Logitech Squeezebox Boom manual

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Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 1 Contents Thank Y ou! ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Getting Help...................................................................................................................................... 3[...]

2 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 3 Thank Y ou! Thank you f or purc hasing Logitech’s Sq ueezebox Boom network music syst em. W e hope you hav e as much fun using it as we had building it f or you. Squeezebox Boom combines t he featur es and tec hnology that our customers lo ve in an all-in-one device. The built-in amplifier and high[...]

4 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 5 Syst em Req uirements Operating sy stem Windows • ® Vista ® , Windows XP , or Window s 2000 (SP4 or later r equired) Mac • ® OS X, version 1 0.3 or higher Linux-based OS with Perl 5.8.3 or higher installed • Computer 733 Mhz CPU or fast er • 256 MB R AM • 80 MB hard driv e [...]

6 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 7 F ront Panel Controls A. POWER turns the Squeezebo x Boom on or off. B. The navigation wheel allo ws you t o quickly scroll thr ough menus, track lists, music services, and more. T urn the wheel to scr oll, and then press t he wheel to select an option. When the Now Pla ying screensav er is active, th[...]

8 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 9 Back Panel Connectors A. Line in. Ideal for connecting an MP3 pla yer , portable CD player , or other audio device with a 3.5mm line lev el output and enjoying Squeezebo x Boom’s advance driver design and acoustics. It’s not necessary to select Line In as a sour ce from the front panel; Sq ueezebo[...]

10 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 11 If you’r e not familiar with y our wireless network’s security met hod or your security k ey , this information can be obtained b y connecting to y our wireless r outer . See your r outer’s instructions if necessary , or contact your netw ork provider or the party who installed your wir eless [...]

12 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 13 Optional: Download And Install Sq ueezeCenter After you com plete the Sq ueezeNetwork sign-up process, y ou are ask ed to download SqueezeCent er . SqueezeCent er is only requir ed if you int end to list en to y our personal music collection stor ed on a computer on your local netw ork. If you will [...]

14 Logitec h ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 15 Select A Music Source Once your Squeezebo x Boom has successfully connected t o your network, y ou will see a menu asking you t o select your music sour ce. Select SqueezeNetwork, the fr ee, Internet-based service operat ed by Logitec h. When you connect t o SqueezeNetwork, y our Squeezebox Boom dis[...]

16 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 17 Using Y our Squeezebo x Boom Now Pla ying Squeezebox Boom alwa ys maintains the curr ent playlist in its memory . This playlist is called Now Playing and y ou can modify it by adding trac ks from your music collection, tracks and playlists fr om music services, or even fr om playlists you’v e save[...]

18 Logitech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 19 Squeezebox Boom has six Pr eset buttons belo w the display . Y ou can think of t hese as a miniature list of six fa vorit es that you can r ecall instantly at any time. Adding an it em to a Pr eset will also add it to your F avorit es, if it’s not already in ther e. Setting and Using the Preset but[...]

20 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 21 The default snooze length is nine minut es. If you have installed Sq ueezeCenter , you may c hange the snooze length: Launch the SqueezeCent er web int er face 1 . Click on the 2. Play er tab F rom the left pull-down list, select the play er you want t o configure 3. (this st ep is not necessar y i[...]

22 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 23 Y ou’ll probably find t hat you don’t need t o change music sour ces very of ten. There ar e a couple of scenarios where y ou might: If you normally connect t o SqueezeCenter running on a comput er , but the • comput er is turned of f or otherwise unavailable. In this case, you’ll need t[...]

24 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 25 Tips, Tricks And Adv anced T echniques St ereoXL ™ Squeezebox Boom uses Logit ech’s St ereoXL t echnology to dramatically widen the st ereo image, cr eating an immersive audio experience. T o enable S t ereoXL, select Settings > Audio > S tereoXL fr om the Home Scr een. Then, use the navig[...]

26 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 27 Appendix A: Configuring Y our Fire wall Firew alls on your comput er can of ten cause connection problems f or network devices lik e Squeezebox Boom. While it is not necessary to disable your fir ewall in or der to allow Squeezebo x to communicat e with your com puter , t emporarily disabling it c[...]

28 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 29 Appendix C: Using Apple iTunes Apple’s iT unes is a music manager that helps y ou org anize your collection, rip your CDs, cr eate and manag e playlists, et c. It also connects to the iT unes St ore, where Apple offers music, videos and podcasts f or purchase. SqueezeCent er can use the iT unes mu[...]

30 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 31 Appendix E: Tr oubleshooting When setting up networking, m y network does not appear Squeezebox Boom finds all wir eless networks in range and display s them by their network name (also kno wn as their SSID). The first st ep is to mak e sure that your netw ork is operating correctly and t hat you?[...]

32 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 33 Both must be on the same netw ork segment in order f or SqueezeCenter t o be recognized b y your Squeezebo x Boom. If you ar e using a large wir eless network with multiple wireess r outers or access points, t here is a chance t hat your comput er and your Squeezebo x Boom are connecting t o dif f e[...]

34 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 35 The FORW ARD and REWIND buttons do not work with some songs in m y music librar y Seeking through a song (holding FWD or REW ) onl y works with certain formats: MP3, Ogg, FL AC, W A V and AIFF files stor ed in your SqueezeCent er • music library MP3 and WMA files from online services (if the [...]

36 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 37 I hav e installed SqueezeCenter to allo w playing of music that’s k ept on my com puter . How ev er , some or all of m y iT unes music library does not play Apple does not allow str eaming of music to which DRM has been applied. Most music purc hased from the iT unes S tore (wit h the exception of[...]

38 Logit ech ® Squeezebox ™ Boom User Guide 39 Logitech ® Hardw are Product Limited W arr anty Logitec h warrants that your Logit ech hardwar e product shall be free fr om defects in mat erial and workmanship for two (2) years, beginning fr om the date of pur chase. Except wher e prohibited b y applicable law, this w arranty is nontransferable [...]

40 Logit ech ® FCC THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH P ART 1 5 OF THE FCC RULES. OPER A TION IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLL OWING TWO C ONDITIONS: (1) THIS DEVICE MA Y NOT CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE, AND (2) THIS DEVICE MUST ACCEPT ANY INTERFERENCE RECEIVED, INCLUDING INTERFERENCE THA T MA Y CAUSE UNDESIRED OPER A TION. NO TE: THE MANUF ACTURER IS NO T RESPONSIBL[...]