*None-use periods: if the unit is left unused for a long period, please take out the battery in order to avoid the unit being corroded by the seepage.

*Do not use the unit in places that are extremely hot, cold, dusty, or humid.

*Avoid the unit being dropped.

*The battery service life may differ under different usage conditions and different models

*Please change the battery when any of the following cases occur:

The logo appears and displays: low battery

The keys become inactive

The unit stops running under normal condition.

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. Be note to operate this unit with care and back up any files if necessary.

FEATURES

MP3/WMA playback

OLED display

Screen saving

FM tuner with 30 station memories and FM digital recording

LINE-IN function

High-level digital recording

No driver Program necessary under win2000/XP/ME

64/128/256MB portable USB data storage

A-B Repeat playback.

Equalizer: 5 modes.

ID3 tag support with file name lyrics display (edit in advance needed)

Low power consumption

Line control support

Firmware upgradeable

Elegant menu

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1. LINE-IN input jack

2. Earphone jack

3.O LED display

4. Play/pause/stop

5. Recording REC /A-B repeat

6. EQ /DEL

7. M enu

8. VOL / SEARCH-

Volume - / previous, RW

9. VOL / SEARCH+

Volume +/ next, FF

10. Battery case

11. Neck strap slot

12. USB slot

INTRODUCTION OF SCREEN

L I Q U I D C RY S T A L D I S P L A Y

M u s i c

R e c o r d i n g

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Vo l u m e

U S B m o d e

B a t t e r y l e v el i n d i c a t o r

M u s i c o r R E C f i l e n a m e , o r d i n a l n u m b e r a n d r e c o r d i n g t i m e

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R e c y c l i n g m o d e

R e c y cl i n g i n c l u d e s 5 m o d es : S i n g l e r e p e a t , r e p e a t a l l , r a n d o m p l a y, r a n d o m r e p e a t a n d n o r m a l

( n o l o g o d i s p l a y f o r n o r m a l m o d e)

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BASIC OPERATION

1.Basic operation

1). Battery loading

Note: only an AAA DC 1.5V alkaline battery can power the unit, when the

LCD display , please change the battery in time.

Push the battery cover toward the direction of the arrowhead to open the battery case, put the battery inside based on the correct polarity, and then push the battery cover toward the direction of the arrowhead to close the battery cover.

2. Power on: press to turn on the unit, and LCD displays the logo of the player. Then the unit enters

MUSIC mode. The LCD display music mode m, track number, total number, playback length, track name, singer, repeat indicator, volume level, stop indicator, sound effect

Indicator, battery level as well.

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3. Power off: Under play back or stop (pause) status, press and hold key, a schedule bar will turn up. When the Off Schedule Bar is full, the unit will turn off.

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2: MP3, WMA Playback:

Note: this unit can supports MP3 (layer3 of MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG2.5) and WMA files.

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1) Playback:

Press button to start playback under stop or pause status, the playback indicator, repeat indicator, track number, total number, total time, track name, the singer, volume, EQ indicator, battery level as well. If the lyrics have been edited in advance, it will also be displayed

Note: When it is playing, the indicated battery capacity may change. It is because the electric charge oscillation generated due to different power consumption during the play.

2), pause/stop/turn off

Pause: under playback mode, press button to pause. Pause indicator displayed on the LCD. Press button again, the playback continue.

Stop: under playback or pause status, press and hold button to stop. Stop indicator displayed on the LCD, the unit stop playing.

Power off: under playback/pause/stop status, press and hold m button (about 4 second) until the off schedule bar was full , the unit power off

Note: under pause or playback mode, in order to save the battery power, the unit will automatically turned off in 60 second if no button was pressed.

3, previous file/next file

Press button to skip to previous file; button to skip to next file.

4, FF/REW

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Button, and confirm by pressing MENU button. Then select FF or REW by or button, press MENU to confirm. When logo flash on the LCD.

Press and hold button to move fast-forward and playback;

Button To fast-rewind and playback.

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5.volume adjustment:

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Under playback mode, press button to increase the volume; button to decrease.

The volume indicator on he LCD changes accordingly.

6; EQ modes setting

Set by m button: Under music or voice mode, press m button to enter the menu. Select

and press m button to confirm, and then select voice effect,

Settin g

Press m button to enter EQ mode selection. Press button or

Button to shift the EQ modes in the order of Normal, Rock, Jazz,

Classic, Pop. The LCD display , and you can press m to confirm and return Quick start ress EQ/DEL button to shift the five modes in the order of: normal, rock, jazz, classic, and pop, LCD display

Accordingly.

Note: when shifting the EQ modes, do not press buttons too fast; please change them one by one.

7; File repeat modes setting

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Under playback or record status, press m button to enter the menu, select and press m

Settin g button to confirm. Then select playback mode, press m button to enter the playback mode settings. By pressing or button, the playback mode will change in below order:

Normal, repeat one( ), repeat all( ), random play( ), random repeat( ).

(No logo when normal be selected). Press m button to confirm and return.

7, A-B repeat function

Setting: under playback status, press REC/A-B button at the beginning of the section you want to repeat; the A indicator will be displayed . Press the button again at the end of the section, the AB indicator will be displayed , and this section will be repeated continuously.

Cancel: A. Press and hold REC/A-B button to cancel the repeat and resume normal playback.

B. Press and hold button to stop playback and cancel A-B repeat.

3. Voice playback

Note: WAV could not support ID3.

Under voice mode, the LCD display voice indicator v,

1)Playback

2)Pause/stop/power off

3)Previous/next, FF/REW

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4)Volume adjustment

5)EQ modes setting

6)Playback modes setting

7)A-B repeat

4.Files delete:

1)Single file delete

Under music or voice mode, press and hold EQ/DEL button. LCD display delete files?

File name and confirming indicator yes or no, press or to select. Select yes and press MENU button to delete current file and quit delete mode; Select no to cancel and quit the mode.

2)Delete all

Under stop status of music (or voice) mode, press and hold EQ/DEL button to enter delete mode, then LCD display delete files? File name and confirming indicator yes or no, press EQ/DEL button again, LCD display delete all? and confirming indicator yes or no, press or button to shift the indicator. Select yes and press MENU to confirm, all files will be deleted and quit delete mode.

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5.Music & Voice shifting:

Under stop or playback status, press MENU button and select music or voice record by or button, then press MENU to confirm.

6.FM tuner:

1). Start FM receiving:

Press MENU button to enter the menu. Select by button and press MENU

Tuner button to confirm. LCD display FM mode logo f.

2). Auto-searching:

Under FM status:

Searching for next station: press button to enter searching mode, press and hold button to start searching frequencies from high frequencies to lower frequencies, button to start searching from low frequencies to higher frequencies.

Auto-searching: press button to enter searching mode, press and REC/A-B 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 or REC/A-B button, the unit will stop searching automatically.

Note: Before searching or if no station was stored, the station order will be

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BASIC OPERATION default 87.5 MHz.

3). Manual searching: Press button to enter searching mode, each time you press or button the frequency will increase or decrease by 0.1 MHz.

4). Storing: under searching status, press key to shift to storing mode, press or

Button to select the channel number, then press REC/A-B button to confirm the storing and return to FM receiving.

Note: By those operations above, the files can only be stored temporarily.

If you Shut off the power directly, the file will lost .so if you want to keep them, you must press and hold button, and turn the unit off normally.

5). Previous/Next station

Under FM receiving status, press button to skip to the previous station, and start receiving; press to skip to the next station.

6). Forced mono: when the FM stereophonic effect sounds not very good, press

REC/A-B button to achieve forced mono function, which could lower the interference, press REC/A-B button again, it return to stereo effect.

7). Volume adjustment: When you are listening the FM program, press and hold button to increase the volume, press and hold button to decrease the volume. The indicator on the LCD will change accordingly

8). Press MENU button to quit FM tuner.

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7.Voice recording:

1)Quick start:

Under stop/pause/play status of music or voice mode, press and hold REC/A-B button, until the LCD display , release REC/A-B button, the unit start to record voice as mono ADPCM 8KHz format.

2)Through the menu:

1.Enter the recording mode setting lUnder music or voice mode, press MENU button to enter the menu, select voice by button and press MENU button to confirm the voice recording mode setting.

lUnder FM status, press and hold REC/A-B button to enter record mode:

2.Setting

lInput source:

Move the cursor to the input source by + or button, then set the input source by MENU button: MIC or LINE-IN (under music or voice mode)

Under music

Or voice mode

MIC Recording external voice through the MIC

Recording through audio line from other

Line In media player i.e. cassette recorder, CD player etc.

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BASIC OPERATION lChannel number

Move the cursor to channel number by and button, then press MENU button to set the channel number: mono, stereo.

Mono MonoInput source is MIC, LINE-IN

Stereo StereoInput source is LINE-IN

3.Start/quick recording

Move the cursor to the confirming indicatorrecording or cancel, then press MENU button to confirm.

Record Confirm by press MENU, then start recording as step 1 2

Cancel Confirm by press MENU, then return to main menu

Note: Lxxx.wav is files recorded by LINE-IN, which is stored in root catalog; Vxxx.wav is files recorded by MIC, which is stored in voice folder.

3) Stop recording

Under recording status, press REC/A-B button to stop recording, while other buttons are not valid.

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8.Auto power off setting:

1. Press MENU button to enter the menu, select by button and press MENU

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BASIC OPERATION button to confirm. Then choose power setting, press MENU button to enter auto power off setting mode. Select auto off time (1 min,

2 mins, 5 mins, 10 mins) by or button and finally press

MENU button to confirm your choice and return to previous menu.

Note: if you select disable, the unit won't power off until the battery is completely exhausted.

9.Check the capacity of the player.

Press MENU button, choose by or button. Press

About

Example v2.413

Int Media: 128 Mb

Free Byte: 115 Mb

MENU button again, the LCD displays the example version number, total memory and free memory. Press any button to quit

10.LINE-IN function and using manual

1). Conncect one plug of the LINE IN cable to other audio devices (i.e. cassette recorder,

CD player), and another plug to the LINE IN jack.

2). In record menu, set the input source to LINE IN, and set the encoding and channel number. Then move the curser to recording by button or button

3). Start the output of external audio signal (i.e. music), meanwhile, shortly press m button, the unit begin to record.

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Note: when you use LINE IN recording function, please adjust the volume of the audio signal, we recommend you to monitor the sound by earphone, otherwise, some distorting problem may occur.

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11.Lyrics edit:

1). Open Winamp, load the mp3 you want to edit, and then open the LRC (3.4) lyrics editor. You can key in the lyrics to the LRC editor's text frame or click Document/open, move the edited text lyrics to the lyrics editor, as follows:

2). When the relative lyrics are playing, please clicks add tag; the time tag will appear before the lyrics.

3). Fill the file name, singer, album name blanks accordingly.

4). Finally, click saves as (A) in file (F) in LRC to save the edited lyrics.

Note: do name the lyrics in their original mp3 names, and copy both files and lyrics to the unit. Therefore, the lyrics will be displayed on the LCD at the same time.

Note: 1. Each sentence shall not exceed 16 single-characters (i.e. English or number characters) or 8 double-characters (i.e. Chinese characters).

2. Characters as follows should not be used in title blank and singer blank:

3. The lyric of each song cannot exceed 1000 bytes, or the exceeded

characters cannot be displayed.

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Connecting with a computer:

1). Installation of driving program

Note: a) Windows 98 base needs installation of driving program, while Windows

2000/XP/ME do not . b) DO NOT connect the MP3 player to the computer before installation is completed. c) if you want to use win 2000, the windows2000 service pack 3.0 (in the install CD)must be installed.

from www.energysistem.com.

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2.Double clicks on SETUP. EXE, pictures will be shown as follows: Then click

Next>Yes>Next>Next>Finish according to the reminder.

Installation is finished.

2). Connecting to a computer

Connect your MP3 player to PC via USB cable, press M button or under the condition that the is turned on, the window will appear indicating the new hardware has been found, then the system will automatically install the drive program. After it, a mobile disk icon (see as following) will be found in My computer with on LCD display.

3). Upload/ Download files

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BASIC OPERATION mobile disk after being connected to a computer. Therefore the file transfer is operated in the same way as the ordinary disk.

Special Note: a. Don't unplug the MP3 player during the process of uploading or downloading files; otherwise, it may cause dysfunction of the unit due to the damage to the software. For details, please see Trouble shooting.

Note: a. Don't unplug the MP3 player during the process of uploading or downloading files; otherwise, it may cause dysfunction of the unit due to the damage to the software.

For details, please see Trouble shooting.

b. When you want to unplug the MP3 player from the USB port of the computer, be noted to on LCD. If LCD is blinking with Usb- SA or Usb-rd , it indicates that data is being transferred. Plug the MP3 player when it display

Special notice: Normal uninstallation for USB device is required under Windows 2000 or

Windows XP; otherwise it may cause damage or data loss to the player.

Operation steps are as follow: a.Double clicks on icon of Unplug or Eject Hardware on bottom right corner of the computer (note: under XP, it is delete hardware safely ) as following:

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B.Click Stop on the pop-up window. Refer to the following picture on the left.

C.Click OK on the pop-up window. Refer to the following picture on the righ:

BASIC OPERATION d.Click OK on the pop-up window. See the following window.

You may then unplug the MP3 player from USB port after the above steps.

4) Upgrade/Renew Software

You'd better not upgrade the software unless the player works abnormally, i.e. not able to be powered on.

A.Connect MP3 with computer.

B.Press

M button, or MP3 has already been in ON status, then a mobile disk icon

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BASIC OPERATION will appear in My Computer , see picture a:

C. Steps: Start>Program>SigmaTel MSCN Audio Player>SigmaTel MSCN Firmware

Download, see the following picture b.

Then a window will pop out as picture c: c d a b

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After the above windows close automatically, the window of upgrading software will pop out as picture d:

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Note: if you want to format data area of the flash while upgrading, you need to choose

Format Data Area. System will pop out a window as the following picture. If you want to format Data Area, click yes .

D: Click Start button and start upgrading software, see as follows:

E: After upgrading, please click Close button.

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5). Format the MP3 Player

A.Press

M after connecting the player to the computer.

B.Click mobile disk with right button of the mouse, and choose Format from the menu, see the right picture:

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C.That the format window will pop out, see the above picture:

D.Click Start in the format window. Then click OK button in the pop-out window and start formatting MP3 flash.

E.After formatting, click OK button in the right picture.

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6). Uninstall the driving program

A.Disconnect the player to the computer.

B.According to the following picture, click Start>Program>

SigmaTel MSCN Audio Player>Uninstall, or Control Panel>Explorer

Immediately the following window will pop out.

conversation window will appear.

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BASIC OPERATION window appear then.

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Click Finish when uninstall completes.

Note: This driving program may prevent driving program installation of other MP3 products. Download driving program manually under device manager or refer to the technical support page of www.energysistem.com.

Steps for downloading driving program manually:

A.Under Windows 2000/XP, click My computer>Properties>Hardware>Device

Manager with the right button on the mouse. See following picture on the left.

Double click Player Recovery Device Class>Player Recovery Device, see as follows:

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Click Driver>Update Driver... the following windows will pop-up.

Click NEXT on each continuously appearing window.

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B.After connecting the player to the computer, click My computer>Properties>Device

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Manager by right button on mouse under Windows 98, to check whether there is

Player Recovery Device in device manager, see following picture.

Double click Player Recovery Device Class>Player Recovery Device, see as follows:

Click Driving Program as follows:

Click Driver>Update Driver...

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Installation is finished.

TROUBLE SHOOTING

Trouble Shooting

1.Why can't some MP3 be played?

Standard MP3 only includes: the songs in layer 3 of MPEG 1, layer 3 of MPEG 2 and layer 3 of MPEG 2.5. Otherwise, it won't be played in the player except transformed by the corresponding software.

2.Why doesn't the memory size displayed under the operational system match the figure on the tab?

The software in the MP3 player takes up a small portion of the memory, which coincides with the corresponding standards.

3.About WAV format

This solution supports WAV files of IMA ADPCM format only. If you want to store

WAV files of other format in this player, please set up a new folder and store the WAV files in it. Don't put the WAV files of other format into the root directory of the mobile disk and the folder of VOICE, otherwise, the player may shut down when play such

WAV files.

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4.What causes the Mp3 player running slowly?

Using or deleting files frequently in a long time will generate fragments in the flash memory, like fragment in the hard disk, which will cause the player running slowly.

5.What if the driving program of the MP3 player be damaged?

This is caused by improper operation. For details, please refer to the Upgrade/Renew

Software part.

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6.What if the MP3 play works abnormally, i.e, shutting down?

When abnormal situation occured due to improper operation, push the POWER ON switch to OFF and then toward ON. Then restart the unit and it can return to normal situation.

7.what if after a long non-use period, the player cannot be turned on?

To enlarge the life of the built-in battery, when the battery level is too low or in some abnormal situation (shut off), the lithium battery will be protected, so it cannot be turned on. You need to connect the mp3 player to a computer or the charger; it can be used after recharging.

SPECIFICATION

Flash memory: 256MB / 512 MB (refer to the indicator on the packing)

Max recording time: 16Hr / 32 Hr

Dimensions: 68mmx38mmx12mm

Weight: 33g

Power source: AA battery

Memory medium: built-in flash memory

Microphone: built-in capacitor MIC

Input: built-in MIC

Output: double-channel earphone, above 8 ohm.

Range of FM frequencies: 87.5-108mhz

Condition to use: 0-40 o

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Basic accessory: user's manual, line control, USB cable, earphone, neck strap, installation CD, carrying case.

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