North Star Fluxio Operating Manual - page 12
Driver Installation
The
Fluxio
, in USB mode configuration, need proprietary drivers to be installed in the PC/MAC. Drivers
are available for different Operative Systems:
PC
XP, Vista/Win7 (both 32 and 64 bits)
MAC
Mountain Lion/Lion 10.7/Snow Leopard 10.6,
Leopard 10.5, Tiger 10.4
PC installation
1) connect the
Fluxio
input at one of the USB2.0 port of your PC
2) your PC will search for new drivers
3) insert the CD-ROM with drivers supplied with the unit
4) the drivers will be installed automatically
5)
select in the Audio preferences of the OS, like preferred output device, the North Star Design
USB Hi-Speed Interface
MAC installation
1) inset the CD-ROM in the drive
2) select the driver for your MAC OS
3) click on the file to install
4) restart the MAC
5) connect the
Fluxio
with the USB cable
6) Select in the audio devices the North Star Design HS USB Interface
After the driver installation you can play music via USB and the
Fluxio
.
PC – Foobar2000
This, at the moment, for us is the most audiophile free player available for the PC platform.It is
important to correctly configure the player in conjunction with the
Fluxio
1)
install the latest version of Foobar2000 from the official website
www.foobar2000.org
2)
for XP users - download the
Kernel Streaming Support
from the
Components
section of
the website.
for Vista/Win7 users - download the
Wasapi
Support
from the
Components
section of
the website.
This allows you to have a bit-perfect transfer via USB. Decompress the file and copy the
decompressed file in the directory
components
of the
foobar2000
directory created by
the previous installation (1)
3)
start the foobar2000 program
4)
for XP users - In the
File-
→
Preferences, Playback
→
Output
to select the Output Device
select the
KS : North Star design USB Hi-Speed interface