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AM279725 Cover.fm Page 1 Friday, February 4, 2005 3:07 PM
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PERSONAL music center II
Owners Guide
©2005 Bose Corporation, The Mountain,
Framingham, MA 01701-9168 USA
279725 AM Rev.00 CCM-001417
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Français Español English INTRODUCTION Thank you ® ® By choosing a Bose PERSONAL music center II, you have opened the door to a variety of new options for playing your ® LIFESTYLE DVD home entertainment system – in almost any area of your home! This new music center II provides you with: ® • Control of your LIFESTYLE (18 or 28 Series II or the 38 or 48) system from a different room or floor of your house. • On-screen information about your stored music and the TM uMusic intelligent playback
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English Español Français CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Thank you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other equipment you can control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Preparing for Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Français Español English PREPARING FOR USE Where to begin Your expansion system or speakers must be set up and con- ® nected to the LIFESTYLE system before you can use them with ® the PERSONAL music center II. ® If you have a Bose link product and still need to set it up, see “To add more rooms of sound” on page 25. If you have an older (legacy) product to use with the remote, refer to “Using other products for expansion” on page 26. If you have already set up and connected your expansion sys
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English Español Français PREPARING FOR USE Confirm that current settings are right ® Your PERSONAL music center II is pre-set at the factory for compatibility, as follows: • To control sound in a single expansion room – Room B – or area ® (not in Room A, the location of your LIFESTYLE media center). ® • A house code identical to the one given every new LIFESTYLE system. For details, see “Why would you change the house code?” on page 24. • To receive Audio stream 2, which is different from th
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Français Español English PREPARING FOR USE Basic controls Using just a few selection buttons and the display screen, you can ® see, choose from, and enjoy a wide variety of LIFESTYLE system capabilities in your expansion room. ® Remember that you can use the PERSONAL music center II, with no need to aim it, all around your home, even outside. Its radio frequency (RF) signals can reach the system from as far away as 80 feet (24.4 meters). Getting to what you want The few buttons explained b
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English Español Français PREPARING FOR USE What appears on the display Press to see the list of the available sources (Figure 2). Your list may look different, depending on the components you ® have connected to your LIFESTYLE system, and what type of system it is. (For instance, Stored will appear only if you have a ® ® LIFESTYLE 38 or 48, not on a LIFESTYLE 18 or 28 system.) Figure 2 Bedroom Source display Stored On Audio 2 Room FM Radio label AM Radio On Audio 1 CD/DVD Audio steam and
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Français Español English PREPARING FOR USE When you see the display above, you may: • Change the station selected by using the up and down arrows, which move forward or backward through the preset stations. • Confirm a new selection by pressing in on the center bar. Where you can go from here: • Move up or down to another preset station. • Move left to return to the source selection screen. • Move right to see the station tuning screen (Figure 4). Figure 4 FM Tune Example of a radio Battery S
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English Español Français PREPARING FOR USE Buttons to use while you listen There are two circular button sets for use while listening to a source. For details on how each button works for a specific ® source, refer to “Listening to Your LIFESTYLE System” on page 10. Use this button set to: 2. 1. 1. Adjust the speaker volume up or down. 2. Establish and select presets. 3. Skip and scan forward and back. 4. Begin or pause play. Use the second button set while listening to a music disc or sto
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Français Español English ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM Performance at your command ® By pressing , you turn on your PERSONAL music center II to the last source selected. Select a different source by pressing and moving up or down on the display to highlight the preferred source. Then press in on the center bar ( ) to confirm your selection. Use sections of this circular button as you listen. Press to Select or Press and hold to Set a preset Press to Seek backward Pres
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English Español Français ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM ® Note: Refer to your LIFESTYLE 38 or 48 system Operating Guide for detailed information on the uMusic intelligent playback system, the importance of presets, and how the system knows what to play. • To select a different preset: ® 1. Press the Presets button on the PERSONAL music center. 2. Move up or down to highlight the preferred preset and press in on the center bar to confirm the new selection. This returns to the original
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Français Español English ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM Delete this track from the While listening to the Playlist, press Playlist... and hold Playlist. Add this track to the While listening to a track in uMusic, Playlist... Encore or Whole CD play modes, but not in the Playlist, press and hold Playlist. Let the system pick the Press uMusic to exit the Encore, tracks for you... Whole CD, or Playlist play mode. Hear this track again... Press Repeat. Hear the music playing in Press Shuf
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English Español Français ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM Searching the library of stored music You may want to locate other tracks in your collection, which is ® easy to do using the display on your PERSONAL music center II. While listening to the Stored source, press the right arrow button to see the library search screen (Figure 6): Figure 6 Music Library Music Library Genre: - All genres - display Artist: - All artists- Album: - All albums- Track: - All tracks- 16 alb
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Français Español English ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM Using the radio To listen to the radio, select AM or FM from your list of sources. ® The LIFESTYLE system activates, as needed, and begins play. What appears on the display ® The display on your PERSONAL music center II provides information about the radio station and preset (Figure 8). Figure 8 FM Radio Station informa- Station tion display 2 FM 103.3 Jump to preset Back Tune While listening to a station, you have se
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English Español Français ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM Using radio presets ® Your LIFESTYLE system can store up to 20 AM and 20 FM stations as radio presets. By assigning a preset number to the stations you like most, you can get to them quickly and easily. All of the presets can be used in any of the expansion rooms. To assign preset numbers: Most simply, you can let the system assign the next available pre- set number to the station you have tuned in. • Press and hol
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Français Español English ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM • Press in on and hold the center bar to see the numeric selection display, where you can choose the track directly by number (Figure 10). Figure 10 Enter number Numeric selection Track display 1 2 3 Erase [Add] Done To select a specific track by number When the numeric selection display appears: • Move up or down to increase or decrease the highlighted number. • Press in on the center bar to confirm the digit and
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English Español Français ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM Skip quickly forward... Tip up on the center bar and hold. Skip quickly backward... Tip down on the center bar and hold. Select a track by Press in on the center bar . number... Move up or down to change to the first digit of the track number. Press in to confirm the number and move on to the next digit, etc. See the list of other Press the left arrow button sources... to move left. Playing a DVD or VCD ® With
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Français Español English ® LISTENING TO YOUR LIFESTYLE SYSTEM Stop and start again Press and hold . at the beginning Then press again. of the DVD... Skip to the next Tip up on the center bar . chapter (track)... Tip and hold to skip more than one. Skip to the beginning of Tip down on the center bar . the previous chapter Tip and hold to skip more chapters. (track)... Scan forward... Press . (silences termporarily) Press repeatedly to increase speed. Scan backward... Press an
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English Español Français LISTENING TO YOUR LOCAL SOURCE How a nearby sound source differs ® Your PERSONAL music center II is engineered for use with any ® Bose link enabled products in your expansion room. For example, speakers connected to a Bose SA-2 or SA-3 ampli- ® fier respond to on and off commands from the PERSONAL music center II, as well as muting and volume changes. On the other hand, a Bose 3•2•1 Series II or 3•2•1 GS Series II ® system or a Bose Wave music system co
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Français Español English LISTENING TO YOUR LOCAL SOURCE • Move up or down to scroll through local selections. • Move right to change inputs (for audio on your local source or connected to it). One example, with AM and FM radio and CD/DVD options You can make the following choices: • To switch from one to the other, move right. The change appears on the local source display. • To set presets in the numeric selection screen, press the center bar : Move up or down to increase or
