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Creative FX200 User Manual

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  • Page 2 Creative DMPFX200 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.
  • Page 3 Contents...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1 Before You Begin Introduction............................1-1 Minimum System Requirements ..................... 1-1 2 A Tour of Your Player Your Player at a Glance........................2-1 Using the Scroller ..........................2-4 Scroll Select..........................2-4 Selecting menu options......................2-4 3 Getting Started Setting Up Your Player ........................3-1 Inserting Battery...........................
  • Page 5 EQ Settings ............................4-17 Enhancing Your Music ....................4-17 Deleting Audio Files......................... 4-19 User Preferences ..........................4-20 Locking and Unlocking Your Player.................... 4-22 Formatting Your Player........................4-22 5 Software Applications About Creative MediaSource ......................5-1 Appendixes A Technical Specifications Player ..............................A-1...
  • Page 6 B On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide Information Diagrams........................B-1 Playback Icons............................B-4 Play Mode Icons ..........................B-5 C Frequently Asked Questions General ..............................C-1 Usage ..............................C-2...

  • Page 7: Before You Begin

    Before You Begin...

  • Page 8: Introduction

    Before Your Begin Introduction Thank you for purchasing Creative’s new multi-format player, Creative DMPFX200! Your player can store songs in its music library, and comes equipped with a USB 2.0 connector, so you can transfer audio tracks and data quickly and easily. With your player’s built-in FM radio, you can listen to your favorite radio stations.

  • Page 9: Tour Of Your Player

    A Tour of Your Player...

  • Page 10: Your Player At A Glance

    A Tour of Your Player Your Player at a Glance Volume Decrease Volume Increase button button Hold switch Scroller Microphone Top View LCD screen Play/Pause button Front View A Tour of Your Player 2-1...
  • Page 11 Headphone jack USB port Strap lug Side Views Battery panel Bottom View A Tour of Your Player 2-2...
  • Page 12 Button/Switch What It Does Usage Tips ❍ Turns the player on and off. PLAY PAUSE ❍ ❍ Starts, pauses or continues playback. Press and hold until player turns ❍ Changes Scroller mode in FM Radio on or off. mode. HOLD ❍...

  • Page 13: Using The Scroller

    Using the Scroller Scroll Select The Scroller is one of the most important features of your player. 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 14: Getting Started

    Getting Started...

  • Page 15: Setting Up Your Player

    Getting Started Setting Up Your Creative DMPFX200 includes software so that you can create audio tracks, manage your music library, and use your player in all supported Your Player Windows operating systems. Your installation CD also includes the drivers necessary for Windows 98 SE.

  • Page 16: Inserting Battery

    Inserting Insert the supplied battery into your player as shown below. Battery When opening or closing the battery compartment, handle with care. Figure 3-3: Inserting the supplied battery into your player. Getting Started 3-2...

  • Page 17: 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 What the icon means Notes Indicators ❍ this battery state icon ❍ your player’s battery is full shows that the battery is full The amount of ❍...

  • Page 18: Transferring Files

    Windows Explorer. You can only do so with applications like Windows Media Player or Creative MediaSource. 2. On your desktop, right-click the My Computer icon, and then click Explore. 3. Copy files into your player using a drag-and-drop operation.

  • Page 19: 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 Internet correct at the time of this document’s release): ❍...

  • Page 20: Ripping From A Cd

    The first phase in making an MP3 file is extracting audio data from an audio CD. To extract audio data, you will need a CD-ROM drive that can extract 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 21: Using Your Player

    Using Your Player...

  • Page 22: Turning On/Off Your Player

    Your Player Press and hold the Play/Pause button until your player turns on. The CREATIVE logo appears on the screen. Your player will enter the last mode you were in before you turned if off. Audio tracks are played To turn off your player back in alphanumeric order.

  • Page 23: 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 , Recorded Figure 4-1 Tracks icon , Microphone icon or FM Radio icon To play a track Playing Music 1.

  • Page 24: Skipping Folders

    To go to the previous track Turn the Scroller towards the left and release it. To go to the next track Turn the Scroller towards the right and release it. To stop a track 1. Press the Play/Pause button to pause the track. 2.

  • Page 25: 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 Recorded Tracks modes. The following play modes are available: ❍...
  • Page 26 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 appears on the screen. A portion of a track 2. Press the Scroller to mark the beginning of can only be repeated Figure 4-9 the portion you wish to repeat.

  • Page 27: Playing A Track Once

    To repeat a folder Scroll Select the Repeat Folder icon (Figure 4-12). Repeat Folder mode The Repeat Folder icon appears on the is only available in screen and tracks in the current folder are Figure 4-12 Music mode. repeated continuously until you stop them or skip to another folder.

  • Page 28: 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). Figure 4-16 Depending on the mode you want, follow the corresponding step: To randomly repeat all tracks continuously Figure 4-17 Scroll Select the Shuffle Repeat icon (Figure 4-18).

  • Page 29: 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 appears on the screen and all tracks in the folder are selected Figure 4-20 at random and played back. Playback stops once all the tracks in the folder are played back once.

  • Page 30: Listening To Fm Radio

    Listening to FM With your player, 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 31 4. Scroll Select the Autoscan icon (Figure 4-28). The player will scan and store channels it detects. At the end of the autoscan, it will play the first channel. Figure 4-28 To select a channel 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-29 appears.
  • Page 32 3. If you see a preset channel, press the Play/ Pause button to switch to Manual Scan view. The preset channel disappears. 4. Turn the Scroller towards the right Figure 4-34 increase the frequency or towards the left to decrease the frequency. 5.
  • Page 33 3. Turn the Scroller to select the preset channel you want. 4. Press the Scroller. Figure 4-38 5. Scroll Select the Delete Preset icon (Figure 4-39). Figure 4-39 6. Scroll Select the Delete Preset <number> icon (Figure 4-40). The preset channel is deleted and your player plays the next available preset channel.

  • Page 34: Recording Audio

    Figure 4-44 playing a station. Recording Another great Creative DMPFX200 feature is its ability to record voice and FM radio. Recorded voice is encoded directly into IMA ADPCM (at 8 kHz, 4- Audio bit, Mono) file format and recorded FM radio is encoded directly into IMA ADPCM WAV (at 16 kHz, 4-bit, Stereo) file format.

  • Page 35: Recording Voice

    Recording Voice When recording voice, you will see the status bar showing you the time available for recording, and another showing you the elapsed recording time. Also, the microphone icon appears in the bottom-left corner of the LCD screen. Elapsed recording time Lock Battery level...

  • Page 36: Recording Fm Radio

    Recording FM When recording an FM radio program, you will see the status bar showing you the time available for recording, and another showing you the elapsed Radio recording time. Also, the FM Radio icon appears in the bottom-left corner of the LCD screen.

  • Page 37: Playing Recordings

    5. Scroll Select the FM Recording icon (Figure 4-52). A recording bar appears on the LCD screen and recording starts. Figure 4-52 6. Press the Play/Pause button to end the recording. A name is automatically assigned to your FM radio recording and the file is saved in your player.

  • Page 38: Eq Settings

    To play a recording 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-54 A recorded voice file appears. starts with "VOC" Figure 4-54 and an FM radio file 2. Scroll Select the Recorded Tracks icon starts with "FM". (Figure 4-55).
  • Page 39 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu (Figure 4-56) appears. Figure 4-56 2. Scroll Select the EQ icon (Figure 4-57). Depending on which EQ setting you want, follow the corresponding step: Figure 4-57 To select Rock, Pop, Classical, Jazz or Normal Scroll Select the EQ setting you want.

  • Page 40: Deleting Audio Files

    3. Scroll Select each vertical control level. Use the Scroller to move the control knob up or down to vary the amount of boost or reduction in the selected frequency range. 4. Scroll Select the check mark to exit the Custom EQ screen. Deleting Audio This action permanently deletes tracks or recordings from your player.

  • Page 41: User Preferences

    User Your player offers many configuration options. You can ❍ specify contrast settings Preferences ❍ change the LCD screen’s backlight duration ❍ select the default language ❍ select the FM region ❍ specify how long the player remains inactive before it automatically shuts down ❍...
  • Page 42 To adjust the screen backlight duration 1. Scroll Select the Backlight icon (Figure 4-67). 2. Scroll Select to select the backlight duration, or to disable the backlight Figure 4-67 entirely. A lower number setting conserves battery power for longer playback time. To change the default language 1.

  • Page 43: Locking And Unlocking Your Player

    Locking and Locking your player will disable all buttons on the player. This feature is useful when you do not want any buttons (for example, Play/Pause) pressed Unlocking Your accidentally. Player To lock your player Slide the Hold switch to the right. The player is locked.
  • Page 44 3. Right-click and select Format. The dialog box similar to Figure 4-71 appears. 4. Click the Start button. Figure 4-71 Using Your Player 4-23...

  • Page 45: Software Applications

    Software Applications...

  • Page 46: About Creative Mediasource

    Creative MediaSource is included on your installation CD (see "Setting Up Your Player" on page 3-1). MediaSource Basic instructions on how to use Creative MediaSource are provided in the Creative MediaSource Help. If you wish to download additional music tracks to your player, you can either To listen to transferred download music tracks from Internet music sites (see "Downloading from the...

  • Page 47: A Technical Specifications

    Technical Specifications...

  • Page 48: Player

    Technical Specifications Player ❑ 28.7 mm (1.1") x 71.3 mm (2.8") x 16.5 mm (0.6") Size (W x L x D) ❑ 26.5 g (without battery) or 39 g (with AAA-sized battery) Weight ❑ 128 MB/256 MB/512 MB/1 GB built-in flash memory (depending on model) Capacity ❑...
  • Page 49 ❑ <0.05% Harmonic Distortion ❑ 0 to 45°C Operating Temperature ❑ -20 to 60°C Storage Temperature ❑ Upgradeable via Internet 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...
  • Page 50 ❑ Monochrome ❑ Large 132 x 32 pixel ❑ Blue EL backlit display Technical Specifications A-3...
  • Page 51 On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide...

  • Page 52: Information Diagrams

    On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide Information Diagram Action/Meaning Diagrams ❍ your player is connected to your computer. To use your player, disconnect it from your computer (see "Usage" on page C-2). ❍ files are being transferred to your player. On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide B-1...
  • Page 53 Should you see any of the following diagrams, take the appropriate recommended step below. Diagram Likely Causes Suggested Action ❍ physical defects ❍ call Customer ❍ numerous high- Support Services impact shocks ❍ download a newer ❍ unexpected power firmware version ❍...
  • Page 54 Diagram Likely Causes Suggested Action ❍ check that your recorded audio file is ❍ corrupted audio file not corrupted ❍ clear your player’s memory ❍ check that the file system you have ❍ unsupported file selected during system formatting is FAT only ❍...

  • Page 55: Playback Icons

    Playback Icons Icon Action/Meaning ❍ Play The following icons appear on the screen ❍ Pause when the associated playback action is used. ❍ Go to previous track ❍ Go to next track ❍ Move back ❍ Move ahead ❍ Record ❍...

  • Page 56: Play Mode Icons

    Play Mode Icon Action/Meaning Icons ❍ A-B (Segment repeat) ❍ Repeat Track ❍ Repeat All ❍ Repeat Folder ❍ Play Track Once ❍ Shuffle Repeat ❍ Shuffle Once ❍ Shuffle Folder On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide B-5...

  • Page 57: C Frequently Asked Questions

    Frequently Asked Questions...

  • Page 58: General

    “Knowledge Base”. Go www.creative.com and select your region. General Where can I get official information on MP3 player products? Visit Creative’s web site at www.creative.com for updates and downloads relating to all Creative’s MP3 players and accessories. Frequently Asked Questions C-1...

  • Page 59: Usage

    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 60 Files or tracks are corrupted when transferred to the player. Transfer may have been interrupted. Before disconnecting your player from your computer, stop your player first. To stop your player in Windows XP, Windows Me or Windows 2000 Click the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the Taskbar, click Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device, and disconnect your player when you are prompted to do so.
  • Page 61 Can I use the player for portable data storage? Yes, you can. I have to change the battery quite often. Is there anything I can do to make it last longer? Some operations consume more battery power: ❍ A long backlight timeout setting. A shorter timeout conserves battery power. ❍...

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