User manual AUDIO ANALOGUE USBDAC REV 4-2010

[. . . ] Of course is important that the USB cables between the active USB hubs aren't longer than 3meters and that the active hubs are correctly linked and working. The opportunity to increase the connection length is very important when a PC/MAC in an other room is used instead of a laptop. Moreover remind that, for the best listening experience, is better that the PC/MAC is placed in a room different from where the Hi Fi System is. Once the connection PC/MAC USBDAC is performed, and the first initialization done (by which the PC/MAC load the proper driver software ), the PC/MAC sees the USBDAC and what connected to its analog outputs as its audio board. [. . . ] 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. 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. 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 Explorer4, Mozilla Firefox5, Safari6, Google Chrome7 . . . ) and connect to the links above. The most important un-free music website is by far the Apple iTunes Store8. 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 USBDAC Application Note 5/7 AUDIO FUTURA S. P. A. April 2010 | revision 1. 0 make itself compatible with iTunes. In fact now Windows Media Audio can convert its file audio from a WMA format to the AAC one which is the most used in iTunes. has published on web its iTunes Store which is a on line shop where buying music as a whole CD or as single track and also many other audio/video files. iTunes Store has imposed itself as the most important on line music shop with more than 70% of the whole on line music purchases performed on iTunes Store. For selling music on its music-web-shop, Apple has reached agreements with the main record producers such as: BMG Music, EMI, Sony Music, Universal and Warner Bros. Moreover agreements are every day reached with the smaller record producers. iTunes let you download a single track at a price of less than a dollar and require the payment via a credit card on encrypt and absolutely safe web pages. With iTunes you can create your playlist, which can be then transferred to the iPod. [. . . ] Both MP3 and Vorbis have been designed via very deep psycoacustics studies. It's a audio format developed by Microsoft and IBM for IBM PC and compatible computers. The WAV is a proprietary audio format which can be reproduced by almost any audio player. WMA: (Windows Media Audio) it's a audio standard developed by Microsoft. [. . . ]