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™ Squeezebox Boom User Guide 1 Contents Thank You! .................................................................................................................................................3 Getting Help......................................................................................................................................3 Package Contents ..............................................................................................................................3 System Re
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® ™ 2 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 3 Appendix A: Configuring Your Firewall ......................................................................................................26 Thank You! Appendix B: Supported File Formats .........................................................................................................27 Appendix C: Using Apple iTunes ...............................................................................................................28 Thank you for
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® ™ 4 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 5 Boom Hardware At A Glance System Requirements Operating system Remote Control ® ® • Windows Vista , Windows XP, or Windows 2000 (SP4 or later required) A. power turns the Squeezebox Boom on or off. ® • Mac OS X, version 10.3 or higher B. home returns the display to the Home Screen • Linux-based OS with Perl 5.8.3 or higher installed (the top level menu). Pressing home again from the Home Screen displays the Now Playing Computer screen. • 733 Mhz
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® ™ 6 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 7 F. olume v up and olume v wndo . After you press olume v up or olume v wndo you can Front Panel Controls also use the navigation wheel to adjust the volume. G. preset buttons allow you quick access to your favorite tracks, Internet radio stations, playlists, or albums. Tap one of the preset buttons to select a favorite, or press and hold to assign the button to the currently selected item. H. sleep has two purposes. During normal use, it activates
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® ™ 8 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 9 Back Panel Connectors Installing Squeezebox Boom A Word About The Operating Environment Squeezebox Boom is intended primarily for indoor use. It can be used outdoors temporarily when adequate protection is provided against moisture and extreme temperatures. When using outdoors, be sure to keep it out of direct sunlight, as it may cause interference with the infrared sensor. For more information, see Safety Information later in this guide. Installat
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® ™ 10 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 11 If you’re not familiar with your wireless network’s security method or your security Create An Online Account And Download Software key, this information can be obtained by connecting to your wireless router. See your router’s instructions if necessary, or contact your network provider or An Important Word About Music Sources the party who installed your wireless router. Squeezebox Boom must be connected to a music source in order to function. Yo
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® ™ 12 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 13 6. You’ll see a menu giving you the choice of connecting via a wired or wireless Optional: Download And Install SqueezeCenter network. Use the up and wndo buttons to make your selection, and press After you complete the SqueezeNetwork sign-up process, you are asked to download right . SqueezeCenter. SqueezeCenter is only required if you intend to listen to your personal 7. If you’re connecting to your wireless network, you will see a menu for mu
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® ™ 14 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 15 Select A Music Source Optional: Connect To SqueezeCenter Once your Squeezebox Boom has successfully connected to your network, you will see If you’d like to listen to your personal music collection stored on your computer a menu asking you to select your music source. and you’ve successfully downloaded and installed SqueezeCenter, take these steps to connect to SqueezeCenter for the first time: Select SqueezeNetwork, the free, Internet-based servic
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® ™ 16 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 17 Clearing The Now Playing List Using Your Squeezebox Boom Selecting a track, album, genre, or playlist from your music collection or from an online music service and pressing play will clear the Now Playing list and replace it Now Playing with the selected item. Squeezebox Boom always maintains the current playlist in its memory. This playlist TIP: if you’re entertaining and you hand the remote control to a guest and invite is called Now Playing a
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® ™ 18 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 19 Squeezebox Boom has six Preset buttons below the display. You can think of these as With SqueezeNetwork a miniature list of six favorites that you can recall instantly at any time. Adding an item To add a radio station to your list of favorites on SqueezeNetwork, go to to a Preset will also add it to your Favorites, if it’s not already in there. www.squeezenetwork.com, click Favorites, select a name for the stream and enter the URL. Setting and
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® ™ 20 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 21 The default snooze length is nine minutes. If you have installed SqueezeCenter, Selecting and Changing Music Sources you may change the snooze length: Squeezebox Boom must be connected to a music source to operate. There are two 1. Launch the SqueezeCenter web interface types of music sources: 2. Click on the Player tab • SqueezeNetwork (a free online service operated by Logitech) 3. From the left pull-down list, select the player you want to con
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® ™ 22 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 23 You’ll probably find that you don’t need to change music sources very often. Last.fm Audioscrobbler There are a couple of scenarios where you might: If you use Last.fm (available on the web at last.fm), you might already be familiar with • If you normally connect to SqueezeCenter running on a computer, but the Last.fm’s “audioscrobbler,” which keeps track of what you play on your computer and computer is turned off or otherwise unavailable. In t
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® ™ 24 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 25 Listening To Your Music Collection Without Tips, Tricks And Advanced Techniques A Computer ™ StereoXL You do not need to keep your computer on to listen to Internet radio stations and online music services. Just connect your Squeezebox Boom to SqueezeNetwork, Squeezebox Boom uses Logitech’s StereoXL technology to dramatically widen the free, online service operated by Logitech. the stereo image, creating an immersive audio experience. Listening t
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® ™ 26 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 27 Appendix A: Configuring Your Firewall Appendix B: Supported File Formats Firewalls on your computer can often cause connection problems for network devices Squeezebox Boom and SqueezeCenter support a variety of music file formats. like Squeezebox Boom. While it is not necessary to disable your firewall in order to Some formats are supported in Squeezebox Boom’s hardware, meaning that allow Squeezebox to communicate with your computer, temporarily d
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® ™ 28 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 29 Appendix C: Using Apple iTunes Appendix D: Getting Help Apple’s iTunes is a music manager that helps you organize your collection, Online Help rip your CDs, create and manage playlists, etc. It also connects to the iTunes Store, where Apple offers music, videos and podcasts for purchase. Squeezebox website: slimdevices.com SqueezeCenter can use the iTunes music library. It cannot play songs purchased Online FAQ: faq.slimdevices.com from the iTunes
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® ™ 30 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 31 • If your wireless router uses a common network name (SSID) like NETGEAR Appendix E: Troubleshooting or LINKSYS, there may be more than one wireless network in range that has the same name as yours. Your Squeezebox Boom might be attempting to connect to the wrong network. Consider changing your network’s SSID When setting up networking, my network does to something that’s uniquely identifiable. not appear • Check whether your wireless router i
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® ™ 32 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 33 Both must be on the same network segment in order for SqueezeCenter to be My music sound choppy, distorted, or skips recognized by your Squeezebox Boom. If you are using a large wireless network with There may be excessive interference in your wireless connection, or the wireless signal multiple wireess routers or access points, there is a chance that your computer and may otherwise be too weak. Try moving your Squeezebox Boom closer to the wirel
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® ™ 34 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 35 Some of my track names are missing or incorrect The FORWARD and REWIND buttons do not work with some songs in my music library If you know that your songs all have valid tags or that your album art images are fine, you may want to have SqueezeCenter rescan your music collection by doing Seeking through a song (holding fwd or rew ) only works with certain formats: the following: • MP3, Ogg, FLAC, WAV and AIFF files stored in your SqueezeCenter 1.
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® ™ 36 Logitech Squeezebox Boom User Guide 37 Appendix F: Using Boom As Part Of A Whole- I have installed SqueezeCenter to allow playing of music that’s kept on my computer. However, some or Home System all of my iTunes music library does not play Squeezebox Boom is just one member of a growing family of Squeezebox network music players and network music systems. Our products can be divided into three Apple does not allow streaming of music to which DRM has been applied. Most music categori
