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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. Below is a description of these icons: NO TE: This check mark indicates that there is a not e of interest and is [...]

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. 4. Do not use this apparatus near water . 5. Clean only with dr y cloth. 6. Do not block an y v en[...]

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Conductor (DMC350) . . . . .[...]

T able of Cont ents iv Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Rhapsody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Radio Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Managing Music Libraries . . . . . . . . . .[...]

T able of Cont ents v Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Play T o . . . . . . . . . [...]

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 T echnical Documents on w ww .linksy[...]

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 . This is desi[...]

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. The Director has a 3.5" displa y and can be used as a standalone or connect to other c[...]

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. The Docking Station for iPod is de[...]

Zone 5 - Bedroom Zone 4 - Oce 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. Place t[...]

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. F or initial installation instruc tions, please ref er to the Quick Ins[...]

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. Navigation Buttons The navigation buttons can be used as a backup to the IR Remote to navigate through the graphical user in[...]

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. Pr ess down on the [...]

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. T o connec t your Docking Station for iPod , per form the f[...]

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. Po wer/ Standby T oggles between Power On and Standby for y[...]

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. NO TE: The initial setup of the Director requires you to use t[...]

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 . Below is an overview of the contents of this section: Playing Y our Music • How do I Play Music fr om My iPod? , page 12 • How Do I [...]

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. How do I Pla y Music from My iPod? The optional Dock ing Station for iPod® (MCCI40)[...]

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 . Once you selec t this option, you will be able to sor t through the songs on the driv e by Ar tist, Album[...]

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. With Rhapsody and your new Linksys by Cisco Wir eless Home Audio product[...]

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 . • Creating and U sing Fa vorites , page 15 • Playing a F av [...]

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 . Pr ess the r ight 2. button. Pr ess the down 3. button to go to Add Fa vor[...]

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. For details on configuring playlists in[...]

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. The songs are played in the order th[...]

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. Now Playing Queue . Pr ess r ight 2. on the remote . Move down 3. the list and s[...]

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 . From the Direc tor or Conductor , you can control individual o[...]

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 . This screen displays the album ar twork, ar tist name, song title, and a tr ack duration progress bar [...]

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. The Cisco M edia S erver soft ware allows you to share the library o[...]

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. If you want to change the name[...]

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. Bass/T reble Adjustment The upp[...]

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 . The volume level can be controlled by using the volume sl[...]

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. Click on the Media Source that you want t[...]

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. The Director includes the DMRIR500 IR Remote C ontrol or you can purchase the optional Contr oller – Wireless-N T ouchscreen Remote (DMRW[...]

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 . Y ou can select an action by using the up and down buttons to[...]

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 . T o book mark tracks and albums in Rhapsody Online, you need to access Rhapsody Online fro[...]

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. T op Channels • Displays a list of the channels that ar[...]

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. The first track by the artist will begin playing immediately . Albums Selecting Albums wil[...]

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. USB Media When you connec t a USB device to the Director or [...]

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. Album Displays an alphabetical list of album titles that are available on y our iPod. NO TE: A[...]

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. When a syndicated talk show is selec ted , a list of affiliates carr ying the broadcast[...]

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. The Now P laying icon indicates which track in the qu[...]

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. This allows you to stream mus[...]

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 . Capital letters can be f ound immediately af ter the group of lower case letters. Once the wireless network name has been selected, a screen will appear asking for the wireless secur ity mod[...]

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. Set T ime A series of s[...]

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. The follo wing are the screen options: Play Queue • This is the de[...]

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 . After a few seconds of idle time the treble adjustment slider window will close or press the back button to retu[...]

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 congure 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 . Navigate to 1. Settings and select it. Go to 2. USB and select it.[...]

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. Do not initially setup your Director using the instructions below . This sec tion is pro vi[...]

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 . Y ou will either be prompted to select your encr yption 7. type or to [...]

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. W ired or Wireless to ac tivate the appropriate network connection and continue under the selec t[...]

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 . T o cancel, press the Ba[...]

Specifications 48 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Specifications Model DMC250 WiFi Standards Draft Dual Band 802.11n, 802.11g, 802.11b (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) Security features WEP, WPA, WPA2 Security key bits 64, 128, 256 # of Antennas Internal Antennas Only Detachable (y/n) N RF Pwr (EIRP) in dBm 11b=1[...]

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 against defects in materials and work manship under normal use for the W arranty Period, which begins on the date of purchase by the original end-user pur[...]

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. Repairs or replacements not covered under this limited warranty wil[...]

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. W ARNING[...]

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. This device must accep[...]

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. Česky [Czech]: T oto zařízení j[...]

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). The table labeled “ T able A - R egulatory Requir[...]

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. Products tab. Select the appropriate product category. 4. Select the product sub -categor y , if [...]

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 Electric and Electronic Equipment ( WEEE) This document contains impor tant information for users with regards to the proper disposal and recycling of Li[...]

Regulator y Information 57 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Eesti (Estonian) - Keskkonnaalane informatsioon Euroopa Liidus asuva tele klientidele Euroopa Liidu direktiivi 2002/96/EÜ nõuete kohaselt on seadmeid, millel on tootel või pakendil k äesolev sümbol , keelatud kõrvaldada koos sor teerima[...]

Regulator y Information 58 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Lietuvškai (Lithuanian) - Aplink osaugos informacija, skir ta Eur op os Sąjungos vartotojams Europos dir ekty va 2002/96/EC numat o, kad įrangos, kuri ir kurios pakuotė yra pažymėta šiuo simboliu (įv esk ite simbolį), negalima šalin[...]

Regulator y Information 59 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Português (Portuguese) - Informação ambiental para clientes da União Eur opeia A Directiva Europeia 2002/96/CE exige que o equipamento que exibe este símbolo no produto e/ou na sua embalagem não seja eliminado junto com os resíduos mun[...]

Soft ware Lic ense Agreemen t 60 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio Sof tware License A greement Sof tware in Linksy s Products This produc t from Cisco-Linksys LLC or fr om one of its affiliates Cisc o Systems-Linksys (Asia) Pte Ltd. or Cisco- Linksys K.K . (“Linksys”) contains sof tware (including[...]

Soft ware Lic ense Agreemen t 61 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio any third par ties regarding your Linksys product and/or Soft war e and/or (v) to enable Linksys to comply with all applicable laws and/or regulations, or the requirements of any regulatory authorit y or government agency. Linksys and/ [...]

Soft ware Lic ense Agreemen t 62 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio commit to using it. (Some other F ree Sof tware F oundation software is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License instead.) Y ou can apply it to your pr ograms, too . When we speak of free soft ware , we are ref err ing to freedo[...]

Soft ware Lic ense Agreemen t 63 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio If the modified prog ram nor mally reads commands c. interactively when run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way , to print or displa y an announcement including an appropriate copyr[...]

Soft ware Lic ense Agreemen t 64 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation 7. of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order , agreement or otherwise) that contradict the[...]

Soft ware Lic ense Agreemen t 65 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio This pr oduc t includes software writt en by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsof t.com). In addition, if this Linksys product contains open source software licensed under the OpenSSL lic ense then the license terms below in this Schedule 3 will ap[...]

Soft ware Lic ense Agreemen t 66 Director/Wir eless-N Music Player with Integrated Amplifier Wir eless Home Audio The wor d ‘ cr yptographic’ can be left out if the routines from the librar y being used are not cr yptographic related . If you include any Windows specific code (or a derivative 4. thereof ) from the apps directory (application co[...]