Table of Content

Introduction ............................................................................................. 3

Copyright notice ................................................................................ 4

Safety information .............................................................................. 4

Precautions ........................................................................................ 5

In the Package .......................................................................................... 6

Specifications ............................................................................................ 7

Knowing Your MP3 Player ......................................................................... 8

Name of parts .................................................................................... 8

Inserting battery ................................................................................. 9

Turning on the player ......................................................................... 9

Turning off the player ......................................................................... 9

Installing the Device. ............................................................................... 10

Installing the USB device ................................................................... 10

Transferring files ............................................................................... 13

Firmware Upgrader ................................................................................ 14

Minimum system requirement ........................................................... 14

Installation ........................................................................................ 14

Firmware upgrade ........................................................................... 14

Operating Controls ................................................................................. 18

Operating in music mode ................................................................. 18

Operating in radio mode .................................................................. 19

Operating in voice mode .................................................................. 20

Detailed Controls .................................................................................... 21

Switching modes .............................................................................. 21

Playing music or voice files ................................................................ 21

Recording. ....................................................................................... 21

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Table of content

Menu Settings ........................................................................................ 23

Menu settings in music mode ........................................................... 23

Menu settings in radio mode ............................................................ 24

Menu settings in voice mode ............................................................ 26

System settings ................................................................................. 27

Troubleshooting ..................................................................................... 29

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Copyright Notice

© Copyright 2000-2003, Kobian Group

All rights reserved.

All brand and product names are trademarks and/ or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Products and specification are subject to change without notice.

Rev. 1.1

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing KOB Portable MP3 Player !

KOB MP330 is a versatile MP3 encoder / player which enables you to directly encode your music and voice into MP3 quality; KOB

MP320 is an MP3 player and voice recorder which enables you to directly line-in record your music; WITHOUT using computer, you can enjoy digital music in a more convenient way.

Its high quality one-touch voice recording feature can be used to record lectures, interviews or meetings.

With its tiny and fashionable design, KOB MP330 and KOB MP320, possesses varieties of features. Here are the functions in highlights:

- Direct line-in encoding voice format (MP3 or voice format in KOB MP330)

- 128MB internal memory

- MP3, WMA, ADPCM playback

- 30 FM preset channels (Enhanced Feature!) (KOB MP330 only)

- FM recording in MP3 quality (KOB MP330 only)

- High quality voice recording from built-in microphone

- Voice messages recording in voice format (MP3 or voice format in KOB MP330)

- Various MP3 recording bit rates (48kbps, 96kbps, 128kbps) (KOB MP330 only)

- Rainbow flashlight (KOB MP330 only)

- Fancy flashlight (KOB MP320 only)

- Support ID3 tag

- Act as an external drive, support file storage and transfer

(New feature!)

- Mini-USB connection with PC

- No PC software required

- Firmware upgrades

- Pitch conversion (KOB MP320 only)

Other functions:

- A-B looping support

- 5 equalizers

- Sleep preset

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Introduction

Copyright notice

You must be aware that distribution of MP3 files without permission from the content owner is against the copyright laws. Kobian

Group and its associating companies will not be liable against such actions.

Safety information

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with limits for class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, these are 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 the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/ TV technician for help

Modifications not authorized by the manufacturer may void users authority to operate this device.

• During file transfer or in the PC connected mode, if the player or computer is suddenly froze or no response, it may be due to the electrostatic phenomenon, please follow the procedures below to recover the operation:

• unplug the USB cable from the player

• close the software application in the computer (or re-boot the computer if necessary)

• reconnect the USB cable to the player

Introduction

Precautions

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In the Package

5.

6.

7.

1.

2.

3.

4.

Main Unit

Stereo Earphone

Mini-USB Cable

CD for Driver Installation

Neck String

Carrying Pouch with an Arm Band (KOB MP330 only)

User Manual

(KOB MP330 only)

Specifications

Size (HxWxD)

Net Weight

Internal Flash Memory

Power Supply

PC Interface

Radio Function

(KOB MP330 only)

Digital Music Format

Playback

Record

73 x 42 x 16mm (2.87"x1.65"x0.63")

39g (without battery)

128MB (depending on product version)

1x AAA alkaline battery

Mini-USB

FM with auto scan and 30 preset channels

MP3, WMA, all bit rates including VBR

MP3 (48,96,128kbps in 44.1kHz from linein,

FM or internal mic)

(KOB MP330 only)

Digital Music Format

Playback

Record

Built-in Microphone

Signal to Noise Ratio

Frequency Range

Battery Life

Equalizer

Play Mode

ADPCM (32kbps)

ADPCM from interal mic. or line-in

Electric condenser microphone

>90dB

20Hz - 20kHz

15+ hours

Jazz, Rock, Classic, Pop, User

Normal, Repeat one, Repeat all, Random,

Repeat random

All specifications are subject to change without notice.

Some WMA encoders may have DRM enabled (Digital

Right Management) which does not allow WMA file playback in portable device. For encoding with Windows Media

Player 7.0 or above, there is a portable device function to transfer music to portable device. By using this function, the copyright management will be automatically disabled so that the WMA file can be played in your portable device.

Notes:

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MPEG Layer 3 audio coding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and THOMSON Multimedia. Supply of this product only conveys a license for personal, private and non-commercial use and does not convey a license nor imply any rights to use this product in real time broadcasting (terrestrial, satellite, cable and other media) or broadcasting via internet or other networks, such as but not limited to intranets or in pay-audio or audio-on-demand application. An independent license for such use is required.

•

Some copying may require the permission of the relevant copyright owner. We do not have the authority to grant such permission. Kobian Group and its resellers will not be liable for unlawful use of the above product.

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Knowing Your MP3 Player

Name of parts

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The Display Window

Knowing Your MP3 Player

Inserting battery

Notes:

If you follow the picture below to grasp the MP3 Player, it is easier to handle.

Turn on the player

Press and hold

Make sure the HOLD button switch off. If not, “LOCKED” will display for your signal.

Turn off the player

Press and hold

PC)

(except when your player is connected to a

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Installing the Device

The MP3 player does not require any special program for transferring music files. Music files transfer can be done easily by simple dragand-drop. It does not require to learn new software application.

Installing the USB device:

1. Make sure the MP3 player is unplugged from the USB port of your

PC.

2. Insert the software installation CD that comes with the MP3 player into the CDROM drive of your PC, the installation should start automatically.

3. You can also start the installation manually by clicking “Start->

Run”in the windows. Enter “x:\setup.exe”in the space provided, where “x:” is the drive letter of your CDROM drive.

4. During installation, the USB driver is automatically installed and simply follow the instructions to complete installation of MP3 player firmware upgrader.

5. During the installation, the following pop-up window will appear:

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Simply click “Yes” to continue installation.

Installing the Device

If you are using Windows XP, the following pop-up window will appear:

Simply click “Continue Anyway” to continue installation.

6. You are recommended to re-start the computer after installation is completed.

7. After re-start the computer you can connect your MP3 player to the

USB port of your PC. A “New Hardware Found” window will appear when windows tries to recognizing your player.

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Installing the Device

8. During the process of recognize your player, the following pop-up window will appear:

Simply click “Yes” to continue the process of recognizing your player.

If you are using Windows XP, the following pop-up window will appear:

Installing the Device

Simply Click “Continue Anyway” to continue the process of recognizing your player.

9. If the player is connected to your PC, you will see “USB Connected” on the player screen.

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Notes:

• If the connection failed, open the device manager in windows. Make sure that "MP3 player" is installed. If not, please make sure you have administrative rights in windows and run the installation again.

• You can also download the USB driver and the firmware upgrader.

Transferring files

1. Switch on the player and connect it securely to the PC with the USB cable.

2. Double click on "My Computer" on the desktop of windows, there will be an additional drive created.

3. To download music files to your MP3 player, simply drag the files from the windows explorer and drop them to the newly created drive. You can also upload files from the player to the PC by doing the reverse *.

The MP3 player can also be used as an external drive for storage of nonmusic files.

Notes:

User must be aware that uploading MP3 files without permission from the content owner is against the copyright laws.

You are recommended to right click the drive and select “Jump” to quit so as to ensure you exit safely without the risk of file corruption.

1. Unplug the USB cable when the downloading procedure is completed. DO NOT unplug the USB cable when the LCD is still playing ”USB writing” as doing so may corrupt the files stored in the player and you will need to RE-FORMAT the

MP3 player. Also, if the player encounters abnormal interruption during recording such as battery removal, you may also need to RE-FORMAT it.

2. The MP3 player does not support WAV files downloaded or created by user. It support WAV files recording direct from the MP3 player only.

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Firmware Upgrader

Firmware upgrader enables you to perform firmware upgrade,if new firmware is available, to enhance your MP3 player or to obtain new features.

Minimum system requirement

1. Windows98, 2000, ME, XP, XP Pro, XP home

2. Pentium II 233MHz

3. 32 MB RAM

4. 56Kbps modem internet connection

5. USB1.1

Installation

When installing the USB device, firmware upgrader is also automatically installed.

Firmware upgrade

1. To perform firmware upgrade, please make sure your MP3 player is connected securely to the USB port of your PC and the corresponding USB driver program is installed.

2. Start the firmware upgrader by clicking "Start->Programs" in windows and choose "Firmware Upgrader" in the program menu.

Firmware Upgrader

To start the firmware upgrade, click "Upgrade Now!"

The program will then connect to the internet to search for available updates. A list of firmware versions will be shown. Please choose the desired

Menu display language and Additional song name language support for your MP3 player. Click “OK” to continue.

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Firmware Upgrader

The program will try to download the updates from the internet. The downloading time will be 5 - 7 minutes for 56k modem.

After downloading, a firmware upgrade window will appear. Click "Start" to begin to upgrade your MP3 player.

Firmware Upgrader

After the upgrade, click "Close" to close the firmware upgrade window.

At last, the program then will tell you the upgrade is completed.

Unplug the USB cable to allow the new firmware to take effect.

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Operating controls

Operating in Music Mode

The following tables show all key response under different operations in music mode.

Music Playing Mode

Music Recording Mode

Operating controls

Operating in Radio Mode (KOB MP330 only)

The following tables show all key response under different operations in radio mode.

FM Radio Playing Mode

FM Radio Recording Mode

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Operating controls

Operating in Voice Mode

The following tables show all key response under different operations in voice mode.

Voice Playing Mode

Voice Recording Mode

Detailed Controls

Switching Modes

The MP3 player supports three operation modes: the music mode, the radio mode and the voice mode (2 for KOB MP320, the music mode and the voice mode). To switch mode, press the MENU , press select mode, use /

to select the desired mode, then press

to

to confirm.

Playing Music or Voice files

1. Play/ Stop

Press to play tracks, and again to stop.

2. Selecting tracks a. While playing, press

shortly to play next track, press

to play previous track.

b. Pressing

or

while player is stopped lets you browse through the tracks stored in memory

3. Moving within track

Press

or

for more than 1 second to fast forward and fast backward.

4. A-B looping

While playing music or voice, press "A-B" , to mark the point where you want the section to start (Point A). Press "A-B" again where you want the section to end (Point B), then the section will repeat continuously.

5. Delete tracks or voice file

Choose delete from MENU, using

or

to select tracks or voice file and press to delete.

Recording

1. Music recording in music mode

This function enables you to record any audio source to MP3. Con-

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Detailed Controls

nect the audio source to line-in jack by a stereo cable.

Press REC to start recording in music mode. To stop recording, press

REC again. When recording, a " " will be shown. Press to pause or resume recording.

Note:

The default recording source is Mic-In. If you want to change the recording source to record music, you need to change to line-in before recording. Please refer to system settings.

2. Voice recording in voice mode

This feature offers high quality one touch voice recording. You can select to record voice in ADPCM format in voice mode (or MP3 quality in music mode in KOB MP330) to enjoy smaller file size.

Press REC to start recording in voice mode. To stop recording, press

REC again. When recording, a " " will be shown. Press to pause or resume recording.

Note:

You can record line-in in voice mode to enjoy smaller file size by selecting recording source to line-in. To do so, please refer to the section

“System Settings”.

3. Radio recording in radio mode (KOB MP330 only)

Press REC to start recording in radio mode. To stop recording, press

REC again. When recording, a " " will be shown. Press to pause or resume recording.

Note:

Radio recording quality depends on the reception quality.

Menu Settings

This section explains all settings which controls the functions under different modes. To change the settings, use

&

to move to each particular item. Press to enter into the sub-menu, use

& to choose the desired settings. Press to confirm, you need to enter MENU under different modes to change the settings.

The following table shows all key response for menu setting in different mode:

KEY

MENU

/

Others

key action

Enter/exit menu

Move left/right

Enter into sub-menu/confirm

No response

Menu settings in Music Mode

Switching to

Music Mode

Music: Switch to music mode

Radio: Switch to FM radio mode(KOB MP330)

Voice: Switch to voice mode

Playmode

Normal: Play all tracks in the selected album in order and stop after playing

Repeat One: Keep repeating the current track in the selected album

Repeat All: Play all tracks in the selected album in order and repeat

Random: Select a track in the selected album randomly, play the track and repeat the process.

Rpt Random: Keep repeating all tracks randomly.

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Menu Settings

Equalizers

Select Normal, Rock, Classic, Jazz, Pop and User default

Bass: Set bass from level 1 to 4 (1 is the weakest and 4 is the strongest)

Treble: Set treble from level 1 to 4 (1 is the weakest and

4 is the strongest)

Recording Bit

Rates

(KOB MP330)

There are choices of 48kbps, 96kbps,128 kbps for recording bit rates in MP3 recording.

Deleting Files

Refer to page 21.

Pitch

Conversion

(KOB MP320 only)

KOB MP320 is equipped with a special function that allows you to convert the pitch of the song. You can really have fun to use this function to change the voice from a male singer to a female singer and vise versa.

You can convert the pitch in menu mode.

Menu setting in Radio Mode (KOB MP330 only)

Normal Mode

Switching to

Radio Mode

Music: Switch to music mode

Radio: Switch to FM radio mode

Voice: Switch to voice mode

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C h a n n e l

Preset

Save FM radio broadcast channel or delete

Menu Settings

Mono/Stereo

Mode

Set FM radio output to stereo or mono

Preset mode

Switching to

Radio Mode

Music: Switch to music mode

Radio: Switch to FM radio mode

Voice: Switch to voice mode

Deleting Files

Delete FM radio broadcast channels

Mono/Stereo

Mode

Set FM radio output to stereo or mono

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Menu Settings

Menu setting in Voice Mode

Switching to

Voice Mode

Music: Switch to music mode

Radio: Switch to FM radio mode (KOB MP330 only)

Voice: Switch to voice mode

Deleting Files

Refer to page 21.

Menu Settings

System Settings

Here are all the items inside system settings

To change system settings, use

&

to move to each particular system setting sub-menu and press to enter the sub-menu. Use

&

to choose the desired settings. Press to confirm.

1. Source: This menu helps you select the recording source. Selecting line-in means recording from line-in source while selecting mic-in means recording from the built-in mic.

2. Sleep preset: Presetting 15 means the device will automatically power off in 15 minutes.

3. Resume: Enabling the resume function will go to the last track after you power on the device again.

4. Scrolling speed: There are 5 scrolling speed levels, 4 is the fastest.

You can choose off to disable scrolling.

5. Backlit time(KOB MP330 only): There are 4 backlit time levels 10, 30,

60, permanent. It means the backlight will be on for 10, 30, 60 seconds or permanent when pressing any key.

6. Contrast level: Use

or

to set the contrast level from 1 to 10.

7. Default setting: You may choose to save your settings as default by pressing “Yes”.

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Menu Settings

8. Version number: For checking the firmware version of this player.

9. Flash light: There are 4 flash light levels, 10, 30, 60, permanent. It means the flash light will be on for 10, 30, 60 seconds or permanent when playing music or voice.

10. Idle Time: The device will automatically power off when it is left idle for say 3 minutes .

Troubleshooting

1. The player does not work or nothing is displayed on the

LCD

2. The buttons are not responding

3. Unable to play MP3 file

4. Unable to play ADPCM file

5. Unable to record via line-in

6. A-B looping function is not working

7. Unable to install software or driver

8. Unable to find the mass storage device after connected to the PC.

9. How to reset MP3 Player to factory default settings.

10. The backlight does not turn on. (KOB MP330)

Check the capacity and the polarity of the battery.

The player will automatically shut down to save power if it is left idle for 1 minute.

Check if the "Hold" button on the main unit is locked . If yes, buttons will have no response.

Check if the memory contains any MP3 files. Check if the player is in the music mode.

Check if the memory contains any VOC files. Check if the player is in the voice mode.

Check if there is enough space in the selected memory. Check if the cable is stereo and connected to the device properly.

This function is only working during playback.

Our installation CD only supports Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, XP pro and XP home. Other system is not supported.

Make sure you have installed the correct driver. Make sure the player is power on and ready. Make sure USB device is installed. You may check this in the "Device manager" in your PC.

Choosing default setting in system settings. By choosing "YES" allow you to reset the player to factory default settings.

Check if the backlight is disabled for power saving in the system setting.

Please refer to page 27 for the system setting.

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Attention

1. Make sure that the USB driver is INSTALLED

BEFORE connecting the MP3 player to computer.

Unplug the MP3 player during installation.

2. DO NOT unplug the USB cable when the LCD is still

displaying “USB writing”; otherwise, files in the MP3

player may be corrupted and format of MP3 player

may be required.

3. During recording, prevent the MP3 player encountering

abnormal interruption, such as battery removal;

otherwise, files in the MP3 player may be corrupted

and format of MP3 player may be required.

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