Revision as of 16:18, 11 February 2016

Kazoo User Guide for Apple iPad/iPhone

Overview

Kazoo provides simple and intuitive way to play music all around your home.

You can view your Music sources content without stopping what you are listening to.

Kazoo has been designed to control Linn DS systems and Kazoo Server. Kazoo will also work with 3rd party UPnP/AV media servers, but for the best music experience, we recommend using [Kazoo http://www.linn.co.uk/software#kazoo] with [Kazoo Server |http://www.linn.co.uk/software#kazoo-server].

[Kazoo |http://www.linn.co.uk/software#kazoo] is available for iPad (iOS 8.0 and later), Android (4.1 and later), Windows (Windows XP SP3 and later) and Mac (Lion and later).

Operation

Kazoo has support for homes that have multiple DS systems. Each system in the home should be given a unique room name. A system's room name can be configured using Linn Konfig.

Settings

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This will let you select the UPnP Media server, Register your Linn Products, prevent iPad/iPhone lock and report any issues/improvements to Linn Products.

Make sure that you have a Media Server selected, press the Media Server box and select a device, before using this software.

Navigation

: Selects a room to play music in.

1. To show the room selection dialogue click (This may take its time as the iPad/iPhone is also trying to talk to your UPnP Media server as well as finding your room.)

2. Click on the desired room name

The currently selected room is highlighted in white
When moving between rooms the music will continue to play
Rooms in standby will have their standby button greyed out
To turn all systems off click

To return to the homescreen click or slide your finger from the left most part of the iPad screen to bring you to the Sources page

To open the volume control dialogue (if available) click

To open the fullscreen view click

To view a room's permanent sub-zones and whether they are enabled click

Playback controls

Provides the playback controls, play/pause/stop, skip forwards and skip backwards for the selected room.

Volume controls

Provides volume controls for the selected room.

1. Click and rotate clockwise on the dial to turn the volume up; Alternatively click on the + button 2. Click and rotate anti-clockwise on the dial to turn the volume down; Alternatively click on the - button 3. Click on the centre of the dial to toggle mute

If rooms are grouped the Master volume will affect all rooms
The inner number shows the absolute volume value
The outer dial shows the percentage that the current volume is of the volume limited volume

Now Playing and Full screen view

The now playing and full screen view provide information about the currently playing audio.

Music sources

Local music library

Linn DS systems can play music from computers and network attached storage (NAS) units on your home network through an additional piece of software, [Kazoo Server |http://www.linn.co.uk/software#kazoo-server]

To select music from your local music library

Organisation of music depends on the quality of the information contained in the music tracks
To view music stored in a different library on your home network go to settings and select your new Media Server/library

My Playlists

You can save and recall Playlists with Kazoo. To recall an existing Playlist click

This will show you the Playlists you have save on that control device: PC, MAC, iPad etc. You can select the whole Playlist of tracks within each Playlist.

Radio

Linn DS systems can play internet radio through radio preset's. To access a room's radio preset list click

Linn DS systems come with a variety of preselected regional stations which can be configured using Linn Konfig. You can also use your Tunein account name for your own preset list

Tidal

Tidal streaming services can be select by clicking

If a Tidal streaming account has not been assigned to Kazoo or your Linn DS, you will get the Login screen to enter your Username and Password for your Tidal account.

This will give you the Tidal screen. You can select any New tracks, list Music by Genre, List Music by Genre or check out your own account favourites in "My Tidal"

Qobuz

Qobuz streaming services can be select by clicking

If a Qobuz streaming account has not been assigned to Kazoo or your Linn DS, you will get the Login screen to enter your Username and Password for your Qobuz account.

This will give you the Qobuz main screen You can Discover new Music, select you purchased Music (If you have a Qobuz HiFi Sublime account this can be played in Studio Master quality) or check out your own account favourites in "My Qobuz" <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/iPad-Qobuz.jpg" />

External inputs

Linn DS systems can play audio from external sources. To listen to an external source select the tile with the source's name from the homepage.

Source name can be configured using Linn [Konfig](http://www.linn.co.uk/software#konfig).

Visible sources that are still using the factory default name can be found by clicking <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/InputsTile.png" />
If a source is not being used we recommend removing it from the UI by setting its Visibility to false in Konfig

Searching

Search can be used to look for music within <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/MyMusicTile.jpg" /> when using KazooServer.

To search and enter the desired, partial or full, search term click <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/And-Search-Tile.png" />

As you enter the search term, matching results will being to appear.

Search results are grouped into categories, Albums, Artists, Classical and Tracks
The number of results for each category are shown in brackets after the category label
Albums shows albums who's title contains the search term
Artists shows artists who's name contains the search term
Classical shows composers who's name contains the search term
Tracks show tracks where any piece of track information contains the search term

Managing the playlist

Adding to the Playlist

Within the Music Source when you select some Music you will see the **Play Now**, **Play Later** and **More** buttons.<img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/More.png" />

Press the **More** and you get more options of **Play next**, **Play later**, **Add to..** and **Album info** / **Track info**

- Play Now** Will play the first track(s) immediately<img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/PLAY_NOW.png" />

- Play Later** Will add the track(s) to the END of the current Playlist. (last track to play)<img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/Play_Later.png" />

- Play next** Will add the track(s) to be the next one to Play (as long as you are not in Shuffle mode)<img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/PLAY_NEXT.png" />

- Add to..** Add the track(s) to the selected saved Playlist.<img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/Add_To.png" />

- Album info** Reports the Album information provided by the Music source<img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/Album_Info.png" />

- Track info** Reports the track information provided by the Music source<img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/Track_info.png" />

Playlist editing

A typical user will not need to manipulate the playlist as queue music will take care of itself, playing in the order selected by the user.

To view the playlist click <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/PlaylistButton.png" />

Clearing the playlist

To delete to whole Playlist:

<img style="floatcentre"  src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/iPad-Playlist-Clear-seq.png" />

All tracks will be removed from the currently selected room's playlist.

To delete tracks: <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/iPad-Playlist-track-delete.png" />

and delete each track using <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/iPad-Track-Del_but.png" /> Followed by the red "Delete" button

Shuffle and Repeat

Shuffle and Repeat controls can be found in the playlist dialogue

To play tracks in the playlist in a random order click <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/Shuffle.png" />

Shuffle turns white when enabled*

To repeat the playlist after the last track has played click <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/Repeat.png"/>

Repeat turns white when enabled*

Saving a Playlist

You can Save playlists using the Save button located on the Playlist dialogue <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/PlaylistSave.png" />

The saved playlists can be found in the My Playlists section on the HOME page

Dynamic grouping of rooms

Linn DS systems provides the ability to different play music in every room in the house, play the same music in all rooms or play the same music in a subset of rooms.

All rooms grouped together play the same music in perfect synchronisation.

1. Click <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/MultiroomTile.png" /> 2. Click <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/GroupButton.png" /> on the room you want to group with other rooms 3. Check the rooms you want to add to the group

        <img style="floatcentre"  src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/iPad-GroupDialog.png"  />

You can choose to either select and play the music you want and then group additional rooms or group rooms then select and play music
Rooms added to a group will immediately start playing music in perfect synchronisation

Permanent grouping of rooms

A permanent room is a room that plays the same music as another room but does not appear as a selectable room. An example of this behaviour is a dressing room connected to a bedroom. In most situations a listener would want both rooms to play the same music but be able to control the volume in each room independently.

To make a room a permanently part of a group you need to configure your Linn system using [Konfig](http://www.linn.co.uk/software#konfig). To add a room to as a permanent member of a group you must configure the name of the room's Receiver source, (it's default name is Songcast), to be that of the group.

1. Go into Konfig and select the Room that will always be the source of the Music, we will call this the "sender" room 2. Select the *Device* tab and copy the "**Room**" name 3. Now select the permanent room, we will call this the "listening" room 4. Select the *Sources* tab in this "listening" room and select the Songcast input 5. Paste the Name of the "sender" into the Songcast name

In our example of a bedroom, called "Bedroom", with a dressing room, called "Dressing Room", you would configure the name of the dressing room's Receiver source to "Bedroom".

If a permanently grouped room is not playing the same as the group click <img style="floatcentre" src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/SatelliteButton.png" /> and ensure the room is ticked

    <img style="floatcentre"  src="http://linn.github.io/kazoo.site/images/iPad-PermanentGrouping.jpg"  />

The permanent grouped icon will only be visible if there is a permanently grouped room associated with the currently selected room
Rooms that are permanently grouped do not appear as an selectable room

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