Onkyo TX-NR708 Owner Manual - Page 63

5 Use R/X to select a music file, and press ENTER or  to start playback. Playback starts and the following screen appears. My favorite song 1 4 / 10 My favorite song 1 Artist name My favorite album 0:00:00 MP3 128kbps 44.1kHz ALL • To return to the previous menu during playback, press RETURN. • To stop playback, press . • To select the next song, press . To select the beginning of the current song, press . To select the previous song, press  twice. • To pause playback, press . To fast forward the current song, press . To fast reverse the current song, press . Tip • If you press DISPLAY, you can toggle between the play- back screen and the list screen. Note • For some sort of media server, Fast Forward/Fast Reverse/ Pause operations do not work. Random Playback The Random function can only be set while the PLAY screen is displayed. To play songs in random order, during playback (or while playback is paused or stopped), press RANDOM. All of the songs in the current folder will be played in random order. When all of the songs in the folder have been played once, they'll all be played again in a different random order. To cancel random playback, press RANDOM again. Random playback supports up to 20000 songs per folder. If a folder contains more than this, songs over 20000 are not included in random playback. Repeat Playback The Repeat function can only be set while the PLAY screen is displayed. To play songs repeatedly, during playback (or while playback is paused or stopped), press REPEAT repeatedly to select: Repeat1, Repeat Folder, Repeat All, or Off. In Repeat1 mode, the current song is played repeatedly. In Repeat Folder mode, all of the songs in the current folder are played repeatedly. In Repeat All mode, all of the songs on the current server are played repeatedly. To cancel repeat playback, press REPEAT repeatedly to select Off. Note • If the message "No Item." appears, this means that no informa- tion can be retrieved from the server. In this case, check your server, network, and AV receiver connections. Windows Media Player 11 Setup This section explains how to configure Windows Media Player 11 so that the AV receiver can play the music files stored on your computer. 1 Start Windows Media Player 11. 2 On the Library menu, select Media Sharing. The Media Sharing dialog box appears. 3 Select the Share my media check box, and then click OK. 4 Select the AV receiver in the list, and then click Allow. 5 Click OK to close the dialog box. This completes the Windows Media Player 11 configuration. You can now play the music files in your Windows Media Player 11 library through the AV receiver (➔ 62). Note • Windows Media Player 11 can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft Web site. Supported Audio File Formats For server playback, the AV receiver supports the following music file formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, AAC and LPCM. Not all servers support all formats. ■ MP3 • MP3 files must be MPEG-1/MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3 for- mat with a sampling rate of 8 kHz, 11.025 kHz, 12 kHz, 16 kHz, 22.05 kHz, 24 kHz, 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and a bit-rate of between 8 kbps and 320 kbps. Incompatible files cannot be played. • Number of channels: 2 • Variable bit-rate (VBR) MP3 files are supported. (Playing times may not display correctly.) • MP3 files must have a ".mp3" or ".MP3" filename extension. ■ WMA WMA stands for Windows Media Audio and is an audio compression technology developed by Microsoft Corpora- tion. Audio can be encoded in WMA format by using Windows Media® Player. • WMA files must have the copyright option turned off. • Sampling rates of 8 kHz, 11.025 kHz, 12 kHz, 16 kHz, 22.05 kHz, 24 kHz, 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and bitrates of between 5 kbps and 320 kbps, and WMA DRM are supported. Incompatible files cannot be played. • Number of channels: 2 • Variable bit-rates (VBR) are supported. (Playing times may display incorrectly with VBR.) • WMA Pro/Voice formats are not supported. • WMA files must have a ".wma" or ".WMA" filename extension. En 63