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USING YOUR DIGITAL
MUSIC SERVER WITH A
PORTABLE PLAYER

The recordings on your XMusic Digital Music Server can
be transferred to a portable player (for example, an
Apple

iPod

) to allow you to listen to your music

collection while you are away from home. This chapter
describes how to transfer music from your Digital Music
Server to the portable player using a personal computer.

Note

: in the UK and certain other countries the copying

of material protected by copyright law may require
permission of the copyright owners.

The illustration below shows a typical home network:

* Macintosh computer running OS X 10.3 or higher or PC
running Microsoft Windows 98, Me, 2000, or XP.

In order to access the music files on your Digital Music
Server from the computer you must first enable

Server

Access

as follows:

• Display

the

Main Menu

by pressing the

key on your Digital Music Server remote control.

• Press

the

key to highlight the

Settings

option and press the

Select

action key.

• Press

the

key to highlight the

System

Settings

option and press the

Select

action key.

• Press

the

key to highlight the

Server

Access

option and press the

Select

action key.

The following screen will be displayed:

Ensure that the

Workgroup

item indicates the name of your

current network workgroup; for most simple home networks

MSHOME

(the default entry) should be correct. If this is not

the case, highlight this option using the

keys then

press the

Edit

action key to enter a new name.

If required you may also change the name used to
identify your Digital Music Server on the network by
editing the

Server Name

option.

• Press

the

key to highlight the

Server

Access

option and press the

Edit

action key.

• Use

the

keys if necessary to highlight the

Enabled

option and press the

Select

action key.

Provided that your Digital Music Server is connected
correctly it should now be accessible by browsing the
network from your computer.

If you are using a Macintosh computer you can create a
new network connection as follows:

• Select

from the Finder menu and click

Connect to Server

•

Click on the

Browse

button in the

Connect to

Server

window.

•

Navigate to your Digital Music Server on the
network and double-click the appropriate icon.

•

If your Digital Music Server does not appear in the
browse window return to the Connect to Server
window and enter:

smb://<WORKGROUP>

<XMUSICSERVER_NAME>

(e.g. smb://MSHOME;S2000_000123) into the

Server Address

box, then click the

Connect

button.

Note:

both the Workgroup and Digital Music

Server Name should be in uppercase.

• In

the

SMB Mount

window click the

button.

• In

the

SMB/CIFS Filesystem Authentication

window click the

button.

A window showing the contents of the Digital Music
Server hard disk will be displayed.

You can now transfer music directly from your Digital Music
Server to a portable player. The following two sections
describe how to transfer files using two popular media
player applications, iTunes

and Windows

Media Player.

Transferring Music to your Portable Player
using iTunes

The iTunes Media Player application is specifically
designed to simplify the process of synchronising your
music collection with an iPod portable player. Support
for other devices is limited; you should check that your
portable player is compatible before using this
application. iTunes version 4.6 or later is required.

The

Library

source in iTunes shows all media files stored

on the local hard disk as well as media which has been
added from other network drives. You can add the music
collection from your Digital Music Server to the

Library

follows:

• Select

the

Preferences

option. This can be found

under the

Edit

menu on the Windows edition of

iTunes and under the

iTunes

menu on the