Cambridge Audio Azur 851N Owner's Manual

851N

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Location

– Enables you to choose from the stations in any of the countries which

you choose from a list.
Genre

– Enables you to choose radio stations according to their declared content,

for example Classic Rock, Sport, News, etc.
Search Radio Stations

– Enables you to search for a station you know the name of.

Enter the full name or first part of the name for your desired station. The 851N will

bring up a list of all stations that contain a word that starts with your search term.
Note:

Although we check the stations for continuity of service, some radio stations

do not broadcast 24 hours per day, and some stations may not always be on-line.
Streaming Services

– The services available vary depending on your geographical

location. Because Streaming Services generally allow the user some choice over

the content they listen to they are licensed differently to iRadio by the music

companies and often each service only has arrangements is certain countries.
When you enter this menu the ones that are available to you in your country will be

shown. Those that are free to use or have a free to use version will work 'straight

out of the box' Others will guide you to the relevant sign up page, should you so

wish.
For more details on what these services offer, please go to our www.stream-magic.

com

website, links to each service can also be found here and you can prevent

services appearing in this menu that you do not wish to sign up to.
Podcasts

– The podcast services in your area will be shown. These typically allow

you to choose different types of podcast by subject, date or perhaps popularity etc.

It is important to understand that the menu structure here is coming from that

service and is controlled by them. It may therefore change as the service updates

its features etc.
Note:

To use the Personal Podcasts feature, sign up at www.stream-magic.com

and enter the URLs of podcasts you’d like the 851N to automatically sync to. This

feature allows you to access podcast on the 851N that are not available in the

Podcasts services we support.

Registering your 851N with the Stream

Magic website

To access extra features on your 851N such as linking premium streaming services

to your 851N, adding non-Stream Magic internet radio stations or simply editing,

copying, re-ordering or deleting presets first you will need to set up a free account

with Stream Magic.
Open www.stream-magic.com from an Internet browser. Click on the 'Register' link

and follow the on-screen instructions to set up an account and to link your 851N to

this new account by entering your 851N's seven digit registration code, which can

be found in the 'Settings > Get Registration Key' menu of the 851N itself.
This is a unique key code generated by the unit during the registration process.
Note:

The key lasts for about 10 minutes, if you don’t use it in that time you will

need to exit and re-enter this menu to get a new key.
Your 851N is now registered and you can use the website to manage your presets,

Podcasts and more. You can also suggest new stations to us, setup 3rd party

Streaming Services and view information from us on new products.
After creating and logging into your new account, you can now add, remove or re-

order presets on your 851N from the 'Presets' tab.
There is also an enhanced internet radio station search facility, allowing you to

search for stations by minimum bit rate, etc and also the facility to add non-Stream

Magic internet radio stations as presets if you know the station’s URL.
To add further Stream Magic products to your existing Stream Magic account

(perhaps you want a second or third Stream Magic in a different room) then this

can be done by accessing the ‘Players’ tab in Stream Magic and clicking on the

‘Add a player’ link.
You can then choose to copy all or some of the existing presets from your current

Stream Magic to the new one.
Note:

You can register as many products as you like and manage the presets etc.

across several products which could be in different parts of the world all seamlessly

from your Stream Magic website.

Music Library

The 851N can access media from UPnP/DLNA Servers or USB Media connected

via USB. The 851N displays the following submenus:
UPnP is by far the preferred method as it allows for browsing by artist, album and

other methods, has support for control from Wi-Fi controller and the media can be

shared amongst several devices.

UPnP servers

Your 851N can connect with Computers or Network Attached Storage devices that

feature a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) AV Server.
When using a UPnP server to share your media, the search and selection criteria

are determined by the server and not the 851N, but typically include Album, Artist

and additional options such as Genre.

As long as the 851N is correctly configured for your Network, it will automatically

discover and connect to UPnP servers it finds. It will then allow navigation of the

menu structure coming from that server.
There are many suitable UPnP server software packages available for PC and Mac.

Stand-alone servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices with built in

UPnP server capabilities are also available. Please see the set-up guides on our

website at http://support.cambridgeaudio.com/.
Once you have setup a suitable server, navigate to the My Library menu and press

Select.
The 851N will perform a scan of your network and report any UPnP Servers it finds.

If none are found it will display "No Servers Found" on the display. If a server or

servers are found, UPnP server names will be displayed and you can select which

one you’d like to get the contents from.
Select the server you want and the 851N will then load the appropriate menu

structure from that server. These typically allows you to browse the content by

Album, Artist, Genre etc. It is important to understand that the menu structure

here is coming from the server and not the 851N.
You can now browse and select any music content in a format the 851N supports

(currently AAC, MP3, WMA, AIFF, FLAC, WAV and Ogg Vorbis).
Note:

Not all servers support serving of all these formats. Always make sure the

server you choose also supports your formats of choice. For example, Windows

Media Server does not currently serve FLAC format.

Alphanumeric Search

This is a search function menu inserted by the 851N into the browse tree of UPnP

servers that support an external search function.
Where available you can select Alphanumeric search and then enter the name or

partial name of an album or track you wish to find.
Simply select each character in order using the Navigation/Select dial or the

▲▼◄► buttons on the remote, using the dial, rotate to each character and then

press in to select or press the Enter/Mode button on the remote. You can also use

the

button to enter a character and the

button to delete a character.

Once finished either press the

button or navigate to the

symbol and press

the Enter/Mode button on the remote or press the Navigation/Select dial.
The 851N then displays all Album names or Track names it can find that matches

your chosen text.
You can then simply select your chosen item and press the Enter/Mode or

button on the remote to start it playing.

The 'Now Playing' screen

Selecting a new Station, Stream or Media item will start playback and display the

'Now Playing' screen.
The current Artist/Album and Track or Station name will be shown with the relevant

CODEC details (i.e. audio file type and bitrate/sample rate.)
For Media files, the 851N also shows the incremental track playback time.
You can also display the now playing screen at any time by pressing the

button on

the remote control or front panel.

Random

Accessed via the remote or Stream Magic app only. Press the Random button to

toggle Random On or Off.
The 851N displays a

in the 'Now Playing' screen when Random is On.

If the currently selected media item/folder contains fewer than 1000 tracks the

851N generates a true random shuffle of those tracks and starts playback such

that all are played once in a random order and then playback stops.
If more than 1000 tracks are contained the 851N will instead pick a track at

random for playback then pick another one randomly (and without reference to

what has gone before) once the current one has finished.
This continues until Random is turned Off. Thus for >1000 tracks the playback of

any track may be repeated randomly.

Repeat

Accessed via the remote or Stream Magic app only. Press the Repeat button to

toggle Repeat On or Off.
If the currently selected media item is a track the 851N will repeat that track, if it is

an album or artist etc. the 851N will repeat all tracks in that item.
The 851N displays a

in the 'Now Playing' screen when Repeat is On.