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1 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES T able of Contents About T ransporter .......................................................................................................................................... 2 Before Y ou Begin ............................................................................................................[...]

2 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES About T ransporter Thank you for purchasing a T ransporter network music player . T ransporter lets you play your digitized music collection through your stereo system using your wireless or ethernet network. With T ransporter , you can also listen to internet radio stations, set alarms, display RSS feed[...]

3 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Before Y ou Begin If you already have a wireless or ethernet network and a computer to use as a server , setting up T ransporter and SlimServer takes just a few minutes—all you need to get your music playing through T ransporter is in this owner’ s guide. 1. First, collect your digitized music into o[...]

4 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Installing the SlimServer Software Installing on Windows 1. Download the SlimServer installer program to a location you can find again on your computer . Y our Desktop is a good choice. Note: T ransporter needs SlimServer version 6.5 or greater to access the music you have on your local computer . If yo[...]

5 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Installing on Mac OS X 1. Save the .dmg file to your Desktop. Note: T ransporter needs SlimServer version 6.5 or greater to access the music you have on your local computer . If you already have SlimServer installed, you must update to version 6.5.0 or later to use with your T ransporter Y ou can find [...]

6 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Connecting T ransporter 1. Connect an output from the T ransporter to your stereo amplifier , preamp, or receiver with the appropriate interconnect. The most common connection uses the unbalanced analog output red and white RCA connectors to connect to a line-level input, such as a CD or T APE input. (N[...]

7 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Audio Connections T ransporter has a host of both digital and analog connections to choose from. Picking the one that’ s right for you depends on how your current audio system is set up. For instance, if balanced inputs are available on your amplifier , preamplifier , or receiver , it’ s usually be[...]

8 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Configuring T ransporter The instructions below use the remote control to set up T ransporter . Y ou can also use the front panel controls. T o scroll up and down, turn the knob on the front panel. Pressing the center of the knob is equivalent to pressing the RIGHT arrow on the remote. Pressing the BACK[...]

9 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES T ip: Use leading zeroes to specify numbers with fewer than 3 digits, for example, you would enter 010.001.004.281 for 10.1.4.281. Enter the subnet mask for the network, the default gateway IP address, and the address of your DNS server , pressing the RIGHT arrow on the remote to move to each one. T ip: [...]

10 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Using the Remote Press POWER to put T ransporter into standby mode. This will dim the display , stop the music and show a clock. Press POWER again to wake T ransporter . Press SLEEP to tell T ransporter to turn itself off at the end of the currently playing song. Press SLEEP again to turn off in 15 minu[...]

11 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Use the UP , DOWN , LEFT , and RIGHT arrows to navigate within the music library . UP displays the previous item within a list, DOWN the next item. Press LEFT to go out of the current list. Press RIGHT to go into the item or to display additional information about a song. Use the number buttons to enter[...]

12 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Using the Front Panel Controls T ransporter includes a number of controls on the front panel to allow you to find and control the music you listen to. The T ransNav KNOB provides an intuitive way to quickly scroll through lists. The knob provides force feedback to indicate individual items in a list in[...]

13 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES • Genre, artist or album—T ransporter adds all the songs for the displayed genre, artist, or album to the end of the Now Playing playlist • Song—T ransporter adds that song to the end of the list. • Playlist—T ransporter adds all of the songs in that playlist. • Folder—T ransporter adds [...]

14 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Playing Y our Music T ransporter plays music that you select with the remote control, front panel controls or web interface. Using the Remote or Front Panel to Play Music 1. Press the BROWSE button to jump to the Browse list. 2. Y ou can scroll down to browse by artist, genre, year , new music, existing[...]

15 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES 2. Press the RIGHT arrow or center of the knob once to advance one space to the right. 3. Fix errors by pressing the LEFT arrow or the BACK button. 4. After you’ve entered all of the text you want to use for the search, press the RIGHT arrow twice to run the search. Using the “cellphone” method to[...]

16 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Listening to Internet Radio Y ou can listen to thousands of internet radio stations with T ransporter . T o access internet radio stations using the remote or front panel: 1. Press LEFT or BACK to go back to T ransporter Home . (Y ou may have to press more than once.) 2. Press DOWN or turn the knob to s[...]

17 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES SqueezeNetwork SqueezeNetwork is an always-on service that provides access to Internet Radio, alarm clock, natural sounds, news feeds and more, even when your computer is off. Y our T ransporter connects to SqueezeNetwork using your broadband Internet connection. When your T ransporter is connected to S[...]

18 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES • Add this song to my Pandora.com personal page - makes it so you can always access this song. Used in case you really want to remember a song. • Why did I play this song? - tells you why Pandora recommended and played this song for you. • Make a new station from this song - lets you create a stat[...]

19 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Special Features T ransporter has a beautiful high-resolution vacuum fluorescent display . In addition to displaying the name of the track or internet radio station you’re currently listening to, you can tell T ransporter to show you dynamic content via RSS feeds, gorgeous graphic music visualizers, [...]

20 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES playing. T ip: Y ou can set unique alarm times for each day of the week under the additional weekday setting. Graphic Visualizers T ransporter can display graphic visualizers such as spectrum analyzers and VU meters that beat to the music as it’ s playing. Y ou can choose to show visualizers on the di[...]

21 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES to last and click Change . T ransporter will now crossfade between tracks as you specified. RSS News T icker T ransporter can display RSS news feeds on its display . SlimServer is pre-configured with subscriptions to several RSS news feeds. T o view an existing RSS feed: 1. Press LEFT to go back to T [...]

22 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Y ou can replace the existing subscriptions, add one to the end, or delete them entirely.[...]

23 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Controlling Multiple Players with one SlimServer Any number of T ransporters or Squeezeboxes can connect to a single SlimServer . Each player operates independently of the others, so you can play different music on each one. Y ou can also synchronize them to play the same music in every room of your hou[...]

24 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES controllers with IR blasters, etc.) T ransporter will respond to signals on this input identically to signals received via the IR receiver on the front panel and can be directly connected to IR transmitter devices via a 3.5mm to 3.5mm mono cable as if connecting to an IR LED dongle. T ransporter also ha[...]

25 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Detailed Specifications Audio Outputs • Digital and analog outputs • Gold-plated RCA, XLR, and BNC connectors • V olume control is provided for all outputs • Multiple outputs may be used at the same time Analog Outputs • AKM AK4396 Multi-bit delta-sigma digital to analog converter • Signal-[...]

26 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Audio Formats • Lossless Formats (Apple Lossless, FLAC, WMA Lossless) • “Bit-perfect” CD audio streaming, with reduced storage and bandwidth usage. • Approximately 2:1 compression ratio • Uncompressed formats (AIFF , W A V , PCM) • Supports raw pass-through of uncompressed PCM audio format[...]

27 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Network : Wireless Interface • T rue 802.11g wireless networking (can be disabled) • Bridging capability allows ethernet devices to connect to the network through the wireless interface • Throughput up to 54Mbps, high speed PCI interface to radio module • Dual external antennas for improved rang[...]

28 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES What’ s Included: • T ransporter Network Music Player • AC Power cable (appropriate plug by region) • User’ s manual • SlimServer software (requires download) • Backlit 31-key infrared remote, with 2 AA batteries Physical : General • Dimensions: 17” W x 3” H x 12.25” D (433mm x 72m[...]

29 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES T roubleshooting The following tips and answers to frequently asked questions will help resolve problems you may encounter . Y ou can find answers to additional questions on our web site at http://faq.slimdevices.com/ . How do I get back to the T ransporter Setup menu? Press and hold the LEFT arrow for[...]

30 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES 1. Open System Preferences > Sharing, and click ‘Firewall’ 2. Click ‘New ...’ to create a new rule 3. For ‘Port Name:’ choose ‘Other’ 4. For ‘Port Number , Range or Series:’ type ‘3483, 9000’ 5. For ‘UDP Port Number(s):’ specify ‘3483’ (Mac OS 10.4 only) 6. For ‘Desc[...]

31 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES volume letter mapping does not. Y ou may have to use the IP address of the machine sharing the network drive (for example: 192.168.1.105FilesMusic). Please note that in order for this to work, the network share must not require authentication (a username or password). How do I use multiple folders [...]

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2 T ransporter Owner’ s Guide SLIM DEVICES Slim Devices, Inc. 455 National A venue Mountain View , CA 94043 +1 (650) 210-9400 http://www .slimdevices.com support@slimdevices.com Copyright 2006, Slim Devices, Inc.[...]