DR 470 N - Radio ALBRECHT - Free user manual and instructions

USER MANUAL DR 470 N ALBRECHT

1.1. Network Requirement Before using the Radio, the following requirements are needed:

• A broadband connection in combination with a wired/wireless access point, router or similar network device.

• The network device needs to support WiFi (802.11b/g/n) wireless connection.

• A PC or smart phone which is connected to the same network as the Radio. This is only nee- ded in case you want to stream music from your PC or you want to remote control the Radio with DLNA. 1.2. Safety Precautions

• Do not drop the Radio and do not expose it to liquid, moisture or humidity. These might lead to damage to the device.

• If the Radio is moved from a cold into a warmer environment, do let it adapt to the new tempe- rature before operating it again. Otherwise it might lead to condensation and cause malfunc- tions in the device.

• Do not use the Radio in dusty environment as dust can damage the interior electronic compo- nents and lead to malfunctions in the device.

• Protect the Radio from strong vibrations and place it on stable surfaces.

• Do not attempt to disassembly the Radio.

• Only use the power adaptor delivered with the Radio.

• The socket outlet should be installed near the Radio and should be easily accessible.

• Never touch the power plug with wet hands and never pull on the power cable when pulling the plug out of the power socket.

• Make sure the electrical voltage specied on the Radio and its power plug is corresponding to the voltage of the power socket. Incorrect voltage will destroy the device.

• If the Radio is not used for a long period of time, disconnect it from the power supply by un- plugging the power plug. This is to avoid the risk of re.

• It is not recommended to use a headphone on the Radio via LINE OUT.

• Always power off the Radio when cleaning it.

• Never use any harsh or strong solvents to clean the Radio since these may damage the sur- face of the device. A dry, soft cloth is appropriate; however if the Radio is extremely dirty, it may be wiped off with a slightly moist cloth. Make sure the device is dried off after cleaning.

• If you need to ship the Radio, use the original packaging. Keep the packaging on to this end.30 English

2. Appearance and Key Descriptions

Front view Back view No. Description Functions 1 2,4” TFT-Screen display 2 Buttons and Reel control the OS operations 3 Antenna enhance FM reception

431English No. Description Functions 4 DC-IN power supply 5 Aux in (Stereo) 3.5mm aux in jack 6 Line out (Stereo) 3.5mm line out jack Remote Control

Use you thumb to press the lid of the battery compartment and pull it out. Insert the AAA batteries, the polarity is shown in the battery compartment.

Dispose of used batteries according to the instructions.

The packaging box contains the following items: - DR470N / DR471 - Remote Control with AAA batteries - Power adaptor - 3.5mm audio cable - User Manual Get the network ready

• For wireless LAN (WIFI) network connection:

• Check if WIFI LINK/ACT light of the wired/wireless access point or router is illuminated. Con- sult the user guide of that for any questions. Note: WiFi allows data transfer over short distances within 20 meters without the need of cabling between the devices. Any walls or ceilings may reduce the strength of the WiFi connectivity. Therefore try to locate the DR470N / DR471 and/or the access point within the distance mentioned above, and avoid any obstacles between two devices.

• Connect the power adaptor to the back of the DR470N / DR471 and plug it into the power socket32 English When it is the rst time running the device, the system will ask you to set Language and Network Con gurations. See 13.3 for detailed network con gurations. You may setup the network connection immediately, or set it later.

• Press (STANDBY) to enter standby mode. The time, date and any active alarm times dis- play on the screen.

• If you have setup a network connection, and use DR470N / DR471 again within the network, it will automatically establish the connection. In case you desire to change the network, enter con guration to setup the corresponding connection.

• Enter the characters from the keypad of the remote control or ▲ and ▼.Once you are on the letter you want, press ► to move to the next entry. When you are at the end the input, press OK to con rm. You may press ◄ to move to the previous entry33English

In the main menu you can select the following modes: My mediaU, Internet Radio, Media Center, FM, Aux In, Information Center and Con guration.

After connecting any station, the bit rate and the format of the station are displayed on the playing screen. 5.1. My Favorite Create a list of your favorite preset stations. It supports 250 favorite entries including station and folder. During the station playing screen, press and hold on the remote control to save the station as my favorite. You may replace the previous saved station to the new one. You can also save the station to your favorites while scrolling through the station list. When the station is highlighted you can press ► to enter this menu where you can add the station to your favorites. If the selected station has been saved, you cannot save it again. Under the preset station list, move to your station, press OK to listen. You may also press ► to enter its submenu to Delete, Shift Up/Down along the list, Rename or Play.34 English 5.2. Radio Station / Music Stations are categorized into Global Top 20, Genre and Country/Location. Enter to continue the subcategories and choose the station to listen. For each station, press OK to play directly. You may press ► to enter its submenu – you can Add to Favorite, Auto Scan or Play. When you choose Auto Scan, the radio introduces every station in the list by playing it for 30 se- conds. This is stopped when every station is played or you press the OK button. 5.3. Local Station In this menu all stations of your local area will be displayed. You can set the local radio setup as described in chapter 12.14. In the default setting the radio recognizes your location automatically. 5.4. History Shows you a list of last listened stations. It can save up to 10 history stations. 5.5. Service Search radio station - Enter your keyword to search radio station from the list. Add new radio station - The added stations will be stored in My Favorite. Note that the maximum character of the station name is 250. Tips: It may take a few seconds for the radio to load the data from the server, especially when the WiFi connection is bad. As long as the data isn‘t loaded the display shows Empty.35English

FM radio mode receives analogue radio from the FM band. Press ◄/► to search for FM stations. The frequency display starts to run up/down as DR470N / DR471 scans the FM band. It stops when it has received a station. You may press ▲/▼ on the remote control to tune station manually. Each step moves 0.05MHz. Press and hold the on the remote control or the device to save the station. You can save up to 20 stations. Press , then press ▲/▼ on the remote control or the device to choose the saved station. Or choose from the number pad on the remote control a preset station directly. Alternatively, you can let the system scan ALL stations for you by pressing OK, the searched sta- tions will automatically be stored in preset station list.

Aux in mode plays audio from an external source such as an MP3 player. To play audio with Aux in mode:

• Turn the volume low on both DR470N / DR471 and, if adjustable, the audio source device.

• Connect the external audio source to the Aux in 3.5mm stereo socket.

• Either press until the display shows AUX IN or select AUX IN in the Main menu.

• Adjust the volume of DR470N / DR471 (and, if necessary, the audio source device) as requi- red.36 English

Display and playback your own mediaU station list on the mediaU server. Set your account rst. To activate your own station list, follow the steps below:

1. Access http://www.mediayou.net/

2. Join my mediaU membership

3. Login to the website

4. Enter the wireless MAC addresses of DR470N / DR471 to the mediaU website. This informati-

on can be obtained in Information Center > System Information > Wireless Info

5. After successfully con guring, you are able to save and view your own mediaU station

playlist(s). Username and password are not required to enter to DR470N / DR471.

6. If there are different accounts stored in DR470N / DR471, you can choose the one you current-

ly use under Con guration menu.

7. Each time you have made any updates on the playlist from the website, go to Con guration

ALBRECHT DR470N / DR471 is the default device name for DLNA, and you may rename it as you like. (See section 13.17) The information below is the introduction of how to setup up media streaming from PC or other media server. Study the own instruction of the software or apps you use to enjoy music streaming if necessary. Make sure the music les are in the format of MP3, WMA, WAV or AAC for music streaming to DR470N / DR471. 9.1. UPnP

• To enjoy music streaming from your PC, the following steps are to be done on the PC:

• Connect the PC to the network.

• Ensure the DR470N / DR471 is powered on and connected to the same network.

• Open the UPnP platform Windows Media Player (11 or later). Alternatively, other platforms or server such as Windows Media Connection may be used.37English

• Allow to share your media to ALBRECHT DR470N / DR471. Add the audio les and folders you want to share with DR470N / DR471 to the media library. You may also enjoy the streaming music from other music server, such as smart phone (Android platform):

• Connect the mobile to the network

• Search and install media sharing apps from Google Play.

• Add the audio les from your mobile you want to share. After setup the shared server, choose the music and control playback on the DR470N / DR471.

10.1. UPnP If you have set up shared media, you should see the shared media from UPnP. If you have more than one computer sharing media, the alternatives are listed. Select the shared media you want to play. On the main menu, select Media Center and choose UPnP. It may take a few seconds for the radio to complete the scan for available UPnP servers, especially when the WiFi connection is bad. If no UPnP servers are found, it will show Empty. After a successful scan is done, select your UPnP server. The radio will show the media categories available from the UPnP server, e.g. ‘Music’, ‘Playlists’ etc. Choose the media les that you wish to play. Press ǀ◄◄/►►ǀ on the remote control to play previous/next music track, press ► to stop or play Press Info to view the display information of the playing track. Tips: The radio can only read the track of le names with less than 40 characters. And the cha- racters should be in European language. If you encounter failure of reading the track under UPnP mode, you may try to rename the le. However, if the track is still unable to play, you can try converting the le to a different format.38 English 10.2. My Playlist You can create a playlist of favorite music from UPnP. When you play the music, press and hold OK to save it into My Playlist. 10.3. Clear My Playlist You can delete all tracks from the playlist

11. Information-Center

11.1. Weather Information There are weather information and forecasts for 5000 cities. Select the country and then the city for the weather details. Press ◄/► to see the weather forecasts. It is able to display the weather information on the standby mode. On the weather information page, press OK to set the city to displaying on the standby mode. Then turn on the weather display as mentioned in 13.13. 11.2. Financial Service View the stock index from around the world.39English 11.3. System Information Check out the version of the system, and the details of connected network. The information includes MAC address which you are required to ll in when registration of my mediaU membership.

12. AirMusic Control App

The DR470N / DR471 can be controlled with your smartphone via WiFi. It is recommended to use the AirMusic Control App. Additionally to controlling the radio, the app is able to play the smartphone’s local music les on the DR470N / DR471. Due to frequent updates of the app the manual is only available online. Please visit www.alan-electronics.de and enter the article number 27471 into the search. You will nd the DR470N / DR471 product page. On the tab Bedienungsanleitungen you will nd the AirMusic Control Manual. The app itself is available for Android and iOS. It can be downloaded from here: Android: Apple iOS:

13.1. Time Display Choose the style of clock during standby mode: Analog or Digital.40 English 13.2. Manage my mediaU When it is enabled, My mediaU will be shown on the main menu. If various mediaU accounts exist in the DR470N / DR471, Select the default login account in here. Refer to 8 below for more information of mediaU account setup. 13.3. Network

13.3.1. Wireless Network Confi guration

Enable / disable WiFi network. When you enable the WiFi network, the system will automatically connect to the network. Select your required AP.41English Enter WEP or WPA code to connect the WiFi. If it is accidentally pressed ► to move a redundant entry, press ◄ to correct.

13.3.2. Wireless Network (WPS)

If you are using a router with WPS/QSS button, you may set up the network connection simple via WPS function. Enter it and go to press the WPS/QSS button on your router within 120 seconds. The connection between the router and the DR470N / DR471 will then be con gured automatically.

13.3.3. Manual Confi guration

You can choose DHPC (which IP assigned automatically) or manually input IP address for wireless network connection. When you select manual setting for wired connection, the followings have to be entered:

1. SSID (the name of Access Point);

You may choose (Manage) speci c network if you have setup more than one network connection within an area.

13.3.4. Check Network when Power On

“Enable / disable WiFi network”: When you enable the WiFi network, the system will automatically search the available AP. Select your required AP. Enter WEP or WPA code to connect the WiFi. If the wireless network connection is not existed or failed, the icon at the top left corner will have a cross on it.42 English 13.4. Date & Time

• Press Set Date and Time between Manual Setup and Auto Detect. When Auto Detect is chosen, the time is determined automatically, therefore deleted pont 4 (DST)

• Setup the date and time

• Turn on/off (default) the Daylight Saving Time (DST).Available only on manual setup With a wireless network connected, GMT (+00:00) time is a time reference of time setting. Add or deduce the hour according to your time zone when you set the time. 13.5. Alarm There are three independent alarms - 2 alarms of absolute time setting (Alarm 1 and Alarm 2) and 1 alarm for relative time setting (NAP Alarm). Press Alarm on the remote control to enter this menu directly. The rst two alarms are similar to the normal alarm, turn on then set the time and set it alarms every day, once or every speci c day of week. Choose Sound to set the sound to Beep, Melody or Radio. Note that the alarm source is from the last listened or preset Internet radio if Alarm Sound is set to Radio. It can only set one station for both alarms. When it reaches the alarm time, the unit con- nects to the Internet if the set network is available. Therefore there may be some delay from the alarm to the radio play. If no network is connection in one minute, the alarm will change to Melody automatically. After Alarm NAP is set, it alarms once in 5/10/20/30/60/90/120 minutes depending on which one you have set. You may choose Alarm Volume to con gure the volume of the alarms.43English When the alarm(s) is/are set, there will be a clock icon at the top of the display. The clock icon with alarm time will also clearly display on the standby mode screen. During alarm, press any key to enter snooze mode. It will alarm again in 5 minutes. Press the STANDBY key to stop the alarm. 13.6. Timer Press ◄/► to set the timer, press OK to start. The timer will count down and beep sound when it reaches 00:00. To cancel the timer, enter the timer screen and press OK again. 13.7. Language Select one of 17 OSD languages: English / Deutsch / Español / Français / Português / Nederlands / Italiano / Pусский / Svenska / Norsk / Dansk / Magyar / Český / Slovenský / Polski / Türkçe / Suomi. 13.8. Dimmer Con gure the brightness of backlight on the display. If you select Power Saving you can select the level to which the display is dimmed down when the radio enters the Standby mode or when the radio gets no key input for 15 seconds. The Turn On options keeps the display illumination always. If you select it you can choose how bright the display shall be.44 English 13.9. Display Choose the style of display: Color or Monochrome 13.10. Power Management Choose the power management timer (5/15/30mins) to set the duration of the radio to switch to the standby mode automatically when no network connection is available. Choose “Turn off” to ignore the power management function.

13.11. Sleeptimer Turn off or set the sleep time to 15/30/60/90/120/150/180 minutes. Once the time is set, there will be a bed icon with remaining minutes at the top right corner. The DR470N / DR471 will shut down once the time runs out. Press Sleep on the remote control for the shortcut of this function. 13.12. Buffer Con gure the buffer time of the music playback, 2/4/8 seconds.45English 13.13. Weather DR470N / DR471 is able to display current weather information (refer to 11.11) under standby mode. Turn on Standby Display and set Temperature Unit (°C or °F) to get the weather displayed at the standby mode. When it is turned on, the display will switch between time and weather while being in standby mode. 13.14. FM Setup Choose Mono/Stereo and enable/disable threshold. 13.15. Local Radio Setup There is a shortcut Local Radio under Internet Radio (see section 5.3) so that you can easily go to the station list of your location. You may Manual Setup your location, or let the system Auto Detect your current location. The system detects the location according to the IP address of your connected network. Press Local Station to enter this local radio list directly. 13.16. Playback Setup Select the playback mode of media center – Off (no repeat or shuf e), Repeat all, Repeat one, or Shuf e.46 English 13.17. DLNA-Setup The default device name for DLNA is ALBRECHT DR470N / DR471. You may rename it for DLNA setup on the PC or mobile. 13.18. Equalizer Default equalizer is Rock, you may change to Normal, Jazz, Flat, Soundtracks, Classical, Pop, or News. 13.19. Resume When Power On The system is default to resume internet radio playback if you were listening to internet radio or media center before switch off the unit. If turn this setting off, the system will remain in the main menu when switching on the unit. 13.20. Software-Update Update software. If there is an updated software version on the server, the system will notify you when you return to the main menu. 13.21. Reset Restore the default settings. After DR470N / DR471 is reset, the system will move to Language setting menu. And it will automa- tically turn to Network setting menu once the OSD language is elected.47English

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13.15 Local Radio Setup

Error Remedy The device does not switch on. 1. Check if the power adaptor is connected properly.

2. The device may malfunction when used in areas with

strong radio interference. The device will work proper- ly again once there is no more interference. No sound 1. Turn on the sound as it may be muted

2. Increase the volume.

No network connection can be established.

1. Check the WIFI function.

2. Try to set an IP address at the device.

3. Activate the DHCP function on the router and make

the connection again at the device.

4. A rewall is activated on the network – set the respec-

tive program in such a way that access is possible.

5. Reboot the unit to try.

WIFI connection cannot be esta- blished.

1. Check the availability of WIFInetwork on the access

2. Place the device closer to the router.

3. Make sure the WEP/WPA password is correct.

No station is found. 1. Check the network as well as the access point and rewall.

2. The station may not be available currently, try it again

later or select another station.

3. The link of the station is changed or the station no lon-

ger transmits – ask the provider for information.

4. The link of manual added station is not correct, make

sure it is correct and re-enter. Hiss in FM mode. 1. Check/move the FM antenna.

2. Move the radio to a different location.

Alarm does not work. 1. Switch on the alarm.

2. Due to the volume setting, refer to the solutions of “No

3. The source of alarm was set to be station but there is

no network connection. Change the source of alarm or recongure the connection.49English Error Remedy Unable to do DLNA streaming. 1. Check the connection of the network. DR470N / DR471 and your device need to be in the same net- work; and test if the network in good condition.

2. Make sure the settings on your device are correct.

System freezes suddenly. 1. Disconnect the power plug for 1 minute, then restart the device.

2. If the error has then not been resolved, reset the unit

to the factory setting (see chapter 13.21.).

17. Warranty and Recycling Information

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13.15 Local Radio Setup