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simultaneously which can play on different days of the week, alternating days for example, or have
distinct weekday and weekend schedules.
Playback Mode
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This option lets you choose either Streaming in Real-Time or Store-and-Forward.
Streaming in Real-Time
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This mode causes the R-Box device to download and play each new
track from the web server in real time. This mode works great as long as you have plenty of spare
network bandwidth and a reliable internet connection that is up during the daytime without fail.
Store-and-Forward
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This mode causes the R-Box device to download tracks in batch mode in the
background, store them on the local Flash-RAM based hard drive inside the R-Box, and playback
the tracks directly from the locally stored file set. This has the advantage that you can configure it
to download the tracks at nighttime for example, and playback during the day without having to
download tracks during the daytime. This helps to ensure maximum uptime during the daytime and
any Internet outage will not disrupt the music playback.
When you select the Playback Mode field to be Store-and-Forward, the screen expands again and a few more
new fields are displayed:
The new parameters are these:
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