Buy It Now. Add to cart. Easy to set up, the Netgear MP operates with a button remote. This fully functional remote control allows the digital music player to navigate through the playlist and select from available tracks according to artiste, genre and album on your PC. At the rear, the Netgear media streamer is supplied with a mini-jack headphone socket and a pair of RCA sockets for audio connectivity.
Additional Product Features Model Number. Show More Show Less. Any Condition Any Condition. Open Box. See all 15 - All listings for this product. Building your MP Rhapsody library requires some work, but it's addictive and rewarding. For instance, you type a term, such as Outkast , into the Rhapsody search box, then select the available Outkast albums or tracks that you wish to make available for streaming playback on the MP You repeat this process anytime you want to add new content to your personal Rhapsody database nearly , tracks are available to choose from.
Informative artist write-ups are integrated into the Rhapsody server interface. Using the remote, you can navigate PC-based tracks by all the usual categories, including artist name, track title, album, genre, and playlist. Unfortunately, Rhapsody tracks can't be navigated by genre.
And when powering up the MP, you're forced to choose between the Rhapsody Internet server and the Netgear server running on your networked PC. As a result, you can't simultaneously browse Rhapsody content and your PC-based music library. Furthermore, you can't create a playlist that mixes content from the two sources--think Berlin Wall.
The MP's analog outputs sound suitably clean, but the device isn't without a few performance snags. In our tests, before installing the most recent firmware upgrade, the server applications and the hardware required frequent rebooting to reactivate dead communication links. The display keeps you updated on its progress and it had no problems finding our It will show all discovered networks and you use the remote control to scroll through them and select the one you want to connect to.
When the unit attempts to associate with a secured access point it automatically detects that WEP is enabled and asks if you want to activate this on the player. Adding music files to the Netgear collection is easy enough as the import function scans selected drives and folders looking for MP3 and WMA files. You can even use a built in scheduler to scan selected locations at regular intervals.
Your next job is to organize the files into playlist, album, artist and genre categories. Track details can be edited so you can add information about the artist, album and genre although for a large number of tracks this can get tedious. Smart playlists make things even easier as you can match conditions based on any or all of these categories and use keywords to automatically populate a playlist.
Playback was very clean over both headphone and stereo connections and at no time did the wireless link cause any performance problems. We would recommend doing this regularly as we found the MP as supplied for review refused to play any of the vTuner radio streams until its firmware had been updated. We enjoyed testing the MP and found it very easy to install and use with good playback quality. The remote control was also simple enough to get to grips with making this package a useful addition to a home entertainment centre — just remember to upgrade it regularly to avoid any problems.
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