July 2007 Walkman® Enjoy your favourite music Getting started Walkman® Contents Introduction ............................................................................................... 2 Overview ................................................................................................ 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 ........................................................................ 4 Transferring music ..................................................................................... 5 Using Media Manager to transfer music ................................................ 5 Listen to music using Walkman® player ................................................... 6 Walkman® player controls ..................................................................... 6 Browsing your music .............................................................................. 7 Playlists .................................................................................................. 7 Walkman® player options ...................................................................... 8 Online music and music videos ................................................................. 9 TrackIDTM ................................................................................................... 9 Handling files in your phone ...................................................................... 9 Related information ................................................................................. 12 Trademarks and acknowledgements ...................................................... 13 1 July 2007 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 touch options 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. Overview You can transfer music from your phone to a computer using the USB cable and Sony Ericsson Media Manager, which is included on the CD that comes with your phone. Installing Media Manager The Media Manager software enables you to transfer music from CDs or a computer to 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 Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2 or later) 512 MB RAM 1 GHz processor A Microsoft® Windows® compatible sound card A CD-ROM drive 2 July 2007 Getting started Walkman® · · · · · A USB 2.0 cable and port QuickTimeTM 7.0 (available on the CD) Internet connection (for GracenoteTM CD identification and software activation) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (available on the CD) Microsoft® Windows® Explorer 5.0 or later (available on the CD) Installing from the PC Suite CD Before you install Media Manager you should install the Sony Ericsson PC Suite software on your computer. 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, then 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 Before you install Media Manager you should install the Sony Ericsson PC Suite software on your computer. 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 Media Manager Setup X.X.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, then click Next. Click Next to install to the default folder. Click Install to begin the installation. Click Finish to exit the wizard. 3 July 2007 Getting started Walkman® 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. If the phone is on, select File transfer in the pop-up that appears on the phone. To change the mass storage default settings on your phone, select Menu > Settings > the Connectivity tab > USB > USB mode > Mass storage before connecting your phone and computer. To connect your phone to a computer with the USB cable 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Connect the USB cable to your phone and computer. Computer: If the Found New Hardware Wizard appears, click Cancel to exit the wizard. Phone: Select Mass storage. The phone will shut down in this mode but will restart when it is disconnected from the USB cable. 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 4 July 2007 Getting started Walkman® 6. 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. 7. Transfer music with Media Manager, see Using Media Manager to transfer music on page 5. Transferring music Using Media Manager to transfer music To transfer music using Media Manager 1. Make sure the USB cable is connected to the computer and the phone. See Connecting the USB cable on page 4. 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 tracks to your phone by clicking the downward arrow. 6. Select the location to transfer the tracks to in the drop-down list (Removable Disk). 7. For more information on transferring music, refer to Media Manager Help. Click in the top right corner of the Media Manager window. Do not disconnect the USB cable during file transfer as this may harm the phone memory or the memory card. 8. Close the Media Manager software. 9. Right-click both Removable Disk icons in Microsoft® Windows® Explorer and select Eject to disconnect the USB cable. A pop-up then appears in the phone saying that it is safe to disconnect the USB cable. 5 July 2007 Getting started Walkman® Listen to music using Walkman® player To play music 1. From standby select Media and scroll to Music. 2. Browse by category using the navigation key. 3. Scroll to a title and select Play. AMR and MIDI files are only visible and possible to play with Walkman® player if they are copyrightprotected. However, you can listen to other AMR and MIDI files through the file manager. See Handling files in your phone on page 9. Walkman® player controls 3 4 1 2 5 6 7 8 1, 5 Areas used to show functions such as Options, Play, Stop, Open and Back. Select Back to go back one level in the Walkman® player menu. To select a function, press the relevant selection key or the centre navigation key. 2, 6 Selection keys. 3 Walkman® key: Press to open or minimize the Walkman® player. 4 Volume keys: Press the volume keys up or down. 7 End key: Press to return to standby. 8 Navigation key: When you listen to music press to stop and resume music. Press and to move between tracks. Press and hold down or to fast forward or rewind when playing tracks. Press or to view a current play queue. 6 July 2007 Getting started Walkman® Browsing your music In the Walkman® player menu you can search tracks by: · Artists ­ list tracks you have transferred using Media Manager. · Albums ­ list tracks by album in your phone and on a memory card. · Tracks ­ list all music tracks in your phone and on a memory card. · Audio books ­ list audio books you have transferred from your computer. · Podcasts ­ list all podcasts you have transferred from your computer. · Playlists ­ create own lists of tracks and list playlists automatically created based on your selections. · SensMeTM ­ list all tracks available by mood. · Genre ­ list music genres. · Year ­ list tracks in your phone and on a memory card by year. Playlists You can create playlists to organize files. A playlist is a selection of tracks. You can sort the files by artist or title. 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 Fast Sad Happy Slow 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. From standby select Media and scroll to Music > SensMeTM. Select Open. Use the navigation key to preview different tracks. Select Add to choose an area of tracks. Select Create to view the playlist in the Walkman® player. Select Options > Save playlist. 7 July 2007 Getting started Walkman® To create a playlist 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. From standby select Media and scroll to Music > Playlists. Scroll to New playlist and select Add. Enter a name for the playlist and select OK. Scroll to a track and select Mark. Select Add to add the track to the playlist. You can add several tracks at a time and add folders. 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 Media and scroll to Music > Playlists. Select a playlist. Select Add music. Scroll to a track and select Mark. Select Add to add the track to the playlist. The changes to the playlist are saved. To remove tracks from a playlist 1. From standby select 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 Media and scroll to Music > Playlists. 2. Scroll to a playlist and press . 3. Select Yes. Walkman® player options You have different Options when you listen to music: · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Add music ­ add tracks or folders to a playlist. Queue ­ add tracks to the play queue. Delete ­ remove tracks. Tracks are only removed from a playlist you have created. Rename ­ rename a playlist. You can only rename playlists you have created. Delete playlist ­ delete a playlist. The tracks are still found in the phone. You can only delete playlists you have created. Minimize ­ minimize Walkman® player and return to standby with music still playing. Information ­ view information about a current track. 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. Send ­ send a track using an available transfer method. Stereo widening ­ change the output sound. Visualizations ­ change visualization to accompany your tracks. Skins ­ change the appearance of Walkman® player. Save playlist ­ save a play queue to a new playlist. 8 July 2007 Getting started Walkman® Online music and music videos You can listen to music and view music videos by streaming them to your phone from the Internet. The Walkman® player or a video player opens automatically when a link is selected. In order to stream you must have a data account. Your phone may be pre-configured with a data account. If it is not, please contact your network operator or visit www.sonyericsson.com/support. To select a data account for streaming 1. From standby select Menu > Settings. 2. Select the Connectivity tab > Streaming settings. 3. Select the data account to use. To stream music and music videos 1. From standby select Menu > Internet. 2. Select Options > G ...