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W ir eless Home Audio Director W ireless-N Music Play er with I nteg rated Amplier DMC250 User Guide.
About This Guide i Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio About This Guide Icon Descriptions While reading through the User Guide you may see various icons that call attention to specific items.
Impor tant Safety Instruc tions ii Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Impor tant Safety Instruc tions Read these instructions. 1. Keep these instructions. 2. Heed all warnings. 3. F ollow all instructions.
T able of Cont ents iii Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio T able of Con tents About This Guide i Impor tant Safety Instruc tions ii Wir eless Home Audio P roduct F amily 1 Fill Y our Home With Music . . .
T able of Cont ents iv Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Rhapsody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Radio Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
T able of Cont ents v Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
T able of Cont ents vi Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio National Restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Third-P ar ty Soft war e or Firmwar e . .
Wir eless Home Audio P roduct F amily 1 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio W ireless Home A udio P roduct F amily F ill Y our Home With Music Let your music play all around your home. Enjoy differ ent songs in different rooms at the same time – or the same one everywhere in P art y Mode .
Wir eless Home Audio P roduct F amily 2 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Director (DMC250) The Director – Wireless-N Music Player is designed to enable any sound system or speakers to play your digital music.
Wir eless Home Audio P roduct F amily 3 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Dock ing Station f or iPod® (MC CI40) Add your iPod to your wireless music experience and enjoy your music, podcasts, audiobooks, and all of your iT unes purchased content all around your home.
Zone 5 - Bedroom Zone 4 - Oce Zone 1 - Living Room Zone 2 - Kitchen Zone 3 - Game Room Wir eless Home Audio P roduct F amily 4 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Sample Home Configura tion Click on the image below to launch an interactive Flash version of a Wireless Home A udio configuration.
Pr oduc t Over view - Director 5 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio P roduct O ver view - Director Befor e Y ou Begin This User Guide is intended to provide details on the product hardw are, user inter face , and use of the product.
Pr oduc t Over view - Director 6 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio V olume The volume slider rotates clockwise to increase the volume and counter clock wise to lower the v olume.
Connecting Acc essories 7 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Connecting Ac cessories Speakers P ower off your Director . 1. Locate the two-wire speaker cables provided. Each 2. two-wire cable is color coded with a red line on one of the wires, so it is easy t o identify at both ends.
Connecting Acc essories 8 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Dock ing Station f or iP od The optional Dock ing Station for iPod® (MCCI40) lets you connect your iPod to the Director or Conductor and play your iT unes music throughout your home.
IR Remote Contr ol F unc tions 9 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio IR Remote C ontrol F unc tions Infrared Lens/LED This is the area that transmits the remote func tions to the device. For optimal use, point the r emote directly at the device.
Setting Up Y our Director 10 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Setting Up Y our Dir ec tor Setup with EasyLink Advisor The Wireless Home Audio Installer will guide you thr ough the setup of your Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio devices.
Common Uses 11 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Common U ses The Common Uses section c ontains details on some of the most commonly used featur es of your Director .
Common Uses 12 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Playing Y our Music The Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system provides you with an extensive assor tment of source options for playing audio throughout y our home.
Common Uses 13 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio How Do I Ac cess Music on My USB Dr ive? When you connect a USB dr ive to the Director or Conductor , a USB drive icon will appear on the carousel .
Common Uses 14 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Internet Music and R adio Stations Rhapsody Rhapsody is the critically-acclaimed digital music service that pro vides its members unlimited access to millions of full-length tracks.
Common Uses 15 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Managing Music Libraries The way you interact with your music cont ent is highlighted in this sec tion. Y ou will find out how useful F avorites are and how to use the queue functionality .
Common Uses 16 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio T o create a favorite using the IR Remote, per form the following st eps: Locate and highlight the track, album, playlist, genre, 1. or artist that you want to set as a favorite .
Common Uses 17 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Creating P laylists Playlists can be created on your Director or Conductor by adding music to the Now Playing Queue and saving the queue as a favorite . NO TE: Playlists can also be created in Rhapsody and iT unes.
Common Uses 18 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Using the Queue The Queue contains the track that is currently playing and any additional tracks that have been added to the queue. Adding songs to the queue allows you to play songs continuously without interruption.
Common Uses 19 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Shuffle Shuffle generates a random playback order of the tracks in the queue. When you select Shuffle, it T o shuffle the order , per form the f ollowing steps: Go to the 1.
Common Uses 20 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio V olume Contr ol Using the IR Remote, you can control the volume on individual devices such as the Player or control multiple devices when using the IR Remote with the Director or Conductor .
Common Uses 21 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio The Now P laying Screensaver The Now Playing screensaver appears (unless disabled) after the time configured in S ettings > General > NPS Setup .
Common Uses 22 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Using the Cisco Media Soft war e The Cisco Media Ser ver software and Cisco Media Player software are installed on your computer when you run the installation progr am from the CD -ROM.
Common Uses 23 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Modify or type in a new director y in the 2. L o c al Media Directory field by typing in the entire path such as C:Documents and SettingsusernameMy DocumentsMy Music; Additional directories are separated by a semicolon.
Common Uses 24 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Playback C ontrol Functions Button F unc tion V olume Control The V olume Control slider allows you to adjust the volume for the selected device. Y ou drag the slider up to increase the volume or down to lo wer the volume.
Common Uses 25 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Clear • Clears all of the tracks in the queue of the selected zone. Play T o The Play T o tab displays the available zones with a check mark indicating which zone is currently being controlled .
Common Uses 26 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Menu The Menu options var y depending upon the Media Source selected. The Menu allows you to navigat e through libraries and channels. Media Sources Media Sources are displayed and can be selected from this area.
Using Y our Director 27 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Using Y our Director The easiest way to navigate through the user int er face is using a remote contr ol.
Using Y our Director 28 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Action Menus Action Menus provide advanced functionality that can be applied to the selected item. Pressing right on the IR Remote from a list menu displays the quick action options .
Using Y our Director 29 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio My Librar y My Librar y allows you to connect to favorite tracks and albums that you ’ve book marked in Rhapsody ’ s extensive online music librar y .
Using Y our Director 30 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Channels Rhapsody Channels play continuous streams of music and are similar to radio station channels but without commercials . All Channels • Allows you to view all available channels.
Using Y our Director 31 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Highlighting an ar tist name and pressing the Play button will add all of the tracks located on the selec ted media by the selec ted ar tist to the queue.
Using Y our Director 32 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Brow se F olders The Brow se F olders option allows you to browse all of the folders locat ed on your selected media. F olders will be displayed ev en if they do not contain any music.
Using Y our Director 33 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Pr ess the • Play button with the ar tist selected to add all tracks by the artist found on the iPod to the queue and begin playing the first track.
Using Y our Director 34 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Radio Time Radio Time provides streaming Internet radio broadcasts from all over the world. Station titles are displayed with location listed in parenthesis.
Using Y our Director 35 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Now Pla ying Queue The Now Playing Queue displays the current track that is playing and the songs that are next up in the queue. Y ou can move through the queue using the down and up buttons.
Using Y our Director 36 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Source Y ou can c onnec t any external analog audio source to y our Wir eless Home Audio net work using the RC A input jacks on the back of your Director or Player and play the music to all the devices in your home.
Using Y our Director 37 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Play T o The Play T o option allows you to link zones so that your music or radio stations are played to multiple rooms per fectly in sync. Network The net work option allows you to modify your Director ’ s wired or wireless network settings.
Using Y our Director 38 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio NO TE: The wireless net work name is case -sensitive .
Using Y our Director 39 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio General The General option allows you to configure general devices settings for y our Director . Date/T ime Auto update When this option is enabled, the date and time settings are automatically updat ed via the I nternet.
Using Y our Director 40 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Home button This option configures the screen that will appear when the Home button on the IR remote is pressed once from the main menu or pr essed t wice fr om any other menu.
Using Y our Director 41 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Audio T reble Setup Use the up and down buttons on the IR remote to adjust the high frequency audio playback level on the Director .
T r oubleshooting 42 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio T roubleshooting Do I ne ed to run the CD to congure my Wireless Home Audio devices? Y es. Basic settings can be applied on some devices via their screens , but in order to fully configure your W ireless Home Audio devices y ou must use the CD.
Disconnecting USB Drives 43 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Disconnecting USB Drives When you want to remove your USB drive, be sure to go to S ettings > USB > Safely Eject . Per f or m the following steps from y our Direc tor .
Changing Y our Network Connection 44 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Changing Y our Network Connection NO TE: The initial setup of the Director requires you to use the CD -ROM to setup your I nternet services.
Changing Y our Network Connection 45 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio NO TE: If you’v e disabled the broadcasting of your wireless net work name (SSID) on your router , you can enter it manually by selecting Enter Networ k name .
Changing Y our Network Connection 46 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Wi-F i Pr otected Setup Pin Method Navigate to 1. Settings and select it. Select 2. Network . Select 3. Connect to Network . Select 4.
Changing Y our Network Connection 47 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio A pin setting will be displayed on your screen. Enter this 7. pin on your access point/router . Once you’v e entered this pin on your access point/router , press OK on the 5-way button on your Controller .
Specifications 48 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Specifications Model DMC250 WiFi Standards Draft Dual Band 802.
W arranty Information 49 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio W ar ran t y Information Limited W arranty Linksys warrants this Linksys hardware product agai.
W arranty Information 50 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Customers outside of the United States of America and Canada are responsible for all shipping and handling charges, custom duties, V A T and other associated taxes and charges.
Regulator y Information 51 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Regulator y Information Safety W ar ning Stat ement W ARNING: This exclamation point indicates that there is a caution or warning of potential risk of bodily injur y and/or it is something that could damage your property or produc t.
Regulator y Information 52 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio IC Class B Statemen t (Canada) This class B digital device complies with Industr y Canada ICES-003 and RSS-210 rules. Operation is subject to the following two c onditions This device may not cause int er ference and 1.
Regulator y Information 53 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Б ългарски [Bulgarian] Т ова оборудване о тговаря на същес твенит е изисквания и приложими клаузи на Дирек тива 1999/5/ЕС.
Regulator y Information 54 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio National Restrictions In the majority of the EU and other European countries, the 2.4 GH z and the 5.0 GH z bands have been made available for the use of wireless local area networks (LANs).
Regulator y Information 55 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Enter http://w ww .linksysbycisco .com/international in 1. your web br owser . Select the countr y or region in which y ou live. 2. Click the 3.
Regulator y Information 56 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio User Information f or Consumer P roduc ts C overed b y EU Directive 2002/96/EC on W aste Ele.
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If you have not bought Linksys DMC250 yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data Linksys DMC250 - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, Linksys DMC250 you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get Linksys DMC250 will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
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