Navigating through my Music on a NA7004? I was wondering if someone can explain how one would navigate through 200 albums stored on the NAS drive on this product?On a Sonos or a Squeezebox, you have visually aided wireless controllers that do the job very nicely. that allows the sonos and the squeezebox (touch or duet receivers) to remain hidden in the cabinet.How would one achieve that here? Other than that i find this really interesting. Navigating through my Music on a NA7004? I was wondering if someone can explain how one would navigate through 200 albums stored on the NAS drive on this product?On a Sonos or a Squeezebox,... » Read More Navigating through my Music on a NA7004? I was wondering if someone can explain how one would navigate through 200 albums stored on the NAS drive on this product?On a Sonos or a Squeezebox, you have visually aided wireless controllers that do the job very nicely. that allows the sonos and the squeezebox (touch or duet receivers) to remain hidden in the cabinet.How would one achieve that here? Other than that i find this really interesting. « Show Less
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Hi Funkaholic'I am using WD sharespace as a NAS. I have tried to play music files by using marantz network player but it gives a message not-authorized.. so I can not see and play any files inside the NAS.Do you know any solution?ThanksSukru
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Thanks for the very useful information. I love Marantz stuff but I guess i will hold on to my squeezebox touch then.
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Haven't used the 64 GB. I do have a 32 GB. Cant switch through music folders. It goes by skipping through the flash drive
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Hey Deanna, I purchased this item on Sept 9th, and I am still using it. I am happy to share with you my experiences thru which you will find the answers to your questions. Firstly, I would care to let you know why I purchased this item. I love to listen to my favorites musics on the go. I had used transmitters of the other so-called brands, and ended up using a tape adapter, but I was not satisfied because they died earlier. So, I purchased this device. Secondly, I tell you the good things about it. Whatever channel you choose, the transmission is 100% clear with no intercession with the others. The transmission goes widely to a point that another car can stick on your musics with no interruption. It reads everything mentioned, and even a flash drive. It plays alphabetically, so you can choose what music must be played first by naming the music with an A...or a number 1..2..3... I can't tell about the MP4, because I don't have any file in that format. Overall, I would just suggest that you give it try...and then...tell me whether or not my answer was reasonable to you. Thanks!
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I went and bought an SD card and put that in there. I think it takes up to a 64gig card. Without the card it'll hold a few songs with the onboard memory. But I would recommend buying the SD card if you want to put enough music on to listen to for a long ride without repeating songs.
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You can switch from folder to folder. You have to hit the folder button twice, then the up and down arrows on the remote. You have to actually select a song with in the folder using the folder button to play the song. It is kind of aggravating and takes a few tries though.
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Its ALL linear. In other words, if you like most of us keep your music in folders, this speaker can only play one folder and NOT go to the next. You would have to put all of your music on one root directory and just keep hitting the &gt;&gt;&gt; button till it advances or .......just let it play linear. Its very primitive but the price for what it does do right is right!
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The Answer = Yes AND No. This unit holds a lot more music than some players can handle. Some cannot 'see' this large a drive. (I play music and videos on my LG TV with it fully loaded with no issues)
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Remote access on this thing is kinda limited. AS FAR AS IVE SEEN (It may be possible and i just haven't seen how to do it) You can only use remote access through a kind of clunky web browser based interface (where you can only download and upload files and not for instance directly access files [play a song or video without downloading it to your device first]) (and mobile app that i haven't got around to testing out) (supplied by shuttle) so if you want to remotely access files on this from finder be wary of this unit (However you can access files though finder if you're on your home network that the NAS will be plugged into). But other than the whole remote access aspect of this it has worked without too much of a hitch so far. (If you buy it update the firmware IMMEDIATELY.) I bought mine new and it had a REAAALY old/bad software version on it that hardly worked. Updating the firmware makes everything run pretty perfectly. ALSO if your the kinda person that wants the best version of what they buy please take into acknowledgement that there also KD21 and KD22 models that are apparently faster and better. Although i couldn't seem to be able to find anywhere to buy them. any other questions feel free to ask.
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The organization has improved greatly with the newest firmware, no playlist support yet but it will come. The menus are very intuitive for my taste, it's definitely not an Apple product (which I think is a good thing)You can use artist/album/song browsing and you can also organize into folders so you could actually set up folders with your songs as playlists, so if you were so inclined I'd make a folder called "1Jogging Music" and have your music for jogging in there are just use the folder view to find it.
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Interesting question. All I did was load some files and I play them in order or use skip back/forward buttons. I believe that's all you can do because there's no menue tool or option...just 'play' and skip. BUT know that the audio is superlative as it bypasses the already good Bluetooth. Maybe others know of a way to load an separate playlist? Or...get multiple SD cards LOL. Oh. And it does ecxit SD mode on power off but restart is a button press...
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Honestly, don't even bother with this - I've purchased two of these - the first didn't even connect to my network and the 2nd started failing after I'd missed the window allowing a return. The only reason it's not in a box in storage is that I keep meaning to play around with it and get to the root of the problem. What I'd suggest if you have the means is to get a bluetooth receiver to bridge a stereo with an iPad / iPhone / iPod or and Android device and listen to SiriusXM that way. It's all that I listen to now (music / talk / news / all of it) so I have to make sure it works. Hope this helped! Honestly, don't even bother with this - I've purchased two of these - the first didn't even connect to my network and the 2nd started failing after I'd missed the window allowing a return. The only reason it's not in a box in storage is that I keep meaning to play around with it and get to the root of the problem. What I'd suggest if you have the means is to get a bluetooth receiver to bridge a stereo with an iPad / iPhone / iPod or and Android device and listen to SiriusXM that way. It's all that I listen to now (music / talk / news / all of it) so I have to make sure it works. Hope this... » Read More Honestly, don't even bother with this - I've purchased two of these - the first didn't even connect to my network and the 2nd started failing after I'd missed the window allowing a return. The only reason it's not in a box in storage is that I keep meaning to play around with it and get to the root of the problem. What I'd suggest if you have the means is to get a bluetooth receiver to bridge a stereo with an iPad / iPhone / iPod or and Android device and listen to SiriusXM that way. It's all that I listen to now (music / talk / news / all of it) so I have to make sure it works. Hope this helped! « Show Less
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I did not facing this problem. I have more than 100 songs (mp3), and it working well.At first, I also wonder it will function correctly, so i have tried to press next/previous button then the songs is randomly changed.So, maybe you can try to press the next/previous button to see whether it change to others song.
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The device comes with a cradle which plugs into a USB port. It effectively becomes a 'drive' at that point. I backed up EVERYTHING from the player to its own folder (just in case I needed to reinstall, et.). I then deleted the preloaded music, etc. and then began to add music to the Music folder. You could use Windows Media Player (sorry-am a PC person so can't address the equivalent for Mac!). However, I just used a normal file manager (am old school): I opened my Amazon music folder on my PC (where I keep my MP3s) and copied them over to the mp3 player. As far as playback- it will do so in alphabetical order of artist (I think)- so Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce will play consecutively. To get around that: if you want the equivalent of playlists- you need to 1) create a folder for the files & put the files there, and 2) rename the files with a precursor number to order the airplay in the desired order. A bit tedious on initial setup, but it's not terrible, either. There may be much easier ways to do this! ha! - but this worked for me. I swim laps (3000 yds 3 x week) and this device performs flawlessly. To me, it makes the workouts so much easier that I'm willing to put up with a bit of file management tedium on the initial setup.
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Right now I have on one of mine, 13.9GB of total usable space (the other 2.1BG takes up the operating system). I currently have 4.35GB of free space left open. The other part is filled up with the following content: That includes 113 full albums averaging between 6 to 15 songs per album using 4.40GB of space and 59 music videos that is using 5.12GB of the storage space. The music videos are assorted sizes form 3.10MB to 177MB. I am always adding and removing songs and videos depending upon what style of music I'm into at the time. It's all drag and drop when you sync it to the player in your pc so moving things around is easy. I always try to leave at least 1 or more GB of free space open so that the music videos don't get jerky. I own more than one of these and it's really more about having not running out of battery before I can get back to recharge. Music uses a lot less battery, but the videos can wear down the battery pretty fast. These are small and very portable and I use them plugged into the car stereo for road trip music playlists and while waiting around in long lines, etc. at sci-fi conventions where it's not easy to get back to the room to recharge. Probably TMI but I hope this helps you in some way!
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I encountered the very same thing. I got it to play back by messing when the buttons. But I don't know the exact way to do it. If I want to see anything, I've been popping out the SD card, then I put in another. Then look at it. I'm using mine for the drive to work (1 hr), if nothing happens I let it over ride on the 5 min loop. This would be so much better if we knew how to use all the features. I looked at the license tag feature, it's a yellow box that moves around on screen? The instructions are so vague. You just have to push buttons and hope for the best..........
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Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far including dedicated windows machines. I probably have about 800 movies. Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far... » Read More Hi,You can certainly have multiple NASs and folders with separate jukeboxes for each hierarchy of folders. However if your question is whether you can join all of those into a single jukebox, I heard people talking about that being supported but I have never tried it. I haven't tried its audio capabilities.I general I would like to emphasize again how easy, automated and powerful the A-400 is. The time I spend maintaining my movie collection went down to near 0 and the quality of browsing is far better than anything I even had and I have had over 10 media players so far including dedicated windows machines. I probably have about 800 movies. « Show Less
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I also wondered the same. I now have the unit and it DOES NOT display album art. Also, the ipod controls are OK, not great. There doesn't seem to be a search feature, or anyway to advance through long lists (I have 1000 artists, so to get down the list 5 at a time takes a long while). I also haven't found a way to control the ipod through itself.