Compaq iPAQ PA-1 User Manual

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iPAQ Personal Audio Player PA-1
First Edition (July 2000)
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  • Page 1 Notice © 2000 Compaq Computer Corporation COMPAQ and the Compaq logo registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. iPAQ is a trademark of Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
  • Page 3: Digital Audio

    Welcome Thanks for buying an iPAQ Personal Audio Player PA-1, and welcome to the world of digital audio—one of the hottest topics in the world today. What is Digital audio is a way of compressing recorded sound so that it takes up much less storage Digital Audio? space.
  • Page 4: How To Get Help

    Is Your PC If you have a multimedia PC with a sound card and speakers, you are probably ready for Ready for digital audio. However, to get optimal Digital Audio? performance, we recommend the requirements shown here. You may be able to download audio files with a less sophisticated PC, but you will be happier if your PC meets or exceeds these requirements:...
  • Page 5 What’s in the Box? Personal Audio Player Earphones USB data cable Two AAA batteries 64 MB of MMC flash memory This guide...
  • Page 7: Setting Up Your Player

    Setting Up Your Player You will soon be listening to your favorite music on your Player. Just follow these simple steps: Installing the 1. Pull out and lift the battery door. Batteries 2. Place the batteries that came with your Player into the battery compartment as shown.
  • Page 8: Installing The Memory

    Installing the 3. Lift the flash memory door located on the left side of the back of your Player. Memory 4. Insert one of the flash memory cards that came with your Player into the bottom slot (Slot 1). See the figure below for orientation.
  • Page 9: Installing The Belt Clip

    When you turn on your Player, the LCD screen briefly displays all icons, then Compaq iPAQ, and then, assuming the memory cards are installed, the following: This indicates that each 32 MB memory card is installed correctly. You will then see a No songs message, since the memory cards do not contain any songs yet.
  • Page 10: Front Features

    Features of Your Player has many outstanding features: Your Player Front Features Display Screen - Area where song and playback information is displayed. Volume Decrease - Press to lower volume. Power - Press to turn the Player On. Hold for 2 seconds to turn the Player off.
  • Page 11: Top Features

    Top Features You must set the Norm/Hold switch to the Normal position to turn on the Player. Hold Mode is displayed on the screen if the switch is in the Hold position when you press the Power button. Earphone Connection Norm/Hold Switch -The Norm/Hold switch should be in the Norm position for typical usage.
  • Page 12: Menu Options

    Battery charge indicator -The number of bars visible indicates the amount of charge remaining in your Player’s batteries. Replace batteries when the three bars have disappeared. DISPLAY AREA - Displays track number, track length, artist, and song name. The song title format is set using the RioPort Audio Manager software.
  • Page 13 The following options are available through the Menu: Shuffle Off - Songs play in the order of your playlist. On - Songs do not play in the order of your playlist. Repeat Repeat All - Continuously plays all the songs in your playlist.
  • Page 14: Installing The Software

    Installing the Software Your Player comes with a CD that contains the RioPort Audio Manager software. RioPort Audio Manager makes it easy to find, organize, download, and play digital audio files. If the RioPort Audio Manager window does not display, click To install the RioPort Audio Manager, just on the Start menu, follow these instructions:...
  • Page 15 2. Read through the License Agreement and Privacy Statement and click Yes. A window displays asking you to confirm the path and name of the folder in which the software will be installed. 3. Click Next. A window displays asking you to confirm the path and name of the folder that will store the music you download or copy from your CD collection.
  • Page 16 A message window displays asking if you would like to make the Audio Manager your default player. 5. Click Yes. When you see the following window, the installation is complete. 6. Click Finish to restart your computer now, or you may choose to restart it later. After your computer restarts, look for the RioPort Audio Manager icon on your desktop.
  • Page 18: Finding Music

    RioPort Audio Manager What is the The RioPort Audio Manager makes it easy to find, organize, download, and play digital RioPort Audio audio files. It compresses content from CDs Manager? and neatly organizes the content while retrieving the names of artists, albums, and song titles from an online CD database (CDDB).
  • Page 19 The RioPort Audio Manager window displays. To get audio files from the Internet to your Player, you must first download them to your PC. Make sure your PC is connected to the Internet. Then complete the following: What is 2. Click the internet button. iCAST? The iCAST home page displays.
  • Page 20 Take control of your entertainment experience with iCAST. Plunge into thousands of music downloads, radio stations, artist bios, news, and exclusive interviews. Discover the excitement in online entertainment with hours of audio and video content, chat, instant messaging, and other tools that connect you with the entertainment you love.
  • Page 21 4. Make sure Save this file to disk is checked and click OK. A Save As window displays for you to verify or change the name of the file you are downloading and where it will be stored on your computer. 5.
  • Page 22: Copying Cds

    Copying CDs The RioPort Audio Manager software enables you to copy audio files from your personal CD collection. You should not, however, use this software to distribute songs to your friends. It is illegal to distribute audio files without permission from the copyright holder. This product and software are designed to help you reproduce materials for which you own the copyright or have obtained copy permission...
  • Page 23 3. Select the files you want to copy by clicking the box to the left of the song or by double clicking on the song title. 4. Click Start Reading. This procedure converts the songs to a digital format that is stored on the hard drive of your PC.
  • Page 24 What is a A playlist is a list of audio files grouped together in any way you like. You might want Playlist? to group music by a category such as classical, rock and roll, reggae, or alternative music. Or, you might want to group songs together by artist.
  • Page 25 3. Click Select Tracks from Database. A Select Tracks from Database window displays. Each time you create a new playlist, be sure to clear the current playlist first. If you do not, the playlists will 4. Select the tracks that you want grouped be listed together together by clicking the V box.
  • Page 26: Connecting The Earphones

    Connecting 1. Connect the USB cable to your computer. The location of USB ports varies on the USB Cable different computers. See your computer’s feature guide if you are unable to locate your computer’s USB port. 2. Press the Power button to turn on the Player.
  • Page 27 Downloading When you are ready to download audio files to your Player, Audio Files to Your Player 1. Connect the USB cable to the Player and to your computer. Then turn on your Player. 2. Click the copy to devices button at the top of the RioPort Audio Manager window.
  • Page 28 4. Select the tracks or playlist that you would like to download by clicking in the V box next to each song or playlist. 5. Click OK. You will be notified if you have selected too many songs for the memory card. 6.
  • Page 29 7. When you are satisfied with the songs you selected to download, click Copy to Portable. A window displays the downloading status of each song as it is being downloaded to your Player. When the transfer is complete, the following window displays.
  • Page 30 Playing Audio If you just want to play audio files on your PC, double click the song title while in the Make a Files on Your Playlist mode. Minimizing While working on your PC, you can also listen the Player to your music using a smaller version of the RioPort software.
  • Page 31 Having If you ever have trouble with your Player or with downloading audio files, visit our web Trouble? site at: http://www.compaq.com/products/internetdevices For additional support, you can e-mail your questions directly to a Technical Support Engineer at: consumer@compaq.com Be sure to include PA-1 in the subject line of any e-mails sent to Compaq’s technical support.
  • Page 32: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Display Troubleshooting Symptom Nothing shows on the display when the Power button is pressed. The songs listed do not match the content on a newly inserted MMC card. The LCD backlight does not illuminate when a button is pressed. NO MEMORY is displayed on the LCD.
  • Page 33 Audio Troubleshooting Symptom NO SONGS is displayed on the LCD. The Player cannot read any songs on the HOLD MODE is displayed on the LCD. Song audio quality is less than desired on songs copied from a CD. No sound No sound in one earphone What to do MMC cards.
  • Page 34 Operation Troubleshooting Symptom Able to transfer only a few songs to the Player. The Fast Forward and Rewind functions do not work on some songs. The BASS and TREBLE adjustments are not available. The USB icon is not shown on the LCD display when the USB cable is connected to both the PC and the Player.
  • Page 35 Operation Troubleshooting (continued) Symptom The RioPort Audio Manager does not recognize the Player. The Player is slow to respond with a new MMC card. Self Test If your Player is not performing as expected, follow these steps to help identify the problem. 1.
  • Page 36 First, run the test without memory cards: Test N am e Test D escrip tion W h at to L ook F or L C D A ll icons and T he display should look blocks in the text like the figure on page area of the L C D are turned on m om entarily.
  • Page 37: Helpful Information

    Helpful Information Content Per Based on the following transfer rates—stated in terms of kilobits per second (kbps)—you Memory Card can expect to use the following amounts of MMC memory when transferring a CD’s worth of content to your Player. Memory Needed to Store 1 CD MultiMediaCard •...
  • Page 38: Maintenance

    Maintenance Use only a soft, dry cloth to clean the Player, MMC cards, and headphone jack. Precautions • Do not remove the batteries while operating the unit. • Do not expose the unit to a significant amount of moisture. • Do not store the unit in a place in which the temperature will exceed 50 degrees C or will be less than -10 degrees C (120°F to 15°F).
  • Page 39: Specifications

    can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception (which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on) the user is encouraged to try to correct...
  • Page 40 LOSSARY Advanced Audio Coding. An audio compression format based on MPEG-2, audio layer 3. To transfer a Download file from one medium to another (for example, from the Internet to your PC). A type Flash Memory of memory that retains its information even when the memory card has no power.

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