Music player – Roberts Radio ColourStream User Manual

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Music Player

Allowing a device to connect to Windows Media Player 12

Set up UPnP access on a Windows PC - cont.

4. Touch

Shared Media. The radio will scan for all available UPnP servers.

It may take a few seconds for the radio to complete its scan. The radio
will display 'No UPnP service' if no UPnP servers are found.

5. After scanning, select your UPnP server. If you allowed automatic

connection previously, your radio should now connect and you may
skip to the next page.

If you did not permit automatic connections, your radio will then normally
display 'Unauthorised' at this stage.

6. Your PC may prompt you that there has been a connection to your

UPnP server. Whether prompted or not, in order that the radio may
access the music fi les, you will need to click the 'Library' tab in WMP 12
and select the 'Stream…' item to open the 'Media Streaming' window.
Select 'Automatically allow devices to play my media' then select
'Automatically allow all computer and media devices'
.

Alternatively

select

'More Streaming options' to enable sharing on a

'per device' basis.

7. In

the

'More streaming options' window, the radio will be listed as a

blocked device. Click on the button shown to select 'Allowed'.

Note: If you are using Microsoft Windows' fi rewall software, this should
be correctly confi gured by WMP 12. If you are using third party fi rewall
software you may need to manually confi gure it to allow your unit
and WMP 12 to communicate (see the 'Troubleshooting' section on
page 87).

8. On the radio, select the named server again. If WMP 12 is now able

to communicate with your radio you will be presented with some media
selection options on the display.

My Music

Select Music Source

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Shared Media

USB Playback

My Playlist

My Music

Shared Media

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JENNY: Jenny’s music

HOME_PC: Mums music

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