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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Subject Operational Notes ..………...…….….....3 Player overview ......……....5 Accessories ........……...7 LCD ..........……...8 Turning the power on/off ....……...9 Playing MP3 music ......……..10 Use menu under the playing mode ..…...12 Voice Recording Function ....……..14 The menu under Voice Recording mode .…..17 Exit the voice recording mode ....…..19 Setting EQ (Equalizer)........20 Setting Repeat mode.........21 Setting LCD contrast.........27...
Page 3 Examine memory Information(Memory Info)..21 EQ (Equalizer) ........…..22 Repeat mode ........…..24 The Backlight ........……..27 Examine the utilization of the internal memory .29 USB Connection ........…..30 System Requirements .........….31 Installation of Manager Software ....….32 How to use Digital Audio Management System .33 Sending files to Digital Audio ......…...34 Sending files from Digital Audio to PC ..…..37 Formatting the memory of Digital Audio ..…...39...
Page 4: Operational Notes
Operational Notes If the Mp3 player will not be operated for a prolonged period, remove the batteries to avoid possible damage caused by electrical leakage. The Mp3 player should be kept in areas free from extreme temperature changes, moisture and dust. Set the HOLD switch to the release position before operation.
Page 5 *Battery life may vary with different using condition, manufacturer and manufacture date. *Please change the battery under following conditions: Indicator appears and display the “Low Battery” then shut down. All buttons make no response and are not workable even after the battery is taken out and reinstalled.
Page 6: Player Overview
Player overview Front FF/Mode/Rew Play/pause (stop)/power USB port www.sonytec.com...
Page 7 Side face Volume+/Volume- Hold button www.sonytec.com...
Page 8: Accessories
Accessories Installation CD USB Cable Stereo Phone Manual/ Maintenance Certificate www.sonytec.com...
Page 9: Lcd
AAA Battery Play repeat mode Hold icon Battery indicator Playback time Type of the song Current situation Playback time indicator Play the song ID3 tag or Song Number file name Repeat modes include Repeat, Repeat All, Random, Preview and Normal (Normal mode isn’t illustrated in the figure.) Equalizer modes include Jazz, Classic, Rock, Pop www.sonytec.com...
Page 10: Turning The Power On/Off
and Normal Turning the power on/off The power will be turned on when PLAY/STOP button is pressed momentarily. In 2 seconds, a glorious picture with blue backlight appears. The backlight will be turned on by user setting and will last different seconds if some button is pressed; if not, the backlight will be automatically turned down after user setting seconds.
Page 11: Playing Mp3 Music
Playing MP3 music 1. Turning on the power by pressing PLAY/ STOP button momentarily, you could see the following interfaces: the 03-33 means there are 33 songs in the Digital Audio and it’s the third. 2. When you press PLAY/STOP button again, the current track will be played as shown above.
Page 12 turn the rolling wheel up and down to get the track. The music will stop if you press PLAY/ STOP. 4. By pressing the PLAY/STOP button for 3 seconds, you could turn the power off. 5. By pressing VOL+/VOL- button, you could control the volume under either PLAY or PAUSE status.
Page 13 when you play music, you can make the playing forward speed 3 times, backward speed 3 times by long press the FF/REW key . Just as below. Music Voice Settings Delete Memory Info Caution Record The battery status iondicator may Return flicker while MP3 is playing, which results from battery supply vibration while different...
Page 14: Use Menu Under The Playing Mode
Use menu under the playing mode 1. Press PLAY/STOP to turn on the Digital Audio 2. Press the Menu button (in the middle of the rolling wheel). So you can see the function menu of the Digital Audio as following: Enter into record operation Equalizer mode Repeat...
Page 15 Info Return Return All the options are listed in the below table. You may select every item by the rolling up or down wheel. 1. You can use Last or Next button to select every item in the function menu and press Mode button to enter the function.
Page 16: The Menu Under Voice Recording Mode
Total Memory 128M Byte The menu under Voice Recording mode: 1. After turning on the power by pressing www.sonytec.com...
Page 17 PLAY/STOP button, press the Menu button (in the 1/ middle of the rolling wheel), and then you can see the menu. 2. Select“Record”item, it will begin to record (See illustration). (The file format is WAV file) 8000Hz show the WAV recording sample is 8000Hz,which can set in the Rec Sample item which is in the setting item.
Page 18: The Menu Under Voice Mode
you can refer to behind. Note: While recording, all buttons except PLAY/STOP and Hold button are not workable . The menu under voice mode: You can use the function menu to operate the MP3 player under voice mode: 1.Turn on the MP3 player by pressing Play/ Stop button.
Page 19: To Delete Files
To Delete files If you want to delete the files in the Digital Audio, you may do it by using menu. Also you can use the presented Digital Audio Manager Software to do so (more is to be mentioned behind). You can delete songs in the Digital Audio by do following acts: 1.
Page 20 and the bottom row shows the name of the song. 5. Now you are allowed to select the files to be deleted. Press Mode button (in the middle of the rolling wheel) to pops up dialog box of delete as illustration. In this dialog box, press Mode button to confirm and if you will not delete the file please press any key to return to menu.
Page 21 EQ (Equalizer) You can select different mode according to different music. 1. Press Play/Stop button to turn on the Digital Audio. 2. Press Mode button to get the menu. 3. Select EQ in the menu by the Next/Last button. 4. Press Mode button and get the“EQ” item and press Mode button, then EQ menu would pops up.(as illustration) 5.
Page 22 There are five modes: JAZZ, CLASSIC, ROCK, POP and NORMAL The list of equilibrium effect pops up after selecting EQ as following: JAZZ CLASSIC ROCK NORMAL Return You can adjust the modes by the EQ menu. You could experience perfect Jazz, Classic, Rock, Pop sound effect by choosing suitable www.sonytec.com...
Page 23: Repeat Mode
corresponding mode. Normal mode could bring you original sound effect. If you don’t want to change current settings, you can choose Return to exit Repeat mode If you’d like to listen to a song again and again, then you need change the Repeat mode. 1.
Page 24 rolling wheel) 4. Press Mode button to get Repeat menu: Selecting Repeat, you can see the following interface and the Play Repeat mode can be changed. The mode includes: Random,Normal, Repeat All, Repeat, and Preview mode. Random Normal Repeat all Repeat one Repeat Preview...
Page 25 Repeat All Repeat track Shuffle Normal Repeat: Plays the current MP3 music repeatedly. Repeat All: Plays all MP3 music in order repeatedly until another operation is performed. Random: Plays all MP3 music at random and then stops. Preview: Plays every first 10 seconds of all MP3 music in order and stops after the last music has been played.
Page 26: Setting Lcd Contrast
If you don’t want to change current settings, you can choose Return to exit. Setting LCD contrast Because the LCD contrast is different at different temperature. If you feel the LCD contrast not fitting for you, you can set it in the menu. www.sonytec.com...
Page 27 1. Press Play/Stop button to turn on the MP3 player. 2. Press Menu button (in the middle of the rolling wheel) to get the menu 3. Select“Settings”in the menu using Next/Last button (the upside/downside of the rolling wheel) 4. Press Mode button to get“Contrast”item. 5.
Page 28: Setting Auto Off Time
LCD you can look black because it turn very dark. Setting Auto OFF time Sometime you want to shut your MP3 player automatically in a few minutes when it is in pausing or stopping. Now you can set different time to shut down automatically.
Page 29: Setting Voice Recording Parameter
pop up as illustration. You may select“Disable”“1Min”“2Min” “5Min” “10 Min”. When you select“Disable”your player will not shut down automatically whenever it is playing or pausing. When you select“1Min”“2Min”“5Min”“10 Min” your player will shut down when the player have paused or stopped by 1 Min, 2Min, 5Min, 10Min. When your player shut down automatically it will show“Auto Power Off”on the screen.
Page 30 (Rec Sample) According to your needing, you can set different recording sample, the higher of the recording sample, the better of the voice quality. After turning on the power by pressing PLAY/STOP button, press the Menu button (in the middle of the rolling wheel), and then you can see the menu as illustration.
Page 31: To Delete Files
11025Hz, 16000Hz, 22050Hz, 32000Hz, 44100Hz, 48000Hz option, you can select by rolling up or down wheel, then press menu key to affirm. If we set higher Rec sampling, the more memory size will be used when we record the same time. To Delete files If you want to delete the files in the MP3 player, You can choose to delete files from the player or the...
Page 32 upside/downside of the rolling wheel) in the menu. 4. Press Menu button to confirm the selection. There are three items to select as illustration. 5. You can select to delete music file in the player by selecting Music item. When you select to delete music file, the deleting interface will be show in the LCD, if you did not want to delete this file you can choose“No”...
Page 33 6. You can select to delete record file in the player by selecting Voice item. When you can select to delete recording file, the deleting interface will be show in the LCD, if you did not want to delete this file you can choose “No”item by upside/downside rolling wheel, press Menu button to confirm then it will show next songs in the LCD, until you find what...
Page 34: Examine The Utilization Of The Internal Memory
Examine the utilization of the internal memory You could examine the utilization of the memory without being connected to the PC. 1. Press Play/Stop to turn on the Digital Audio 2. Select Memory Info in the menu by pressing Last/Next (the upside/downside of the rolling wheel) button under Music or Rec mode 3.
Page 35: Usb Connection
the internal memory. USB Connection You could transmit MP3 files through USB port of your PC. 1. Make sure your PC support USB devices. (Refer to the manual of your PC for the information about hardware). 2. Connect your PC directly or by USB cable with digital audio.
Page 36 4. If you have installed the attached software, the PC will automatically find the device when the Digital Audio is connected to the PC at the first time. If not, please install the manager software first. We strongly recommend users install the provided management softare under Windows 98/XP/2000.
Page 37: System Requirements
System Requirements It is important to install Digital Audio manager software before connecting Digital Audio to PC. After putting the Installation CD into CDROM Drive, USB Driver is installed automatically.The Digital Audio manager software requires the following systems: ¤ IBM compatible personal computer ¤...
Page 38: Installation Of Manager Software
¤ USB Port ¤ 32MB RAM or more (64MB is recommended for Windows 2000) ¤ 20MB free hard-disk space or more ¤ 4 × CD-ROM drive or more ¤ Sound Card (Optional) ¤ Accessible to Internet (Recommended) Installation of Manager Software Put the Installation CD into CD-ROM Drive and then it will be installed automatically.
Page 39: How To Use Digital Audio Management System
How to use Digital Audio Management System First connect the Digital Audio and your PC directly or with the USB cable. Then the Digital Audio’s LCD Display Window will show picture if connection is finished. www.sonytec.com...
Page 40: Sending Files To Digital Audio
Click the icon on the Desktop Then the interface of Digital Audio management system will be shown. Sending files to Digital Audio Before sending, please turn on the Digital Audio and connect it to your PC directly or with presented USB cable. 1.
Page 41 left Program Manager. Then the files in the folder will be displayed in right column automatically. You could also select the files type in the menu on the top left corner to make your operation easier. 3. Click the Download button or select the “Download”...
Page 42 files. 6. The management system will examine the Digital Audio automatically. When the USB cable is pulled out from the Digital Audio, the management system won’t work. W a r n i n g : If you download MP3 or WMA file to MP3 player, please send this file to MP3 directory,in order to copy more than 128 files, otherwise, you can not copy more than 128 files to root.
Page 43 3) If you couldn’t find the downloaded non-audio files in the removable disk of Digital Audio, please look into EDISK directory. 4) While you download file in Win98 OS, the transmitting must regard to player displaying.We simulate the transmitting by the player displaying motivation. When the motivition stop,which denote the transmitting finished,you can take out the player safely.The player do harm...
Page 44: Sending Files From Digital Audio To Pc
Sending files from Digital Audio to Digital Audio can also act as a removable electronic disk. You could send files in the disk to your PC with the management system but the audio files are not permitted to send due to copyright protection.
Page 45 4. The interface of transmission would be displayed. Caution: Do not pull out the digital audio while a file is being downloaded. Otherwise it will do harm to your Digital Audio. It is not permitted to transmit music files for copyright protection.
Page 46: Formatting The Memory Of Digital Audio
stop,which denote the transmitting finished,you can take out the player safely.The player do harm when you take out the player while the transmitting have not completed. Formatting the memory of Digital Audio Before formatting, be sure that the Digital Audio is turned on and connected to PC.
Page 47 3. Click Start button it begins to format Digital Audio memory. Caution: All the files will be deleted by formatting the www.sonytec.com...
Page 48: To Delete Files
memory. Do not disconnect while formatting. Or your Digital Audio may lose system files and cannot be started up. To Delete files Besides deleting files directly by Digital Audio, you could also achieve this by using the www.sonytec.com...
Page 49 management system of Digital Audio. 1. Connect the Digital Audio and PC; turn on the Digital Audio and run management system. 2. Select the files to be deleted. 3. Click the Delete button . You could also use the option of Deletion in the menu.
Page 50: To Refresh Usb Connection
To refresh USB connection For safer use while connecting Digital Audio and PC, you could click the Connection button in www.sonytec.com...
Page 51: Internal Memory Display
the management system of Digital Audio to refresh the USB connection. Internal Memory Display The management system of Digital Audio can www.sonytec.com...
Page 52: Pre-Listen
display the internal memory by numbers and figures. In the above figure, yellow represents used memory while green available memory Figure Number Pre-listen www.sonytec.com...
Page 53 After selecting a song in your PC, you could listen to it by using Digital Audio manage system. 1. Choose the song to be listened. 2. Click the Pre-listen button on the top right corner, and then you could enjoy pleasant music pieces from PC.
Page 54: Trouble Diagnosis
to another song, you have to stop the current piece first and then go on to the next. Trouble Diagnosis www.sonytec.com...
Page 55 1. The LCD display window shows nothing after turning on Digital Audio. Check to see if the battery has been inserted. · Check to see if the battery needs replacement. · Try reinserting the battery or replace it. · · Take out the battery and insert it correctly after 5 seconds.
Page 56 · Check to see if there is any music file in the memory. 4. I can’t download music files after connection. Check to see if Manager Software is setup. · Check to see if the software is working · properly. Check to see if your Mother Board supports ·...
Page 57 Mepg I Layer3 format. 7. The buttons are not workable. Check to see if the“Hold”button is on. Release the Hold button. 8. why we will see“Error,reformat media” on the screen when we turn on player? Because you use Windows Formatted your player under Window2000 or higher, did not use the formatting tools we provided in the managerment software.
Page 58 NOTICE: 1. Please use provided format tool to format your MP3 player, it will not work if you use Windows format ® tool. If you have not installed the provided Digital Audio Management System, please use the “delete” command to erase the files in your player. The MP3 player will be damaged if formatted under Window’s format tool.
Page 59 2000/Win XP operating system or higher. ® ® Under Win 98/ Win 98SE the driver has to be ® ® installed which is build into the Digital Audio Management System. If the device is still not displayed, please install the files of Win ®...
Page 60: Technical Spec
Technical Spec Memory Size 64/128M/256M(Internal) Battery AAA Alkaline Battery 96*32 Do matrix LCD Size 95mmx32mmx21mm 90bB Earphone Power 5Mw+5mW Supporting Frequency 20HZ-20KHZ Supporting Bit Rate 8Kbps~256Kbps(MP3) Music Format Mp3,WMA Record Format ADPCM ID3 Language English P l a y e r F u n c t i o n www.sonytec.com...