Onkyo CR-N765 User Manual English - Page 26

Using a home network Playing music stored on DLNAcompatible devices Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) can be referred to as a technology standard or the industry group to develop the technology standard to interconnect and use AV components, PCs and other devices in a home network. The unit allows you to use DLNA to play music files stored on a PC or a hard disk connected to your home network (NAS device). Router This unit NAS PC Playing music files by operating the unit You can play music files stored on a server by operating the unit. 1. Turn on the server. 2. Press the NET button. 3. Use the direction ( / / / ) buttons to select "DLNA" on the display and press the ENTER button. 0 You must connect the unit and PC or NAS to the same router. 0 You can play music files on a NAS device provided with a DLNA server function or a PC installed with a player provided with a DLNA server function, such as Windows Media Player 11 or 12. To stream music files through Windows Media Player 11 or 12, you must configure its streaming settings. Setting up Windows Media Player Windows Media Player 11 1. Turn on your PC and start Windows Media Player 11. 2. In the "Library" menu, select "Media Sharing" to open a dialog box. 3. Select the "Share my media" check box and click "OK" to display the compatible devices. 4. Select this unit and click "Allow". 0 The icon of this unit is checked when you click it. 5. Click "OK" to close the dialog box. Windows Media Player 12 1. Turn on your PC and start Windows Media Player 12. 2. In the "Stream" menu, select "Turn on media streaming" to open a dialog box. 0 If media streaming is already turned on, select "More streaming options..." in the "Stream" menu to list players in the network, and then go to step 4. 3. Click "Turn on media streaming" to list players in the network. 4. Select this unit in "Media streaming options" and check that it is set to "Allowed". 5. Click "OK" to close the dialog box. 6. When using the Play To feature, open the "Stream" menu and check that "Allow remote control of my Player..." is checked. 26 4. Use the direction ( / ) buttons to select the server and press the ENTER button. The server folder will be shown. 0 You can check the server name of your PC from the PC properties. 0 To return to the previous display, press the RETURN button. 0 Depending on server functions or sharing settings, some contents might not be shown. See the operation manual of the server. 0 This unit cannot access photographs or videos on a server. 5. Use the direction ( / ) buttons to select the audio file that you want to play, and press the ENTER button or playback (1) button. 0 Searching forward/backward and pausing functions might not work with some servers. 0 If information cannot be retrieved from a server, "No Item" will appear on the display. If this occurs, check the server and network connections. 0 Immediately after an audio file is added to a Windows Media Player library, that file might not appear in this unit's audio file list. This is because the Windows library index has not been refreshed. You can either wait for the index to refresh automatically, or you can manually rebuild the index. See Windows online help for instructions about how to do this.