Gateway GCM-4 User manual

Gateway MP3 Photo Jukebox
GCM-4
User Guide

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Contents
Chapter 1: Checking Out Your Jukebox . . . . . . 1
Package contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Top . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 2: Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Charging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning on your jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Plugging in the headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using the control buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Using the menu buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Using the playback buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Locking control buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Playing music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Adjusting volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Viewing photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 3: Playing Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Playing songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Viewing the Now Playing screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Setting advanced playing modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Setting the equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Setting shuffle mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Setting repeat mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Disabling expired music messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Viewing the music visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Creating playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Creating a jukebox playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Creating a Windows Media Player playlist . . . . . . . . 34
Editing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Adding a track or album to a jukebox playlist . . . . . 36

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Deleting a track from a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Deleting a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Getting more music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating files for your jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Moving files to your jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter 4: Viewing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Viewing a photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Copying photos to your jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Copying photos from your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Copying photos from your digital camera . . . . . . . . . 55
Copying photos from your card reader . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Organizing photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Creating a photo folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Moving a photo into a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Deleting a photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Working with slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Creating slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Editing slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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Playing slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Playing a picture show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Getting more photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Creating text notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Chapter 5: Settings and Options . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Setting the backlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Setting the clock and calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Accessing the settings shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Resetting the jukebox to its defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 6: Maintenance and Troubleshooting 75
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Maintaining your jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Maintaining battery life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Updating the firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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Chapter 7: Safety and Legal Notices . . . . . . . . 87

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Chapter 1: Checking Out Your
Jukebox
Package contents
Your package includes:
■Gateway GCM-4 MP3 Photo Jukebox
■Ear bud stereo headphones
■USB 2.0 connector cables (2)
■AC power adapter
■Soft cover carrying case
■Quick start poster
■This user guide
■Software installation CD
■Battery (installed)

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System requirements
To connect to your jukebox, your computer must have the following
minimum requirements:
■Microsoft®Windows®XP (Service Pack 1)
■Microsoft Windows Media®Player 10
■Intel®Pentium III 333 MHz processor
■80 MB available hard drive space
■128 MB memory

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Front
Playback control
buttons
LCD panel
Menu control
button
Option menu
button

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Component Description
LCD panel Displays menus, music visualizations, and digital photos. For more
information, see “Playing music” on page 20 and “Viewing photos”
on page 23.
Playback
control buttons Control audio playback. The play/pause button doubles as a power button. For more information, see “Using the playback buttons” on
page 18 and “Turning on your jukebox” on page 15.
Menu control
button Lets you select menus and choices within menus. For more information, see “Using the menu buttons” on page 17.
Option menu
button Displays the choices or options of the currently highlighted menu item. For more information, see “Using the menu buttons” on
page 17.

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Top
Component Description
Headphone jack Plug headphones or amplified speakers into this jack.
Control lock Slide to lock all jukebox control buttons.
Headphone
jack Control lock

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Bottom
Component Description
USB/docking
connector Connect the USB combo cable to this connector and to the USB port on your computer for moving music or photos to
your jukebox. You can also connect the camera USB cable
for downloading photos directly from your digital camera. For
more information, see “Charging the battery” on page 11,
“Moving files to your jukebox” on page 49, and “Copying
photos from your digital camera” on page 55.
Reset button Press with a straightened paper clip or pin to reset your
jukebox.
USB/docking
connector Reset button

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Left
Control Description
Volume Press the +side (top) of the button to increase volume,
and press the –side (bottom) to decrease volume.
Volume button

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Back
Battery cover

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Accessories
Accessories are available on Gateway’s Web site at
www.gateway.com/photojukeboxextras .
Specifications
■Dimensions:2.3×3.8×0.7inches(59×96×17mm)
■Display: 128 × 128 pixels, 16-bit (65,536 colors), TFT Transflective,
1.6-inch
■Battery: 820 mAh, rechargeable Li-ion, prismatic, 3.7V, removable
■Hard drive: 4 GB, 1 inch, Compact Flash Type II
■Memory: 32 MB SDRAM, 1 MB flash
■Power: input 100~240VAC, 50-60 Hz (normal), output 5V 1.6A
■Compatible media: MP3, WMA, AAC (non-Fairplay DRM), WAV,
JPG/JPEG
■Data transfer rate: Up to 480 Mbps using USB 2.0
■Audio jacks: Audio line out (headphones)
■Camera interface cable: USB 2.0, 22-pin
■Combo cable: USB 2.0, 22-pin

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Chapter 2: Getting Started
To use your jukebox, you need to:
1Charge the battery
2Install and set up software on your computer
Charging the battery
Fully charge the battery for three hours before using your jukebox for the
first time. However, it is not necessary to fully charge the battery each time.
You can charge the battery by connecting the jukebox either to the
AC power adapter (fastest) or to a USB port on the computer.
The battery icon in the upper right corner of the screen indicates the
remaining battery charge.

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To charge the battery:
1Connect the USB combo cable to the AC power adapter, then plug
the power adapter into an AC power outlet.
If the power icon is... the battery is...
Green Full
Yellow Medium
Red Low
Red with an exclamation point Critically low
A power plug Charging