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• ARTISTS: This option reveals an alphabetical list of all artists in your music library. Be-
hind each artist you find the list of his/her albums and behind each album its tracks.
“All...” shows all tracks of the chosen artist including tracks which are not part of an
album.
The cursor defines the set of tracks to be played or added to a list. Is the cursor on the
name of an artist and you press the play/pause button, all albums and tracks of this
artist are played one after another. Is the cursor on the name of an album and you
press the same key, the tracks of this album only are played.
• COMPOSERS (when activated, default is off): Classical music is often sorted by com-
poser, and so fans of classical music should switch on this option to be able to search
their collections by an alphabetical list of composers, just as if they were searching
by a specific artist. Follow SETTNGS & SPECIALS > GENERAL SETTINGS > APPEAR-
ANCE > CLASSICAL MODE to make the change.
• ALBUMS: As with looking by artists, here you get an alphabetical list of all albums,
and you drill down and find the tracks to a specific album. You can either play the
whole album or use the cursor to select the set of tracks to be played or added to a
list.
• SONGS: Here you get an alphabetical list of all tracks (“song” and “track” are used
interchangeably in this user manual). You can either play a specific track or use the
cursor to select the set of tracks to be played or added to a list.
• GENRES: Behind every genre you find the list of artists, albums, and tracks assigned
to this genre. “All...” shows all tracks of the chosen genre including tracks which are
not part of an album. Genres without assigned tracks are not visible here. But you
may choose from all genres when assigning one to a track or an album. You may
add your own genre by just typing an appropriate text into the genre field of a track,
album, or artist.
• PLAYLISTS: Here are all the playlists you’ve defined in alphabetical order. Choose the
one you like, or use your cursor to select the tracks to be played. More on how to cre-
ate them is in a later section.
• SEARCHLISTS: Here are all the searchlists you’ve defined in alphabetical order.
Choose the one you like, or use your cursor to select the tracks to be played. More on
how to create them is in a later section.
Information that is shown on the screen during play mode, controls etc. are just the same as
described above for listening to a CD.
2.2 Listening to Internet Radio
If your OPUS is connected to the internet, selecting INTERNET RADIO from the main menu
opens an additional world of unlimited music. The streaming process usually needs some
open outgoing ports in the range of 8000 to 8005, but other ones are possible, too. If your
OPUS is connected to the Internet through a firewall, you may have to open the necessary
ports additionally. The web pages of the internet radio stations usually will provide more
information on how to do this.
A long list of predefined stations is available from the start. They are sorted by genres, there
is one category of top 500, which is determined by popularity measured across all users
and will change over time, and you can save your favorites so that you can always quickly
return to them.
• MY STATIONS: Your own list of favorite online stations. Once you have found a radio
station you like, hit the soft key REMEMBER and the current station is added to the list.
Here you can also add stations you were not able to find in the other lists by:
1. hitting the soft key NEW, entering a name for this radio station, and confirming
with OK
2. entering the URL of this station, and confirming with OK.
OPUS supports two kinds of URLs (web addresses):
• Direct URLs which allow to download the MP3 files immediately after the con-
nection has been established.
• URLs with suffixes like “.pls” or “.m3u”. The second type provides a list of music
servers, which are tried one after another until a connection is established.
• TOP 500: Look here for the 500 most popular Internet radio stations, listed in de-
scending order by streaming quality. Obviously this list is not static but changes over
time.
