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Section 4 

 Initial Settings

Keyboard

The default keyboard is UK English. If you 
do not wish to change this, then skip this 
section. 

Highlight the KEYBOARD option and press 
OK. Here you can select the keyboard 
language for your country. When you are 
happy with the selection press OK.

Highlight and select BACK or press the 
BACK button on the handset, to return to 
the SETTINGS MENU.

4.4  Display Settings

From the main Settings menu, highlight 
DISPLAY and press OK. 

TV Standard

If you are not experiencing a problem with 
either TV or PC outputs on the Server then 
you can skip this section.

Highlight TV Standard and press OK. 
There are two options to choose from. 
The default setting is PAL, which is the 
correct setting for European television 
receivers and those PC monitors that can 
display a 50Hz refresh rate. If you are 
using an American TV or a PC display that 
reports ‘no input’ or ‘out of range’ error 
then change the standard to NTSC. If you 
are using a European TV and PC monitor 
combination and the monitor reports an 
error the best setting is NTSC as most 
modern European TV sets can display an 
NTSC signal. Refer to the following table 
for the correct setting for your monitor set 
up.

Monitor Set Up

PAL NTSC

Euro TV & no monitor

P

Euro TV & 50 Hz Monitor

P

Euro TV & 60Hz Monitor

P

American TV & Any Monitor

P

American TV & No Monitor

P

Display

This is where you set the brightness level 
of the front panel LCD display. There are 
four levels; off, dim, medium and bright.

4.5  Setting Audio 

Preferences

From the main Settings menu, select 
AUDIO and press OK. There are several 
useful and important settings available 
in this menu that can affect the way the 
Server handles audio compression and 
disc storage. You need to think carefully 
about what you want the Server to do 
before deciding on what settings to make.

Store Format

 – this menu decides in 

what format the audio files will be 
stored on the Server. This is a global 
setting, which means that every CD you 
store will be automatically stored in 
the selected format. The default setting 
is UNCOMPRESSED. This means that 
the music will be stored in the highest 
possible quality, exactly as it is on a CD. 
However this also means that the music 
will take up the largest amount of space. 
The hard disk drive size is 160GB, which is 
enough to store the average CD collection 
uncompressed. If you have a larger than 
average CD collection and wish to store it 
all on the Server then it may be necessary 
to adjust the compression setting to one 
of the five different levels available. Use 
the following table to help you decide 
which setting is best for you.

Store Format Total Time

1

No. of 

Tracks

2

No. of 

Albums

3

Uncompressed

260 hrs

3,120

206

MP3 (320kbps)

1165 hrs

13,980

924

MP3 (256kbps)

1456

17,472

1155

MP3 (192kbps)

1941

23,292

1540

MP3 (160kbps)

2330

27,960

1849

MP3 (128kbps)

2912

39,944

2311

Maximum possible time not allowing for disk formatting  

Based on average 5 minutes per track 

Minimum possible based on 76 minutes per album (CD maximum)

As a guide, it is always best to store audio 
files at the highest possible bit rate but 
you need to bear in mind that you will 
always be buying more music. So if you 
have a record collection of 200 CDs that 
has taken five years to acquire you will 
easily fit your whole collection on the 
Server in uncompressed format but will 
run out of room in a couple of months. In 
this instance a bit rate of 320Kbps would 
be the best format.

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Страница 3: ...ies regarding the DEVICE or the SOFTWARE those warranties do not originate from and are not binding on SOFTWARE SUPPLIERS NO LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN DAMAGES Except as prohibited by law SOFTWARE SUPPLIER...

Страница 4: ...utlet 10 Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs convenience receptacles and the point at which they exit from the apparatus 11 Only use attachments accessories sp...

Страница 5: ...as they may damage the surface of the product If you use a chemical saturated cloth to clean the unit follow that product s instructions WARNING Cleaning and adjustment of lenses and or other compone...

Страница 6: ...mpression 20 CD Action 20 Audio Mode Party Mode or Independent Zones 20 Independent Zones 20 Party Mode 20 4 6 Archiving and Backup 20 Backup 20 Archiving 21 5 Storing a Music Collection on the Server...

Страница 7: ...Audio CD 37 Writing Files to a Portable MP3 player or drive 38 Writing files to the Server hard drive from a portable device or data CD 38 11 3 Housekeeping Activities 38 Editing Album Details 38 Add...

Страница 8: ...n extended period 2 Mains Inlet connect the supplied IEC mains lead for your country to this socket Please read the warnings at the front of this guide for safety information on mains connections NOTE...

Страница 9: ...three different zones or they can be connected to three inputs of a multi room audio distribution system e g Systemline Modular or Systemline S6 In any case use standard RCA connectors and cables to...

Страница 10: ...rack in the play list 9 Stop Key press to stop the currently playing track or station 10 Play Pause Key always plays the highlighted track or station Pauses the currently playing track or station if a...

Страница 11: ...toggles between split and single Now Playing screen Once an output key has been pressed subsequent remote commands are performed by that output only To control another output press a different output...

Страница 12: ...by Source Select Keys Info Key Shuffle or Repeat Key Independent Output Keys Alpha numeric Keys Party Mode Key Special Function Keys Cursor OK Keys Back Key Home Key Mute Key Transport Keys 1 2 3 5 7...

Страница 13: ...uminate on the front panel Press the Standby button next to the red LED The unit will begin its short bootup procedure You will see the LCD illuminate and a Systemline welcome screen on the TV before...

Страница 14: ...EF GHI JKL MNO PQRS TUV WXYZ Press the yellow key on the handset to enter Albums list Navigate to the album of your choice using the cursor buttons on the handset When it is highlighted press the Play...

Страница 15: ...strial Park Bishops Stortford Herts CM23 5GZ UK www armourhe co uk DIGITAL 1 ANALOG2 ANALOG3 USB1 USB2 POWER OFF ON L R L R L R L R L R 3 Mains 110 250V 50 60Hz To ethernet port using RJ45 patch cable...

Страница 16: ...dby with the LCD illuminated on its lowest setting and showing the time The video display will turn off In this state the Server is still fully functional and will not have to go through the bootup ro...

Страница 17: ...ilable to the left or right these can be accessed by pressing the left or right cursor buttons The existence of left or right options is indicated by the direction of the arrow in the top line of the...

Страница 18: ...you typed Tuesday it will automatically revert to Tue Next edit the time in a similar way Again the format of 00 00 00 A P M cannot be changed and any erroneous input results in the field returning to...

Страница 19: ...le in this menu that can affect the way the Server handles audio compression and disc storage You need to think carefully about what you want the Server to do before deciding on what settings to make...

Страница 20: ...independent audio outputs In this mode the Now Playing screen will appear split into three horizontal areas one for each of the three audio outputs Each output is clearly numbered Alternatively you ca...

Страница 21: ...This option is safer as it stores the actual music files to a back up hard drive It will be able to restore all your music library in the event of a complete failure of the Server internal hard drive...

Страница 22: ...ncy consider setting the CD action to Store in the Options menu Section 4 5 Open the CD drawer by pressing the CD Tray key button on the front panel Place the CD on the tray label side up and press th...

Страница 23: ...rogress bar for each track and expresses the complete CD progress as a percentage 20 Start Cancel If you have made a mistake and wish to stop the storage process then simply press cancel The Server wi...

Страница 24: ...ble devices you will be able to choose any combination of the different locations available You will only be able to browse the files contained in the locations that are ticked so at this point make s...

Страница 25: ...can also use this option to delete unwanted tracks More on Filtering the Music Library The Music Library database has four basic filters which get progressively finer in the following hierarchy Genre...

Страница 26: ...aken to the Search page On this page is a single editable data field where you input your search term in the usual way By highlighting the field and pressing OK to activate it type in the search term...

Страница 27: ...ack If you wish to remove a different track from that which is highlighted make sure that you preselect it first in the track list in the right hand side Move Up Move Down use this option to change th...

Страница 28: ...to the CD on more than one output at a time 7 2 More CD Options You can get more out of CD play back if you change the CD Action to play in the Audio Options menu Section 4 5 When a CD is inserted th...

Страница 29: ...ups all of the available radio stations by their country of origin Highlight the country of your choice to see a list of the available languages in that country Language this option groups all the ava...

Страница 30: ...cular Location then the filter options below Locations will only show you the Languages or Stations of that Location in that Genre To help you the last filter selection is always shown in the lower le...

Страница 31: ...for recording see below Note you cannot listen to the same Line Input on more than one output If you try to do so you will see a message telling you that the line input you have chosen is being listen...

Страница 32: ...nd album art The single Now Playing screen shows the same information as the split one but with the addition of media source play mode genre and larger album art 10 2 Switching between Screens You can...

Страница 33: ...you to select which units you wish to access from the Settings menu by using the name you give them You can also include your PC or Mac in the network too allowing their music content to become acces...

Страница 34: ...le The only option available at present is DHCP This is enabled by default and will already have set up your ethernet settings To turn off Automatic IP settings highlight the option and press OK Make...

Страница 35: ...ds to fill in Friendly Name edit this field to give the new location a name that you wish to appear in the list of available music content in the Server Music Library File Location this is the most im...

Страница 36: ...into the music in all the other locations including the hard drive Adding music files from another PC to the Server In the previous section we were playing files stored on another computer across the...

Страница 37: ...om the Server hard drive Adding Files to a Data or Audio CD You can make your own data or audio CDs using the Server The difference between them is that an audio CD will play in a normal CD player and...

Страница 38: ...iles in the external device to the hard drive NOTE There is a limit of 1999 tracks on this type of transfer If you have more tracks than this see Section 11 3 When you have finished go back to the Loo...

Страница 39: ...plication does the rest When you have added album art perform a rescan operation as described in Section 11 4 Deleting Unwanted Albums or Tracks If you want to delete a whole album or just a few track...

Страница 40: ...iring the use of a network connection especially if you have more than 1999 tracks you can use the following procedure 1 Take a USB2 external hard drive and clear it of all files 2 Create a directory...

Страница 41: ...on to create a copy of the music database on the Server This can be used to restore the previous music database in the event of file corruption or problems caused by interruption of power when the uni...

Страница 42: ...w Playing F11 Zone F12 Theme BACKSPACE Back HOME Home Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 PAUSE BREAK Rescan RETURN Select UP ARROW Up DOWN ARROW Down LEFT ARROW Left RIGHT ARROW Right INSERT Look i...

Страница 43: ...playing An External device is not scanned when attached to the USB port The device may not be compatible with plug and play USB2 0 Use a device that is listed in the www usb org web site I have album...

Страница 44: ...y consist of mp3 files and or wav files of various compression rates Max capacity 700 800MB MP3 This is a music file that uses compression This means that sonically redundant data is removed from the...

Страница 45: ...22 Storing 14 CD RW CD RW Wiping 37 CD Player Analog audio inputs 8 Digital audio inputs Co axial Electrical 8 Optical TOSLINK 8 Composite video CVBS output 8 D Database Backing up 40 Rescan 41 Reset...

Страница 46: ...32 Port 8 S S Video Output 8 S P DIF 8 Search Using the search function 26 Shuffle 24 25 28 24 Shuffle Repeat key 11 T Time and Date 17 TV Outputs 8 TV Standard 19 U USB Adding music from a portable d...

Страница 47: ...x 3 Coaxial S PDIF In x 1 Optical S PDIF In x 1 Optical S PDIF Out x 3 Video Connections Composite Video x 3 S Video x 1 VGA x 1 Hard Drive 160GB D A Converter AKM Frequency Response 20Hz 20kHz 1dB P...

Страница 48: ...fo armourhe co uk Our policy is one of continuous product improvement we reserve the right to change the designs and specifications without notice All information is given in good faith The manufactur...

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