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• Predefined stations by genre: For a list of genres ranging from ALTERNATIVE to
WORLD, here you can browse the world to your heart’s content. Again, stations are
listed in descending order by streaming quality. Initially the lists are empty, please
press the soft key SEARCH or turn the outer ring of the jog-shuttle to the right, and
OPUS will fill the list.
Receiving a radio broadcast
Choose the entry you like and turn the outer ring of the jog-shuttle to the right or press the
play/pause button. The soft key INFORMATION will show you more details of the radio
station such as genre or current number of listeners, the soft key REMEMBER will add the
station to the list of your favorites.
To change to the next station of the list, press the skip button on the front panel or the
remote control.
2.3 Importing Music from Digital Sources like CDs, PCs or
iTunes
Importing CDs
After inserting a music CD, its title is shown as the topmost entry of the main menu. Press the
record button or the soft key IMPORT to import all tracks of the CD into OPUS’ hard disk.
If you want to import only selected tracks, select and mark these tracks before starting the
import. The recording of a CD happens in two steps:
1. OPUS first records the music files on the hard disk without any compression or
encoding
2. The second step is the encoding of these files in the chosen format
Once the first step is completed you can eject the CD and insert the next one, but you
should note that both the OPUS and record icons in the display header are flashing, signal-
ing that the OPUS is still busy encoding/reformatting the files of the first CD. During the
encoding, the system response times of the OPUS may be not as quick as usual.
Caution:
While this encoding icon is present, do not edit the tag information of your
library and do not power the OPUS off. This action could end the encoding of the files and
result in lost or corrupt files.
The progress of the import is shown on the display. It’s possible to listen to the tracks while
the import takes place – you can influence this as part of the settings, default is off. Since the
import time is much shorter than the playing time, listening and importing is not in sync.
CDs which are not recognized by the internal or online CD reference databases are labeled
generically as e.g. “Audio CD 2007-07-15 18:44”, using the import date and time. If you
want to import tracks already stored in OPUS, you are presented with a choice of overwrit-
ing or skipping these. After the import you can check the encoding format and the amount
of space of your imported files by hitting the soft key INFORMATION.
Please note that duplication of copy-protected audio CDs may infringe copyright and digital
rights laws of your country.
Copying music from a PC/Mac to Olive OPUS
By default OPUS is configured as a Windows file server (SMB server) and publishes the
folder “Import” on the home network. For the computer name the device name of the OPUS
is used, and it is registered in the workgroup “OPUS”, no password is necessary. This folder
should then be accessible by any Windows- or Mac OS X PC. Here is an example of a
Windows PC view of the OPUS folder.
From within Mac OS X in the Finder look for the “Go” menu item, and there look for the
“Connect to server…” function, where you enter the current IP-address of your OPUS.
When you copy MP3, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, AAC, or Ogg Vorbis music files or even complete
folders with music files to this folder, they are stored and can subsequently be imported into
the OPUS music library using the main menu option IMPORT, which becomes available on
screen when the Import folder contains something. Note that formats that the OPUS does
not support are ignored and remain in the Import folder until they are deleted there.
Pressing the soft key IMPORT starts the import of all audio files, which, depending on
number and size of these files, may last some minutes. To select a subset of tracks hit the IM-
PORT soft key and turn the outer ring of the jog-shuttle shortly to the right. Mark the tracks
that you want to import and press the IMPORT soft key again. During import there are no
checks for duplicates or supported file formats. Also, files cannot be reformatted as part of
the import process, meaning that they should already be in the format you wish them to be
