Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Operation & User’s Manual

86, Setting the alarm clock Your radio has two separate alarms which can be set to wake you to either the radio, CD, USB, SD, iPod or a buzzer alarm. In the event of a power interruption your radio has built in memory that will retain your alarm settings. Ensure that the time is set correctly before setting the alarms. Press the Alarm button to see the current alarm settings. If no change is required, press and hold the Menu button or press the Back button to exit. The Alarm menu can also be access…

84, Manually setting the clock The DDR-63+ radio will normally set its clock automatically to UK time after a connection to the Internet has been established. Should you need to set the time manually, change the time zone, or manually switch from winter to summer time (GMT to BST - also known outside the UK as daylight savings time), then please follow this procedure. Press the Standby button to switch on your radio. To set the time and date press and hold the Clock/Set button then follow steps …

33, GB Selecting your favorite stations Press and hold the Menu button to enter the main Internet radio menu. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons on the touch panel until 'Station list' is highlighted on the display. Press the Select button to enter the menu. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons on the touch panel until 'My Favourites' is highlighted on the display. Press the Select button and your favorite stations list will appear on the display (set up as described on the preceding pag…

38, Locating and playing media les using UPnP Once the UPnP server has been congured to share media les with your radio, you may select the les that you wish to play as follows:- Press the Standby button to switch on the unit. Press the Media button as needed until the Music Player mode display is shown. The main Music Player menu will then be displayed. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons on the touch panel until 'Shared media' is highlighted on t…

48, Display modes Your radio has a range of display options when in DAB mode:- Press the Info button to cycle through the different options. Displays text messages such as the artist or track name, phone in number, trafc alerts, etc. 1. Text Displays the type of station being listened to such as Pop, Classic, News etc. Displays the name of the DAB multiplex to which the current station belongs as well as its broadcast frequency. Displays the signal error and strength for the station …

68, Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Select a specic le For le numbers 1-9 simply press the corresponding digit button. For le numbers ten and above press the required digits using the 10/0 button to enter the digit zero. If the le number entered exceeds the number of playable les on the CD, then the last le will be played. File numbers up to 512 may be entered. The numbers of les in folders are added together. So, for example, if th…

24, Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Press and hold the Menu button to enter the main Internet radio menu. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons on the touch panel (Alternatively, the Folder Up or Down buttons on the remote control handset) until ‘Station list’ is highlighted on the display and then press the Select button. Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons on the touch panel (Alternatively, the Folder Up or Down buttons on the remote control handset) until ‘Stations’ is highlighted on the display and then press the Select butto…

45, GB Clearing the playlist Press and hold the Menu button to enter the main Music Player menu. To clear the whole playlist press the Folder Up or Down buttons (on the remote control) until 'Clear My playlist' is highlighted on the display. Press the Select button. To clear the whole playlist press the Folder Up or Down buttons until 'YES' is highlighted on the display. Press the Select button to cause the playlist to be cl…

75, GB If recording from a CD, recording will be started from the beginning of the currently playing track. Each track on the CD will be recorded as a separate le on the media. In order to stop the recording press the Record button once more.Recording will stop and a le will have been written to the storage media. 4. Files that have been written to the media are held in a folder called "RECORD". Recordings are held in sub-folders according to the source used for the recording. The illustration shows the folders as they…

70, Using SD cards or USB memory devices This section describes how to use your radio to access and playback your audio les via USB memory devices and Secure Digital (SD, SDHC) cards. The DDR-63+ can also record to SD, SDHC or USB media in MP3 format. Important: Your radio is only designed to work with USB memory ash memory devices. It is not intended to be connected to hard disk drives or any other type of USB device. The DDR-63+ has been tested with a range of USB memory devices o…

62, Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Inserting a CD Ensure the CD player is empty before inserting a disc. If there is a disc in the player then the CD indicator will be lit. If you cannot insert a disc, press the CD Eject button to remove the CD currently in the player. Press the Standby button to switch on your radio. To select the CD mode press the Media button until 'CD' shows on the display. To eject a CD press and release the CD Eject button. To reload a CD that has just been ejected, press the Eject but…

10, Using the touch panel The DDR-63+ has a stylish touch panel instead of conventional buttons. To operate the buttons simply touch the button area with the tip of a nger for about half a second. The clock set and system menu functions marked with a dot ( ) are accessed by means of a long touch (2-3 seconds) on the appropriate button until the display on the radio shows that the command has been accepted. You may nd at rst that the radio does not always detect that you have touched a button. If so, tr…

51, Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION GB Manual Tuning Manual tuning allows you to tune directly to the various Band III DAB channels (5A to 13F). When in DAB mode press and hold the Menu button so that the display shows the DAB menu. Press the Folder Up or Down buttons until 'Manual tune' is highlighted. Press the Select button to enter manual tune mode. Press the Folder Up or Down buttons to choose the required DAB channel. Press the Select button to cause the radio to tune to the chosen channel.When the radio has tuned, …

7, GB Controls and connections (Rear View) Telescopic aerial Wi-Fi antenna Headphone socket Line output socket Auxiliary input socket Optical output socket (Toslink) Ethernet socket (RJ-45) Mains input socket 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 6 …

97, GB Auxiliary input socket A 3.5mm Auxiliary Input socket located on the rear of your radio is provided for connecting the audio signal from an external audio source such as an MP3 or CD player. Connect a stereo lead from the headphone output of your MP3 or CD player to the Aux In socket located at the rear of the radio. Typically this lead will have a 3.5mm stereo plug at both ends. Switch on your radio. Press the Radio button until 'AUX in' mode is shown on the display. Pres…

6, Controls and connections (Front view) Standby button Remote control sensor Radio button Info / Menu button Record button Volume Up / Down button Back button Repeat button Play / pause button Select / stop button Tuning Down / Rewind button SD card / USB memory socket (behind panel) Tuning Up / Fast-forward button Sleep / Clock set button Alarm button Media button CD Eject button Loudspeakers x 2 CD slot LCD display 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.…

80, Navigating your iPod Use the Menu button on the remote control to navigate to higher level menus on your iPod. Use the Folder Up or Down buttons on the remote control as required to move up and down a menu screen on your iPod. Press the Select button to choose the highlighted on screen menu item. If this item is a lower level menu item, you may then navigate further using the Folder Up or Down and Select buttons. Note: iPod models vary in how they respond to the men…

73, GB Search function While the SD card / USB memory device is playing, press and hold the Fast-forward or Rewind buttons. Release the button when the desired part of the current le is reached. 1. To skip to another folder With the SD card / USB memory device in stop or play mode, press and release either the Up or Down Folder button (on the remote control). The rst le of the next or previous folder will be played. 1. Repeat, Intro, shuf…

67, Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION GB Playing an MP3 / WMA CD Press the Play / Pause button to start playing from the CD. The display will show the rst folder and le numbers - " 01" and " 001". To pause playing press the Play / Pause button. To resume playing press the Play / Pause button again. To stop play, press the Stop button. The total number of les on the disc and 'Stop' will be displayed. If you put the unit into standby mode without pres…

94, Contrast / viewing angle control The contrast of the display can be adjusted. The adjustment also changes the angle from which the display can best be seen. Access the menu for the current mode by pressing and holding the Menu button. Press the Folder Up or Down buttons until 'System settings' is highlighted on the display. Press the Select button to enter the settings menu. Press the Folder Up or Down buttons until 'Contrast' is highlighted on th…

82, Clock and Alarms Automatically updating the clock Your radio will normally update the clock automatically when connected to the internet. If you enter a time setting manually, the radio will calculate a local time offset which is then stored in memory. Whenever it synchronizes the clock using the internet, including after a power failure, your radio will then set the clock automatically using this information. You may wish to use the radio away from the internet, in which case you may specify that the unit sets its clock from DAB or F…

57, Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION GB Display modes Your radio has a range of display options when in FM mode:- Press the Info button to cycle through the different options. Displays text messages such as the artist or track name, phone in number, trafc alerts, etc. 1. Text Displays the type of station being listened to such as Pop, Classic, News etc . Displays the frequency of the FM signal. Displays the current date. Program Type Frequency Date a. b. c. d. Note: If no RDS information is avai…

101, GB Network proles Each time that you connect your radio to a WiFi network, the radio will store the details of that connection (SSID, security key, DHCP/IP address settings) as a prole. Up to four such proles are stored in the radio so that if the unit is used in multiple locations there is no need to enter the network settings when returning to a location previously visited. The radios stores the four most recent proles in memory identied by their SSID. Normally…

37, GB Press the Tuning Up or Down buttons on the touch panel until 'Shared media' is highlighted and press the Select button to select. The radio will scan for all available UPnP servers. It may take a few seconds for the radio to complete its scan. The radio will display '<Empty>' if no UPnP servers are found. After scanning, select your UPnP server using the Tuning Up or Down and Select buttons on the touch panel. If you allow…

46, Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION DAB Radio Using DAB mode for the rst time Carefully extend the telescopic aerial. Press the Standby button to switch on the radio. If the radio has been used before the last used mode will be selected. Press the Radio button as needed so that DAB radio mode is selected on the display. If this is the rst time that DAB mode is used a quick scan of the Band III DAB channels will be carried out. The display will show 'Scanning'. (If the radio has been…

47, Sangean DDR-63 - PRODUCT DESCRIPTION GB Selecting a DAB radio station When playing a DAB radio station, the display normally shows the name of the current station with other related information. Press the Folder Up or Down buttons to access the radio station list and to scroll through the available stations. Press the Select button to select the highlighted station. The display may show 'Connecting...' while the radio re-tunes. Use the Volume buttons to set the sound level as needed. 1. 2. 3. 4. Note: If the display shows 'Station Not Avail…

102, Software version display The software version display is provided for reference and customer support purposes and cannot be changed. Access the menu for the current mode by pressing and holding the Menu button. Press the Folder Up or Down buttons until 'System settings' is highlighted on the display. Press the Select button to enter the System settings menu. Press the Folder Up or Down buttons until 'Radio Info' is highlighted on the display. Press the Select button to display the sof…

91, GB Display and Audio Equalizer function The sound on your radio can be adjusted to suit your personal taste for the material that you are listening to. The DDR-63 Plus has a range of equalizer modes. Alternatively you may set the treble and bass levels to your own preferences which can be accessed from the My EQ menu item. Press the Standby button to switch on your radio. Access the menu for the current mode by pressing and …

54, Prune stations If you move to a different part of the country, some of the stations which were listed may no longer be available. Also, from time to time, some DAB services may stop broadcasting, or may change location or frequency. Stations which cannot be found, or which have not been received for a very long time are shown in the station list with a question mark. The Prune stations function will delete the marked DAB stations from your station list. Press the Standby button to switch on your radio. Press the Radio button as needed to select DA…