Yamaha MCX-2000 User Manual

MCX-2000 Owner’s Manual

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Your MCX-2000 is fully functional simply configured with 
Easy Setup. But, it becomes more convenient and useful if 
you fine tune the unit to suit your need. If you have a 
broadband Internet connection and already made it 
accessible from the MCX-2000 via your PC network 
(page 26), you may want this configuration to fully work. 
Plus, if you’re such an audiophile as to own a high-end audio 
system with a Yamaha AV receiver, you have a good reason 
to integrate your MCX-2000 there. Furthermore, you can use 
the timer playback feature to automatically start music on the 
MCX-2000 and any MusicCAST client at the specified time. 
This section explains how to set up and use the MCX-2000 
for such nifty functions.

Every MusicCAST client can automatically correct its internal 
clock to match that of the MCX-2000, over the MusicCAST 
network. Because this mechanism sets each MusicCAST 
system the same time, accuracy of the MCX-2000 internal 
clock becomes the more important. When you select Top 
Menu > Setup > Date/Time, you can configure the server’s 
internal clock in several ways.

PC users may know their computers can retrieve accurate 
date and time settings from the Internet. There are special 
servers called NTP (network time protocol) servers on the 
Internet, which publicly serve accurate time retrieved from a 
GPS system or an atomic clock. Since the MCX-2000 can 
access one of these servers to correct its internal clock, 
other MusicCAST clients can then correct their date and time 
settings accordingly.

When you turned on the MCX-2000 for the first time, Easy 
Setup lets you specify several basic settings including date 
and time (page 28). If you don’t use automatic correction 
using a time server, manually adjust date and time once in a 
while.

You can specify how the MCX-2000 internal clock shows the 
current time. Since your settings are transferred to each 
client over the MusicCAST network, you can automatically 
unify the clock display on all MusicCAST systems.

Select Top Menu > Setup > Date/Time > Auto Setup.

Select the first item, “Use NTP Server” and set to ON. 
When you set this parameter to ON, the following three 
parameters become available.

n When you use an NTP server (ON), manual setup of date and time are 

disabled.

1 Server Address
Specify an NTP server you want to use for date and time 
correction with its URL (server name) or IP address. When URL 
is specified, it’s necessary that the MCX-2000 can connect at 
least one active DNS server to find the time server (page 37).

2 Time Zone
Specify from the list where you’re using the MCX-2000 and 
clients. If your locale isn’t in the list, select the closest city or a 
time difference value from GMT (Greenwich mean time) for your 
locale.

3 Daylight Saving
Select this to ON if your locale where you use the MCX-2000 
and clients is in daylight saving time. (Time goes fast by one 
hour.) If not, set this parameter to OFF.

n If you’re using a time server on your computer, specify the same 

values to the above parameters. In addition, you should specify a 
public NTP server. Don’t specify a private one.

When you select OK, the “Saving...” message is shown 
and the MCX-2000 immediately starts querying to the 
specified NTP server. When the MCX-2000 receives the 
response from the server, its internal clock is corrected 
right away and the result is soon reflected on each 
MusicCAST client.

n Once the MCX-2000 starts using the NTP server, its internal clock will 

automatically be corrected every one hour.