Operation Manual

NOXON
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8.3 Playback from your iPod
In order to use your iRadio with the NOXON, please carry out the in-
structions on p. 10 first as preparation. After the iPod is hooked up, the
corresponding entry appears in the main menu ( ). Incidentally,
while the iPod is connected to your NOXON, you can't use the iPod
controls directly any more, and you don't need to! Just use the remote
control instead, or the buttons on the NOXON in the same way you've
learned from other areas of the NOXON menus. Pressing the Right
button takes you from the main menu to the view of your iPod contents, which may be displayed slightly
differently depending on your model and the way you have set it up. You can now call your audio contents
directly from the iPod pre-sorted by artist, by type of music or other criteria for example, and play them
back.
If you are not using your iPod at any particular time, it will also be charged automatically. So you can happily
keep your cherished iPod permanently perched on the NOXON, so that it will always be ready for use on the
move or present and ready for local playback via the NOXON! This keeps the battery reliably charged, even if
the iRadio itself is not switched on.
8.4 Playback from a USB storage device
An entry for the USB mass storage media will appear in the main folder
of the iRadio whenever a compatible USB storage device is connected.
Selecting this entry will display a selection of compatible partitions. If
only one is available, "Volume 1" is all that will be shown. Once you
have made your selection, the folder structure will be displayed 1:1.
Next, use the usual navigation to select and play a track.
When connecting a USB hard drive, it may take a moment or two for the
iRadio to read the folder tree. After that, the navigation should work as
usual.
Requirements for the mass storage device
The iRadio supports all normal external hard disks and USB sticks, if they can be identified as USB mass
storage devices. You can check this quite easily by connecting the device to a conventional PC or Mac. If the
device appears as a "USB Mass Storage Device" (or something similar) in the Windows Device Manager, by
lsusb under Linux or the Profiler on the Mac, it can also be operated on the iRadio.
It is very important to note, however, that the storage medium must be formatted for FAT32. All other for-
mats, such as ext2, Reiser, HPFS, NTFS or Mac OS Extended are not recognised by the iRadio. We deliber-
ately chose FAT32 in preference to the many other data carrier formats because it effectively represents the
"least common denominator" of file systems, which can be read and written under all operating systems.
To put all misconceptions about FAT32 to rest once and for all: FAT32 can manage larger volumes than
32 GB (in fact up to 4 TB), and is perfectly viable as a simple, frequently implemented file system. It is par-
ticularly useful when interoperability among as many operating systems as possible is required.