User Guide

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USBDAC Application Note 5 / 7
4. Now Foobar2000 is ready and set to reproduce audio using the ASIO drivers. The commands: Play/Pause, Stop, Next e Prev
track available in Foobar2000 (HID) can be sent to the PC, for the Audio Analogue products supporting such functions, using the
switches on the front board and the switches on the remote.
Fig. 4: Schermata Principale di Foobar2000 in riproduzione
Listening to Web Radios or Music on Demand using the USBDAC
The USBDAC not only let you reproduce the audio files on your PC/MAC but also let you play with the Hi Fi system the many audio
files on web. There are in fact many websites which offer a free, unlimited and legal access to music. Below a list of some of the
most known website offering such service on free is reported (there are also many others which offers the same service with fee).
- http://www.deezer.com/: French music on demand website, in 5 languages: French, English,
German, Italian. It’s a free website.
- http://www.izaria.us/: is a web radio where listening to music on streaming and downloading music
in a free and legal way.
- http://www.allmusic.fm/: it’s music on demand website where listening to music on streaming and
downloading music in a free and legal way.
- http://www.tunewiki.com/: free music website.
Note. To access such web services, after the USBDAC mode is selected on the Audio Analogue product, run your web
browser on the PC/MAC (Internet Explorer
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, Mozilla Firefox
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, Safari
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, Google Chrome
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...) and connect to the links
above.
The most important un-free music website is by far the Apple iTunes Store
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ITunes is an Apple application which started as a multimedia player mainly pointed to the music reproduction and audio
arrangement. iTunes is a freeware player which can be downloaded at the link: http://www.apple.com/itunes/how-to/.
ITunes is at the moment the second player for diffusion in the word being Windows Media Audio, the player by Windows, the first
presently.
The “war” between the players caused iTunes to support, by default, the audio formats: MP3, AIFF, WAV, AAC and ALE, but not
the WMA format which is the Windows Media Audio one. iTunes can anyway reproduce WMA files by a conversion in type which is
possible when, as for all the others player, the proper Plug-In is installed. iTunes has largely increased its diffusion in these years
because it’s the tool to load and arrange music playlist on the iPod. The great iPod success has caused Windows Media Audio to