Fiio M3k User manual

M3K Complete user manual

(This manual is for use only for reference, and is subject to change without notice.)

Foreword:

Thank you for purchasing the 384KHz/32Bit protable high resolution music player

M3K，launched by FiiO Company (Note: This article is referred to as M3 in the

following). To let you better utilize the M3 to enjoy high-quality music， we have

prepared this complete user manual and collected answers of some frequently asked

questions by users. We hope this manual will help you get to know the M3 and unleash

its full potential.

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Contents

1 Overview............................................................................................................................................. -1-

Buttons and Ports

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2.1

Buttons/Ports Diagram:

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2.2

Buttons and ports introduced

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2.2.1 Power/lock button................................................................................................................................................................-2-

2.2.2 Volume up.............................................................................................................................................................................-2-

2.2.3 Volume down........................................................................................................................................................................-2-

2.2.4 Confirm button..................................................................................................................................................................... -2-

2.2.5 Shortcuts button...................................................................................................................................................................-2-

2.2.6 Touch bar.............................................................................................................................................................................. -2-

2.2.7 Up/Prev.track/Rewind.......................................................................................................................................................... -2-

2.2.8 Back.......................................................................................................................................................................................-3-

2.2.9 Down/Next track/Fast forward.............................................................................................................................................-3-

2.2.10 USB transfer/Charging........................................................................................................................................................ -3-

2.2.11 Micro SD card slot...............................................................................................................................................................-3-

2.2.12 Headphone out jack........................................................................................................................................................... -3-

2.2.13 Microphone........................................................................................................................................................................ -3-

3 Introduction of display..................................................................................................................... -3-

3.1 Power on/off and home page............................................................................................................................ - 3 -

3.2 Main screen........................................................................................................................................................ - 4 -

3.3 Lock screen clock................................................................................................................................................- 4 -

3.4 Status Bar............................................................................................................................................................- 5 -

3.5 Browse Files........................................................................................................................................................- 5 -

3.6 Recording............................................................................................................................................................- 6 -

3.7 Category..............................................................................................................................................................- 7 -

3.7.1 All songs................................................................................................................................................................................-7-

3.7.2 Artist..................................................................................................................................................................................... -7-

3.7.3 Album....................................................................................................................................................................................-7-

3.7.4 Genre.................................................................................................................................................................................... -7-

3.7.5 Favorites................................................................................................................................................................................-7-

3.7.6 Playlists................................................................................................................................................................................. -7-

3.7.7 Recently added..................................................................................................................................................................... - 7 -

3.8 Play settings........................................................................................................................................................- 8 -

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3.8.1 Play mode............................................................................................................................................................................. -8-

3.8.2 Resume mode.......................................................................................................................................................................- 8 -

3.8.3 Playback gap......................................................................................................................................................................... -8-

3.8.4 Max volume.......................................................................................................................................................................... -9-

3.8.5 Default volume..................................................................................................................................................................... - 9 -

3.8.6 Fixed volume setting.............................................................................................................................................................-9-

3.8.7 Balance................................................................................................................................................................................. - 9 -

3.8.8 Equalizer............................................................................................................................................................................... -9-

3.8.9 Play through folders..............................................................................................................................................................-9-

3.9 system settings................................................................................................................................................. - 10 -

3.9.1 Update Media lib................................................................................................................................................................ - 10 -

3.9.2 Brightness........................................................................................................................................................................... - 11 -

3.9.3 Screen timeout................................................................................................................................................................... - 11 -

3.9.4 Idle standby........................................................................................................................................................................ - 11 -

3.9.5 Sleep................................................................................................................................................................................... - 11 -

3.9.6 USB mode........................................................................................................................................................................... - 11 -

3.9.7 Multifunction button..........................................................................................................................................................- 12 -

3.9.8 Button light......................................................................................................................................................................... - 12 -

3.9.9 Theme.................................................................................................................................................................................- 12 -

3.9.10 Recording quality..............................................................................................................................................................- 13 -

3.9.11 Lockscreen clock............................................................................................................................................................... - 13 -

3.9.12 Time setting...................................................................................................................................................................... - 13 -

3.9.13 Date setting...................................................................................................................................................................... - 14 -

3.9.14 Language...........................................................................................................................................................................- 14 -

3.9.15 Storage formatting............................................................................................................................................................- 14 -

3.9.16 Factory restore..................................................................................................................................................................- 14 -

3.9.17 About M3..........................................................................................................................................................................- 15 -

3.10 Now playing screen........................................................................................................................................ - 15 -

3.11 Shortcuts menu.............................................................................................................................................. - 16 -

4 Other operations...............................................................................................................................- 17 -

4.1 Songs added to favorites.................................................................................................................................. - 17 -

4.2 Songs removed from Favorites.........................................................................................................................- 18 -

4.3 Songs added to the playlist.............................................................................................................................. - 18 -

4.4 songs removed from the playlist......................................................................................................................- 19 -

4.5 Delete playlist................................................................................................................................................... - 19 -

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4.6 Delete files of songs......................................................................................................................................... - 20 -

4.7 External list....................................................................................................................................................... - 20 -

4.8 Shortcut operation........................................................................................................................................... - 20 -

4.9 Song of preference........................................................................................................................................... - 20 -

5 Firmware upgrade............................................................................................................................. - 21 -

6 Notes and precautions...................................................................................................................... - 21 -

7 FAQs...................................................................................................................................................- 22 -

7.1 How may the M3 be charged?......................................................................................................................... - 22 -

7.2 What is the charging current of M3?............................................................................................................... - 22 -

7.3 How long does it take to charge the M3?........................................................................................................- 22 -

7.4 Can I listen to songs on the M3 while charging it?.......................................................................................... - 22 -

7.5 Can M3 be charged with other Micro USB cable?...........................................................................................- 22 -

7.6 Why does the M3 charge so slowly or not at all through a front USB port on a desktop computer?........... - 22 -

7.7 How to judge the status of M3 charging?........................................................................................................- 22 -

7.8 Which operating systems does M3 support for copying songs?.....................................................................- 22 -

7.9 What USB ports does the M3 support?........................................................................................................... - 22 -

7.10 Does the M3 support file be directly dragged and deleted by the file manager on the computer?........... - 22 -

7.11 Does the M3 online computer need to be installed with a driver?.............................................................. - 23 -

7.12 How to check whether my M3 has the latest firmware?.............................................................................. - 23 -

7.13 How to upgrade the M3 firmware?............................................................................................................... - 23 -

7.14 What to do if the update fails? Would my M3 be bricked?........................................................................- 23 -

7.15 What cards do the M3 support?.................................................................................................................... - 23 -

7.16 Is the M3 picky about cards?......................................................................................................................... - 23 -

7.17 What size card does the M3 support?........................................................................................................... - 23 -

7.18 How to format SD card into FAT32 format?................................................................................................... - 23 -

7.19 All files on the SD card cannot be displayed on M3...................................................................................... - 23 -

7.20 Files on the SD card (FAT32) only show partial files on M3...........................................................................- 24 -

7.21 How do I reset the database files in M3?...................................................................................................... - 24 -

7.22 What formats of SD card does the M3 support for recording?.....................................................................- 24 -

7.23 M3 supports APE, why my APE can't play......................................................................................................- 24 -

7.24 Does M3 support CUE sheets?.......................................................................................................................- 24 -

7.25 The SD card have CUE files. Why M3 can’t support it?................................................................................. - 24 -

7.26 Why can't I see the CUE file in the browse file?............................................................................................ - 24 -

7.27 How do you set it to play across different folders?....................................................................................... - 24 -

7.28 Why do my lyrics not show?....................................................................................................................... - 24 -

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7.29 Why is the cue playing screen displaying garbled characters?......................................................................- 24 -

7.30 Why do my new songs not appear under any category?.............................................................................. - 24 -

7.31 Why does the total number of files displayed by M3 differ from the actual number of files that I copied into

the micro SD card?......................................................................................................................................................... - 25 -

7.32 How to get longer battery life for the M3?....................................................................................................- 25 -

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1 Overview

The M3 is a protable high resolution music player , using high performance codec chip ，special audio algorithm

system and high performance audio phase-locked loop are adopted ，supporting lossy and lossless music formats

including MP3,WAV, WMA, APE, FLAC, AAC ，Ogg Vorbis，DSD and ISO. A maximum sample rate of 384kHz/32 bit is

supported and other features include CUE sheets. The main panel adopts touch button to operation and uniform LED tor

instruction.It's a portable high-performance music player. The following sections are an illustrated guide to using the M3.

Buttons and Ports

2.1

Buttons/Ports Diagram:

①Power/lock button

②Volume up

③Volume down

④Confirm button

⑤Shortcuts button

⑥Touch bar

⑦Up/Prev.track/Rewind

⑧Back

⑨Down/Next track/Fast forward

⑩USB transfer/Charging

⑪Micro SD card slot

⑫Headphone out jack

⑬Microphone

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2.2

Buttons and ports introduced

2.2.1 Power/lock button

When M3 is powered off, hold the button for 2 seconds and release it and the M3 will power on (after a

brief pause);

when M3 is on, press the button briefly to lock /unlock the player, or hold the button for about 3 seconds to

power off (hold for 10 seconds for a forced shutdown).

2.2.2 Volume up

when the display is on, Press briefly to change Volume up button by one increment, hold down to change

volume continuously until to the

maximum.

If the player is in the playing state when the display is off, press and hold the Volume up button to switch the

next track.

2.2.3 Volume down

when the display is on, Press briefly to change volume down by one decrease, hold down to change volume

continuously until to the mute.

If the player is in the playing state when the display is off, press and hold the volume down button to switch

the previous track.

2.2.4 Confirm button

If the player is in the playing state when the display is off or lock screen: press briefly to play/pause，in other

menus, Shortly press to determine the operation or switch the set value function.

2.2.5 Shortcuts button

Shortly press to pop up the shortcut menu of the current screen. Different shortcut button are used in

different screens. For example, if you press the shortcuts button to pop up the shortcut menu on the now playing

screen, you can switch between playback mode, EQ shortcut, add songs to Favorites, etc. operating.

2.2.6 Touch bar

Slide the touch bar up or down to scroll the cursor, switch the display page, etc. Shortly press the touch bar

area as the confirm function - this touch bar is only effective under the bright screen.

2.2.7 Up/Prev.track/Rewind

In the now playing screen, Shortly press to play the previous track, long press to rewind the current song;

In the non-now playing screen, it is used to scroll up to select a menu item.

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2.2.8 Back

In any screen, Shortly press once, press the entry path to return step by step; long press to return to the main

menu screen.

While player is playing, Shortly press on the main menu screen to enter the music now playing screen.

2.2.9 Down/Next track/Fast forward

In the now playing screen, Shortly press to switch the next song, long press to fast forward the current song;

in the non-now playing screen, used to scroll down to select the menu item.

2.2.10 USB transfer/Charging

For data exchange, battery charged, etc.

2.2.11 Micro SD card slot

Supporting standard Micro SD card，up to 512G capacity maximum.

2.2.12 Headphone out jack

3.5mm headphone output screen, supporting a 3-segment and 4-segment headphones (not supported for

the headset wire control).

2.2.13 Microphone

Microphone hole (Do not cover it when recording, so as not to affect the recording effect)

3 Introduction of display

3.1 Power on/off and home page

Press and hold the power button when M3 is off, it will start up in about 2s; when you turn on M3 for the first

time, the language selection screen will appear. You can slide the cursor through the touch bar as needed, select

the corresponding display language and press the confirm button to confirm and save you choice (You can also

switch other languages in the system settings - Switch other languages). As shown in the figure above.

Press and hold the power button during the power-on state, and the player will turn off after the shutdown

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animation appears.

(Note: If you are unable to shut down normally when there is a crash, you can press and hold the power

button for 10 seconds to force shutdown)

3.2 Main screen

In the main screen, you can scroll the cursor by sliding the touch bar, select the corresponding item as

required, and then press the touch bar or the side confirm button to enter the project.

3.3 Lock screen clock

In the system setting, when the “lock screen clock” item is turned on, when the player reaches the backlight time

to automatically lock the screen (screen off) or the user presses the power button to manually lock the screen,

press the power button to activate the screen, the figure above will appear.

In this screen, you can slide the touch bar up or down to unlock, enter the display screen before the lock

screen, or you can press the power button again to unlock the screen.

The user can set the “Lock Screen Clock” item of the system setting to off, so that the lock screen clock

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screen will not appear when M3 wakes up.

In the lock screen clock screen, if M3 is playing, then press and hold the volume up button to switch the

next song (Shortly press is still the volume up); long press the volume down button to switch to the previous track

(Shortly press is still the volume minus) ); Shortly press the confirm button on the side of the player for

play/pause.As the same when screen is off.

3.4 Status Bar

The status bar is as figure shown above:

①volume icon and current volume value

②play status

③clock

④sleep opened icon

⑤headphone insert icon

⑥SD card status

⑦battery icon

(Note: Some icons need to be displayed in the corresponding state, and the icons displayed in different

states may not be the same)

3.5 Browse Files

From the “Browse Files” in the main screen, you need to insert the SD card, you can directly view and play

the files in the SD card. Move the cursor over the song you want and press the confirm button to play it. The

icon of the currently playing icon will be displayed in front of the currently playing song’s name, as shown above.

By default, songs will be played in the order of the folders.

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