January 2008 Walkman® Enjoy your favourite music Getting started Walkman® Contents Introduction ............................................................................................... 2 Installing Media Manager .......................................................................... 2 System requirements ............................................................................. 2 Installing from the PC Suite CD ............................................................. 3 Downloading from the Web and installing ............................................. 3 Connecting the USB cable ........................................................................ 3 Transferring files ........................................................................................ 5 Using Media Manager to transfer music and audio books .................... 5 Listen to music using Walkman® player ................................................... 5 Walkman® player controls ..................................................................... 6 Walkman® player options ...................................................................... 7 Browsing your music .............................................................................. 7 Playlists .................................................................................................. 8 Audio books ........................................................................................... 9 Podcasts ................................................................................................ 9 Online music and videos ......................................................................... 10 TrackIDTM ................................................................................................. 10 PlayNowTM ............................................................................................... 10 Handling files in your phone .................................................................... 11 File manager menu tabs ....................................................................... 11 Handling files in the file manager ......................................................... 11 Related information ................................................................................. 13 Trademarks and acknowledgements ...................................................... 15 1 January 2008 Getting started Walkman® Introduction Instruction symbols The following instruction symbols may appear in this Getting started guide: Indicates an important tip. Indicates an important note. Indicates that a service or function is network- or subscription-dependent. Contact your network operator for details. > Use the selection keys or the navigation key to scroll and select. Press the navigation key centre. Press the navigation key up. Press the navigation key down. Press the navigation key left. Press the navigation key right. Installing Media Manager You can transfer content such as for example music, audio books, photos and videos from your phone to a computer and vice versa using the USB cable and Sony Ericsson Media Manager, which is included on the CD that comes with your phone. You can also download Media Manager from www.sonyericsson.com/support. System requirements The system requirements are: · At least 200 MB free hard disk space ­ for program installation · Microsoft® Windows® XP (Professional or Home, SP2 or later) or Microsoft® Windows VistaTM (All versions) · 512 MB RAM · 1 GHz processor · A Microsoft® Windows® compatible sound card · A CD-ROM drive ­ for extracting audio from CD only · A USB 2.0 cable and port ­ for connecting your phone to your computer · QuickTimeTM 7.0 (available on the CD) · Internet connection (for GracenoteTM Mobile MusicIDTM, software activation and RSS feeds) · Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (available on the CD) · Microsoft® Windows® Explorer 5.0 or later (available on the CD) 2 January 2008 Getting started Walkman® Installing from the PC Suite CD To install Media Manager from the PC Suite CD 1. Insert the CD that came with the phone. The CD should start automatically, if not: click Start/Run... and type in D:/start.exe and click OK (D: is the CD drive letter on the system). 2. Select a language. 3. Click Install in the Media Manager section. 4. If needed, follow the instructions to install .NET Framework 2.0 from the CD. 5. In the installation wizard: Click Next to continue the installation. 6. Read and accept the licence agreement. Click Next. 7. Click Next to install to the default folder. 8. Click Install to begin the installation. 9. Click Finish to exit the wizard. Downloading from the Web and installing To download the latest version of Media Manager 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. In your Internet browser, go to www.sonyericsson.com/support. Select a region and country. Select a phone from the list or enter your phone model in the text field. Select Software downloads. Select Sony Ericsson Media Manager X.X for your preferred language under Applications. Select Download and save the file to your computer. To install Media Manager from the downloaded file 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Double-click the downloaded Media Manager file. If needed, follow the instructions to download and install .NET Framework 2.0 from the Internet. In the installation wizard: Click Next to continue the installation. Read and accept the licence agreement. Click Next. Click Next to install to the default folder. Click Install to begin the installation. Click Finish to exit the wizard. Connecting the USB cable The Sony Ericsson USB cable that comes with your phone can be used to connect the computer and the phone. Your phone can be either on or off when you connect the USB cable. To connect the phone to a computer with the USB cable 1. Connect the USB cable to your phone and computer. 2. Computer: If the Found New Hardware wizard appears, click Cancel to exit the wizard. 3. Phone: Select Mass storage. The phone will restart in this mode and restart again when it is disconnected from the USB cable. 3 January 2008 Getting started Walkman® 4. Computer: Your phone memory and memory card are added as removable disks in Windows® Explorer. Hard Disk Drives Local Disk (C:) Devices with Removable Storage DVD/CD-RW Drive (D:) DVD Drive (E:) PHONE (F:) Removable Disk (G:) Phone memory Memory card 5. Computer: If a dialogue box asks what you want to do with the files on the removable disks (the phone memory and memory card), select Take no action. 6. Transfer files with Media Manager. See Using Media Manager to transfer music and audio books on page 5. To set mass storage as default setting on your phone, select Menu > Settings > the Connectivity tab > USB > USB default mode > Mass storage before connecting your phone and computer. 4 January 2008 Getting started Walkman® Transferring files Using Media Manager to transfer music and audio books To transfer music and audio books using Media Manager 1. Make sure the USB cable is connected to the computer and the phone. See Connecting the USB cable on page 3. 2. Start Media Manager by clicking the Media Manager icon, or double-click the shortcut to Media Manager on your desktop. 3. Select the Music tab or the Audio CD tab as the music source. 4. Locate and select the folder with the tracks you want to transfer. 5. Transfer the files to your phone by clicking the downward arrow. 6. Select the location to transfer the tracks to in the drop-down list (Removable Disk). Do not disconnect the USB cable during file transfer as this may harm the phone memory or the memory card. 7. Close the Media Manager software. 8. Right-click both Removable Disk icons in Microsoft® Windows® Explorer and select Eject to disconnect the USB cable. A text appears in the phone saying that it is safe to disconnect the USB cable. For more information on transferring files, refer to Media Manager Help. Click corner of the Media Manager window. in the top right Listen to music using Walkman® player To play music 1. From standby select Menu > Media and scroll to Music. 2. Browse by category using the navigation key. 3. Scroll to a title and select Play. 5 January 2008 Getting started Walkman® Walkman® player controls 1 5 2 3 6 7 8 4 1 Walkman® key: Press to open or minimize the Walkman® player. 2, 6 Areas used to show functions such as Options, Play, Stop, Open and Back. To select a function, press the relevant selection key or the centre navigation key. 3, 7 Selection keys. 4 Navigation key: When in the Walkman® player, press to stop and resume music. Press and to move between tracks. Press and hold down or to fast forward or rewind. Press or to view a current play queue. 5 Volume keys: Press the volume keys up or down to increase or decrease the volume. 8 End key: Press to return to standby. 6 January 2008 Getting started Walkman® Walkman® player options In the Walkman® player you have the following Options: My music ­ browse your music files. Landscape ­ change the orientation of the screen to landscape (if available). Portrait ­ change the orientation of the screen to portrait (if available). Settings · Play mode ­ select Shuffle to play tracks randomly in a playlist, or Loop to restart a playlist after the last track ends. · Equalizer ­ change the settings of the treble and bass when playing a track. · Stereo widening ­ change the output sound. · Visualizations ­ change visualization to accompany your tracks. · File · Send ­ send a track using an available transfer method. · Information ­ view information about a track you have selected. · Delete ­ remove tracks. Tracks are only removed from the current playlist. · Save playlist ­ save a play queue to a new playlist. · Minimize ­ minimize Walkman® player and return to standby with music still playing. · · · · Browsing your music You can browse for tracks: · · · · · Artists ­ list tracks by artist. Albums ­ list tracks by album. Tracks ­ list all music tracks. Playlists ­ create own lists of tracks and list playlists automatically created based on your selections. SensMeTM ­ list tracks by mood. For the SensMeTM function to work, the tracks need to be analyzed and transferred using Media Manager. For information on how to analyze your music, refer to Media Manager Help. Genre ­ list music by genre. Year ­ list tracks by year. Audio books ­ list audio books you have transferred from your computer. Podcasts ­ list all podcasts. · · · · Browsing options The following Options may be available when you browse your music files: · Menu order ­ show or hide categories. · Resume ­ start playing the track you last listened to. If the music player is playing, Resume will take you back to the player view. · Information ­ view information about a track you have selected. · Delete ­ delete a track permanently from the phone. · Send ­ send a track using an available transfer method. · Queue ­ add a track to the play queue. For playlist options, see Playlist options on page 9. 7 January 2008 Getting started Walkman® Playlists You can create playlists to organize files. A playlist is a selection of tracks. Files can be added to more than one playlist. Deleting a playlist or a file from a playlist does not delete the file from the memory, just the reference to the file. To create a playlist by mood To use SensMeTM to create playlists by mood, your music tracks must be analyzed and transferred by Media Manager to your phone. For information on how to analyze your music, refer to Media Manager Help. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. From standby select Menu > Media. Scroll to Music > SensMeTM and select Open. Press , , or to preview different tracks. Select Add and press or to choose an area of tracks. Select Create > Options > Save playlist. Enter a name and select OK. To create a playlist 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. From standby select Menu > Media and scroll to Music > Playlists. Scroll to New playlist and select Add. Enter a name for the playlist and select OK. For each track you want to add, scroll to the track and select Mark. Select Add to add the tracks to the playlist. You can add folders to a playlist. All tracks in a folder are added to the playlist. To add tracks to a playlist 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. From standby select Menu > Media and scroll to Music > Playlists. Select a playlist. Scroll to Add music and select Add. For each track you want to add, scroll to the track and select Mark. Select Add to add the tracks to the playlist. The changes to the playlist are saved. 8 January 2008 Getting started Walkman® To remove tracks from a playlist 1. From standby select Menu > Media and scroll to Music > Playlists. 2. Select a playlist. 3. Scroll to a track and press . To delete a playlist 1. From standby select Menu > Media and scroll to Music > Playlists. 2. Scroll to a playlist and press . Playlist options The follo ...