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2.6 Connecting Your Portable Player / iPod
The USB ports on the back of your OPUS can be used for connecting a portable player or
iPod, allowing you to play the tracks of the portable player via the OPUS, and even editing
tag information and playlists. After a portable player is plugged in, OPUS looks at it like a
music CD, and it appears with its own name as a new entry in the main menu.
Please note that results can vary, as e.g. recently released iPods have made compatibility
difficult. We’ll continue to invest in this area and make software updates available over time
to keep compatibility with industry standards and devices high.
Playing music off your portable player
Press the soft key INFORMATION to get a statistical overview of your portable device.
Behind the menu option of the portable player you will find a complete menu containing
SONGS, ARTISTS, ALBUMS, GENRES, and PLAYLISTS of the external device. Navigating
this menu does not present you with any surprises, as it is the same that you are already
used to. Every time the menus of the portable player are selected, the name of the external
device appears as header in the display, so you always can tell which music collection your
are looking at right now.
Note: Due to Apple’s new policy their latest generation iPods (2007-09) are only compat-
ible with Apple® iTunes™, and therefore are not supported by our pure audio systems.
Copying tracks to a portable player
1. Choose the tracks you want to copy using the usual OPUS LIBRARY options. The
menu option MARK lets you select more than one item of a list.
2. Then press soft key ADD TO LIST and the list of playlists is displayed.
3. In addition to your own playlists the name of the portable player itself is displayed
as a “playlist” here. Select this special playlist and press soft key ADD TO LIST to
transfer the tracks to the external player.
Eject your portable device player
Caution: You need to press the soft key EJECT on the OPUS before unplugging the portable
device to avoid data loss on either your portable player or the OPUS.
2.7 Enjoy Music With Friends and Family
Streaming Music to Other Rooms
Besides connecting to other PC or Macs, OPUS is designed to provide music streams to
UPnP/AV clients throughout your home or property. These are devices such as boxes or
other radios or amplifiers that are able to receive music from a server in a streaming mode.
The communication between such clients and the OPUS server is organized by the UPnP/AV
protocol, which is an industry standard. The UPnP/AV server inside the OPUS is based on
the technology of TwonkyVision GmbH (www.twonkyvision.com), and all clients compatible
with a TwonkyVision UPnP/AV server can be used.
OPUS and the clients can be connected by standard Ethernet cabling or by a wireless
network. The network must be enabled as well as the UPnP/AV network service (see the
Network Settings section of this manual for details on how to do this, default is on).
Burning a CD
1. Choose an album or collect some songs into a playlist. Select the album or the playl-
ist and press the record button.
2. OPUS sums the length of the tracks and warns you if the total playing time exceeds
the capacity of a CD-R.
3. OPUS will then ask you to insert a fresh CD-R into the CD slot. After confirming with
soft key OK the burn process starts.
4. After completion the newly burned CD is ejected.
Copying a CD
1. After inserting a music CD, its title is shown as the topmost entry of the main menu.
2. Press the soft key COPY to copy all tracks of the CD onto a second one.
3. OPUS reads all tracks off the music CD and then asks you to insert a fresh CD-R into
the CD slot. When a CD-R has been inserted, the CD burning process begins.
Please note that duplication of copy-protected audio CDs may infringe copyright and digital
rights laws of your country.
