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Owner’s Guide
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide Table of Contents About Transporter ............................................................................................. 2 Before You Begin ............................................................................................... 3 System Requirements ................................................................................... 3 Installing the SlimServer Software ...................................................................... 4 Installing
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Logitech® About Transporter™ Thank you for purchasing a Transporter™ network music player. Transporter lets you play your digitized music collection through your stereo system using your wireless or ethernet network. With Transporter, you can also listen to internet radio stations, set alarms, display RSS feeds, and more! Transporter was designed to appeal to the most discerning audiophiles and music lovers. It streams digital music with sound quality that surpasses even the most exotic c
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide Before You Begin If you already have a wireless or ethernet network and a computer to use as a server, setting up Transporter and SlimServer takes just a few minutes—all you need to get your music playing through Transporter is in this owner’s guide. 1. First, collect your digitized music into one place on your computer. You can put all the files in a single directory, or create a series of subdirectories. The software you use to ‘rip’ your CDs, such as iTunes,
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Logitech® Installing the SlimServer Software Installing on Windows 1. Download the SlimServer installer program to a location you can find again on your computer. Your Desktop is a good choice. Note: Transporter™ needs SlimServer version 6.5 or greater to access the music you have on your local computer. If you already have SlimServer installed, you must update to version 6.5.0 or later to use with your Transporter You can find the latest version of SlimServer at: http://www.slimdevices.c
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide Installing on Mac OS X 1. Save the .dmg file to your Desktop. Note: Transporter needs SlimServer version 6.5 or greater to access the music you have on your local computer. If you already have SlimServer installed, you must update to version 6.5.0 or later to use with your Transporter You can find the latest version of SlimServer at: http://www.slimdevices.com/download 2. When the file has finished downloading, double-click on the disk image file (.dmg) to make
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Logitech® Connecting Transporter Digital Inputs Antenna Unbalanced Analog Optical Coax BNC AES/EBU Connectors Outputs TOSLINK S/PDIF S/PDIF Balanced Optical Coax BNC AES/EBU Word Infrared Ethernet RS-232 AC Power Balanced S/PDIF S/PDIF Balanced Clock Input Output Serial Analog Input Outputs 1. Connect an output from the Transporter to your stereo amplifier, preamp, or receiver with the appropriate interconnect. The most common connection uses the unbalanced analog output red and wh
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide Audio Connections Transporter has a host of both digital and analog connections to choose from. Picking the one that’s right for you depends on how your current audio system is set up. For instance, if balanced inputs are available on your amplifier, preamplifier, or receiver, it’s usually better to use those rather than the unbalanced inputs. Transporter also provides a set of digital input connections to allow other digital audio sources to use Transporter
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Logitech® Configuring Transporter The instructions below use the remote control to set up Transporter. You can also use the front panel controls. To scroll up and down, turn the knob on the front panel. Pressing the center of the knob is equivalent to pressing the RIGhT arrow on the remote. Pressing the BACK button on the front panel is the same as pressing the LefT arrow. The other buttons on the front panel are the same as the corresponding buttons on the remote. When you plug in Tr
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide Tip: WEP keys consist of a string of ten or twenty-six digits or letters A through F. WPA passwords are a string of letters, numbers or punctuation. Enter the subnet mask for the network, the default gateway IP address, and the address of your DNS server, pressing the RIGhT arrow on the remote to move to each one. Tip: If you are having trouble connecting to your wireless network, check the Frequently Asked Questions section at the end of this guide. Select a
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0 Logitech® Using the Remote Press POWeR to put Transporter into standby mode. This will dim the display, stop the music and show a clock. Press POWeR again to wake Transporter. Press SLeeP to tell Transporter to turn itself off at the end of the currently playing song. Press SLeeP again to turn off in 15 minutes. Add 15 minute increments (up to a total of 90 minutes) by pressing SLeeP repeatedly. If you wish to cancel the Sleep function, press SLeeP until the player displays Sleep Ca
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide • Playlist—Transporter adds all of the songs in that playlist. • Folder—Transporter adds all the songs in that folder and sub-folders. Tip: You can press and hold ADD to insert the item on the screen to be played immediately after the currently playing song. Tip: When in the Now Playing list: Press ADD to remove the visible song from the playlist. Press and hold ADD to move the song from the current playlist to the end to a special playlist called Zapped Songs. T
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Logitech® Press RePeAT to cycle between the following settings: • Repeat Off (stop playing at the end of the current playlist) • Repeat Current Song • Repeat All Songs Press NOW PLAYING to display the song you are listening to. Press NOW PLAYING again to cycle through different display formats for the now playing song, including graphic visualizers and progress meters. Press SIZe to cycle between different display font sizes. You can do this while Transporter is powered on or off. Press B
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide Press BROWSe to browse through your music library by Genre, Artist, Album, and more. Press SIZe to cycle between different display font sizes. You can do this while Transporter is powered on or off. Press BRIGhTNeSS to cycle through Transporter display brightness levels. You can do this while Transporter is powered either on or off. If you want to dim the display completely, press BRIGhTNeSS to cycle to a completely dark screen. If Transporter is powered off, it
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Logitech® Press fWD to skip to the next song. Press and hold fWD to scan forward through the current song. The VOLUMe button puts the knob into volume mode. Press the VOLUMe button and then turn the knob to adjust the loudness of the audio Transporter is producing. Press the VOLUMe button again to exit volume adjustment or wait a few seconds and Transporter will exit automatically. Press the VISUAL button to cycle through a variety of visual settings on the display, including: • Analog-
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide Tip: Windows users can use the SlimServer System Tray icon to bring up the web interface automatically on their SlimServer computer. Mac users can use the SlimServer pane in System Preferences to bring up the web interface. 2. From the left pane of the web interface, you can browse by a variety of categories, including album, artist, genre, album cover art (if available), new music, by year, and more. 3. When you find an album, artist, track, or playlist you wa
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Logitech® To specify a playlists folder: 1. From the web interface, click the Server Settings link. 2. In the Playlists Folder section, enter the path to the folder on your hard drive that you want Transporter to use for saving playlists, and click Change. To create a playlist using the web interface: 1. Search or browse through your music library for music you want to put in the playlist. 2. When you locate a song, album, artist or genre you want to put in the playlist, click the plus (+
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Transporter™ Owner’s Guide 4. Press RIGhT or the center of the knob to enter a provider’s area. Navigate through the choices to display the station you’d like to tune to. 5. Press PLAY to tune into the station. It may take a few seconds to connect to an internet radio station. To play an internet radio station that’s not shown in the Internet Radio area: 1. Using the SlimServer web interface, click the Radio Tune In link. 2. Enter the URL for the radio station you want to listen to in the
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Logitech® Using SqueezeNetwork You can use the remote or front panel controls to navigate around SqueezeNetwork like you do when connected to SlimServer or visit http://www.squeezenetwork.com/ with your web browser to control your Transporter from the web. If you are a subscriber to any of the internet music services that SqueezeNetwork supports, such as Live365 or RadioIO, visit the SqueezeNetwork web site to enter your account information so you can tune in directly from Transporter eve
