................................................................................................................21
8.8 Sleep: ................................................................................................................21
8.9 Network: ............................................................................................................22
8.9.1 Network Interface............................................................................................22
8.9.2 Wireless Connection (WLAN).........................................................................22
8.9.3 Wireless Lan Setting Wizard...........................................................................22
8.9.4 IP Settings (IP settings for LAN and WLAN)...................................................23
8.9.5 Advanced WLAN settings...............................................................................23
8.10 UPG ADE: firmware (F/W) upgrade...............................................................24
9. Troubleshooting...................................................................................................25
10. Advice on location, care and safety...................................................................27
11. Specifications:....................................................................................................28
12. CE – Declaration of conformity ....................................................................29
13. Notes on WEEE.................................................................................................29
14. Warranty request card.......................................................................................30
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Dear User,
we are pleased that you have chosen a wireless media player from
TEAC media systems and congratulate you on this choice.
With your TEAC media systems WAP-4500 you have acquired a modern piece of
wireless audio technology that is in equal measure attractive and of high quality. We
are sure that this product will provide useful service and a lot of fun over the coming
years.
... your TEAC media systems team!
1. After unpac ing
After unpacking you should first check that the contents are complete. In addition to
this printed manual there should be:
●The WAP-4500 streaming media receiver (SMR in this manual)
●The WAP-4500 bidirectional remote control (BRC in this manual)
●A power supply for SM with DC connector.
●One audio connection cable with mini phone plug and CA plugs
●The installation CD. Beside the Media Server software, you will also find
latest firmware, instruction manual in PDF format and a PC background
picture to decorate your PC desktop.
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2. Controls and connectors
Bidirectional Remote Control (BRC): Streaming Media Receiver (SMR):
1 = LC-Display A = DC connector for power supply
2, 3, 4 = Softkeys B = Ethernet cable connector ( J-45)
5 = Muting C = Left channel Line output ( CA)
6 = Standby D = ight channel Line output ( CA)
7 = OK Play Pause E = S/PDIF optical digital output
8 = go Left / Fast ewind F = Antenna
9 = go ight / Fast Forewind G = Headphones output (Mini Phono)
10 = go Up / Previous item H = USB connector 2
11 = go Down / Next item I = USB connector 1
12 = Volume down (-) J = Power switch
13 = Volume up (+) K = LED LAN connection
14 = Battery bay L = LED USB device connected
M = LED power (blue)/ Standby (red)
N = B C connection
O = LED WLAN connection
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3. Assembly
Basic assembly of this system is very easy to do.
Please connect all components only when they are switched off.
●Connect the SM from backside audio outputs to your audio system by the
supplied audio cable - or connect your headphone to the appropriate
outputs at the left side of the SM .
●Setup and connect your computer network, if required.
●Connect the SM to the SM power supply (DC connector).
●Before connections, check your mains power system to be appropriate to
the WAP-4500 power supply.
●Connect the power adaptor to mains supply.
●Switch on the main power switch at the right side of the SM .
●Insert the Batteries into the B C (refer item 4).
●Switch on the B C by short press the Power button (6).
●A “Pairing“ screen appears. Select your SM „WAP-4500“ and confirm by
OK button (7). by this, B C and SM are linked together (refer item 5).
●By another push on the Power button (6), the whole WAP-4500 system
(B C and SM ) is switched into standby.
Switching standby on/off as well as volume and all other control functions of your
WAP-4500 system can be done by the buttons of the B C. The LC display in the
B C does not only display the received commands but it can also receive contents
from SM such as music track playback data, cover pictures etc, all displayed in the
remote control right in your hand!
Since WAP-4500 can playback audio files from LAN, WLAN, Internet adio and
connected USB storages, there are various settings possible. Please read the
related chapters to setup your WAP-4500 correctly for best performance with all
sources.
Tip: please visit www.teac.de to check for new firmware for your WAP-4500. New
firmware contains latest corrections and often it adds essential new features into
your device!
-- We do recommend, always to update for the latest firmware! --
TEAC is always active to offer you the best possible features for your WAP4500!
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4. BRC Battery installation
The B C is powered by two “Mignon“ AA batteries. A fresth set of batteries can
achieve several weeks of normal usage (base settings) thanks to the integrated
energy saving functions of the WAP-4500 B C.
We do recommend to utilize common Alkaline Batteries.
●The Battery compartment is placed at the back of the B C cabinet.
●The battery cover slider can be unlocked by slight pushing the cover at the
dotted area and shifting down for apprx. 5mm. After unlocking, the cover
can easily be removed.
●Please care to insert the batteries according to the markings in the battery
case and on the batteries itself. Wrong polarity might damage the B C.
●Then lay the battery cover back on the opening and slide-in until you
recognize it was locked again.
●The B C now is ready to use.
Note: It is possible to utilize rechargeable AA-type batteries (NiMH or NiCd).
However, rechargeable batteries have higher self-discharge and less cell tension,
causing shorter operation time. Therefore we do not recommend to use
rechargeable batteries.
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5. Pairing the BRC and SMR
The data interchange between B C and SM of the WAP-4500 is realized by a
data radio transmission system. Benefits of the radio transmission are the definite
identification between the connected partners and the transmission by radio signals,
which do not require visible connection between transmitter and receiver. B C and
SM can both transmit and receive data. You may even control your WAP-4500
from a neighbour room, if you placed your speakers there.
After first power on, the B C shows a “pairing” screen. This screen appears when
there is no known connection between B C and SM or in case you call it to add
another new connection (refer item 7.1 Multiroom operation).
Place your B C close to your SM (< 1m). Select “Pair” to start the pairing
procedure. B C and SM communicate to find a suitable connection. The
procedure takes apprx one minute. In case the B C found more than one WAP
SM base station, select your WAP-4500 SM by the scrollbar and confirm your
selection by short pressing the right softbutton (4) or the OK button (7).
Now you will be back to the main menu which displays the name of the selected
SM device at the head of the menu list.
Note: In case you have more than one WAP device in your environment, the
wireless radio system ensures only the one paired SM is controlled by the paired
B C at a time!
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6. Operation
The main screen contains three areas:
status area (headline) – menu scroll list (center) - soft- eys (bottom)
● Status area - this line will display various system informations:
Battery status (flash for charging, condition: low=red, medium=yellow, full=green)
USB status (connected/disconnected)
Time
Sleep mode
Playback function (Stop/Play/Pause/Muting)
Playback option ( epeat1/ epeat all/Shuffle)
Networking status (connected/disconnected)
WLAN connection quality (poor=red, medium=yellow, good=green)
● Menu scroll list – main functions are:
1. Audio Server: to browse media server and choose tracks to listen.
2. Internet Radio for listing and “My Favorite Station” management.
3. USB Storage: to browse USB disk content and choose tracks to listen, to call
previously stored playlists and Internet- adio-playlists from PC, to store Internet
adio recordings as well as device settings and playlists created by WAP-4500.
4. Playlist: toggle between direct und playlist playback mode.
5. Settings: language, screen, date, time, network settings and system upgrade.
Simply scroll by up (10) / down (11) buttons and press OK (7) button to select.
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WLAN Signal Strength
USB Disk Internet Status
Time
Play status
Battery status
Left Middle Right
Soft eys
Status Icons
Menu Area
Sleep

● Soft-keys – these blocks inform about the function of the three buttons below.
Note: these three buttons change their function dependant from actual screen.
1. Main screen softkeys: Clock Playback Multiroom
● Cloc
A quick key to switch to clock function.
● Playbac
A quick key to switch to “current playback” display.
● Multiroom
Directly opens the device list for selecting the SM device to control.
2. Clock screen softkeys: Back Options Sleep
● Bac : Step back to previous screen
● Options:
12/24 format: Switch 12 or 24 hour display format. Default is 24-hour format.
NTP Setting: time server for automatic time adjustment.
Date: set date.
Time: set time.
● Sleep: quick select for sleep timer toggles OFF-30-60-90 min
3. Current Playback Screen Current playback screen has two forms: one for
music trac s playback and another for internet radio playback:
Music tracks playback softkeys: Bac Options Home
(same for Media Server and USB sources)
● Bac : Step back to previous screen
● Options:
1. Current Playlist: display the actual playlist
2. Append tracks: toggles between direct and playlist playback mode.
3. Shuffle ON/OFF: select random track playback
4. epeat One: repeat the actual track
5. epeat All: repeat all tracks in present album/playlist
6. No epeat: deactivate repeat function
7. Album Cover: fullscreen of the ID3 album cover from the actual audio file.
● Home: Change to Main Screen
Internet Ra io playback softkeys: Bac Options Home
● Bac : Step back to previous screen
● Options:
1. Save To My Favorite Stations: Save current internet radio to “My Favorite
Stations” list
2. ecord to USB: recording the program contents onto USB storage
3. My Favorite Stations: Display “My Favorite Stations” list
4. vTuner: A little vTuner browser within playback screen
● Home: Change to Main Screen
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6.1 Audio Server operation
For browsing media server content and choose tracks to play.
Note: Make sure the media server on your networking PC is up and running and
your WAP-4500 is well connected to your network.
To browse and playback the audio files stored on your computer (connected to your
network), a media server software is required. With WAP-4500, the Media Server
software is provided on the installation CD.
When you play a track, the Now Playing screen appears. Soft-key “Back” will go
back to previous folder while browsing media server's content or go back to
previous screen under media server listing.
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Album Cover
Artist,
Album, Track
Title
Time Bar, Time Played,
Total Time
Track Number

WAP-4500 supports cover display for each audiofile with ID3 tag. To achieve cover
display, you can import a cover picture into each audio file, using your PC. This and
more ID3 tasks can be proceeded comfortably by a wellknown freeware software,
such as MP3tag (Win), ID3X (MAC) or EasyTAG (Linux).
Please note: there are some programs which support audiofiles and related cover
pictures, like WMP, iTunes or Amarok, but they have an incompatible solution based
on an internal directory where they store cover pictures separate from audiofiles, but
not in the audiofile's ID3 tags. These pictures do not appear if you open the audiofile
by other applications or WAP-4500.
If you want to have the cover pictures available for your WAP-4500 and also for your
portable audio devices forever, simply import the cover pictures into the ID3 tags.
6.2 Internet Radio
By WAP-4500, you can listen to Internet adio stations without the help of a PC.
You can store your favorite stations for quick access and even „record“ the current
Internet adio contents to a connected USB storage!
Note: Make sure your WAP-4500 is well connected to your network!
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vTuner:
vTuner service browser (www.vtuner.com). vTuner offers thousands of well-sorted
Internet adio stations at your choice!
After first time browsed vTuner service, you will have 60-day free trial. After 60 days,
vTuner will still allow you to browse around 150 stations on vTuner's server (trial
period is subject to change without notice). At the end of the trial you have the
option to obtain vTuner services to extend the premium service or they retain a high
quality listing of selected 150 stations (High Quality Basic Service) that has been
pre-paid and included in the WAP-4500 package. The premium service extension
subscription pricing will be settled at vTuner’s sole discretion. vTuner maintains full
rights to the commercialization of the vTuner Internet radio service.
For full vTuner service, go to http://www.radio135.com to register your WAP-4500
MAC address. The MAC address you can find on the bottom side of the WAP-4500
SM and on the package.
Favorite Stations:
your personal preselection. Browse “My Favorite Stations” list, each entry as you
have previously saved from internet radio playback screen.
Adding Internet adio stations to the Favorite Stations list:
●During internet radio playback you can open the options menu by pressing
the middle softbutton(3). You will find the option “save to Favorites“. By
this option, you can store the actual playing station url for quick access.
●To store the station url, press OK (7) and you will see the Favorite Stations
list screen. Now you can navigate to any position in this list – probably any
empty line - and press OK (7) again to save the station url to the selected
listing place.
●Up to 50 station urls can be stored in your Favorite Stations list.
●You will be returned to internet playback screen automatically after the
station url was stored successfully.
Attention: In case you store the new station on a place which was already
occupied, this will erase the previously stored url and store the new url at the same
position!
If you do not want to erase a previously stored station url, select an empty line to
store the new station.
Note: Stations stored in the Favorite Stations list will not expire!
Please refer chapter 7.3 Import of Internet Stations by USB storage to add
stations which are not available by the vTuner list!
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6.3 USB Audiomanager
USB disk content browsing and tracks playback.
The USB Audiomanager integrated in WAP-4500 offers comparable comfort to an
audioserver, for precisely sorted access to your USB audio data by the ID3 contents
stored in your audio files.
Note: USB input has disk insertion auto-detection. Please wait until you find the
USB icon in the B C screen headline disk before using this function.
In case of missing ID3 entries in your audio files, the USB Audiomanager is using
the file names.
Tip: for the utmost comfortable use of your audio data through the USB
Audiomanager, we recommend to utilize an ID3 tagging software on your PC to
organize your data. With the ID3 tagger, you can easily – and often in one step even
for complete albums – add trackname, album, artist, genre and cover pictures etc.
for the usage of these informations by audioserver and USB Audiomanager.
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Scanning /
Parsing /
Categorizing

6.4 PLAYLIST Direkt-/Playlist toggle function
This item toggles the function mode between “direct playback” and “playback from
playlist”.
The selection of tracks for audioserver and USB storage playback is explained
above (sections 6.1 and 6.2). The reaction upon the selection depends on the
currently activated playback mode:
●Direct playback: instantly playback the selected
track.
●Playlist playback: the “play“ screen symbol shows
an additional “+” marking. Audio tracks selected
under “Audioserver” or “USB-Storage” are not
played instantly but will be appended to the internal
actual playlist and playback once the previously
appended tracks in this playlist had been played.
●To append a complete album into your playlist: push
the OK button (7) for more than 2 seconds while the
album name is highlighted.
●To view the playlist: in playback screen push the
OPTIONS button (3). Select “Current Playlist“ and push OK again. Now you
see your current playlist. You can scroll in your playlist by the UP/DOWN
buttons.
●To edit in the playlist: while viewing the playlist, select a track by OK button
(7) to shift it up or down to another position or to dlete it from playlist by the
“X“ button (4).
●In the playlist screen, you can select by the OPTIONS button (3) to create a
new playlist (the present playlist will be erased!) or to store present playlist
to your USB storage. The USB storage has to be attached to your
WAP-4500 SMR before storing the playlist! WAP-4500 automatically
creates a playlist name for you. You can change the playlist name with your
USB storage connected to your PC (to read the playlist contents, you may
open the playlist by a simple text editor software).
●The BACK button (2) you will return to playback screen.
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7. Special functions
7.1 Multiroom-operation: select the SM for control
The WAP system can operate with various SM device controlled though one B C!
By this multiroom feature, you only need to use one B C – e.g. while you walk in
your house – to control a number of SM devices in different rooms.
The menu for selecting the SM for control you can reach by
the right soft ey (4) in the main screen. This is the quick
way for multiroom selection. The actually selected SM is
displayed on top position of the SM device list.
Precondition for any change between SM devices is their
existence in the SM device list. When there are already
various SM devices avaiable, scroll to the desired SM
name and hit the OK (7) button to activate the connection.
The B C then releases control of the current SM device –
playback of the current device continues! – and changes
over to control the new selected SM .
For the settings of the SM device list you can find further
functions in the settings menu under the point Multiroom. There, you will find
functions for adding new SM devices, to erase from the device list and to rename
the SM devices upon demand. For more informations please read the section 8.1
Multiroom.
Note: in case the new selected SM device you aim for control is out of reception
area of your B C, there will be a warning screen.
In case you walk away from your currently connected SM , leaving the reception
area of the connection between B C and SM , the above mentioned warning
screen appears, too.
This warning screen enables you to reconnect to current SM (softkey 4), or to
select another SM (softkey 2) for control.
If you just have one SM in your setup, please move the B C to another position
closer to your SM device to recover the control connection.
The allowable distance between B C and SM dependas on your local conditions.
In typical home environment it is possible to reach 15 meters distance with some
walls between B C and SM . But this is not to be guaranteed due to very different
wall/ceiling materials. Outside the house, the operational distance can be multiplied.
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7.2 Recording of Internet Radio contents
WAP-4500 can record the contents of the actual playing internet radio station and
store it as an audio file onto your USB storage device.
NOTE: for the recording function, an USB storage with free available memory
connected to WAP-4500 SM is required! The USB storage must not be separated
from SM during the recording session!
ATTENTION: please consider the recording requires – depending from datastream
quality – apprx. 0.5-3 MB memory per minute! It is recommended to provide plenty
of USB storage memory when starting a recording!
●Start Internet adio playback as explained above.
●Press the OPTIONS button (3) and select “ ecord
to USB Storage“ from the options menu.
●Press the OK button (7) to start the recording.
ecording is working! Playback of internet radio is
continued at the same time.
●To stop the recording, call the OPTIONS menu and
select “Stop ecording“.and press OK.
●The recording will be stored under an automatically
created track name, which contains the station
name, date and running number. The File can be
found in the root directory of your USB storage.
NOTE: in case of reception interruptions during a recording session, the actual file
will be closed and the recording is continued in another file once the received audio
stream continues. Since WAP-4500 can playback audio files in a row “gapless“
(without interruptions between tracks), the resulting tracks (files) can playback
smoothly in one turn, under the precondition there was no data loss during the
recording session.
The digital audio stream will be recorded to the USB storage exactly as it is received
from internet radio station. Therefore, the provided audio quality is not changed
during the recording session.
In internet radio data stream there is no standard marking for tracks separation.
Therefore, the data stream is recorded without blanks in a single file (comparable to
a classic tape recording of radio broadcast). For long recordings. it can be useful to
note down the radio station informations, in case they are provided.
If you require renaming, cutting and transcoding of a recording, this can easily be
done with your USB storage connected to a PC. There are numerous audio editing
programs available from commercial and from free sources.
A famous example of a free Audio Editor is “Audacity“.
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7.3 Import of Internet Stations by USB storage
Create/Add your own Internet radio U L entries.
This function needs Windows™ Media Player or WinAmp™ application program.
●Download and install Windows Media Player or WinAmp onto your PC.
●un Windows Media Player or WinAmp.
●Plug your USB storage into a USB connector on your computer.
●Follow the procedures below to export Internet radio U L entries to your
USB storage.
Using Windows Media Player:
●un Windows Media Player.
●Choose Guide > Radio Tuner.
●Select an Internet radio station.
●Choose File > Add To Library > Add Currently Playing Playlist
●Save the current station U L entry to USB storage.
●epeat steps 3~5 to collect more U L entries.
●emove the USB storage from the computer.
●Plug your USB storage into the USB port on the WAP-4500.
Using WinAmp
●un WinAmp
●Click the PL and ML buttons. Three windows should open: WINAMP,
PLAYLIST EDITOR, and MEDIA LIBRARY.
●On the MEDIA LIBRARY window, choose Internet Radio under
Streaming Media. WinAmp lists all Internet radio stations at the right-
hand side panel.
●Double click the station you want; WinAmp plays the station and adds
it to the PLAYLIST EDITOR window.
●epeat above steps to collect more U L entries.
●On the PLAYLIST EDITOR window, click Manage Playlist and choose
Save Playlist to save the current station at M3U file format. Save this
file to USB storage.
●emove the USB storage from computer.
●Plug your USB storage into WAP-4500 USB port. WAP-4500
automatically shows the flash drive contents. Otherwise go to Music >
USB Dis to search for the M3U format files to play.
●Acess your USB directory now via USB Storage - ... - Files, to show up the
stored files (extension WPL - WindowsMediaPlayer or M3U - WinAmp).
●Now you can browse the WPL/M3U files by WAP-4500 and select them for
playback: scroll on the file and press OK (7). The included internet radio
station will be called for playback.
●As final step you can easily - as usual - store the station to your My
Favorite Stations list in your WAP-4500. To do this, just press the middle
soft ey (3) for options, as described in section 6.2.
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8. Settings
Provide all system settings:
8.1 Multiroom:
in this entry we collected the settings you need to do multiroom control by one B C.
Switch SMR: here you jump into the same list of already paired SM devices for
control selection, as described under section 6.6.
Pairing – SMR Root: Almost all informations shown in your B C's display are
transmitted from SM device to B C, just before displaying, are contents that are
controlled by the SM . Just the changing from one SM device to another cannot
be controlled by a SM , the B C shall manage this – internally - on her own. The
options under the entry “Pairing – SMR Root“ mean, it will alter the internal settings
in the B C. By those options, nothing is changed in the SM .
Device List – extended device selection and edit function:
●select: you can select the SM device for control also from this entry.
Confirm your selection by the middle softkey “OK“ (3) oder (7).
●erase one SM entry: an entry you do not need anymore you can
erase from the SM device list by selecting and then pressing “DEL“
(4).
●erase all SM entries: if you want to erase all entries from SM device
list – e.g. for changes in SM placement in your environment, to
avoid renaming all devices one by one – press “RESET“ (2).
Note: In case you will still require the erased SM
entry, you can rebuild the entries new by using the
“Pair“ funktion.
Pair: to add one or further SM devices into the SM
device list, call the Pair function. Simply do the same
steps as already explained in section 4 – Pairing of
BRC and SMR.
Version: display the release number of the B C.
Reset Default: reset all settings in the B C only, erase
the SM device list.
Exit: return to Multiroom menu.
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