Logitech ® Network Music System User Guide english (north america)
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 1 Contents About Squeezebox Duet................................................................................................................ 2 Getting Help............................................................................................................................. 2 Package Contents................................................................................................................... 3 System Requirements..........................................
2 Logitech® About Squeezebox Duet Thank you for purchasing Logitech’s Squeezebox Duet network music system. We hope you have as much fun using it as we had building it for you. The Squeezebox Duet package includes Squeezebox Controller, a multi-room wireless controller that lets you browse, select and play your personal music collection, tune to thousands of Internet radio stations, use music services like Rhapsody and Pandora Radio, and even access an MP3tunes music locker, all in the palm of your hand.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 3 Package Contents Included in the package you will find: • • • Squeezebox Controller Rechargeable Li-ion battery Charging cradle with power supply • • • Squeezebox Receiver Power supply for the Receiver Gold-plated stereo RCA cable • • Plug adapters for your region Quick Start Guide System Requirements Operating system • • • Windows® Vista® / XP / 2000 Mac® OS X, version 10.3 or higher Linux-based OS with Perl 5.8.
4 Logitech® Before You Begin If you already have a wireless or ethernet network and a computer to use as a server, setting up your Squeezebox Duet should take about 30 minutes. To make the set up as simple as possible, there are a few things you should do. Choose Your Network Setup Installing your new Squeezebox Duet is easier if you know how your home network is set up, so you can follow the correct installation instructions.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 5 • WEP keys are entered as hexadecimal numbers (the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to F). 64-bit WEP keys are exactly 10 digits in length; 128-bit keys are exactly 26 digits. • WPA and WPA2 keys are between 8 and 63 characters long, and can use any letter (both upper- and lower-case) number or valid punctuation.
6 Logitech® Squeezebox Controller Interface A. The scroll wheel allows you to easily move up and down through lists and menus. B. Press the center button to open a menu item, song, album, artist, or genre. C. Press play to play a song, album, artist, or genre. This will replace your current selection. D. Press back to move back one menu item or screen. F A E. Press home to go to the top level menu. Press home again to see the Now Playing screen. home also turns the Controller on and off.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 7 Set Up the Hardware Charge the Battery For this step you’ll need: • • • • Squeezebox Controller Charging cradle with AC adapter Plug adapter for your region Battery You’ll start the installation process by charging the battery so it will be ready when you configure Squeezebox Controller and Receiver for your network. 1. Select the correct plug adapter and slide it onto the AC adapter of the charging cradle. Make sure it snaps firmly into place. 2.
8 Logitech® Connect Squeezebox Receiver For this step, you’ll need: • • • • • Squeezebox Receiver AC adapter for Squeezebox Receiver Plug adapter for your region RCA stereo cables or your own optical or coaxial S/PDIF cable Your own ethernet cable (for “hybrid” and “bridged” installations) Next, you should connect Squeezebox Receiver to your stereo or powered speakers, and if you’re using a wired network connection (either a hybrid or bridged installation), you should connect the ethernet cable as well.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 9 Set Up A SqueezeNetwork™ Account For this step you’ll need: • • • A computer with a web browser A broadband Internet connection A valid email account SqueezeNetwork is an Internet-based service that connects you to thousands of Internet radio stations, as well as online music services like Pandora Radio, Rhapsody , and Slacker. It also allows you to use your Squeezebox even when your computer is turned off.
10 Logitech® Install SqueezeCenter (Optional) SqueezeCenter is the music server that runs on your computer and connects your Squeezebox players and controllers to your local music files, as well as allowing you to use third-party plug-ins (applications that extend the features and functions of your Squeezebox). If you’re planning to use your Squeezebox Duet only to listen to Internet radio and online music services, or if your music is stored in an MP3tunes music locker, you may skip this step.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 11 Connect Squeezebox Duet This step will connect Squeezebox Controller and Receiver to your local network and allow you to select your music source. There are three sections, each detailing the steps for the different network configurations described in the section titled “Choose Your Network Setup” earlier in the User Guide.
12 Logitech® 6. If your wireless network is secured, Squeezebox Controller will try to determine the type of security used. If the Controller can’t determine the type of encryption used, you will be asked to select it from a list. Once the encryption is determined, you’ll be asked to enter your security key using the scroll wheel to highlight a letter or number and the center button to select it. 7.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 13 Note: If you’ve installed SqueezeCenter and confirmed it is running, but your computer name doesn’t appear on the Controller’s screen, you may have a firewall that’s preventing it from being found. See “Appendix A: Configuring Your Firewall” in this User Guide for details on configuring your computer’s firewall. 11.
14 Logitech® 5. Next you’ll see the Wireless Connection screen, where you can choose to “Connect using Squeezebox” or “Connect using other wireless network”. Since you will be using the hybrid installation, you should select “Connect using other wireless network.” 6. You’ll see the Wireless Networks screen, listing the available wireless networks. Scroll to your network and press center to select it.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 15 Note: You can verify the MAC address by looking at the label on the bottom of Squeezebox Receiver. Note: If your player does not appear in the list, verify that the button on the front of the Receiver is flashing red. If it isn’t, press and hold the button on the Receiver for five seconds to reset the player. A few seconds after the button begins flashing red, Squeezebox Receiver should appear in the list on the Controller’s display. 10.
16 Logitech® Bridged Network Configuration This configuration should only be used if you do not have a wireless network in your home. Your Squeezebox Receiver will be connected to your wired ethernet network, and Squeezebox Controller will use an ad-hoc connection to the Receiver for it’s network connection. Note: Ad-hoc connections on 802.11 wireless networks have much lower range than regular connections (called infrastructure mode connections). If at all possible, consider adding an 802.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 7. 17 Select your Squeezebox Receiver from the list. It will appear on the display as “Squeezebox XXXXXX” where XXXXXX is the last six digits of the player’s MAC address (its unique network identifier). Note: You can verify the MAC address by looking at the label on the bottom of Squeezebox Receiver. Note: If your player does not appear in the list, verify that the button on the front of the Receiver is flashing red.
18 Logitech® The Squeezebox Controller Display Title Bar The title bar at the top of the screen displays the name of the current menu. It may also contain a thumbnail of cover art when you’re viewing information about an album. Title Bar Tip: When you are at the Home menu, the menu title bar will display the name of the currently selected player. If you have Status Bar just Squeezebox Duet installed, your Squeezebox Receiver will have the default name of “Squeezebox.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 19 Shuffle – A shuffle icon is displayed when the connected player is set to shuffle song or albums. To enable shuffle mode, go to Home > Settings > Shuffle. Wireless – this icon displays the quality of the wireless connection. The signal strength will be indicated by a number of bars displayed. It will normally be white, however it will change color under certain circumstances. A red icon indicates the network is out of range or disconnected.
20 Logitech® Playing The Music If you’ve made it this far and haven’t played any music, it’s time to change that. This section covers the different ways you can browse your music collection to find the perfect mix for your mood. Random Mix Do you just want to “Shuffle and Play All” your tracks? Simply select Home > Music Library > Random Mix to let Squeezebox Duet pick your music for you. You can randomly cycle through songs, albums, artists, genres, or years.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 21 you can see details about that song including the artist, genre, file format, and bitrate. Want to quickly build a playlist? Press the add button and the selected item will be added to the end of your current playlist. If the selected item is a genre, artist, year, folder, or even another playlist, all items in that group will be added to the current playlist. Playlists Squeezebox Duet plays your music by adding songs to the current playlist.
22 Logitech® From the Now Playing menu, press the center button to see more options 2. Scroll down to Add to Favorites and press the center button 1. Clearing “Now Playing” To clear the current playlist, press home to get to the Now Playing screen and press center to get the list of songs in the current playlist. Scroll down to the end of the list, select Clear Playlist and press the center button. A confirmation dialog will appear. Press the center button again to proceed with clearing the list.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 23 center button, and then scroll down through the results using the scroll wheel. From the results displayed scroll to your choice and press center to select that item or play to immediately play it. Tagging Your Music Files SqueezeCenter organizes your music by Album, Artist, Genre, and Year. It does this by scanning your music and reading this information from the tags that are embedded within them. SqueezeCenter supports ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, as well as Vorbis comments.
24 Logitech® The Home > Internet Radio menu also offers a selection of Internet radio services, including RadioIO, RadioTime, Live365, and SHOUTCast. These services help you find radio stations. Some of them offer the ability to create an account so you can manage lists of stations and take advantage of other personalization options. For more information, and to get started setting up the radio services, sign in to SqueezeNetwork at www.squeezenetwork.com and select Accounts.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 25 MP3tunes MP3tunes allows you to listen to your entire digital music collection on your Squeezebox without the need for a computer. We offer a 60-day free trial Premium Music Locker through MP3tunes, which includes unlimited space to upload your music collection online. Live Music Archive The Live Music Archive project, jointly run by The Internet Archive (archive. org) and eTree (etree.
26 Logitech® Appendix A: Configuring Your Firewall Firewalls on your computer often cause connection problems for Squeezebox Duet and other network devices. While it is not necessary to disable your firewall in order to allow Squeezebox to communicate with your computer, temporarily disabling it can be a quick way of diagnosing the problem.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 27 Appendix B: Button Color Codes The following information covers the colors displayed by the button on Squeezebox Receiver. It is useful for troubleshooting. No light: Squeezebox Receiver is OFF. Low white: Squeezebox Receiver is ON but no music is playing. Bright white: Squeezebox Receiver is ON and music is playing. Fast blinking white: Automatic software update is in progress. Solid red: Starting up. Slow blinking red: Waiting to be configured for your network.
28 Logitech® remains blue, check to make sure that your Internet connection is working correctly. Blinking Purple: This indicates an unrecoverable hardware error. Please contact Logitech Technical Support for an RMA. Even if cycling Squeezebox Receiver’s power alleviates the problem, the player should still be returned for a replacement. To restart Squeezebox Receiver, press and hold the button for three seconds until it begins slowly blinking red.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 29 Appendix C: Updating the Software The software that powers your Squeezebox Duet is periodically updated to improve reliability and add new features. Updating Squeezebox Controller You’ll see a message on your Controller when a software update is available. To manually reinstall the software on your Controller, start at the Home screen and select Settings > Advanced > Software Update > Network Update.
30 Logitech® Appendix D: Supported File Formats Music File Formats The Squeezebox Duet and SqueezeCenter support a variety of music file formats. Some formats are supported in Squeezebox Receiver’s hardware, meaning that the player itself does the format decoding. Other formats that cannot be played in hardware are converted into a playable format by SqueezeCenter. Supported in hardware: Supported with transcoding: MP3 (CBR and VBR) FLAC WAV AIFF WMA (CBR and VBR) OGG AAC (.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 31 Appendix E: Using Apple iTunes Apple’s iTunes is a music manager that helps you organize your collection, rip your CDs, create and manage playlists, etc. It also connects to the iTunes Music Store, where Apple offers music, videos and podcasts for purchase. SqueezeCenter can use the iTunes music library. It cannot play songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store that are protected by Apple’s FairPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) software.
32 Logitech® Appendix F: Troubleshooting When setting up the Controller, my network does not appear. The most common cause is lack of signal strength. Either the Controller is too far away from the wireless router, or there is something interfering with the signal. Another possibility is that the wireless network has been configured to not broadcast its SSID (network name) for security purposes. If this is the case, the network name can be manually entered into the Controller.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 33 When setting up the Controller, no music sources appear. Normally, you will see an option for SqueezeNetwork, as well as one or more computers running SqueezeCenter. The computers running SqueezeCenter will appear as they do to the network; often the name will be something similar to JOHN-SMITH-COMPUTER. SqueezeNetwork is operated by Logitech 24/7, so if Squeezebox Duet is working correctly, it should always appear on this list.
34 Logitech® 3. If MAC filtering is enabled on the wireless router, the player’s MAC address should be added to the wireless router’s list of allowed addresses. The Squeezebox Receiver’s MAC address can be found on the bottom of the unit. 4. If you are connecting to the router using an ethernet cable, try the following: • Try a different ethernet cable. • Verify that Squeezebox Controller is connecting wirelessly to the same network that Squeezebox Receiver is using.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide • • • • 35 Check the router’s network name (also known as SSID) you’re connecting to. If it’s a default name, like NETGEAR or LINKSYS, consider changing your network’s name to something unique to be sure you’re not inadvertently connecting to a nearby wireless network with the same name. Check your distance to the wireless router. Move Squeezebox Duet closer to the wireless router and try connecting again. Check the router itself.
36 Logitech® Please note that by default WAV and AIFF files are converted to FLAC (a compressed, lossless format) in order to save network bandwidth, and therefore cannot be fast-forwarded. In order to seek through WAV or AIFF files, you need to disable the WAV to FLAC decoder rule in SqueezeCenter by going to Server > File Types. SqueezeCenter can’t find all of my music. Make sure that all of your digital music files are in one place on your computer.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 37 • On Windows, right-click on the SqueezeCenter icon and click “Stop SqueezeCenter” • On Mac OS X, open System Preferences > SqueezeCenter and click on “Stop Server” 2.
38 Logitech® Appendix G: Restoring Default Settings If you would like to repeat the setup process (choosing your wireless network, entering your network security password, and selecting your music source), you can restore Squeezebox Controller to its default settings by going to Home > Settings > Advanced > Factory Reset. Alternatively: 1. Hold down the home button for 12 seconds to force a power down. 2. While holding down the add button, press the home button again.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 39 Additional Information Online Help Squeezebox website: Online FAQ: Customer Forums: Squeezebox Wiki: slimdevices.com faq.slimdevices.com forums.slimdevices.com wiki.slimdevices.com Contacting Support Support E-mail: support@slimdevices.com Support Phone: +1 (877) 887-8889 (Toll-free in North America) +1 (646) 454-3237 (For all other countries) Support Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 7:00pm Developer Resources Our SqueezeCenter software is open source.
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Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 41 Logitech® Hardware Product Limited Warranty Logitech® warrants that your Logitech hardware product shall be free from defects in material and workmanship for two (2) years, beginning from the date of purchase. Except where prohibited by applicable law, this warranty is nontransferable and is limited to the original purchaser. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights that vary under local laws.
42 Logitech® Safety Information AC POWERED PRODUCTS: IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION CAUTION ELECTRIC SHOCK HAZARD • Do not use this apparatus near water. • Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. • Do not push objects into apparatus vents or slots because fire or electric shock hazards could result. • Maintain a minimum distance of at least 6 inches around apparatus for sufficient ventilation.
Squeezebox™ Duet User Guide 43 FCC THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES. OPERATION IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS: (1) THIS DEVICE MAY NOT CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE, AND (2) THIS DEVICE MUST ACCEPT ANY INTERFERENCE RECEIVED, INCLUDING INTERFERENCE THAT MAY CAUSE UNDESIRED OPERATION. NOTE: THE MANUFACTURER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY RADIO OR TV INTERFERENCE CAUSED BY UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATIONS TO THIS EQUIPMENT.
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