D-Link DSB-R100 User Manual

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  • Page 1 DSB-R100 User’s Guide...
  • Page 2: Copyright Statement

    No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative such as translation, transformation, or adaptation without permission from D-Link Corporation / D-Link Systems Inc., as stipulated by the United States Copyright Act of 1976. FCC Certifications...
  • Page 3 Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
  • Page 4 LIMITED WARRANTY D-Link Systems, Inc. (“D-Link”) provides this limited warranty for its product only to the person or entity who originally purchased the product from D-Link or its authorized reseller or distributor. Limited Hardware Warranty: D-Link warrants that the hardware portion of the D-Link products described below (“Hardware”) will be free from material...
  • Page 5 Such repair or replacement will be rendered by D-Link at an Authorized D-Link Service Office. The replacement Hardware need not be new or of an identical make, model or part; D-Link may in its discretion may replace the defective Hardware (or any part thereof) with any reconditioned product that D-Link reasonably determines is substantially equivalent (or superior) in all material respects to the defective Hardware.
  • Page 6 The Warranty Period shall extend for an additional ninety (90) days after any replacement Software is delivered. If a material non-conformance is incapable of correction, or if D-Link determines in its sole discretion that it is not practical to replace the non-conforming Software, the price paid by the original licensee for the non-conforming Software will be refunded by D-Link;...
  • Page 7 The packaged product shall be insured and shipped to D-Link, 53 Discovery Drive, Irvine CA 92618, with all shipping costs prepaid. D-Link may reject or return any product that is not packaged and shipped in strict compliance with the foregoing requirements, or for which an RMA number is not visible from the outside of the package.
  • Page 8 What Is Not Covered: This limited warranty provided by D-Link does not cover: Products that have been subjected to abuse, accident, alteration, modification, tampering, negligence, misuse, faulty installation, lack of reasonable care, repair or service in any way that is not contemplated in the documentation for the product, or if the model or serial number has been altered, tampered with, defaced or removed;...
  • Page 9 WITH THE PURCHASER OF THE PRODUCT. Limitation of Liability: TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, D-LINK IS NOT LIABLE UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR ANY LOSS OF USE OF THE PRODUCT, INCONVENIENCE OR DAMAGES...
  • Page 10 OF THE PRODUCT, RELATING TO WARRANTY SERVICE, OR ARISING OUT OF ANY BREACH OF THIS LIMITED WARRANTY, EVEN IF D-LINK HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE SOLE REMEDY FOR A BREACH OF THE FOREGOING LIMITED WARRANTY IS REPAIR, REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF THE DEFECTIVE OR NON-CONFORMING PRODUCT.
  • Page 11: Table Of Contents

    Chapter 1 Installing the DSB-R100………………...12 1-1 Hardware installation…………...………………12 1-2 Software Installation…………………………….13 Chapter 2 Understanding the DSB-R100 Menus….14 Chapter 3 How to Preset your favorite stations………17 Tuning:………………………………………….17 3-2 Preset channel………………………………….17 Chapter 4 How to use “Sleep” and “Wake up” functions…………………………………..20 4-1. Setting Sleep Time……………………………20 4-2.
  • Page 12 Chapter 6 Converting wave files to MP3…………28 6-1. Selecting the file………………………………28 6-2. Deleting MP3 files…………………………….30 Chapter 7 Using “Help”…………………………...31 Chapter 8 Warning signs …………………………32 8-1. Warning signs appear during installation……..32 8-2. Questions when you are using the software of DSB-R100……………………………………21...
  • Page 13: Chapter 1 Installing The Dsb-R100

    Chapter 1 Installing the DSB-R100 1-1 Hardware installation (1). Plug DSB-R100 USB flat connector into the USB port of your PC. If the PC has a sound card, plug the DSB-R100’s RCA cable into the existing LINE IN port of the sound card. If not, plug the RCA jack into any speakers.
  • Page 14: Software Installation

    98. The following installation installs the application into your PC. Installing under Windows 98 (1) Insert the DSB-R100 Utility diskette into drive A or B. (2) Click on My Computer icon. (3) Select Floppy(A: ) (where A: is your selected diskette drive) (4) Double click on Setup icon.
  • Page 15: Chapter 2 Understanding The Dsb-R100 Menus

    Chapter 2 Understanding the DSB-R100 Menus The DSB-R100 has three: WaveFile, Options and Help. The menus are text sensitive and can be activated easily by mouse clicks. WaveFile Menu The WaveFile Menu contains the following commands: Creates a new wave file...
  • Page 16: Help Menu

    Enables/disables the Wake Up Function Displays either 24 hour time or AM/PM Displays the sound indicator function Radio will stop playing once DSB-R100 application is closed Explains the key functions of the main panels Shows the version and copyright of the DSB-R100...
  • Page 17 station (2) Preset Channel Presets your favorite Radio stations for up to 200 channels (3) Frequency Slider Allows you to select the desired radio station by dragging the mouse. (4) Tuner Allows you to adjust frequency at 0.05 MHz intervals. (5) Scan Scans radio stations by clicking mouse button.
  • Page 18: Chapter 3 How To Preset Your Favorite Stations

    Chapter 3 How to Preset your favorite stations 3-1 Tuning: There are two ways to select your favorite programs - 3-1-1 Locate your favorite station by clicking the scan button . Click on Tune button to fine tune until “stereo” appears on the LED display.
  • Page 19 E.g. To set channel 3 to frequency 100.10MHz and Station Name ICRT. Set Channel Number 3 and enter “ICRT”. Then click OK. 3-2-2 Editing preset channels...
  • Page 20 1. Click on Edit button frequency and their station names. 2.Set the Channel Numbers and enter the desired Station Names. 3.Click on OK to confirm changes. and edit preset channel...
  • Page 21: Chapter 4 How To Use "Sleep" And "Wake Up

    Chapter 4 How to use “Sleep” and “Wake up” functions DSB-R100 provide “Sleep” and “Wake up” functions to save time and catch up with your favorite programs,. 4-1. Setting Sleep Time To set Sleep time: 1.Choose “Sleep Function“ from the Options menu.
  • Page 22: Setting Wake Up Time

    3. Set the time. 4. Click on OK to confirm the setting. The radio will turn off automatically at the selected sleep time. 4-2. Setting Wake up time To set the Wake up time 1. Choose “Wake Up Function Enabled “ from the Options menu.
  • Page 23 3. Set the Hour and Minute dials to your wake up time. 4. Click on OK to confirm the setting The radio turns off automatically at the selected wake up time. You can also set recording time by using this function.
  • Page 24: Chapter 5 Recording And Playing

    Chapter 5 Recording and playing 5-1. Specifying Wave Formats Before recording a wave file, make sure the correct format of the file is specified. Wave format refers to the sound channel, Sampling Rate and Size of the file. To specify the wave format: 1.
  • Page 25: How To Record Into Wave File

    Select Mono for one sound channel and Stereo for two sound channels. Select 11025Hz for voice, 22050Hz for cassette and 44100Hz for CD quality recording. Select 8 bits for cassette and 16 bits for CD sound quality. Choose OK. There is a trade-off between the quality of a wave file and the amount of storage space required for the file.
  • Page 26: Saving Wave Files

    button . If you would like to know the available free space on your hard disk, just click the Animated tape recorder and you will see the following figure: Click on Free Disk Resource and Animated Tape Recorder will resume. 5-3.
  • Page 27: Opening A Wave File

    3. Choose OK. 4. Click Sleep button turn off the power of the DSB-R100 when the recording is completed. DSB-R100 will wake up, start and stop recording according to your procedure. 5-5. Opening a Wave File To open a wave file: 1.
  • Page 28 2. Choose Play. You can also drag slider to listen to the recorded wave file again. To stop playing the wave file, choose Stop.
  • Page 29: Chapter 6 Converting Wave Files To Mp3

    Chapter 6 Converting wave files to MP3 6-1. Selecting the file Wave files can be converted to MP3 files quickly and easily. In order to play the wave file you will need to download and install Real Player© or other applications that support MP3.
  • Page 30 3. Browse to the directory the wave file is in and select it the on panel to the right. 4. MPEB Layer 3 format gives you several ranges to choose from. Click on the down arrow and choose the sampling rate. 48000 Hz gives the best sound but uses the most memory.
  • Page 31: Deleting Mp3 Files

    6-2. Deleting MP3 files Delete MP3 files by selecting the files and clicking on the Delete selected file button on the Enhanced MP3 functions panel.
  • Page 32: Chapter 7 Using "Help

    Chapter 7 Using “Help” To use help: 1. Choose Contents from Help menu. 2. Click on the topic that you want to know about then you will see its function and brief description.
  • Page 33: Chapter 8 Warning Signs

    Chapter 8 Warning signs 8-1. Warning signs appear during installation 7-1-1 If your sound card is not installed properly or wave device is being used by other applications , the following warning sign will appear during installation.
  • Page 34: Questions When You Are Using The Software Of

    8-1-2. If the following warning sign appears when you are running the software then Sound card has not been installed in your PC. Recording and playing function of wave device is used by other application software. Explanations of the above warning signs: The digitizer will only operate when the sound card record function is running.
  • Page 35: Dsb-R100

    DSB-R100. (A) I am running the DSB-R100 software, but I can't hear anything. What should I do? ANS: If your software is already running and you can operate the control panel switches, this shows that the radio has been installed correctly. If this is not...
  • Page 36 WAVE file. The solution is to turn off the volume indicator. The reason for this is that the DSB-R100 must turn on its record function when the volume indicator is turned on (see question 10 for an explanation). Another solution is to open Win95's...
  • Page 37 Deleting the check mark will close the volume meter (C). I can hear sound from my DSB-R100 , but the volume indicator doesn't move. ANS: The volume indicator is able to display the volume because the radio's sound output is run through a digitizer and then displayed on the screen.
  • Page 38 The source of the sound to be recorded has been selected incorrectly. In theory, sound output from the DSB-R100 will go to the sound card's Line In, and the source of sound to be recorded should also be the Line In. Only then will sound from the radio pass through the recording and digitizing unit and be displayed.
  • Page 39 DSB-R100 software, it will automatically select the Line as the sound source. To insure that the situation mentioned above doesn't make it impossible to view the volume, we have made our software compatible with most sound cards on the market. But if this...
  • Page 40 You should use the method described above to change the settings. B. Another possible cause is incorrect sound card driver software. (E). Why can't I use my DSB-R100’s record and play functions? ANS: A. Other applications software may be currently using the record or play functions.

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