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FRIENDLY NAME
Your radio is identified within the Spotify app using its Friendly Name. By default, your radio’s
name will be shown as “Audisse Shirudo” followed by a 12 digit alphanumeric code that is the
network MAC address that is unique to your radio.
If you would like to change this name to something more personalised.
MUSIC PLAYER USE WITH WINDOWS, APPLE MAC, LINUX
USE WITH WINDOWS, APPLE MAC, LINUX, USB MEMORY
The Music Player allows you to play audio files that are stored on a computer on your
network or on a USB memory device plugged into the radio.
In order to play files from a computer on your network, Audisse Shirudo must connect to a file
server application that uses the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. If your computer
uses Windows XP or Vista, then it is likely that your computer already has a UPnP server
application available. Windows Media Player version 11 has this capability, and it is able to
make your MP3 and WMA files available to Audisse Shirudo. It also allows you to select files
by Album, Artist, and so on.
Windows Media Player is only able to serve MP3 and WMA files to Audisse Shirudo. If you
have your audio files in either AAC or FLAC formats, or if you are an Apple Mac or Linux
user, there are other UPnP server applications that you may use with Audisse Shirudo.
The Music Player on the sound system can playback audio files in MP3, FLAC, AAC and
WMA formats. WMA Lossless files can also be played when using Windows Media Player
11 as it will convert these to a PCM format before streaming them to the sound system. Note
that the playback of files encoded using WMA Voice, WMA 10 Professional, and files that
have DRM protection is not supported.
When using a UPnP server, the search and selection criteria are determined by the server
software, but typically include Artist, Album and Genre. Many server applications also allow
you to access your files according to the folders within which they are stored as well as other
criteria. Windows Media Player 11 is less flexible than some other UPnP servers, but is
generally easy to set up. It is supplied as a standard component of Windows XP and Vista.
Many UPnP server applications are also capable of sharing pictures and video files to other
network connected devices. If this is the case (as it is with Windows Media Player 11) you
may see the option of choosing between ‘Music’, ‘Video’ and ‘Pictures’ on the Music Player’s
menu. Clearly you should only select the ‘Music’ option. Content offered via the alternative
options will not be playable on Audisse Shirudo.
Some third party server applications allow customisation of the search criteria and indexing
methods. This can be useful if you have a very large collection of stored music files.
