FlexBridgeRadio Manual
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1. To learn more please visit http www flexbridgeradio com 9 Presets Stations which use streaming formats not supported by the SoundBridge media adapters for example OGG Vorbis and some flavours of AACplus are not listed within Radio Roku FlexBridgeRadio however can play AACplus and OGG streams If one of your preferred stations is streaming such a for mat you can store it in one of the Presets to play it with FlexBridgeRadio To enter a station into one of the Presets simply put its name into the upper field of a Preset and the audio URL into the lower field PlexBridgeRadio nam Let s Play The Stations Al e Ad Radio Paradise KNOB http www radioparadise com musiclinks rp http east streamguys com knob A2 AS Absolute Radio http network absoluteradio co uk core au Northwest Public Radio http www nwrweb com player asx 14 asx A3 Indie Airplay http www indieairplay com indieairplay find 46 Ambient Loop Radio http ambientloop com alr pls OOo Ew CO G After you have finished adding and or editing your presets click Save to store them locally Information for SoundBridge users The SilverEdition and the GoldEdition of FlexBridgeRadio offer many more features such as full support for the 18 Presets of your SoundBridge With one mouse click you can download your SoundBridge s Presets store them locally on your PC and play t2. bear the risk of using it GT amp B Media gives no express warranties guarantees or conditions To the extent permitted under applicable law GT amp B Media excludes the implied warranties of merchantability fitness for a particular purpose and non infringement 4 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law in no event will GT amp B Media or its suppliers be liable to you or other users for damages of any kind including data loss lost profits consequential special indirect or incidental damages 5 You may immediately terminate this Agreement at any time Upon such termination you must immediately cease using the Software and destroy or delete all copies of the Software All disclaimers limitations of liability and any other provisions intended to survive termination will survive any ter mination and continue in full force and effect 6 Some functions of the Software rely on Radio Roku a service operated by Roku Inc Saratoga CA United States GT amp B Media will not be liable for any interruption or termination of this service temporary or permanent which will limit or inhibit the use of these functions 7 This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Ger many 1 Introduction The free FlexBridgeRadio BronzeEdition is an easy to use but refined inter net radio player It gives you access to nearly 12 000 internet radio stations but unlike the GoldEdition and the SilverEdition does not support a
3. option to have FlexBridgeRadio write the temporary file to your system s Temp folder If you are running FlexBridgeRadio from a USB stick or me mory card it is highly recommended to disable this option Auto sync Country Language and Genre Lists at startup For browsing Radio Roku FlexBridgeRadio uses lists of Countries Langua ges and Genres When you start the programme for the first time these lists are downloaded from Radio Roku and then stored locally If you want Flex BridgeRadio to automatically download these lists at startup simply activate this option If you only want to use the locally stored lists uncheck it Click Sync now to update the lists manually Information for SoundBridge users The SilverEdition and the GoldEdition of FlexBridgeRadio offer many more configuration options related to your SoundBridge such as auto matic detection of your SoundBridges in the local network support for multiple SoundBridges and automatic detection of MAC addresses To learn more please visit http www flexbridgeradio com 8 The Radio Player The Radio Player is shown immediately after FlexBridgeRadio has started running It gives you access to nearly 12 000 internet radio stations You can browse these stations search for names and or descriptions or select Countries Languages or Genres Any or all of these search options can be combined which makes FlexBridgeRadio a very powerful tool Because FlexBridgeRadio is p
4. FlexBridgeRadio BronzeEdition Version 1 02 User s Manual c 2008 GT amp B Media All Rights Reserved Table Of Contents Software License Agreement Introduction System Requirements What s in the box Installation Starting FlexBridgeRadio FlexBridgeRadio s Main Window and the only one Configuring FlexBridgeRadio Radio Player Presets 0S OE Se ON Appendix A Supported audio formats Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions I Software License Agreement This is a legal agreement Agreement between you and GT amp B Media Please read this agreement carefully By downloading installing or using FlexBridgeRadio Software you agree to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of this agreement 1 FlexBridgeRadio any related documentation and all intellectual property rights therein are owned by GT amp B Media and its suppliers 2 The Software is licensed not sold GT amp B Media grants you a nonexclusive nontransferable license to use the Software You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices provided that the Soft ware is executed on only one device at a time Except as permitted by appli cable law you will not reverse engineer decompile or disassemble the Software publish the Software for others to copy rent lease or lend the Software or modify the Software 3 The Software and any related documentation are provided to you as is and you
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6. e the following audio formats MP3 WAV OGG Vorbis MP4 AAC M4A AC3 FLAC WavPack ALAC DRM protected files are not supported Appendix B Frequently Asked Questions Why do some stations not play Internet radio is quite new and highly dynamic so there can be different reasons if a station doesn t play First of all it might simply have stopped streaming or changed its audio URL It is also possible that the station uses an audio format which is not supported by FlexBridgeRadio or that the con tent of its playlist file is invalid Why can t I chose from Countries Languages or Genres The first time you start FlexBridgeRadio it will try to download the lists of Countries Languages and Genres from Radio Roku If at that specific time Radio Roku is down or unreachable FlexBridgeRadio will not be able to get these lists In such a case you can either wait until Radio Roku is available and then manually download the lists by using the corresponding button on FlexBridgeRadio s Settings page or download a ZIP file from www flexbrid geradio com and copy the three contained files to FlexBridgeRadio s pro gramme folder Why should I use an external player In some cases FlexBridgeRadio cannot play a specific station for technical reasons Other players like for example XMPlayer however might be able to play it FlexBridgeRadio therefore offers you the possibility to hand the sta tion over to an external player to check if it can
7. f the leading adult progressive rock Martha internet radio stations in the world Description dear Search _ Cm Cm ms Came Cte Cet If no stations match your search criteria the will get the message No mat ching stations found in the Stations list box If you want to start a new search click Clear to empty all search fields The Radio Player will then look as if FlexBridgeRadio had just been started FlexBridgeRadio Gi m x Let s Play The Stations Presets Settings Country Stations All Genre All x Language All X Station Info Name Description dear Search Cm Cm hs Cam Ce Ca If you want to see a list of all stations currently available from Radio Roku click Search without defining any search criteria The result will look like this x e TN oD FlexBridgeRadio Li gt Let s Play The Stations Radio Player presets Settings Country All lt Genre 977 The 90s Channel MP3 96k All 977 The 90s Channel WMA 64k 977 The Classic Rock Channel MP3 128k Language 977 The Classic Rock Channel WMA 64k All 5 977 The Comedy Channel xl Station Info Name The best Pop Rock and Retro 80s Hits from 1980 1989 Description Clear C Search gt E P gt a az ta Playing a station As soon as FlexBridgeRadio finds at least one station in the Radio Roku da
8. hem on your computer even when you do not have access to your SoundBridge You can also use FlexBridgeRa dio SilverEdition and FlexBridgeRadio GoldEdition to edit your Presets and send them back to your SoundBridge or to make a backup of your SoundBridge s Presets To learn more please visit http www flexbridgeradio com Playing a Preset To play a specific Preset simply click on its name or audio URL A bullet will appear to the left of the Preset s number to indicate that it has been acti vated in the above picture Preset A6 has been chosen Then click Play or External Player Information for SoundBridge users The SilverEdition and the GoldEdition of FlexBridgeRadio offer many more features such as playing your own music files Simply create playlist files which contain links to your MP3 AAC WMA FLAC or OGG Vorbis files and put these into one or more of FlexBridgeRadio s twelve special My Music Presets And as FlexBridgeRadio can be run from a USB stick or a memory card you can use the SilverEdition and the GoldEdition to play your music on every Windows PC without having to install anything and without ever copying a single file to that computer To learn more please visit http www flexbridgeradio com Appendix A Supported audio formats When playing internet radio FlexBridgeRadio can handle the following audio formats MP3 WMA AACplus OGG Vorbis When playing music files FlexBridgeRadio can handl
9. here Changing this setting immediately changes the appea rance of FlexBridgeRadio so that you can instantly view how the theme looks To store this setting permanently click the Save button Note On some systems the styles with rounded edges will not display as intended In such cases please select the Standard theme External Player In some cases FlexBridgeRadio can t play a specific station for technical reasons whilst players like XMPlayer might be able to play these streams To hand over the specific station to an external player FlexBridgeRadio needs the full path and filename of that software Enter this information here for example C Program Files KMPLayer XMPlay exe If you don t want to use an external player simply leave this field blank If you intend to run Flex BridgeRadio from a USB stick or memory card and want to use an external player the best way to do that is to copy a lightweight standalone player soft ware like XMPlayer to the USB stick XMPlayer is available for download from http Awww un4seen com Use System Temp Folder When playing a radio station FlexBridgeRadio in some cases has to create a temporary file This file is by default written to FlexBridgeRadio s pro gramme folder If this program folder is located in one of your computer s system folders for example C Program Files FlexBridgeRadio might not be able to create this temporary file In these cases you should activate this
10. ited Kingdom E Genre Rock z Language All z Station Info Name Description C dear Search _ Cm ee ee ED ey If you click the Search button the result will look like this A A Aae FlexBridgeRadio i x Let s Play The Stations Radio Player presets Settings Country 17 Stations found United Kingdom a 106 1 Rock Radio Manchester UK Only 64k 96 3 Rock Radio Glasgow Scotland Genre Absolute Radio Xtreme Rock X ARfm UK HAWT Radio Language Planet Rock All y Play Rock UK AAC 64k Station Info Name Manchester s first classic rock station Description clear Search gt E P et ote et In this case FlexBridgeRadio has found 17 stations Example 2 You want to listen to a certain station but can t remember it s complete name All you know is that the station is broadcasting from Mar tha s Vineyard Massachusetts In such a case simply enter the search word or phrase into the Name or Description field and click Search The re sult will look like this FlexBridgeRadio a m x Let s Play The Stations Radio Player Presets Settings Country 4 Stations found All WIvIVY 92 7 FM Martha s Vineyard MA MP3 48k WMVY 92 7 FM Martha s Vineyard MA MP3 96k Genre WMVY 92 7 FM Martha s Vineyard MA WMA 20K All AMMY 92 7 FM Martha s Vineyard MA WMA 48k Language All Station Info Name myyradio is one o
11. ny SoundBridge related functions such as storing Favourites locally on your PC or editing managing and backing up the Presets of a SoundBridge FlexBridgeRadio is powered by Radio Roku one of the most comprehensive suides to internet radio developed and operated by Roku manufacturers of the famous SoundBridge media adapters 2 System requirements Intel Pentium III or equivalent processor Microsoft Windows 2000 SP 4 Windows XP SP2 Windows Vista NET 2 0 or higher 512 MB of RAM or higher 3 MB of free space on a hard disk or USB stick Broadband internet connection 3 What s in the box FlexBridgeRadio consists of the following files FlexBridgeRadio exe Programme executable AudioDjStudio dll Audio player library AdjMmsEng dll Audio player library FlexBridgeRadio_Bronze_Manual pdf This manual 4 Installation FlexBridgeRadio does not need to be installed Simply extract it from the ZIP file it comes in and copy the files to a folder of your choice This can be any folder on any hard disk of your system You can even put FlexBridge Radio s files on a USB stick or memory card to use it on different computers for example at home and at work Note Although FlexBridgeRadio can be run from any folder directory on a hard disk USB Stick or memory card it is not recommended to copy the programme files to special folders for example the Windows Desktop sys tem folders for example C Windows or root directo
12. owered by Radio Roku you will benefit from one of the most comprehensive guides to internet radio In addition to that the database of Radio Roku is constantly updated so FlexBridgeRadio al ways automatically has the most recent data available The Radio Player looks as follows FlexBridgeRadio i 2 Let s Play The Stations Country Stations All z Genre All x Language All z Station Info Name Description Car Cn O DOO ewe You will notice that at this point no radio stations are listed yet To retrieve the list of stations you will need to browse the database by defining search options Browsing and Searching The search options are entered on the left side of the window Enter a Coun try Genre and or Language by clicking on the corresponding drop down box and choosing from the list that opens up To search for station names or descriptions simply type the search phrase into the corresponding field When you have finished entering your search criteria click the Search button FlexBridgeRadio will then query the database and some seconds later all stations matching your search criteria will show up in the list box titled Stations Example 1 You want a list of all stations in the United Kingdom playing Rock Music Your search criteria would then look like this FlexBridgeRadio G Let s Play The Stations L x Radio Player Presets Settings Country Stations Un
13. ries for example C FlexBridgeRadio might not function properly when you try to run it from C Program Files on Windows Vista or from a network folder 5 Starting FlexBridgeRadio Double click FlexBridgeRadio exe to start the programme 6 FlexBridgeRadio s Main Window and the only one On opening FlexBridgeRadio you will see 3 tabs FlexBridgeRadio Li RA Let s Play The Stations Country Stations All X Genre All z Language All X Station Info Name Description dea Search C CE Ch Ca C me tet Radio Player Here you can access browse and search Radio Roku and play any of the sta tions Presets FlexBridgeRadio offers you six personal presets You can use these to store and play your own streams or stations which are not listed within Radio Roku Settings In this tab you configure FlexBridgeRadio to suit your personal preferences 7 Configuring FlexBridgeRadio To configure FlexBridgeRadio click the Settings tab You will see the fol lowing screen FlexBridgeRadio G x Let s Play The Stations Radio Player Presets Settings 4 Window style Modern Stylish theme with sharp bottom edges External Player Use System Temp Folder O Auto sync Country Language and Genre lists at startup O Sync now Window style FlexBridgeRadio comes with four different styles You can chose your fa vourite theme
14. tabase it displays it in the Stations list box and automatically selects the top station in the list and activate the following buttons r Play E Stop Ph Play in external player a Volume down I Me d Mute Unmute a Volume up Additionally it will show the station s description in the box titled Station Info To play a station simply click the Play button FlexBridgeRadio will then try to connect to the station This is indicated by a flashing yellow light around the Play button Once the connection has been established playback will start and the flashing light will disappear To play the selected station in an external player click the External Player button To stop playback click the Stop button this will not have an effect for ex ternal players To change the volume of the playback click Volume up or Volume down To mute the playback click the Mute button to unmute click the Mute button again Information for SoundBridge users The SilverEdition and the GoldEdition of FlexBridgeRadio offer many more features such as downloading your Favourites and storing them lo cally on your PC So even when you do not have access to Radio Roku or when Radio Roku is down you can still play your favourite stations on your SoundBridge or on your computer The GoldEdition even allows you to add stations to your Favourites directly from the Radio Player and to re move Favourites from the list
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