Internet Radio – New Style – Edition 5 – 21.09.06 – 7690

Using the Media Player

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Set up a Windows PC to allow the radio to access your audio files via a UPnP server

If your music is stored as large, uncompressed files, for example

.WAV, we recommend you follow this method of file sharing.

If your PC is running ‘Microsoft Windows XP’, then you can use ‘Windows Media Connect’ to act as your UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) MediaServer 1.0 compliant server. You can download ‘Windows Media Connect’ from Microsoft’s website and install it by following the instructions detailed in its installation wizard.

1.You will first need to configure Windows Media Connect to allow certain devices to connect to it. To do this, select ‘Settings’ from Windows Media Connect and tick the box ‘Automatically allow new devices’, as shown below.

Settings for Windows Media Connect

If your music is stored as smaller, compressed files, for example .MP3 or

.WMA we recommend you follow the ‘Window Shares’ method of file sharing outlined in the section ‘Set up your Windows PC to allow the radio to access your audio files via Windows Shares’.

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BT Internet Radio manual Settings for Windows Media Connect