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- Page 2 Creative MuVo Slim Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Creative Technology Ltd. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose without the written permission of Creative Technology Ltd.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Caring For Your Player... viii Introduction Before You Begin... xi Package Contents ... xi Software Included ... xi Creative Media Detector... xi Creative MediaSource... xii Creative MediaSource Player... xii Creative MediaSource Organizer... xii Adobe Acrobat Reader... xiii Minimum System Requirements ... xiii Document Conventions... - Page 5 Power Source and Level Indicators ... 2-4 3 Using Your Software Downloading from the Internet... 3-2 Transferring Tracks or Files ... 3-3 Using Creative MediaSource... 3-3 Using Windows Explorer... 3-4 Creative MediaSource... 3-5 Editing audio track information ... 3-5 Ripping Audio CD Tracks... 3-6 4 Using Your Player Turning On/Off your Player...
- Page 6 Recording Voice... 4-15 Recording FM Radio... 4-16 Playing Recordings... 4-18 EQ Settings ... 4-19 Enhancing Your Music ... 4-19 Deleting Audio Files... 4-21 User Preferences ... 4-21 Locking and Unlocking Your Player... 4-24 Formatting your Player ... 4-25 Appendixes A Technical Specifications Player ...
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Page 8: Safety And Handling Instructions
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Page 9: Caring For Your Player
Safety and Handling Instructions Caring For While your player is quite robust, observing these handling procedures will prolong its life. Your Player Do not store or use in areas exceeding 45ºC or 113ºF. Do not expose to heat or incinerate. Keep away from strong magnetic fields. -
Page 10: Introduction
Introduction... - Page 11 Introduction Congratulations on making an excellent decision in purchasing Creative MuVo Slim! Your new multi-format portable player allows you to store songs in the player’s Music Library, and is equipped with a USB 2.0™ port, so you can transfer audio tracks and data quickly and easily. With your player’s built-in microphone you can record voice, and with the FM radio, you can listen to your favorite radio stations.
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Page 12: Before You Begin
There is no need to hunt through a maze Detector of different software to play different types of files. Media Detector automatically recognizes the insertion of CDs, and connection of external devices like Creative MuVo Slim. Upon recognition, the content in the media will be displayed. Introduction xi... -
Page 13: Creative Mediasource
Audio CDs and create high quality digital audio files (up to 320 kbps for MP3 and 160 kbps for WMA) ❍ configure the settings for Creative MuVo Slim while it is plugged-in to Creative MediaSource ❍ "squeeze" more audio tracks into your player with SmartFit, which employs intelligent track management and WMA compression ❍... -
Page 14: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Acrobat Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on all major computer platforms. Reader Minimum ❍ Microsoft 2000, or Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) System ❍ Intel Requirements (Pentium III 450 MHz or higher recommended for MP3 encoding) ❍ CD-ROM drive with digital audio extraction support ❍... -
Page 15: Document Conventions
Document We use icons to highlight useful or urgent information for you: Conventions Tip. This tells you about shortcuts or hints relating to a feature. Note. This highlights additional or important information about a feature. Caution! This highlights proper usage of your product. Follow these directions to prevent the loss of data, or damage to your product or system. -
Page 16: Web Information
Online Enjoy a host of benefits by registering your product during installation, or at www.creative.com/register. Benefits include: Registration ❍ Service and product support from Creative ❍ Exclusive updates on promotions and events regularly for information on: Introduction xv... -
Page 17: Tour Of Your Player
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Page 18: Your Player At A Glance
A Tour of Your Player Your Player at a Glance Strap lug Volume Decrease button Volume Increase button Play/Pause button Scroller LCD screen Front View USB port Headphones connector connects to your headphones Left View Right View Top View Battery panel A Tour of Your Player 1-1... - Page 19 Button What It Does ❍ turns the player on and off PLAY PAUSE ❍ activates LCD backlight ❍ starts, pauses or continues playback ❍ changes Scroller mode in FM Radio mode VOLUME INCREASE ❍ increases the volume VOLUME DECREASE ❍ decreases the volume ❍...
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Page 20: Using The Scroller
Scroller Scroll Select The Scroller is one of the most important features of your Creative MuVo Slim. In this document, we will use a new term, “Scroll Select”, to indicate that you should use the Scroller to scroll through options and then select the option by pressing the Scroller. -
Page 21: Getting Started
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Page 22: Installing Drivers And Software
2. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation. player. For Windows 98 SE users, make sure the MuVo Slim Driver option is selected on the Install Software screen. 3. If prompted, restart your computer. -
Page 23: Charging Battery
Charging To charge your battery, you can connect your player directly to the computer using the supplied USB cable, or to a USB charger (available separately). Battery 1. Insert the supplied battery into your player. When opening or closing the battery compartment, handle with care. - Page 24 2. Connect your player to your computer’s USB port using the supplied USB cable (see Figure 2-2). You can connect your player to a USB hub with an external power supply. If you are using a passive or bus-powered USB hub, and the charge symbol does not display, connect the...
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Page 25: Power Source And Level Indicators
Power Source After inserting the battery, your player displays one of the following icons, depending on the battery’s status. and Level Icon Indicators The amount of playback time available depends on various factors (for example, volume level). For more information, see "Usage"... -
Page 26: Using Your Software
Using Your Software... - Page 27 Creative MediaSource is included on your installation CD (see "Installing Drivers and Software" on page 2-1). Creative MediaSource is the best way to organize and transfer audio to and To listen to transferred from your player. This chapter includes basic instructions on using...
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Page 28: Downloading From The Internet
Downloading To get music files from the Internet, use a search engine to locate sites with music content. You can also try out these sites (web sites listed here are from the correct at the time of this document’s release): Internet ❍... -
Page 29: Transferring Tracks Or Files
MediaSource 2. Click Start → Programs → Creative → Creative MediaSource → Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer. 3. If you are not already in Creative MediaSource Organizer, click the Player/Organizer View button. 4. Click the Show/Hide Right Panel button. 5. In the Sources window, select the source device. -
Page 30: Using Windows Explorer
3. Copy the files into your player using a drag-and-drop operation. WMA files with Digital Rights Management cannot be copied to your player using Windows Explorer. You can only do so with applications like Windows Media Player or Creative MediaSource. Using Your Software 3-4... -
Page 31: Creative Mediasource
Creative Only basic instructions on how to use Creative MediaSource with your player are provided in this chapter — configuration instructions and more detailed MediaSource usage information are found in the Creative MediaSource Help file. Editing audio You may need to edit track information when the information is incomplete or wrong. -
Page 32: Ripping Audio Cd Tracks
CD. To extract audio data, you will need a CD-ROM drive that can extract CD Tracks digital audio data, and a program known as a ripper. With Creative MediaSource Organizer, you can rip tracks from most audio CDs. This program uses the CD-ROM drive to read the audio tracks from the audio CD and stores it on your hard disk. - Page 33 To rip a CD 1. Insert an audio CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2. If you are not already in Creative MediaSource Organizer, click the Player/Organizer View button. 3. In the Sources window, select [E:] Audio CD (replace E: with the drive letter of your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive).
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Page 34: Using Your Player
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Page 35: Turning On/Off Your Player
Turning On/Off your Player Press and hold the Play/Pause button The CREATIVE logo appears on the screen, followed by the MuVo Slim logo. Your player will enter the last mode you were in before you turned if off. Audio tracks are played... -
Page 36: Enabling A Mode
Enabling a 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-1 appears. Mode 2. Scroll Select the Music icon icon icon To play a track Playing Music 1. Press the Scroller. Tracks The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-2 appears. 2. - Page 37 To pause a track Press the Play/Pause button To go to the previous track Turn the Scroller towards the left To go to the next track Turn the Scroller towards the right To stop a track 1. Press the Play/Pause button 2.
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Page 38: Skipping Folders
Skipping When you have audio files grouped in different folders, and you want to listen to those in a particular folder immediately, use this feature. After the last Folders audio file in that folder has been played back, those from the next folder will be played next. -
Page 39: Changing Play Modes
Changing Play Your player has play modes that allow you to change how your tracks are played back. You can select the play modes during music, voice or FM radio Modes playback, or when you are in Music or Recordings modes. The following play modes are available: ❍... - Page 40 Depending on which mode you want, follow the corresponding step: To repeat a portion of a track 1. Scroll Select the A-B icon (Figure 4-9). The icon A portion of a track 2. Press the Scroller to mark the begining of the can only be repeated portion you wish to repeat.
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Page 41: Playing A Track Once
To repeat a folder Scroll Select the Repeat Folder icon (Figure 4-12). Repeat Folder mode The Repeat Folder icon is only available in screen and tracks in the current folder are Music mode. repeated continuously until you stop them or skip to another folder. -
Page 42: Shuffling Music
Shuffling music You can choose to randomly play tracks. 1. Press the Scroller. 2. Scroll Select the Play Mode icon (Figure 4-16). A list appears (Figure 4-17). Depending on the mode you want, follow the corresponding step: To randomly repeat all tracks continuously Scroll Select the Shuffle Repeat icon (Figure 4-18). -
Page 43: Playing All Tracks
To randomly play all tracks in a folder once Scroll Select the Shuffle Folder icon (Figure 4-20). The Shuffle Folder icon screen and all tracks in the folder are selected at random and played back. Playback stops once all the tracks in the folder are played back once. Playing all tracks When the Normal mode is enabled, all tracks are played back once, in the order that they appear in the play list. -
Page 44: Listening To Fm Radio
Listening to FM With MuVo Slim, you can listen to your favorite radio station. Your player can automatically scan for stations available in your region, and store the stations Radio as presets for you. In FM Radio mode, your player will display the current radio channel and its preset number. - Page 45 To perform an autoscan and autosave 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-28 appears. 2. Scroll Select the FM Radio icon (Figure 4-29). A radio frequency appears on the LCD screen (Figure 4-30). 3. Press the Scroller. 4.
- Page 46 3. Turn the Scroller to select the preset channel you want. To manually scan an FM radio channel 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-35 appears. 2. Scroll Select the FM Radio icon (Figure 4-36). A radio frequency appears on the LCD screen (Figure 4-37).
- Page 47 5. Scroll Select the Delete Preset icon (Figure 4-42). 6. Scroll Select the Delete Preset x icon (Figure 4-43). The preset channel is deleted and your MuVo Slim plays the next available preset channel. Figure 4-39 Figure 4-40 Figure 4-41...
- Page 48 To switch to FM Preset view or Manual Scan view In FM Preset view, you can see the preset channels and scroll from one preset channel to another. If you need to fine-tune the radio channel, switch to Manual Scan view. The preset channel disappears in this view. 1.
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Page 49: Recording Audio
Recording Another great MuVo Slim feature is its ability to record voice and FM radio. Recorded voice is encoded directly into IMA ADPCM (at 8 kHz, 4-bit, Mono) Audio file format and recorded FM radio is encoded directly into IMA ADPCM (at 16 kHz, 4-bit, Stereo) file format. -
Page 50: Recording Fm Radio
To make a voice recording 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-49 appears. You cannot pause a voice recording. 2. Scroll Select the Microphone icon (Figure 4-50). The recording bar appears on the screen. 3. Press the Play/Pause button the recording. -
Page 51: Playing Recordings
To make an FM radio recording 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-52 You cannot pause an appears. FM radio recording. 2. Scroll Select the FM Radio icon (Figure 4-53). A radio frequency appears on the LCD screen (Figure 4-54). - Page 52 Playing It is simple to play back the voice and FM Radio tracks you have recorded. In Recordings mode, your player will display the elapsed time, track number Recordings and file name of the recorded track. Elapsed time Play status icon Recordings mode To play a recording 1.
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Page 53: Eq Settings
EQ Settings Enhancing Your Your player allows you to enhance your listening experience with EQ settings. The EQ settings available in your player include: Music ❍ Rock ❍ ❍ Classical ❍ Jazz ❍ EQ settings is only Custom EQ available in Music ❍... - Page 54 Depending on which EQ setting you want, follow the corresponding step: To select Rock, Pop, Classical, Jazz or Normal Scroll Select the EQ setting you want. The selected EQ icon appears on the screen. To define your own EQ settings 1.
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Page 55: Deleting Audio Files
Deleting Audio This action permanently deletes tracks or recordings from your player. To delete an audio file Files 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-63 appears. 2. Scroll Select the Music icon Recordings icon 3. In Music or Recordings mode, go to the track, VOC or FM file that you want to delete. - Page 56 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-66 appears. 2. Scroll Select the Settings icon (Figure 4-67). A list appears (Figure 4-68). Depending on which configuration option you want, follow the corresponding step: To set the contrast level for your player’s screen 1.
- Page 57 To change the default language 1. Scroll Select the Language icon (Figure 4-71). 2. Scroll Select the language that you want. To change the FM region 1. Scroll Select the FM Region icon (Figure 4-72). A list appears. 2. Scroll Select the region that you are in. To specify how long the player remains inactive before it automatically shuts down 1.
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Page 58: Locking And Unlocking Your Player
Locking and Locking your MuVo Slim will disable all buttons on the player. This feature is useful when you do not want any buttons (for example, Pause) pressed Unlocking Your accidentally. Player If you press a button while the player is locked, a menu appears for you to unlock the player. -
Page 59: Formatting Your Player
Player transfer, storage and playback of music files. To clear your player’s memory 1. Connect your MuVo Slim to your computer. 2. In Windows Explorer, select the drive your player is assigned to, for For Windows XP and Windows 2000,... - Page 60 Technical Specifications...
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Page 61: Technical Specifications
Technical Specifications Player ❑ MuVo Slim 128 MB: 55.0 mm (2.2") x 85.0 mm (3.3") x 7.0 mm (0.3") Size (W x H x D) ❑ MuVo Slim 256 MB: 55.0 mm (2.2") x 85.0 mm (3.3") x 7.0 mm (0.3") ❑... - Page 62 Harmonic Distortion ❑ 0 to 45°C Operating Temperature ❑ -20 to 60°C Storage Temperature ❑ Upgradeable via Internet Operating System/ Firmware ❑ 3.5 mm (1/8") stereo minijack, 5~7 mW Headphone Out Firmware upgrades are available from www.creative.com Technical Specifications A-2...
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Page 63: Usb Travel Charger (Available Separately
❑ Monochrome ❑ Large 132 x 32 pixel ❑ Blue EL backlit display ❑ Via USB port Battery Charging ❑ 5 V DC 1.5A USB Travel Charger (available separately) Technical Specifications A-3... - Page 64 On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide...
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Page 65: Information Diagrams
On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide Information Diagrams Diagram ❍ your player is connected to your computer. To use your player, disconnect it from your computer. ❍ files are being transferred to your player. ❍ battery is charging Action/Meaning On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide B-1... -
Page 66: Playback Icons
Playback Icons The following icons appear on the screen when the associated playback action is used. Icon Action/Meaning ❍ Play ❍ Pause ❍ Go to previous track ❍ Go to next track ❍ Move back ❍ Move ahead ❍ Record ❍... -
Page 67: Play Mode Icons
Play Mode Icons Icon Action/Meaning ❍ ❍ Repeat Track ❍ Repeat All ❍ Repeat Folder ❍ Play Track Once ❍ Shuffle Repeat ❍ Shuffle Once ❍ Shuffle Folder On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide B-3... -
Page 68: Error Diagrams
Error Diagrams If an error occurs, you may see one of the following diagrams, indicating the general nature of the problem. Diagram Likely Causes ❍ physical defects ❍ numerous high- impact shocks ❍ unexpected power loss while saving settings ❍ player is unable to perform the selected task (for example,... - Page 69 Diagram Likely Causes ❍ corrupted audio file ❍ unsupported file system ❍ player’s memory is full ❍ battery is low ❍ battery is too depleted, player cannot start up Suggested Action ❍ check that your recorded voice file is not corrupted ❍...
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Page 70: C Frequently Asked Questions And Troubleshooting
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Page 71: Autoplay
FAQs and Troubleshooting AutoPlay What do I do when the installation does not start automatically after the Installation CD is inserted? The AutoPlay feature in your Windows system may not be enabled. To start the installation program through the My Computer shortcut menu 1. -
Page 72: General
You may see this message when installing this driver or update. If you do, you may choose to click the Continue Anyway button. Creative has tested this driver or update on Windows XP, and it does not impair or destabilize your computer. - Page 73 Usage After playing a sequence of tracks, the player skips a track. The player will only play valid formats (.MP3, .WMA, or .WAV recordings created on the player). Other types of files will be skipped. Files/tracks are corrupted when transferred to the player. Transfer may have been interrupted.
- Page 74 Try clearing your player’s memory. For more information, refer to "Formatting your Player" on page 4-25. Can I use the MuVo Slim for portable data storage? Yes, you can. I have to charge the battery quite often. Is there anything I can do to...