Live USB Internet Radio

User Guide

September, 2010

Copyright © TwinMOS Technologies ME

All Rights Reserved

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the TwinMOS® Internet Radio Dongle (IRDL) iRadioLive. If you have

Internet access and a USB port, then you can enjoy the Live Internet Radio, delivering more than

20,000 radio stations from around the world to any desktop or notebook computer. Unlike some

popular media players and Web-based sources of entertainment, this USB Internet Radio allows

you to instantly connect, hear and Record your favorite music broadcasts from almost anywhere

of the world even your local Radio channels without any subscriptions or monthly fee. This user

manual allows you to operate the Device easily. Let’s get connected to the world of MUSIC and

enjoy Life time free entertainment.

Main Features

No monthly or hidden cost

Work perfectly with low bandwidth

Auto play without search when the internet is connected.

Records your favorite programs at any moment.

Direct tune to the “Default station” music.

Immediate access to “My favorite” stations on any PC.

Gives a Hyperlink back to broadcaster's website for detailed information.

Auto updates the latest stations constantly.

One Click to sort hottest stations by country and genre.

Mobile thumb sized, easy to carry around.

System Requirements

Available USB 1.1 or 2.0 port

Intel Pentium III 700 / Celeron 667 or above, AMD Athlon 3500+ or above

10 MB HDD space and 256 MB memory

Internet Explorer 6 or 7 for Windows or Safari 3.0 for Mac

Windows Media Player 9 or above

VGA graphics with overlay support

Windows 2000, XP or Vista; or Mac OS X 10.5

Package Contents

USB Internet Radio [iRadioLive]

Quick install guide (this user manual can be downloaded from www.twinmos.com ).

Installation

To begin enjoying your TwinMOS® LIVE Internet Radio, simply plug it into a USB port on your

computer, the operating software will automatically be launched! Because of computers vary with

regard to OS versions, language and settings in the Preferences section, the TwinMOS® USB Internet

Radio is designed to be compatible with the most common environment. In general settings it will run

automatically or you can simply run the iRadioLive.exe application program from the CD drive(X:)

iRadioLive. At the first time, you will be prompted to select the preferred language and a small activeX

control file may need to download and install.

Operation

When the application program launched it will appear a welcome screen like bellow for a few

seconds.

After few moments it will open the main window like bellow picture. We will discuss here for every

function to enjoy the Real LIVE Internet Radio. It’s a real user friendly and easy to understand interface

which will give you the complete satisfaction and new exciting online entertainment experience. Hope we

this user guide makes the function easy to understand.

Application Window:

This is the full functional application interface which will give you lots of new function in a same

platform. You can also customize this as your choice or you can send us feedback about this

products/application interface. There is already more than 20,000 active radio station and if you

think your local Radio station also should include, please don’t hesitate to contact with us.

Note: This application software interface picture is only for reference.

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Company & Product Logo:

This logo proof that, you bought the original TwinMOS® iRadioLive which is perfect for low

bandwidth internet speed.

LIVE Radio Playing Status area:

My Favorites List:

You can save up to 20 music station as your Favorite list on this quick access button. To see the

full list of your favorite station click on “My Favorites” or see details on “G6” section.

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1. Radio Station Name.

2. Visualization

3. Music Playing time

4. Station Description

Top 100 Station List:

In this section you will find the top 100 Radio station name, channel from which country, channel

type, signal strength, listener feedback and music bit rates. You can easily navigate to the top to

bottom of the station name. The top 100 Radio station is elected by the positive votes of the

listener or by the positive feedback. Final vote is count as subtraction of positive and negative

votes. So, if you like any music station you can vote for the station and make those high ratings.

Tell your friends to like and vote music station.

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1. Channel Name

2. Signal Strength

3. Listener Feedback

4. Music Bit rate

Controlling Area:

This is a music control panel. You can Play/Stop the music, record the music, mute, volume

controlling and even you can record music by schedule.

Note: You can save the playing music on your local drive in .wma audio formats.

Local Weather Forecasts:

In this section you will get some important weather information about your city. This utility

feature will show you some basic weather forecasts, date & time, humidity of the wind, sky status

and Precipitation status.

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1. Recording Button

2. Play/Stop Button

3. Schedule Recording Button

4. Mute Button

5. Volume Control Slider

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1. Local Area/city name

2. Today’s forecasted

temperature

3. Details weather report

4. Precipitation in percentage

5. Local time

6. Date

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Function Menu:

In this function Menu you will find most of the function to listen the music as you wishes. You can

simply search the music station by typing keyword, Display the Top 100 station name by Genre

and by Region, All station names by Genre and Region, favorites list, saved music clips, recent

history, contact with TwinMOS, settings and help. Here are some more details about “contact us”

and “settings” sub-menu.

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1. Quick Channel search by keyword

2. Display the Top 100 Channel by

Genres

3. Display the Top 100 Channels by

Region

4. Categorize Radio stations by Genre

5. Categorize Radio stations by Region

6. Display All of “My favorites list” that

you saved before

7. My saved audio clips

8. Top stations you listened recently

9. Contact with TwinMOS®

10. Application Settings or customization

11. If need any help

9. Contact Us:

a. Under the “Contact us” Menu there is one sub menu “Add station”. If you want to add

any new station, you can submit the information to the TwinMOS® for revision.

b. If station admin have any updates or any change about the existing Station, they can send

us the updates by this way.

c. If you have any Question, comment or any suggestion you can contact with us, we will try

to reach as soon as possible.

10. Settings Menu:

Under the Settings menu, there is some important settings option to make it easier. There is

some default Radio Station – Plug and Play. Assign a station to be automatically played while

launching. There are many options for you to choose:

Blank; don’t play any station automatically if you are afraid to bother your neighbors.

Random from top 100, System will randomly pick one station from the radio station

database for you to enjoy the surprise.

The most popular station, The No.1 station in the [Top 10 – Genre] list.

The No.1 in My Favorite List, the station which is assigned to your first button.

The station I played last time, when exiting this system.

Random from My Favorite, Randomly pick one station from your favorite station list.

Specified below, Specify a station by entering a string and search for all matched station

names. All matched stations will be displayed in the pull-down list for you to pick one from

them.

Also you can select the language from here.

You can also control the weather forecast by manual or auto.

Even you can choose it will show or not.

Music by Genres:

In this section you will found the music station by genres. There are around 100 different Genres

to choose music and each genre there is around top 100 music stations. If you have good

Internet speed and want to listen music in very good quality then try with most bit rates stations.

Company’s other products Advertisements:

In this section you will see lots of innovative products that recently launched from TwinMOS®

also you can navigate by clicking the link to the web site for more information.

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1. List of the Genres

2. Path of the present

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3. Name of the Stations

4. Signal strength of the

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1. Company Logo and motto

2. Latest news from TwinMOS

3. Latest Product Information.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. About the Product Issue:

a. Q. What is USB Internet Radio?

b. Q. What is iRadioLive [iRDL]?

c. Q. What is Kbps?

d. Q. What minimum speed needs to play frequently?

2. Installation Issue:

a. Q. What configuration I need to use the iRDL?

b. Q. Does iRadioLive needs to install?

c. Q. Why activeX need to install?

d. Q. Is there any security issue to install ActiveX?

3. Music Playing Issue:

a. Q. Why iRDL can’t play automatically?

b. Q. Why iRDL can’t play some of the station?

c. Q. Why there is some broken or no sound for some station?

d. Q. Which one is the best sound quality station?

e. Q. Can I Listen music if I unplug the iRDL?

4. Radio Station Issue:

a. Q. Why some of the station disappears suddenly?

b. Q. How to add any new station?

c. Q. How to updates the radio stations?

d. Q. How to vote for the station?

5. Function & Operational Issue:

a. Q. How to play iRDL?

b. Q. How to stop iRDL?

c. Q. How to search any particular station?

d. Q. How to Record music?

e. Q. How to save station on my favorite list?

1. About the Product Issue:

e. Q. What is USB Internet Radio?

Ans: Internet Radio means that radio station computer connects to Internet; it will be able to

listen to the radio without any area limitation you can listen to the whole world music from

anywhere.

f. Q. What is iRadioLive [iRDL]?

Ans: TwinMOS iRadioLive is a USB platform when you plug iRDL dongle into the USB port and it

will automatically pop out a player for listening to internet radio. Internet radio stations are

categorized into regions and genres. We provide a friendly GUI leading you easily to find out the

preferred stations. Each station can be voted or added to “my favorite” once you found that

station was what you like!!

g. Q. What is Kbps?

Ans: Kbps means numbers of kilobytes which transferred per second. The bigger the number it

shows the more data it transfers in one second. It means that acoustics will be better but also

takes more bandwidth and more time to wait. If you have lower bandwidth, its better try to listen

with lower Kbps otherwise it may cause some problem to listen the music. When it shows “--“, it

means we don’t have the information so far.

h. Q. What minimum speed needs to play frequently?

Ans: To play iRDL fluently and most of the music station, approximately 99% Internet Radio

stations played upon 0.2Mbps [200Kbps] bandwidth but you can also play most of the station

upon 0.128Mbps [128Kbps].

2. Installation Issue:

e. Q. What configuration I need to use the iRDL?

Ans: You will need the following configurations-

Available USB 1.1 or 2.0 port

Intel Pentium III 700 / Celeron 667 or above, AMD Athlon 3500+ or above

10 MB HDD space and 256 MB memory

Internet Explorer 6 or 7 for Windows or Safari 3.0 for Mac

Windows Media Player 9 or above

VGA graphics with overlay support

Windows 2000, XP or Vista; or Mac OS X 10.5

f. Q. Does iRadioLive needs to install?

Ans: No installation is needed, but downloading an ActiveX control file at the first time, or when

we update it, is required. You only need to plug the dongle into the USB port and click [OK] when

the player pops out automatically; then it will take few seconds to complete download. After that,

you won’t need to download the file any more.

g. Q. Why ActiveX need to install?

Ans: ActiveX is necessary for playing and recording the music. It’s a very small file. Please click [OK]

to download the ActiveX Control file and enjoy the music.

h. Q. Is there any security issue to install ActiveX?

Ans: No, there is nothing to worry about ActivX installation. It’s safe and necessary for playing

and recording the music.

3. Music Playing Issue:

a. Q. Why my iRDL can’t play automatically after plugging?

Ans: Generally it should play automatically after plugging to the USB port, if it’s not start

automatically please check the “Autoplay” service status. Please confirm the setting whether

[Autoplay] service has been enabled. (Only XP Professional version can change Autoplay settings,

please ignore this item if you are using XP Home version.) To enable, follow the steps:

I. [Start] > [Run] > Open: gpedit.msc

II. Select [Computer Configuration] from left side of the window

III. Expand folder and select [Administrative Templates]

IV. Expand folder and select [System]. Then select [Turn off Autoplay] from right

side of the window

V. Double click to change the setting to [Disabled]

VI. Then Click > Apply > OK.

VII. If you don’t want to change this setting, you may launch the program by

double clicking the application [ ] icon which can be found on the

disk list shown in [My Computer].

VIII. If you plug the iRDL into a PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 OS, because

of its security control for every software and hardware, the following windows

will be prompted to ask your permission to execute. Please click “Run

iRadioLive.exe”. If you don’t want this window to jump out next time, please

also check the “Always do this for software and games” box.

IX. Please confirm whether iRDL Dongle is original and legal.

X. Please confirm whether the computer has connected to the Internet.

XI. If it fails to play Internet Radio, please upgrade the Windows Media Player

version to 9 series or above.

XII. If none of the above reasons, please confirm whether the company or the

Internet Service Provider has setup the firewall to prevent streaming signal

transmitting.

b. Q. Why iRDL can’t play all the radio stations after starting the program?

Ans: If the program started properly but can’t play the radio station, then try to do like bellow-

(1) Please make sure that computer has been connected to internet first.

(2) Please go to [Control Panel] → [Internet Explorer] → [Tools] → [Internet options] → [Security]

→ [Custom level] →[Download signed ActiveX controls] → Enable

c. Q. Why there is some broken or no sound for some station?

Ans: iRDL is a platform which provides the service of internet radio to let users connect to the

radio stations to get the streaming signals. Therefore, [Broken sound] might happen when

bandwidth is insufficient or internetworking is congested. In this case, we suggest you choosing

the stations with lower bit-rate (kbps). [Noise] could be caused by unstable quality provided by

the internet radio station.

d. Q. Why can’t some radio stations be played on iRDL?

Ans: Internet radio stations are usually nonprofit and low capital so they may take break

sometimes or the bandwidth they provide is insufficient for too many people to connect in the

same time. No need of numerous equipments is the characteristic of internet radio station so that

the stations won’t need to invest a lot of money. Therefore most of them are nothing more than

hosted by home office or students. So the connecting problem may occur sometimes. In order to

avoid this problem, we also check the stations regularly to try to shift those suspended station

out from the database. Some ports might be blocked by the firewall also.

e. Q. Which one is the best sound quality station?

Ans: Sound quality depends on the bit rate. So, the higher bit rate station will give you the best

quality eg. 192Kbps is much better than 64Kbps even 128Kbps. If you have high speed internet

try with higher bit rate station.

f. Q. Can I Listen music if I unplug the iRDL?

Ans: The program will be shut down automatically after unplugging iRDL Dongle, so you won’t be

able to listen to internet radio any more. If you unplug iRDL Dongle incautiously when listening,

please plug the dongle again and select the History list to get the information of the stations

which was just listened. Click on the station directly to play. And one thing more, if you try to

copy the contents of the iRDL, it will never work without the iRDL.

4. Radio Station Issue:

a. Q. Why some of the station disappears suddenly?

Ans: If the station provider stops broadcasting for permanent or for a short time it will show

disappear. To ensure all stations we provided are connectable, we will keep detecting all stations’

connection status. Once a connection failed station was detected, we will remove it from all

station lists, which includes My Favorites and recommended station lists.

b. Q. How to add any new station?

Ans: If you wish to add new radio stations, please fill the detail information of the station like- station

name, website, and type, etc. You can find this from the “Contact us” section on the application like

bellow picture. We will process the information as soon as possible.

c. Q. How to updates the radio stations?

Ans: We are always working to bring the world largest Internet Radio Station Database. We will

keep searching and updating new stations to the database. Once we release updates you will get it

automatically.

d. Q. How to vote for the station?

Ans: You can vote for your most favorite music station through iRDL easily. Your vote will help

the station to get more popularity and higher ranking. Please see the bellow picture-

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1. Positive Vote

2. Negative Vote

3. Make as “My Favorite”

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5. Function & Operational Issue:

a. Q. How to play iRDL?

Ans: Plug iRDL Dongle into the USB port. Please download the ActiveX control file at the first

time and then just plug and play. For more detail information please refer to User Guide.

b. Q. How to stop iRDL?

Ans: To stop playing music just presses the stop button on the control panel. If you wish to play

again just press again it will start play again. Please see the bellow picture for your reference.

c. Q. How to search any particular station?

Ans: You can easily search any Radio station by typing keyword on the search box and hit enter

or by click the search button.

d. Q. How to Record music?

Ans: Select the radio station you want to listen to. After connecting successfully, please click

[Record] to start recording and it will pop out a window to ask for the destination folder and

filename you want to save as. Please click [Record] again to stop recording. The file extension will

be .wma which is supported by general media players. If you want to play the recorded file,

please find the file in the selected destination folder and double click to play by the default player.

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6. Recording Button

7. Play/Stop Button

8. Schedule Recording Button

9. Mute Button

10. Volume Control Slider

For Technical Support

E-mail: support@twinmos.com

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Prepared by- Zakir Hosen Engineer- MIS Department TwinMOS Technologies ME