ONKYO TX-NR905 Manuale Utente

 

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The AV receiver is 

 

 which means you can 

hook it up to your home network with a standard Ether-
net cable and enjoy the music files stored on your com-
puter or media server. If your network is connected to the 
Internet, you can also enjoy Internet radio.
NET/USB can also be used to play music files stored on 
USB mass storage devices (e.g., USB flash drives and 
MP3 players), which can be plugged into the AV 
receiver’s front panel USB port.

 

With Internet radio you can:
• Listen to stations that use MP3 or WMA streaming.

• Select stations by entering the appropriate URL with 

the remote controller, or connect to the AV receiver 
from your computer and select stations in your Web 
browser.

• Preset up to 20 Internet radio stations.

 

For server and USB mass storage device playback, the 
AV receiver supports the following music file formats: 
MP3, WMA, WAV, and M4A (MPEG-4 Audio). It also 
supports Microsoft’s PlaysForSure technology.

 

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• MP3 files must be MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3 format 

with a sampling rate of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, and 48 kHz 
and a bit-rate of between 32 kbps and 320 kbps. 
Incompatible files cannot be played.

• Variable bit-rate (VBR) MP3 files are supported. 

(Playing times may not display correctly.)

• MP3 files must have a “.mp3” or “.MP3” filename 

extension.

 

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WMA stands for Windows Media Audio and is an audio 
compression technology developed by Microsoft Corpo-
ration. Audio can be encoded in WMA format by using 
Windows Media

 

®

 

 Player.

• WMA files must have the copyright option turned off.

• Sampling rates of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, and 48 kHz and 

bitrates of between 48 kbps and 320 kbps, and lossless 
DRM are supported. Incompatible files cannot be 
played.

• Variable bit-rates (VBR) are supported. (Playing times 

may display incorrectly with VBR.)

• WMA files must have a “.wma” or “.WMA” filename 

extension.

 

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WAV files contain uncompressed PCM digital audio.
• Sampling rates of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz and 

bitrates of 16 kbps are supported. Incompatible files 
cannot be played.

• WAV files must have a “.wav” or “.WAV” filename 

extension.

 

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M4A stands for MPEG-4 Audio.
• Sampling rates of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz and 

bitrates of between 16 and 320 kbps,  are supported. 
Incompatible files cannot be played.

• Variable bit-rate (VBR) files are supported. (Playing 

times may not display correctly.)

• M4A files must have a “.m4a” or “.M4A” filename 

extension.

 

• The AV receiver supports USB devices that support 

the USB mass storage device class.

• Playback may not be possible with some USB devices 

even if they conform to the USB mass storage device 
class.

• USB devices formatted with the FAT16 or FAT32 file 

system are supported.

• If the storage device has been partitioned, only music 

files in the first partition can be played.

• Each folder may contain up to 500 music files, and 

folders may be nested up to eight levels deep.

• Digital audio signals are not output by the digital out-

puts when playing music files.

• USB hubs and USB devices with hub functions are not 

supported. 

 

The AV receiver can play digital music files stored on a 
computer or media server and supports the following 
technologies:
• Windows Media Player 11

• Windows Media Connect 2.0

• UPnP AV-compatible media server

• DLNA-compatible media server

Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Media Connect 
2.0 can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft Web 
site.
• The computer or media server must be on the same 

network as the AV receiver.

• Each folder may contain up to 500 music files, and 

folders may be nested up to eight levels deep.

• Digital audio signals are not output by the digital out-

puts when playing music files.

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