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OPUS Capacity Overview

Format

Quality

320GB

500GB

750GB

1000GB

WAV:

no compres-

sion

CD: 1411.2

kbit/s

HD: 4608

kbit/s

515

158

812

249

1225

375

1638

502

FLAC:

Lossless com-

pression

CD: ca. 800

kbit/s

HD: ca. 2000

kbit/s

909

364

1433

573

2161

864

2889

1156

AAC

128 kbit/s

5680

8957

13508

18059

MP3

128 kbit/s

320 kbit/s

5680

2272

8957

3583

13508

5403

18059

7224

To achieve the best quality music we suggest to import music with no compression (WAV), or
lossless compression (FLAC) which retains the audio quality at about half the size of uncom-
pressed music. The default import format is set to “FLAC”.

Summary of Contents for OPUS

Page 1: ...Welcome to Great sound USER MANUAL OPUS MELODY...

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Page 3: ...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 r...

Page 4: ...ying 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 S...

Page 5: ...mporting 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...

Page 6: ...h your HiFi system for immediate listening there s no computer to start first 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...

Page 7: ...are intended for use with an existing stereo amplifier 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 installin...

Page 8: ...ed connection Our benchmark test involves using a high definition music stream of 4608 kbit s throughput which is equivalent to music sampled at 96 kHz and recorded with 24 bit depth without any compr...

Page 9: ...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...

Page 10: ...sure to turn off a connected amplifier or speakers before disconnecting the audio out of the OPUS Step 3 Navigating your OPUS Your OPUS provides the following navigational controls OPUS Frontside Onc...

Page 11: ...he 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 find out more about what you ar...

Page 12: ...n the wired case you are usually done at this point and will see a confirmation In the wireless case you will have to choose the right network WEP or WPA encryption and enter a KEY if your network is...

Page 13: ...FLAC MP3 AAC The OPUS does not play stored music protected by Digital Rights Management DRM look under MUSIC SOURCES to find other UPnP supported servers to browse and play music from these listen to...

Page 14: ...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 wo...

Page 15: ...3 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...

Page 16: ...out 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 amplifier or spe...

Page 17: ...ay 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...

Page 18: ...kup and press SAVE to continue In the wired case you are usually done at this point and will see a confirmation when successful In the wireless case you will have to choose the right network WEP or WP...

Page 19: ...ted 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 you...

Page 20: ...ated 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 t...

Page 21: ...e in the OPUS internal CD reference database and taken from there Sometimes several CD information are returned for one CD in this case an additional online check can often find the right one so being...

Page 22: ...main genre e g you could start with Classical have Opera and Symphonic underneath and have French Opera and Italian Opera underneath Opera again This takes a little more navigation until you get to yo...

Page 23: ...en will show you the selection of relevant items Starting playback Pressing the play button starts the music playback with the result depending on what you are currently highlighting on the menu scree...

Page 24: ...art of your selection process a first screen shows as much metadata as is available about the music It serves to confirm you have arrived at what you were looking for with the whole range of metadata...

Page 25: ...NUAL OPUS MELODY 23 Play Screen With Details Personal Rating Album Artwork Main Body Metadata Status Bar Track Duration Track as part of original album Track as part of current selection Quality Track...

Page 26: ...ed After 8 seconds this screen is replaced with one that has large letters and is intended to show just the key information from further away like from your couch once your selection is made and confi...

Page 27: ...for mation specific to each genre and in a much more detailed level than available from mainstream music databases ROCK POP BLUES SPOKEN WORD OTHER This can be considered the minimum available metadat...

Page 28: ...uced the music Jazz Play Screen with Details CLASSICAL In addition to the above classical shows the composer of the piece and replaces the album field with the work field to focus on how the music was...

Page 29: ...some fields will only show up if they are filled either from the internal CD database or by you via the Maestro application Tip Should you navigate away from the currently playing selection but not a...

Page 30: ...e repeated until you stop the loop SHUFFLE The tracks from the selection of album albums etc are played in random order until all tracks in the selection are played Repeat and shuffle can be combined...

Page 31: ...many publicly financed and run radio stations such as National Public Radio in the US which offer great programming Also there are many college community or other public stations of interest Finally...

Page 32: ...few seconds 2 4 Playing Music from a Networked PC Mac NAS Through your home network and the Universal Plug and Play UPnP protocol your OPUS and MELODY can discover browse and stream music from other...

Page 33: ...rce When you want to return to your OPUS library just navigate back to MUSIC LIBRARY and that is it We have tested the OPUS and MELODY against the following UPnP server softwares Tversity Media Server...

Page 34: ...library literally at your fingertips Just about all of the logic of driving the menu screens works just the same when using the touchscreen however there are some differences Touchscreen Navigation T...

Page 35: ...USER MANUAL OPUS MELODY 33 And when you are in playback this is how you can navigate via the touchscreen Tap the artwork to get back to the higher level...

Page 36: ...e your fingers or something other that will not scratch the glass surface when using the touchscreen Please also only tap the touchscreen lightly to avoid damage to the display Tap anywhere to get to...

Page 37: ...d way to control the functions of the OPUS and MELODY from a short distance such as a couch Its keys duplicate the functions of the buttons on the front panel so there should be no surprises The follo...

Page 38: ...zero and your preset value HOME A shortcut to the main menu of the OPUS MELODY TRACK A shortcut to the track that is currently playing LIBRARY A shortcut to your OPUS music library SOURCES A shortcut...

Page 39: ...ur OPUS MELODY menu screens on any web browser The OPUS and MELODY menu screens can be accessed on any web browser in your home network e g on our laptop or PDA This feature will become available with...

Page 40: ...twork is down a normal alarm sound will sound SET SLEEP TIMER Go to sleep with music or otherwise tell your OPUS or MELODY to stop playback after a period of time Default is off SET LANGUAGE Choose th...

Page 41: ...D IMPORT QUALITY the OPUS allows you to decide in which audio file format you are storing your music The format defines quality size of the stored data and compatibility with other devices e g your po...

Page 42: ...s HD ca 2000 kbit s 909 364 1433 573 2161 864 2889 1156 AAC 128 kbit s 5680 8957 13508 18059 MP3 128 kbit s 320 kbit s 5680 2272 8957 3583 13508 5403 18059 7224 To achieve the best quality music we su...

Page 43: ...as above but without the 2 second gap between tracks This is the default export format MP3 CD Here the result is a CD with MP3 files on it Again a transcoding takes place for WAV and FLAC tracks whic...

Page 44: ...ection levels which are also displayed in the status bar for you to check upon at any time Home network connection Your OPUS and MELODY connect to the home network router directly and act as DHCP clie...

Page 45: ...erly networked CHANGE OPUS NAME OPUS only MELODYs are not broadcast on the network Here you give the OPUS a name so you can recognize it on your network default is Opus Library The new OPUS network na...

Page 46: ...WEP or Wi fi Protected Access WPA protocols Please enter the security key which is exchanged between the OPUS MELODY and the router to establish identity and secure communication OPUS supports o WEP k...

Page 47: ...ttle bit like a car All necessary features are built right into the units to make life easy for you Some are automated some involve you to guide them as desired in the menu section SETTINGS SYSTEM SER...

Page 48: ...the back of the OPUS Note that the hard disk needs to be formatted in FAT32 EXT3 or EXT2 format for this to work 2 Continue and the backup will start the red button in the status bar showing that the...

Page 49: ...e follow this option and the OPUS will guide you through this procedure In contrast to the software updates here there may be a number of updates that you should make us of and download in succession...

Page 50: ...ding e g any alarm or sleep timer settings Your imported music and metadata are not affected by this action DEFAULT SETTINGS Once started you will be asked to confirm this step then the system will pr...

Page 51: ...g your OPUS or MELODY with Olive STORAGE TOTAL OPUS only The total available hard drive capacity STORAGE USED OPUS only The amount of storage you have currently used up including about 8 GB for the CD...

Page 52: ...listening Well edited the metadata will allow you to find particular songs or works so much quicker The OPUS has very powerful navigation options but they are only as good as the data they have to wo...

Page 53: ...ished track BPM Number of beats per minute in the main part of the audio File Type Refers to the encoding format e g WAV FLAC Sample Rate Quality icon Rate at which music is sampled Bit Depth Quality...

Page 54: ...erwise accompanies the music In classical or Opera terminology this is the Libretto As this can be a larger text it may be stored in a separate location with a link to the location here Who Would Have...

Page 55: ...rding Can be recording engineers etc Performance Language Music can be sung or performed in different languages sometimes it is important to know in which Album Artwork Artwork that accompanies the mu...

Page 56: ...ame Conductor Surname of the performing conductor Work Title Work Title or name of the classical composition Relevant here is the intent of the composition not the recording or size of the media to st...

Page 57: ...such as early baroque classic romantic or contemporary music Work Description Longer description for a better appreciation of the composition Cadenza s By At the end of the first movement in concertos...

Page 58: ...Opera can be a sub genre to Classical as would be Chamber Music or Orchestral And again not all Opera is the same and you can use e g Italian Opera and French Opera to subdivide the overall Opera oeuv...

Page 59: ...es the performance for this there is the featured instrument attribute Classical In contrast to most modern music classical music is very much about the composer and when a work was composed The perfo...

Page 60: ...pli cation which utilizes a browser keyboard and mouse on your PC or Mac to make the metadata management and editing so much more comfortable It comes right with your OPUS so no additional installatio...

Page 61: ...USER MANUAL OPUS MELODY 59 Olive Maestro Layout...

Page 62: ...e lists of items depending on the view you select on the left and changes to the edit overview once you select to edit any of the items On the top of the right panel there is a function bar that shows...

Page 63: ...ribute with the attributes being sorted into tabs to make this easier Please note that some fields apply to a whole album or work and even if only one track is high lighted the new information will be...

Page 64: ...any playlists as you want include as many tracks as you want in each playlist and rearrange the tracks in each playlist until the order is just right You might have one playlist for exercising one for...

Page 65: ...o come to the add to playlist pop up or use the RC and press ADD to get there even quicker Choose from the list of existing playlists by scrolling up and down and press right to add the current track...

Page 66: ...ine CD reference databases are labeled generically as e g CD_4f6g664 If you want to import a CD already stored in OPUS you are presented with a choice of re importing these or canceling 2 The second s...

Page 67: ...if it is in power saving you will first need to wake it up For the computer name the network name of the OPUS is used usually using the IP address is easiest Open up the Run dialog as part of the Sta...

Page 68: ...copy saved In the case of albums of the same title being imported such as e g Greatest Hits the artist name is added as a suffix to the album title to be able to better distinguish the albums later Wh...

Page 69: ...US will check whether the playlist will fit on the empty CD and if not provide a message to reduce the list 4 When done the newly burned CD is ejected When stored in another format such as FLAC or MP3...

Page 70: ...68 6 Tips and Troubleshooting 6 1 Icons and messages explained Status bar icons what is the OPUS MELODY doing Status Bar Icons...

Page 71: ...em is active processing your request Background process OPUS is currently encoding music tracks burning a CD importing music via the network or performing a backup or restore If a background process i...

Page 72: ...s keep the disc clean Do not use a disc with a special shape For best performance when recording from a CD try to maintain a temperature of 95F or less in the room where the OPUS is located 6 2 First...

Page 73: ...l as the CD reference database If you have not done a backup yet now is the time to do it 1 Power off the OPUS using the manual power switch 2 Switch the OPUS on with the manual switch at the same tim...

Page 74: ...address does not work check the DHCP or manual settings on your router the number and duration of the IP address leases that are granted Security protocol and password may have changed check to see w...

Page 75: ...information about using the OPUS MELODY available on the web Please check the following table that describes where to get more OPUS MELODY related software and service information Topic Do this Lates...

Page 76: ...ar a bathtub washbowl kitchen sink or laundry tub in a wet basement or near a swimming pool and the like 4 Avoid sudden temperature changes Condensation water may be created inside the device while mo...

Page 77: ...ate is called power saving In this state the unit is designed to consume a very small quantity of power The unit is not to be disconnected from the power source if it is in power saving as doing so ma...

Page 78: ...sure to unplug the product from the wall outlet before cleaning Do not attempt to clean the unit with aerosol sprays chemical solvents alcohol or abrasives or to remove dust with air pressure this mi...

Page 79: ...lso possesses the rights to the titles being offered This equipment must not be used for unauthorized duplication of CDs or any other works protected by copyright No license to infringe copyright is g...

Page 80: ...g broadcast systems terrestrial satellite cable and or other distribution channels streaming applications via Internet intranets and or other networks other content distribution systems pay audio or a...

Page 81: ...rce code of The Program on a medium customarily used for software interchange Please contact Olive Media Inc 555 Howard Street San Francisco CA 94105 USA This offer is valid for a period of three year...

Page 82: ...are and user data are not covered under this Olive Limited Hardware Warranty This warranty does not apply a to damage caused by accident abuse misuse misapplication or non Olive products b to damage c...

Page 83: ...uential damages or exclusions or limitation on the duration of implied warranties or conditions so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply This warranty gives you specific legal rights and y...

Page 84: ...vent electromagnetic interference with electric ap pliances such as radios and televisions use shielded cables and connectors for connections FCC RADIATION EXPOSURE STATEMENT This equipment complies w...

Page 85: ...one of more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different...

Page 86: ...ETY This unit employs a LASER Due to possible eye injury only a qualified person should remove the cover or service the device 9 2 Environmental Compliance Disposal and Recycling Information Your OPUS...

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