Emprex MP-401 User Manual

Emprex mp-401: user guide

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Features
GUI (Graphic User Interface) Menu
Vivid animation menu with corresponding characters make it easy to operate.
Multi-Codec Player
Supporting MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF and WAV formats
65K OLED Clearly color display
Play Multimedia file
Supporting JPEG /BMP format file and MTV video file
Game Function
You may play a game of minesweeper.
E-book function
Support TXT format file, you can copy it in U-disk of this player to read at any moment.
Drive Free U Disk
You may manage your files directly through "Portable Disk" in "My Computer" on Winows2000 Operating
System or above without driver.
● "Private Space" Disk Mode
The flash memory can be divided into two parts by using the accessory tools and one is encrypted to hide the
contents saved inaccessible by others. Keep Your Secret!
Record/ Replay
The player supports recording through built-in microphone and saves as WAV and ACT formats. Meanwhile it
supports real digital A-B replay or comparison replay.
7 Preset EQ
Normal, Rock, Pop, Classic, Soft, Jazz and DBB
Multiple Repeat Mode
Normal, Repeat One, Folder, Repeat Folder, Repeat All, Random, Intro.
Power Off
You may set Sleep Timer or Off Time mode in your own convenience.
Firmware Upgrade
Providing the latest updated features via firmware upgrade from the website
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  • Page 1 Features GUI (Graphic User Interface) Menu Vivid animation menu with corresponding characters make it easy to operate. Multi-Codec Player Supporting MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF and WAV formats 65K OLED Clearly color display Play Multimedia file Supporting JPEG /BMP format file and MTV video file Game Function You may play a game of minesweeper.
  • Page 2: Locating The Controls

    1. Locating the Controls Appearance & Keys S/N Description Menu button Next track/Forward ( ) volume control button(VOL) USB port Headphone jack LCD Window Battery The player is in multilevel level battery monitoring system. Indicates that battery is 3.6V and the power in battery will become less when using. S/N Description Play / Stop / turn on/off button Previous track/ Rewind ( )
  • Page 3: Basic Operation

    Indicates low battery power and battery should be charged up. 2. Basic Operation Entering Menu System Pressing MODE button may enter the menu system, including main menu (long press MODE button at Stop state), submenu at Play state (press MODE button to enter) and submenu at stop state (press MODE button to enter).
  • Page 4: Operating Buttons

    Long press MENU button to return to the main menu at the modes. When connecting the USB cable Remark: to PC, then will enter USB mode. Volume Control At the music mode, voice mode, short press VOL buttons to enter the volume control interface and then press the button to adjust volume (follow along with number of volume value be changed).
  • Page 5: Play Music

    Press Press Press on   Press Press on   Press Press on Record Mode Operation Action long press PLAY press long press MENU press 4. Play Music Basic Operation 1. Connect the earphone to the player 3. Long press PLAY button to power on the player, and then enter the main menu: 5.
  • Page 6 3. Press button to choose Equalizer option 5.Press button to switch, and press MENU button to confirm Lyric Display This player supports “*.LRC” lyric files (user can download from http://www.51lrc.com), and lyrics may be synchronous displayed while playing music. How to use lyric files? Save the lyric file with the same name as that of the corresponding music file.
  • Page 7: Record Voice

    Press the MODE to enter. press the PLAY to start playing AMV files Choose music button:to choose previous file. button:to choose next music file. Volume control Short press the VOL button to enter volume control interface and the press the / volume.
  • Page 8: Play Recorded Files

    Select REC type 1. At the record mode stop interface: 3. Press button to select “REC type” option 5. Press button to select desired recording type 6. Press MODE to confirm the type selected 7. Press PLAY button to start recording Note: Voice control means when No sound the player pause record automatically.
  • Page 9: E-Book Function

    Convert ACT format files to WAV format files The ACT format files can be converted to WAV format files through the accessory installation tools. Run “Sound Convert Tool” program, and click “Open” button. 2. Choose the ACT format files need conversion Click the “Convert”...
  • Page 10 3. press MENU button to enter TXT file be select menu ( if no text file the display “No files” on the OLED) 5. Press button to turn the pages in sequence.(only suitable for ”Manual play” ) Play set 1. At the text file be selected menu 3.
  • Page 11 1. At the main menu 3. press MENU button to enter picture be selected state. (if no picture, the display “No files” on the OLED) 5. Press button to browse picture in sequence..(only suitable for ”Manual play” ) 。 。 Play set 1.
  • Page 12: Using Fm Radio

    10. Game 1. At the main menu 3. press MENU button to enter game menu state. 5. You can also enter to game level sub menu to select game level: 11. Using FM radio 1. At the main menu 3. Press button to choose “...
  • Page 13: System Setting

    3. press MENU button to enter FM mode. 4.Press MENU button to enter FM submenu 12.System Setting System parameters can be set here and every option varies according to firmware upgrading At the menu, press Press MENU button to System Setting interface is as follows: to select the “System setting”: Page 13...
  • Page 14 Parameters Introduction System time set the date and time when recorded files are saved set the period of time (second) when Backlight stays on without any LCD set operation Language Set different language displayed Power saving Set a fixed time after which the player may turn power off automatically Replay mode Set working states on Replay mode Online Device...
  • Page 15 5. Press button to adjust time(Unit:second) ,and press MODE to confirm and exit. brightness set light and shade contrast of OLCD screen Darkle mode set fixed period of time (unit: second) when no operation on keys , the player may turn darkle screen automatically.
  • Page 16 is invalid. Sleep Timer refers that you may set a fixed period of time (unit: minute) for the player to turn off automatically when no keys operation no matter which mode it is at any state. This function is specially designed for listening to music before sleep. Note: Setting of Sleep Timer is valid only once and the set time will be cleared after power off.
  • Page 17: Use Usb Disk

    No.1: Operating steps refer to Language Setting ○ Firmware Version Firmware Version information the player uses can be obtained here. ○ Firmware Upgrade It is specially designed for Firmware Upgrade. ○ DRM time This time affects the playing right. User don’t set it. 13.
  • Page 18: Firmware Upgrade

    Setting. 5. Press MENU button to enter “firmware upgr 6. Connect the player to PC 7. Run the “MP3 Player Update” program in upgrading tools on PC, then click “Select new firmware file” button. the UI is as follows: 2. Press button to select “System Setting”...
  • Page 19: Others Setting

    8. Choose new firmware program (You may find it in accessory CD or download form our website.) 9. Click “Start” button, the system starts upgrading. 10. If upgrading successfully, the player reset. Notice: Firmware upgrade is an operation to promote and optimize the performance of the player. Even if the firmware works without upgrading, there is no any influence on the normal operation of the player.
  • Page 20 2. Press MENU to enter Stop Submenu. 3. Press MENU again to enter Select Folder interface. 4. Press / button to select folders at root directory. 5. Press PLAY button to confirm and return the stop interface, or short press MENU button to enter next select directories as following view.
  • Page 21 7. press PLAY button to confirm and return the stop interface, or short press MENU button to enter next select subdirectories as following view. 8. When did not selected folder as following states. 9. Short press MENU button to return previous directory Note: Independent folders can be set at corresponding mode as Music mode, Record mode and Voice mode, i.e., three modes are not bound to correspond with the same folder.
  • Page 22 5. Press MENU button to enter Delete file folder submenu Remark: “Delete All” means to delete all the relevant files at current mode in current folder. (For example, at Music Mode executing “Delete All”, all the music files in current files may be deleted, while recorded files without change.) The deleting interface is much simpler at FM Mode, only to the 3 Note: When deleting files on PC, please take care to eject the player safely before pulling out USB cable,...
  • Page 23 Tempo Rate (Play Submenu) When playing music(Only for MP3 formats) or recorded files, different tempo rate can be set (faster or slower) without changing the tone and sound. Files. 1. When playing music 3. Press button to choose Tempo Rate option 5.Press button to quicken tempo rate and press button to slow down tempo rate.
  • Page 24 3. Press to select “Replay”. 4. Press Mode to enter Replay. “A” flickers in Replay Mode icon 5. Press to set “A”. After “A” set, “B” flickers in icon 6. Press to set “B”. Replay icon is fixed and A-B segment replay begins. When replay times count up to times set in advance, the player will quit from Replay Mode.
  • Page 25 ○ Follow Read (This function does not exist at Voice Mode) 1. Replaying A-B segment, Press 2. Replay icon The recording time is as long as A-B segment. 3. After recording time, the icon changes to Comparison. At this mode, pressing ○...
  • Page 26 1. Connect the player to PC. 2. Run the accessory installation tools “MP3 Player Disk Tool”. 3. The first is format tool. Choose “Partition and encrypt” option, and set a desired capacity for the encrypted disk, then choose the setting of username or password. Fill the username in the blank “New username”, and password in the blank “New password”, then input the same password again in the blank “New password...
  • Page 27: Troubleshooting

    5. Press “OK”, then PC may restart. 6. Two disks may be displayed after restarting (only one driver letter may be displayed when under Windows 2K SP4). Click to access the encrypted disk and there is a executable file 7. Run the executable file “RdiskDecrypt.exe”, and input username and password in dialog box. If they are correct, disk can be accessed and files can be copied.
  • Page 28 Specification Dimension Weight LCM Window PC connection Flash memory Battery Record MP3、 WMA、 WMV、 ASF Music format Working temperature multilateral language show Operating System SDK35FD DRM DEMO INTRODUCE 1. Demo songs Download the DRM(Digital Rights Management)format song from PC to player, actually the PC has the DRM songs before.
  • Page 29 save songs, after download Audio Files,push down web-page,click “Acquired License(Security Level=150)” button to download the license of songs. Page 29...
  • Page 30 2. Download songs 2.1 PC condition:Windows XP + SP1operating system、Windows Media Player 10.3646 (WMT10)or above。 2.2 The ways of Download songs: 2.2.1 Download WMP10: WMP 10 MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) is used to download music with copyright protection. USB devices not supporting the MTP protocol cannot be used to acquire the license although the music can be downloaded.
  • Page 31 Communion data Demo player and PC PC scanning MTP Device for about 10s。To select “ OK ” or “ Cancel”: Run the “Window Media player” program,found the Media Device。Select the “Sync” column Click format storage media button to format MTP device, as follows interface: Page 31...
  • Page 32 And then display as follows interface, Click the “OK” button to confirm, and starting format. Click “OK” button complete format. Open sample DRM encoded music file folder. Pull the DRM encoded music file to the left of the interface as illustrated below Select song, Page 32...
  • Page 33 Click ”Start Sync” Starting download… in the course of download Page 33...
  • Page 34 When downloading is completed, you will see the downloaded music file in the right hand pane of the monitor display. In Explorer see it also. After all the files have been transferred to the player, Unplug the USB connector, player enter to make ID3 information MENU.
  • Page 35 AMV Convert Tool 1.Summarize This tool used for transforming the media files to the AMV file format which can be played by MP3 Player of our company, the support converts of the video file format has below several kinds: 1) The AVI format file of the by extended name avi;...
  • Page 36 1) Brief introduction of button Run the software can pass to click the 【start】 button — 【program】 menu, choosing the " MP3 Player Utilities" — " AMV Convert Tool", canning immediately open the tool interface, at below chart marked the name of the each button with purple...
  • Page 37 Click the path of the media file that need to be conversion, in this interface clicks the right small button of the " file type" ...to select the fit file type, after selecting one or more media file accurately, click the " open " button, the file path interface display as follow the chart: (the chose file type in the below chart provides to consult only) fter adding the file, display the path of the media file at convert the tool "...
  • Page 38 After the file starts playing, in rate of progress column display rate of progress, but in the state column the state of the file from" unsettle" change into "success"; file time from"0:00" change into file actual time length; Tool interface of" stop ", " pause"...
  • Page 39 4.1.1.2 In addition to clicking the select box directly, can also pass to click " choice" with" cancel" of file right key which will be cancel to make sure the media file that need to be conversion, as follows chart: 4.1.2 Deletion of the media file In the media files that already added, if want to delete some media files, can pass to click one or more chose file's right key, choose "delete", the file will be deleted in the list.
  • Page 40 The default save path for this tool is C:\, before converting files, pass to click" output file" column the right-hand AMV save path button to specify the save position of AMV file, as follows interface: While flicking choose path dialog box, after choosing wanted to save path, please click" ok" button, as follows chart: After completing the step that choice save path, at the convert tool interface "...
  • Page 41 4.3 The parameter set Convert tool has the function to set AMV file parameter, such as set intercept the video snippet, length and width of video, play frame etc. Entering the attribute interface has below two method: a. Choose one or more media files, then click " output information" column set button enters;...
  • Page 42 4.3.1.1 At the attribute interface proceeds to set First pitch on " cut source video snippet " left select box, enable video start time point and end time point edit, input corresponding time, the interface is as follows the chart: The above chart shows: Intercept the current media file from 1 min 10 sec to 3 min 20 sec fragment.
  • Page 43 Equally, click "end position" button, at end time column will display end time point that current choice, as follows chart: After two time points are selected, click "select" button in the tool interface, namely make sure the intercepted file time length, and display at circulated time column, when converting only to convert the intercepted snippet, as follows chart: Page 43...
  • Page 44 Is shown as chart above, intercept the current media file from 1 min 41 sec to 2 min 26 sec fragment, total 45 sec time. If want to cancel the intercepted fragment, can pass to click" cancel " button to complete, at this time circulate time column becomes the file total time again, comeback before clicks "select"...
  • Page 45 4.3.4 Insert picture for none picture The option’s default is hook. for more wonderful effect, please use the default settings. 4.3.5. Replaces the old audio file with the new audio file Replaces the old audio file with the new audio file is refers chooses the new audio file (WAV type file) to replace the current media file’s audio partial, the video partial still continued to use the media file original video.
  • Page 46 After increases the new audio file, property setting surface demonstration is following chart: 4.3.6 Insert wave for not enough wave The option’s default is not hook, for get more wonderful effect, please use the default settings. 4.3.7 miscellaneous setting: 4.3.7.1 the “overwrite file” is replacing the currently position already exists file by new convert AMV file. This option’s default is hook.
  • Page 47 4.4.2 Play After convert completes, the AMV Player will play AMV file automatically. If the AMV file will played by AMV Player correctly, that’s means converting is success. As follows chart: 4.4.3 complete convert 5. Attention proceeding If you want to convert the Realplay, Quicktime, MPEG2 format files, please first install the corresponding decoder. When you convert Realplay, Quicktime, When MPEG2 (DVD) format files, if your Windows Media player cannot play this file, then you need to install corresponding compatible decoder for Windows Media player, until the Media Player will normally play this file, otherwise the tool is unable to normal work...

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