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SoundBridge Radio Wi-Fi Music System
User Guide | Software v2.5
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Welcome Thanks for purchasing Roku SoundBridge Radio! We hope you enjoy using it as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it. SoundBridge Radio is a simple, high-performance tabletop radio that’s ready for the digital world. Run the Latest Software! We are always working on improving the software for our products. Your SoundBridge Radio will let you know when a software update is available. We recommend you accept new software updates when they are offered. The update just takes two minutes, and e
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Playing Stations Saved as SECTION 1: GETTING STARTED......................4 “My Favorites” or “Presets”......................21 Introduction...........................................................4 Playback Limitations of Internet Package Contents.................................................4 Radio Streams............................................22 Important Safety Information ..........................4 Discovering More Internet Radio Stations....22 Setting Up You
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SECTION 7: ADDITIONAL Standby and Reboot Options...........................55 PLAYBACK OPTIONS...........................................38 WMA Lossless Transcoding...............................55 Playing a Playlist.....................................................38 FLAC and Ogg-Vorbis Transcoding.................55 Repeat and Shuffle................................................38 Programming a Universal Remote Control...55 Search Options...................................................
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SECTION 1: GETTING STARTED Introduction Your SoundBridge Radio makes listening to Internet radio as easy as listening to AM/FM radio with easy browsing of a variety of Internet radio stations and the ability to save your favorites with the press of a button. You can import your own station URL’s to hear over 10,000 stations from around the globe in every music or talk format. You can also stream your Mac or PC music libraries stored on any computer that’s connected to your Wi-Fi home networ
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1 Setting Up Your SoundBridge Radio To use SoundBridge Radio you will need to: 1. Put the included AAA batteries into your remote control. Make sure there is no object blocking the IR receiver located on the right side of your SoundBridge Radio display. 2. Attach the AM and FM radio antennas. At the rear of the unit, the FM antenna plugs into the FM connector labeled “FM” and the AM antenna plugs into the AM connector labeled “AM.” 3. Plug the power cord into the back of SoundBridge Radio,
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Configuring Your SoundBridge Radio SoundBridge Radio allows you to customize your product by choosing from multiple languages, and a range of time zones and geographic locations. Your country information is used to select the correct Wi-Fi format. Note that it may be illegal for you to select an incorrect country. SoundBridge Radio uses your time zone selection to set the time from an external “atomic clock” time server from the Internet. During this process, if you want to move back to a pr
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1 Changing Music Sources The “Change Library or Configuration” Menu The Home Menu PlayDan’sMusic Ë Play Joe’s Music PlayAMRadio PlayFMRadio Browse PlayInternetRadio Play Preset You easily navigate between different music servers on your network, as well as your Internet Radio Library and AM/FM radio. You can use the Source [ ] button on the top of the unit to access another music source. Or, you can also use your remote control as follows: 1. Press
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Using Headphones For private listening, connect headphones to the headphone jack on the side of the unit. The speakers are automatically muted when you plug in headphones. To change the volume level of the headphones, use the volume knob on SoundBridge Radio or the volume buttons on the remote control. You won’t miss your alarm! The alarm is designed to sound from the built-in speakers even if your headphones are connected. Turning Off Your SoundBridge Radio When you are finished playing mu
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SECTION 2: PLAYING AM/FM RADIO 2 Introduction Listening to AM/FM radio stations is similar to your experience with other radios. You can scan for available stations and then store up to 18 of them as Presets. If SoundBridge Radio is turned off, press the Standby [ ] button on the remote control or press any of the Preset buttons (numbered 1-6) or the Source [ ] button on SoundBridge Radio. To tune in to an AM/FM station, press the Source [ ] button until “FM Radio” or “AM Radio” is display
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Icon Name Action Alarm Shows alarm settings; hold to set the alarm. Snooze/Sleep Press once to snooze the alarm by 7 minutes. Press repeatedly to set the Radio to go to SNOOZE sleep in a chosen time interval (or press to cancel the Sleep function). large round knob Standby/Volume Press to toggle Standby mode; turn to adjust volume. at top/left Presets 1–6 Selects one of 6 different preset stations or playlists. Use with A-B-C button to access 1–6 the next set of six presets. A-B-C Preset Bank
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2 Button Button Name Action old remote new remote Up/Down Navigates through available selections in the list. ‚· Left/Right “FastBrowse.” When browsing for an artist alphabetically, you skip from one letter of ‡ the alphabet to another. Select Selects any item shown on SoundBridge Radio’s display. Pressing Select is like clicking your mouse on a highlighted item. Play Begins playing current selection. Pause Pauses currently playing song. Home Takes you to the Source or Home Menu. Exit Takes
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Storing Your Favorite Radio Stations to Presets A Preset is a quick way to play your favorite music on your SoundBridge Radio. Any music you can play on the SoundBridge Radio can be saved as a Preset. This includes AM/FM and Internet radio stations, playlists, albums, tracks by a particular artist, and so on. The SoundBridge Radio presets are not “source specific” — there are not separate presets for FM, AM and Internet radio. This allows you to arrange your Presets any way you like, and give
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you’re listening to on your computer to be a new SoundBridge Radio preset. Fourth, you can use iTunes to tune in to other stations, and then play them back on SoundBridge Radio. (Note: You can use iTunes for radio tuning even if you normally use Windows Media Connect as your music server.) 3 Selecting Internet Radio Stations To listen to one of SoundBridge Radio’s eighteen preset stations, you can either: • Push a Preset button; or • Press the Source [ ] button until you see “Internet Radio
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2.Your available music libraries will be displayed, including the one named “Internet Radio.” Select that library and you will see a list of Internet radio stations. These are your Presets, and they are pre-loaded when your SoundBridge Radio is first set up. See below for more information on how to edit these Presets. 3.Press Home Menu[ ] button to access your browsing options. You will see the following options: MyFavorites Browse Play Preset (Etc.) Select “Browse” and select th
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Find Station URLs Using Roku Radio Snooper Roku Radio Snooper is a free Windows application that enables you to quickly and easily discover the URL for your favorite Internet radio stations and determine if the station is supported by SoundBridge Radio and then make it one of your 18 SoundBridge Radio presets 3 with the click of a button. Go to www.rokulabs.com/snooper to download Roku Radio Snooper. Once launched, the lightweight application runs in the background. And while you are listen
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3. Drag and drop the stations you like into the “RadioFavorites” playlist. The result is an iTunes playlist that contains your favorite radio stations (see next image). Section 3: Playing Internet Radio 16
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3 4. Play this playlist on SoundBridge Radio. Connect to your iTunes Music Library by choosing the “Change Library or Configuration” option from your Home Menu and select the name of your library. Once connected, select “Playlists.” Scroll down to the saved playlist (in our example, “RadioFavorites”) and select it. You can now scroll through your favorite radio stations. Press Play to start playing your desired station. Customizing Favorites and Presets for Internet Radio The
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the top of your SoundBridge Radio. You can also use Roku Radio Snooper. Or using the remote control, press Select while the station is playing. You will see the following list of options: Add Station to My Favorites Stop Select the option “Save Preset: [Station name]” and press Select [ ]. Scroll down to the position you want to replace and press Select. Next time you view Presets, you will see that station displayed in the position
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Ë Presets can be programmed and played from the preset web page (see the “SoundBridge Radio Web Interface” chapter for more information.) Ë Presets can be programmed as discrete commands on a custom remote control. (For 3 more information about customizing your remote for SoundBridge Radio control and a Pronto CCF file, please visit the Support section of our web site.) To save an Internet radio station to My Favorites: 1. From the “Internet Radio” library, Scroll down to the “Browse” me
