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Page 1: User Manual
LISTEN MANAGE ARCHIVE BURN DISTRIBUTE User manual... - Page 2 Hermstedt AG or repaired by any- one who is not a Hermstedt service partner. Should you have difficulties with your Hifidelio, please contact Hermstedt AG for help as fol- lows: Email: support@hermstedt.de...
- Page 3 CAUTION Thank you for purchasing the audio streaming client Hifidelio. To assure the finest perform- 10. Power sources – Before plugging your unit into the AC main supply, make sure that the ance, please read this manual carefully before operating your unit. Keep it in a safe place voltage indicated at the back of the unit complies with the local main voltage.
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Page 4: Carl-Reuther-Str
2 resp. 2.1 (hereafter called “the Library”). This device complies with the specifications following the provisions of the R&TTE Hermstedt AG hereby offers to deliver or make available, upon request, for a charge no Directive 1999/5/EC concerning usage of 802.11g wireless antenna. Further infor- more than the cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-reada- mation can be found under www.hifidelio.com/compliance. - Page 5 EC-Declaration of Conformity This offer is valid for a period of three years after the date of purchase of this product. Hersteller / Verantwortliche Person: Manufacturer / responsible person HERMSTEDT AG, Jörg Hermstedt Adresse / Carl-Reuther-Str. 3 Address D-68305 Mannheim Germany Erklärt, dass das Produkt /...
- Page 6 Front Panel / Panneau avant / Vorderseite Remote Control Télécommande Fernbedienung hifidelio THE HOME OF YOUR MUSIC Back Panel / Panneau arrière / Rückseite 24 25...
- Page 7 5. Switch on your stereo components and the Hifidelio. BACK PANEL After about 40 seconds the Hifidelio is operational. Now you may insert an audio CD, play its tracks, or import these songs to the Hifidelio. Take your remote control and explore the 20.
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Page 8: Table Of Contents
5.1.1 Connecting an MP3 Player ........22 3.2.2 Importing a Data Disc ..........11 1.5.1 Keypad (30) ..............5 5.1.2 Copying Songs from the Hifidelio to an MP3 Player. 22 Copying an Audio CD........11 1.5.2 Menu (31) ..............5... - Page 9 Hifidelio…” ............ 42 Transfer of Music Files ........35 6.1.2 Play Mode ..............26 10.2 “My Hifidelio is dead…”........ 42 7.4.1 Copying Music Files from a Computer to the Hifidelio . 6.1.3 Appearance.............. 26 10.3 RecoveryDisk ..........43 ................. 35 6.1.4 Date &...
- Page 10 CONTENTS 10.8.1.1 Main Menu: Library ..........45 10.8.1.2 Main Menu: Internet Radio........46 10.8.1.3 Main Menu: Analogue recording ......46 10.8.1.4 Main Menu: Settings & Specials ......46 10.8.2 Variable menu options ..........47 10.8.2.1 Main Menu: Music Server ........47 10.8.2.2 Main Menu: Import..........
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Page 12: Introduction
On the back of the Hifidelio you will find an analogue Audio In port (26) for cassette decks, tape recorder, or similar components. Connecting a vintage turntable usually requires an additional phono pre-amplifier, unless connected to the phono line in of your stereo ampli- fier. -
Page 13: Wireless Network
English immediately. 1.3.2.5 Ethernet network Upon the first use of your Hifidelio or after having had switched it off for a long period of If the Hifidelio should communicate with other devices via Ethernet, plug a standard net- time, you will be asked to enter the proper date and time. -
Page 14: Cd Slot (2)
Menu: Music disc or tracks – Disc or tracks will be imported to the Hifidelio. The header line of the display shows the Hifidelio icon and the device name. If music is cur- rently played back its source is shown in place of the Hifidelio’s name: Music Server, Inter- Menu: Music from the USB Mass Storage Device –... -
Page 15: Icons On The Left
“More…” and enables you to toggle between the Steady The CD icon is shown in place of the Hifidelio’s icon. A disc has option sets. been inserted into the CD drive and its music is played back. -
Page 16: The Inner Select Wheel
In edit mode this key toggles between upper case, lower case, and special characters (umlauts). The remote control unit is another way to control the functions of your Hifidelio. Its keys duplicate all the buttons on the front panel. The inside front page shows a drawing of the front of the remote control unit. -
Page 17: Navigation (33)
Besides the buttons on the front panel and the remote control, the menu shown on the dis- menus of the Hifidelio by using these keys. The central “OK” key is equivalent to the func- play is your main control of the Hifidelio. The main menu gives you access to the various tion key , which generally confirms the chosen action. -
Page 18: Albums
«Text Entry with the Help of the Turn&Select wheel (11)» on page 5). 2.1.1.5 Playlists 2.1.1.3 Songs This reveals all the playlists you have created on your Hifidelio. The chosen songs are listed in the submenus of your playlists. This reveals an alphanumerical list of all songs stored on the Hifidelio. -
Page 19: Internet Radio
This menu option opens the area of setting and configuring the Hifidelio. This starts with simple things like date and time or the name of the Hifidelio and goes as far as advanced configuration of a wireless network. A separate chapter deals with these topics in details (chapter 6 «Settings &... -
Page 20: Usb Device
Note: The import process does not encode any of the files. Therefore, your music files have tions must be published for remote use to be seen here. (See section 7.3 «Multi-room to be in a file format that your Hifidelio is able to play. Furthermore there is no check on Streaming» on page 34). -
Page 21: The Basic Functions
Insert a music disc, printed side up, into the CD slot (2) until the Hifidelio’s mechanism This chapter explains the basic functions of the Hifidelio. catches it. Wait until the Hifidelio reads it. Its title is shown as the topmost entry of the main menu. Press the Record button (7 ) or the function key “Import”... -
Page 22: Importing A Data Disc
Insert a music disc, printed side up, into the CD slot (2) until the Hifidelio’s mechanism catches it. Wait until the Hifidelio reads it. Its title is shown as the topmost entry of the main menu. Press the function key “Copy”... -
Page 23: Advanced Functions
Choose the option “Playlists” in the library and enter it by turning the outer Turn ring of the Turn&Select wheel (11) slightly to the right. A message on the Hifidelio’s display asks you to insert a fresh CD-R into the CD slot (2). The burning process begins automatically and proceeds according to your settings (see section 6.2.4 «CD Burning»... -
Page 24: Renaming Or Deleting An Existing Playlist
These lists are dynamic as the content of a list depends on the available set of songs on the Hifidelio. Changing attributes of songs, albums, or artists will change the con- tents of these lists immediately 4.2.1 Create a new Searchlist Adding a new Searchlist With the help of the inner Select wheel of the Turn&Select wheel (11) choose the playlist to... - Page 25 A second criteria appears, showing “Enter criteria” by default. Follow the right arrow to the Adding Search Criteria list of meta data fields, choose Genre and turn further to the right to the search conditions. You are now asked to enter the first search criteria. By turning the outer Turn ring of the Turn&Select wheel (11) to the right, you are presented with the list of all meta data fields available for entering search criteria.
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Page 26: Edit An Existing Searchlist
“CD No”: if an album is made up of several CD’s, the CD number indicates which CD the the Hifidelio (e.g. adding or deleting songs, changing the meta information…). If the song is to be found on. The songs of an album are sorted first by the CD number and then searchlist shows no entries, your Hifidelio contains no songs matching your criteria. -
Page 27: Editing Meta Data
You can also enter these details using your computer (see chapter 7 «Communication» on Meta Data of a Genre page 33) or using the external Hifidelio keyboard available as an optional accessory (sec- tion 5.3 «The Hifidelio Keyboard» on page 24). -
Page 28: Digitising Sounds Of External Analogue Sources
29), play two or three songs for the Hifidelio to utilise as a representative sample and The Hifidelio stores your recording twice: first as an uncompressed AIFF file and after cut- to take the truest measurement. -
Page 29: Editing The Recorded File
If you did not set gaps during the recording, the track counter still shows “1”. Press the Play/Pause button (5 ) on the front of the Hifidelio to start the playback of the recording. Listen to the music to find the end of the current track. You can turn the inner Select wheel Editing Meta Data of the Turn&Select wheel (11) to fast forward or rewind. -
Page 30: Importing The Tracks
4.4.5 Importing the Tracks Pressing the function key “Join all” deletes all gaps at once. Finally all preparation have been made and the tracks can now be imported to the Hifidelio song library. Press the Record button (7 ) or the function keys “More…”... -
Page 31: Deleting Tracks
Turn&Select wheel (11) slightly to the right. the recording date and time (i.e. “Record 25.04.2005 11:34”). The original recording file can be copied from the “Record” folder of the Hifidelio to a net- worked computer and edited there (see chapter 8 «Advanced Networking» on page 37). -
Page 32: Top 500
URLs with suffixes like .pls oder .m3u accessing playlists. 4.5.4 Receiving an Internet Radio Broadcast Please note that your Hifidelio can only play those Internet radio stations, which use the for- mats MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. Choose the station you would like to listen to and press the Play/Pause button (5 4.5.2 Top 500…... -
Page 33: Accessories
MP3 Players The USB ports (22) on the back of the Hifidelio can be used for connecting an MP3 player. This enables you to play the songs from the MP3 player via the Hifidelio and can edit meta data and playlists. The Hifidelio supports the iPod of the company Apple Inc. as well as USB Example of a file-based MP3 player: sticks and file-based MP3 players. -
Page 34: Copying Songs From An Mp3 Player To The Hifidelio
The external Hifidelio backup hard disk can be connected to one of the USB ports (22) on the back of the Hifidelio in order to make a backup copy of the content of its internal hard disk. The backup operation saves the following on this external backup device: all songs, playlists and searchlists, your personal Internet radio stations stored in the list “My Sta-... -
Page 35: Restore
Internet radio The Hifidelio Keyboard Settings A Hifidelio USB keyboard can be connected to one of the USB ports (22) on the back of the Hifidelio in order to help edit texts easily. Sleep mode, or wake-up from sleep mode... -
Page 36: Settings & Specials
Night Mode The setting “Night Mode” is recommended for quiet environments in order to attenuate loud This chapter explains how to configure the Hifidelio according to your needs. music peaks. The above screenshot shows the configuration possibilities of the main menu option “Set- Loud Environment tings &... -
Page 37: Play Mode
“Fading”: here you define an interval of 0 to 12 seconds in which the ending song is faded out and the next song’s volume is turned up again. “Auto Play Audio CD”: the Hifidelio can automatically start the playback when an audio CD is inserted. -
Page 38: Date & Time
“Time Zone”: select the continent and country or the city nearest to your location. “Set automatically”: if your Hifidelio is connected to the Internet, time information (date and “Spectrogram”: toggles the display of banded frequency levels during the playback of time) can be received automatically. -
Page 39: Import & Burn
An average music CD contains 635 MB and the available Here you choose the format that your Hifidelio will use to encode the music files by import- space of a Hifidelio system is calculated from the capacity of the internal hard disk minus 3 ing an audio CD or an analogue recording. -
Page 40: Analogue Recording
A Data CD is the compilation of files regardless of their format (MP3, AIFF, FLAC, etc.). “Create Folders” – On: by burning a MP3 or data CD, the Hifidelio will create folders by art- “Auto Dividing” – On: the Hifidelio automatically sets the gaps between tracks when it ists/albums/songs. -
Page 41: Network
The freeDB online access uses HTTP port 80. In order to control the Hifidelio with the help of a web browser or a VNC Viewer application, If the online access to the freeDB database fails, the Hifidelio automatically switches to its “Web Interface”... -
Page 42: Hifidelio Information
“Software Update” (see section 10.4 «Software Update» on page 43). 43). If your Hifidelio is still working as a basic version (i.e. the Hifidelio “Basic” without the Pro functionalities, model which has been replaced by Hifidelio PR-80 from Mai 2006), the func- 6.5.2 Software Upgrade tion key is assigned with the option “Software Upgrade”. -
Page 43: Factory Settings
If a backup file shows a future date, we recommend deleting this file. The Hifidelio Using this menu option, you can restore all settings to their default values (function key looks at the latest date of a backup file and starts a new backup only if the Hifidelio “Restore”). -
Page 44: Communication
"maintenance.txt" is created in the Import folder. This file contains the list of songs The Hifidelio can be used as a stand alone piece of hifi equipment which plays back your deleted from the Hifidelio database or the list of the files moved to the Import folder. You music collection. -
Page 45: Hifidelio - A Member Of Your Existing Computer Network
For this purpose, you need a server which stores the music files on its hard disk (e.g. the Hifidelio). In each room you install a receiver; also called an audio The network configuration of your Hifidelio can be run automatically with the “Home Net- streaming satellite or a streaming client. -
Page 46: Hifidelio And Daap Server
Therefore the Hifidelio can access a UPnP/AV server (e.g. on a Network Attached not modify it. As the songs remain stored in the Hifidelio, the Hifidelio must be turned on if Storage) in order to play back the music stored there per streaming on the stereo system you want to access them. -
Page 47: Copying Music Files From The Hifidelio To A Computer
Import folder, the option “Import” is displayed in the main menu and you can then import these files to the Hifidelio using this option. Only the music files encoded with a format supported by the Hifidelio are imported. Files with other formats remain in the Import folder, until you delete them manually. -
Page 48: Advanced Networking
ADVANCED NETWORKING In addition to its primary use as your Music Centre, the Hifidelio can be integrated into your local computer network or can be the starting point of a home network and therefore offer additional useful functions. This chapter explains the configuration options for connecting the Hifidelio to your network. -
Page 49: Expert Mode
Network specialists can find additional information in section 10.6 «Technical specifica- tions of the Hifidelio’s network interface» on page 45. If the WLAN function of the Hifidelio is enabled, you have to determine if the Hifidelio will connect to the Internet via Ethernet or WLAN. -
Page 50: Network Name
Key. WEP Encryption The Hifidelio supports WEP keys with 64 (40) bit or 128 (104) bit encryption. The WEP key format is hexadecimal (from 0 to 9 and from A to F) or ASCII (5 or 13 digits). -
Page 51: Web Proxy
8.2.5 Web Proxy The currently used IP addresses can be displayed any time under “Network > Configura- If your Hifidelio is using a Proxy server to connect to the Internet, its IP address can be con- tion” by using function key “Information”. -
Page 52: Using A Computer To Manage The Hifidelio
A double-click on the name of your device will launch your standard web browser and the home page of the Hifidelio appears. Note: the UPnP/AV service has to be enabled to allow your Hifidelio to be listed there (see Click the question mark to display the “Help &... -
Page 53: Help
Your stored music is not endangered by this action. • Unplug the Hifidelio’s power cord from its AC outlet. Wait a few seconds and plug it in again. Now press the On/Off button (1 ) on the front of your Hifidelio. -
Page 54: Recoverydisk
10.4.2 Software Update using the Web Browser User Interface 5. Press the appropriate function key and its confirmation message and the chosen proc- If your Hifidelio is not connected to the Internet, but is connected to your local network, you ess starts, showing status messages during its progress. -
Page 55: Download Update File
If your Hifidelio is not connected to the Internet, nor to a local network, you can download a CD image containing the update software from the Hifidelio update page on the Internet 10.5.2 Forced CD eject... -
Page 56: Technical Specifications Of The Hifidelio's Network Interface
10.8 Overview of all main menu options The Hifidelio is DHCP and DNS server with the IP address 192.168.72.1. If the WLAN func- tion of the Hifidelio is enabled, the IP address is used for both Ethernet and WLAN and all 10.8.1 Permanent menu options ports are connected by port switching. -
Page 57: Main Menu: Internet Radio
Submenu Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Submenu Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Playlists Names of the playlists All songs sorted by General Settings Playmode (cont.) Auto play audio CD (On/Off) sorted alphanumerically the user (cont.) Appearance Contrast... -
Page 58: Variable Menu Options
Create CD Text 10.8.2 Variable menu options If MP3 or Data CD is (On/Off) enabled: Create fol- ders 10.8.2.1 Main Menu: Music Server Network Configuration (Hifidelio Network/ Home Network/Expert Submenu Level 1 Mode) Hifidelio (Select) Services Web Interface (On/Off) -
Page 59: Technical Data
Pro-S from January 2007. Compared to the Hifidelio Pro server, the Hifidelio Pro-S is equipped with • CD slot with automatic loading the silence kit ex works, i.e a special frame for fixing the hard disk (160GB, 3,5") within the Hifidelio • On/Off , Start/Pause, Stop, Last track, Next Pro case. - Page 60 Hifidelio PR-80 (*) Hifidelio Pro (**) Hifidelio PR-80 (*) Hifidelio Pro (**) Back panel: Dimensions W: 435 mm D: 290 mm • Power connector H: 85 mm • 4-Port-Switch 10/100 MBit auto-sense Ethernet Weight (without accessories and packaging) 4.3 kg 4.8 kg...
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Page 62: Registration Card
REGISTRATION CARD Registration • Registrierung • Enregistrement Affix stamp here Bitte ausreichend www.hifidelio.com/registration frankieren Affranchir au tarif en vigeur Hermstedt AG Carl-Reuther-Str. 3 D-68305 Mannheim... - Page 63 Address • Anschrift • Adresse Dealer • Händler • Revendeur Postal Code, City • PLZ, Stadt • Code postal, ville Which Hifidelio product will you buy in the future? Welche Hifidelio-Produkte planen Sie zu kaufen? Quels produits Hifidelio projetez-vous d’acquérir ? Hifidelio music server Country •...
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