User manual TEAC MP-300

® MP3 Player MP-300 User Manual To ensure the smooth handling of your warranty please write the serial number of your device into the box. In the case of warranty you are expected to send it together with a copy of your invoice to your nearest TEAC sales representative. Disposing of the Product Your device should no be placed in municipal waste. Please check local regulations for disposal of electronic products. · Changes in specifications and features may be made without notice or obligation. · Copyright © 2005-2006, TEAC Europe GmbH. All rights reserved. Edition: January 2006 · Company and product names provided herein are trademarks of their respective companies. GB ­ 2 | MP-300 Contents FEATURES ..................................................................................................................... 4 CONTENT OF PACKAGE ............................................................................................ 4 IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS ..................................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION OF CONTROLS ................................................................................ 6 SYMBOLS ON SCREEN ............................................................................................... 7 INSTALLATION ............................................................................................................. 7 Power Switch ..................................................................................................... 7 Driver Software .................................................................................................. 8 Connecting to a PC ......................................................................................... 8 Disconnecting ................................................................................................... 9 Manual Installation of Driver Software .......................................................... 10 BASIC OPERATION ................................................................................................... 12 Menus ............................................................................................................... 12 Switching On and Off .................................................................................... 12 Charging .......................................................................................................... 12 Playback .......................................................................................................... 13 Previous/Next ................................................................................................... 13 Volume ............................................................................................................. 13 Fast Forward/Reverse (FF&RW) ...................................................................... 13 Language ......................................................................................................... 13 Equalizer ........................................................................................................... 13 Playback Mode ............................................................................................... 13 A-B Repeat Function ...................................................................................... 13 Voice Recording .............................................................................................. 14 Copying Files to MP-300 .................................................................................. 15 Folder Function ............................................................................................... 15 Deleting Files ................................................................................................... 16 FM Tuner ............................................................................................................ 16 LINE-IN Recording ........................................................................................... 18 Edit ID3 Tags ...................................................................................................... 18 Auto Power Off Time Setting ......................................................................... 19 ScreenSaver ..................................................................................................... 20 Memory Information ....................................................................................... 20 Picture Browse ................................................................................................. 20 User-Customized ON/OFF LOGO .................................................................. 21 Preparing Pictures ........................................................................................... 21 UPGRADING THE FIRMWARE ................................................................................... 23 FORMATTING THE MEMORY ..................................................................................... 25 DEINSTALLING DRIVER SOFTWARE ......................................................................... 26 TROUBLE SHOOTING ................................................................................................ 27 SPECIFICATION ........................................................................................................ 28 WARRANTY ............................................................................................................... 29 GB ­ 3 | MP-300 The TEAC MP-300 is one of the most powerful MP3 players on the market. FEATURES Playback of MP3/WMA files 65k COLOR OLED display Screen saver Big screen with picture display USB 2.0 FM tuner FM digital recording Line-In receptacle High-Quality digital recording No drivers for Win2000/XP/ME 256MB/512MB/1GB portable USB data storage A-B Repeat playback. Equalizer: 5 modes: Normal, Rock, Jazz, Classic, Pop ID3 tag support with file name lyrics display (edit in advance needed) Low power consumption Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery Firmware upgradeable Menu based operation CONTENT OF PACKAGE MP3 player MP-300 User's Manual (on CD) + Basic Operation USB cable Earphone Neck strap Carrying case Installation CD Line in cable Charging adapter GB ­ 4 | MP-300 IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS If the unit is not used for a longer period of time please turn it off with the ON/OFF switch. Please charge the unit at least once within a month, in order that the battery won't be discharged. Do not use the unit in places that are extremely hot, cold, dusty, or humid. Avoid the unit being dropped. Recharge the battery in the following cases: . ­ The battery display shows empty ­ The keys will not operate normal. ­ The unit does not operate under normal conditions. We do not assume any liability arising out of improper operation or incidental damages. Important information: In both power on and power off state, the player may be charged by the connection to PC via the USB line. Important information: Please read and retain all the operating instructions before operating the unit, we do not assume any liability arising out of improper operation or incidental damages. GB ­ 5 | MP-300 INTRODUCTION OF CONTROLS 1. Neck strap slot 2. LINE-IN input jack 3 Earphone jack 4. Play/pause/stop 5. USB jack 6. Volume + (V+) 7. Recording R/A-B repeat 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Volume - (V-) OLED display POWER ON/OFF Previous, RW MENU Next, FF GB ­ 6 | MP-300 SYMBOLS ON SCREEN ordinal number recording time Battery level indicator Music title or file name Volume Equalizer indicator Music/Voice mode Repeat indicator resp. A-B indicator Repeat modes: Equalizer: USB mode , , , , , , , and INSTALLATION Power Switch Move the power switch to the ON position to turn on the player; and move to the opposite direction to turn it off. Note: It's unnecessary to employ the power switch unless the player will not be used for a longer period of time or it works abnormally. Please keep the switch in the ON position in normal operation. GB ­ 7 | MP-300 Driver Software Windows98 Under Windows98 drivers have to be installed. Do not connect the unit to your computer before the installation of the driver is finished. Insert the provided CD into your CDROM drive or download the driver from our web site. Double click on SETUP.EXE and follow the instructions on the screen. Connect the MP-300 and the PC with the provided USB cable after finishing the installation. Windows 2000/XP/ME There is no need for a driver installation under Windows 2000/ XP/ME. Under Windows 2000 service pack 3 has to be installed. When connecting the unit for the first time the New Hardware assistant is run. The MP-300 is recognized automatically and the respective drivers are activated. Connecting to a PC The MP3 player is connected to a PC with the provided USB cable. You will see a mass storage device with removable media symbol in My Computer after the unit has been recognized by the operating system. The player's display shows . GB ­ 8 | MP-300 Disconnecting Prior to disconnect the unit has to be detached at the operating system. Otherwise data losses may occur. Proceed as follows: 1. Double click on the symbol Remove Hardware or Eject in the right lower corner of the task bar. (XP: Remove Hardware Safely"). See also the respective pictures: 2. Click on Stop resp. OK in the pop up window. 3. Click on OK. After carrying out the above steps the unit can be disconnected. Note: The driver software may be not compatible to other MP3 products. If problems occur try to install the driver manually or call our hotline. GB ­ 9 | MP-300 Manual Installation of Driver Software 1. Windows 2000/XP: Click with the right mouse button on My Computer>Properties>Device Manager. Double click on Player Recovery Device Class. Now click on Driver>Update Driver. Click on Next in any of the following windows. GB ­ 10 | MP-300 2. Windows 98: After connecting the player to the PC use the right mouse button to click on My Computer>Properties>Device Manager. Please check if the entry of the player is shown with an exclamation mark or a question mark. Double click on the symbol of the MP-300 (Player Recovery Device Class). Now click on Driver>Upgrade Driver. Click on Next in any of the following windows and on Finish to finish driver installation. Now the driver is installed. GB ­ 11 | MP-300 BASIC OPERATION Menus The unit is completely controlled by menus. The main menu and its sub menus are invoked with the key MENU. Main menu and its sub menus are left by invoking the option Exit. All menus are navigated with the keys FF and RW. To select an option MENU has to be pressed. Switching On and Off Use to switch on. The unit is set to music mode after switching on. To switch off is pressed for more than 5 seconds until the message "Continue Holding To Power Off" and an activity bar is shown and the unit is switched off. Charging If the battery level icon on the LCD becomes , please charge the player. Two charging modes are provided as follows: 1. In both power on and power off state, the player may be charged by the connection to PC via the USB line. 2. In addition, it may also be charged via the provided charger. Note: If the battery is discharged, and the player is unable to turn on, it needs to be charged immediately. If the battery is discharged, the LCD will display "Battery Shortage Power OFF", and the MP player will turn off automatically. The charging process should be finished within 8 hours; Note: It's advised to charge the player after power off, with a charging period of 4 hours. GB ­ 12 | MP-300 Playback Short pressing of starts and pauses playback. A little bit longer pressing stops playback. Previous/Next Short pressing of RW moves to previous files, FF to the next. Volume If V+ is pressed volume increases while longer pressing V- reduces it. Fast Forward/Reverse (FF&RW) Long press FF key to achieve fast forward function, the playing time of current track will increase quickly. Long press RW key to achieve fast rewind function, the playing time of current track will decrease quickly. Language Select Settings in the main menu and then Language. Select with FF and RW between English, German and French. Equalizer Select Settings in the main menu and then EQ. Navigate with FF and RW through Normal , Rock , Jazz , Classic , and Pop . Playback Mode Select Settings in the main menu and then PlaySequence. Navigate with FF and RW through , , , , and . A-B Repeat Function During playback you press R/A-B to mark the beginning of the range to be repeated. The symbol is shown. The end of the range is marked by pressing R/A-B again. Now the symbol is shown and the marked section is permanently repeated. Press GB ­ 13 | MP-300 R/A-B key to cancel the set A-B repeat and start to play from the canceling position. Voice Recording Quick Start In music mode press R/A-B (about 2 sec) until is displayed. Voice recording starts immediately after releasing the key. Recording format is mono ADPCM 8 kHz. Pressing MENU stops recording. Under voice mode the display shows WAV. In voice mode WAV files are used. There is no support for ID3 tags (displaying lyrics information). Menu Controlled Select Record in the main menu while in music or voice mode. The sub menu includes the options Source, MO/ST (Mono/Stereo), Encode, sRate, Record and Cancel. FF and RW are used to navigate through the options and with the MENU button the selection is confirmed. Source allows to select the audio source (MIC = microphone, LineIn for all other audio devices). MO/ST allows to toggle between Mono and Stereo. Use Encode to set the formats IM ADPCM (4 Bit), MS ADPCM (4 Bit) or PCM (16 Bit). sRate is used to set the sample rate to 8KHz/11KHz/16KHz/22KHz/32KHz. Pressing MENU with selecting Record starts recording while Cancel stops the whole process. Select MIC and then select Record with MENU. The unit starts recording immediately. Pressing MENU stops recording. Recording can be stopped and resumed at any time by pressing R/A-B (symbol ). If recording with the integrated microphone Vxxx.WAV files are stored in the directory VOICE. GB ­ 14 | MP-300 Copying Files to MP-300 Seen from PCs side the MP-300 is a normal mass storage device. File transfer therefore is possible in the common way in Windows Explorer. Important Do not disconnect the unit while files are copied. Otherwise this may cause losses of data. You will find more details in section "Trouble Shooting". The unit can only be disconnected if the screen shows . Blinking messages like indicate there is a file transfer in progress. or Folder Function In additon to the default folders of the player (VOICE used for voice recording, LINE-IN for recordings over line in, and FM used for recording of radio programs) further folders can be created while downloading music files from the PC. To move to the folder directory of the player you have to press MENU longer than 2 seconds. After the key is released you will see the root directory "a:/" respectively the directory you left when you used the function last time. Use FF and RW to navigate through the folder. Folders can be opened by a short push on . Press MENU to move into the directory level above. The file in question is selected with . GB ­ 15 | MP-300 Deleting Files In the Folder function select the file, you want to delete. Press R/ A-B button. The LCD will display "Delete File?", the song name and the confirmation letters YES and NO. Press FF key or RW key to switch the confirmation letters circularly. Select YES and press MENU key to delete the current track (Message: File deleted!)) FM Tuner FM receiving Select FM Tuner by FF or RW button in the main menu and press MENU button to confirm. Auto-searching Searching for the next station: press MENU button to enter searching mode, press and hold FF button to start searching from low frequencies to higher frequencies. Auto-searching: press MENU and R/AB button at same time, the unit begin to search stations and store them automatically. At most the unit can store 20 stations. Stop searching: under auto-searching status, shortly press R/A-B button, the unit will stop searching automatically. Note: Before searching or if no station was stored, the station will be defaulted at 87.5 MHz. Manual searching Press MENU button to enter searching mode, each time you press FF or RW button the frequency will increase or decrease by 0.1 MHz. Storing Under searching status, press MENU key to shift to storing mode (Save), press FF or RW button to select the channel GB ­ 16 | MP-300 number, then press R/A-B button to confirm the storing and return to FM receiving.If you press MENU button, the unit will return to current channel and won't save the channel that has been found out. Note: By those operations above, the files can only be stored temporarily. If you shut off the power directly, the file will be lost. So if you want to keep it, you must press and hold button, until the unit is powered off normally. Previous/Next station Under FM receiving status, press RW button to skip to the previous station, and press FF to skip to the next station. Forced mono When the FM stereophonic effect sounds not very good, press button to achieve forced mono function, which could lower the interference, press button again, it return to stereo effect. Volume adjustment Under FM playing, press V+ or V- button to increase or decrease the volume. The indicator on the LCD will change accordingly. Quit FM Mode Press and hold MENU button to quit FM mode. Recording of FM Transmissions If a transmission should be recorded from the internal FM radio the R/A-B button has to be pressed (about 2 seconds) until is displayed. Recording starts immediately after releasing the key. Pressing MENU stops recording. Recording can be stopped and resumed at any time by pressing R/A-B (symbol ). If FM recording Fxxx.WAV files are stored in the directory FM. GB ­ 17 | MP-300 LINE-IN Recording Connect LINE-IN with an external audio device (i.e. cassette recorder, CD player etc.). Select Record in the main menu. The sub menu includes the options Source, MO/ST (Mono/Stereo), Encode, sRate, Record and Cancel. FF and RW are used to navigate through the options and with the MENU button the selection is confirmed. Source allows to select the audio source (MIC = microphone, LineIn for all other audio devices). MO/ST allows to toggle between Mono and Stereo. Use Encode to set the formats IM ADPCM (4 Bit), MS ADPCM (4 Bit) or PCM (16 Bit). sRate is used to set the sample rate to 8KHz/11KHz/16KHz/22KHz/32KHz. Pressing MENU with selecting Record starts recording while Cancel stops the whole process. Select LineIn, start the external audio device and select Record on the MP-300 with MENU. The unit starts recording immediately. Pressing R/A-B stops recording. If line in recording Lxxx.WAV files are stored. Note: Check the recording volume for example with an earphone. Edit ID3 Tags 1. Open Winamp, load the MP3 file you want to edit and then open the LRC editor. You can key in the informations to the LRC editor's text frame or click Document/open and move the edited text to the editor, as follows: ­ While the respective music title is reproduced, please click add tag. Note that the time tag will appear before the textual information. ­ Fill in file name, singer and name of the album. ­ Finally, click Save As in File in LRC to save the edited ID3 tag. GB ­ 18 | MP-300 Note: Name the ID3 tag with the name of the respective MP3 file and copy both files to the unit. Then the according informations will be displayed on the screen while playing a song. Note: 1. The length of an ID3 tag shall not exceed 16 single-characters (i.e. English or number characters) or 8 double-characters (i.e. Chinese characters). 2. Characters as follows are not allowed to be used in title and singer information: \ / : * ? " < > | [ ] 3. The ID3 tag information of each song cannot exceed 1.4 Kbytes. Otherwise the exceeding characters are truncated. Auto Power Off Time Setting Select Settings in main menu and then AutoPowerOff. Navigate with FF and RW through the switch off options. Settable are time intervals of (inactivity), 1 Min, 2 Min, 5 Min, and 10 Min to switch off the unit. Confirm with MENU. GB ­ 19 | MP-300 ScreenSaver Select Settings in main menu and then Screen Save. Navigate with FF and RW through the Screen Protection options: You can select (deactivate), 5 Sec, 10 Sec, 30 Sec and 60 Sec. until the screen saver is activated. Navigate with FF and RW and confirm with MENU. Note: If screen protection mode is activated, it might also save the power and increase the service life of battery, in addition to protect the screen. It's recommended. Memory Information Select About in main menu. The screen shows the total (IntTotal) and the free (IntRemain) available memory capacity. Press any key to return to main menu. Picture Browse Picture Browse function Select Picture in main menu. Press FF key or RW key to select the picture to be viewed. In browsing, press MENU key to return to the main menu. Picture Deletion Select Picture in main menu. Press FF key or RW key to select the picture to be deleted. Short press R/A-B key, at the time, the LCD will display "Delete File?", press key to delete the file. Picture Browse Setup Select Settings in main menu and then Pic Browser. You can select (no slide show, pictures have to be browsed manually), 2 Sec, 5 Sec, and 10 Sec. Navigate with FF and RW and confirm with MENU. Note: The picture has to be saved into the IMAGES menu, otherwise, it would be unable to browse them. GB ­ 20 | MP-300