Support Downloads

All Rapsody products are End of Life and the support period has ended. Below is an archive of the last state of this page (from 2009). Please note we do NOT guarantee any of these still work. There could be serious incompatibilities with current operating systems.

Use at your own risk!

Manuals:

German / Deutsch

French / Français

Italian / Italiano

English

Russian

6 May 2009:

Stable Firmware (recommended): v3.41

NOTE: This is the last firmware version available. There won't be any further. Development and production has stopped.

>> N35/N36 Firmware v3.41

Changes:

1. Finally: Added INTERNET RADIO feature!

We support SHOUTCAST radio stations (http://www.shoutcast.com) which stream in MP3 format.

We added 30 popular stations by default and you can easily integrate further ones:

Just put a simple text file named stationlist.txt in the root of N36's HDD (if you have one built-in) and put one station URL per line. For example its content could look like this:

First custom URL will be listed as station number 31. A sample stationlist.txt is included in the zip file.

You can get URLs if you browse to shoutcast.com with your computer, just right-click on the yellow "TUNE IN!" button and copy the link.

ENJOY! :)

IMPORTANT NOTE (2009):
SHOUTcast.com recently changed their website to open by default the station in their own web player. So it's not possible anymore to copy a custom link by default for the Internet Radio function. However you can fix it easily:
If you click "Change Default Player Settings" on their website and then choose "I want to listen using my own media player" the links are changed back to the old format which work fine again with Rapsody's Internet Radio. Then just copy the shortcut of the station you want, it should look similar to this one: http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=7429

Note 2: We know that displaying only the URLs in the station list is pretty inconvenient as you can't know which radio it is. We are working on adding name display support in a future version, however we didn't want to delay the long awaited internet radio function because of that.

Note 3: Shoutcast stations which use AAC+ audio codec are NOT supported (also not in future).

2. Minor fixes

Don't forget, since release 3.37:
Please make sure you have no spaces or special characters in the network share names! Otherwise you can't access its content.

Old Versions:
N35/N36 Firmware v3.40-b9
N35/N36 Firmware v3.39
N35/N36 Firmware v3.37
N35/N36 Firmware v3.24
N35/N36 Firmware v3.18

Latest NDAS Software on our servers:
Version 3.72 for all Windows incl. Vista 32/64 Bit + Windows 7
Version 1.84 for Mac OS X 10.3-10.5 (Panther, Tiger + Leopard)
Version 1.84 for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard 32bit)

Please note for multiple read/write access you will need to install the same version (at least 3.30) on all other Windows computers as well.
With Mac OS X only ONE user can have read/write access to the NDAS device at the same time. All other users must have the device mounted in read only mode.

NDAS Manual:
For Windows
For Mac OS X

The RAPSODY N36 is in parts based on source code published by third party developers under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Downloads:
Source Code
GPL License
LGPL License

Generally not supported formats due to hardware decoder chip limitations in N35/N36: MKV and H.264 are not compatible. Further incompatibility is possible today as development of this product has stopped in 2009.

You may use a Video Conversion Software on your PC to convert your files into a compatible format.

Manual: RSH-300 English Manual

Handbuch: RSH-300 Deutsches Handbuch

11 April 2007:

Stable Firmware (recommended): v1.26

NOTE: This is the last firmware version available. There won't be any further. Development and production has stopped.

>> RSH-300 Firmware v1.26

Changes:

1. Fixed a bug that some ID3 tags (v1) were not shown.

2. Added support for displaying ID3v2 tags (basic
information only).

3. Fixed a bug that MP3 files with included cover art (image
in ID3v2 tag) over a specific size (~100 kb) could not
be played.

4. FINALLY: Added support for OGG Vorbis audio playback!

5. Added support for czech language.

6. Added the function, that it will automatically play the
content of a Video_TS folder when you press play on it.

7. Improved HD video playback / 1080p support. Supports fluid
playing and FF of WMV-HD files in 1080p resolution. Also
works better with DivX-HD, but still has some problems here
with 1080p files (freezes).

8. Enhanced playback of MPEG HD files

Alternative special purpose firmware version:

Attention: Please carefully check the included Readme file! This version is only for special Autorun / Advertising display solution, it does NOT support normal player mode!!

RSH-300 Firmware for Advertising Display Solutions

Do NOT install this version unless you know what you're doing!

Generally not supported formats due to hardware decoder chip limitations in RSH-300: MKV and H.264 are not compatible. Further incompatibility is possible today as development of this product has stopped in 2007.

You may use a Video Conversion Software on your PC to convert your files into a compatible format.

13 April 2007:

Stable Firmware (recommended): v1.40

NOTE: This is the last firmware version available. There won't be any further. Development and production has stopped.

>> RSH-100 Firmware v1.40 EN+DE+FR

Changes: Fixed the "black screen" bug. See text file in ZIP file download for more details.

MANUALS

In GERMAN, FRENCH and ENGLISH:
RAPSODY User's Guide v2 European

In RUSSIAN:
RAPSODY User's Guide v2 Russian

For your convenience we created also a document (also in GERMAN, FRENCH and ENGLISH) with some additional important information and hints, we recommend to read it carefully:
ADDITIONAL NOTES for RAPSODY

Drivers

Windows 98SE Driver

Generally not supported formats due to hardware decoder chip limitations in RSH-100/250: WMV, QuickTime and all HD-Video resolutions (720p/1080i/1080p) including H.264 and MKV. Further incompatibility is possible today as development of this product has stopped in 2007.

You may use a Video Conversion Software on your PC to convert your files into a compatible format.

13 April 2007:

Stable Firmware (recommended): v1.40

NOTE: This is the last firmware version available. There won't be any further. Development and production has stopped.

>> RSH-250 Firmware v1.40 EN+DE+FR

Changes: Fixed the "black screen" bug. See text file in ZIP file download for more details.

MANUALS

In GERMAN, FRENCH and ENGLISH:
RAPSODY User's Guide v2 European

In RUSSIAN:
RAPSODY User's Guide v2 Russian

Additional manual for RSH-250 specific attributes:
RSH-250 Additional Manual

For your convenience we created also a document (also in GERMAN, FRENCH and ENGLISH) with some additional important information and hints, we recommend to read it carefully:
ADDITIONAL NOTES for RAPSODY

Generally not supported formats due to hardware decoder chip limitations in RSH-100/250: WMV, QuickTime and all HD-Video resolutions (720p/1080i/1080p) including H.264 and MKV. Further incompatibility is possible today as development of this product has stopped in 2007.

You may use a Video Conversion Software on your PC to convert your files into a compatible format.

All Rapsody products are End of Life and the support period has ended.