MSI P230 User manual

P230 Instruction manual

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Notice:
T★he battery should be taken out if the unit is left unused for a long period in order to
avoid being corroded by the seepage.
★Do not use the unit in places that are extremely hot, cold, dusty, or humid.
★Avoid dropping the unit.
★The battery service life may differ under different usage conditions, manufacturers and
models
★Please replace the battery when any of the following cases occur:
*The logo appears.
*The keys become inactive
*The unit stops running under normal condition.
Please replace the battery within 5 minutes of getting the battery low warning, or
the DRM10 function has to re-synch by connecting with the PC.
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. Please
operate this unit with care and back up any files if necessary.

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Features:
7-Color backlight
MP3/ WMA player
No driver necessary under Windows 2000/ XP/ ME
128MB-2048MB USB movable storage disk, have movable storage functions.
High quality digital voice recording
Adjust several sound effects
Supports DRM10 function
FM tuner and FM recording
Support Lyric Synchonization function
A-B repeat
USB 2.0

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1. Music mode
2. Playback mode
3. Play sequence
4. EQ mode
5. AB repeat icon
6. Battery capacity
7. lyrics/menu display
8. Track display
9. Time display
10-Lock icon

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1-LCD display
2-Battery cover
3-Play button
4-Record button
5-M button
6-FF
7-Lock button
8-REW
9-String slot
10-Earphone Jack

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1. Basic operation
1) Battery Installation
Note: this player is powered only by battery. When the battery icon displays,
please replace the battery with new one in time.
Please finish replacing the battery within 5 minutes, or the set time and date in the
player would lose and needs to be re-set. DRM10 function has to re-synch by
connecting with the PC.
2).Power on/off
On: Press the “ ” button to turn on the unit, the LCD displays the model of it. Then the
unit enters the stop state of MUSIC mode, displaying the current mode, the first song,
song time, and the icons of Repeat icon, Volume, Stop icon, and battery level.
Off: Press and hold the “ ” button (for about 5 seconds), the LCD shows the schedule
bar, and it turns off until the schedule bar is full.
2. MP3, WMA Playback:
Note: this unit can supports MP3 (layer3 of MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG2.5) and WMA
files. The default mode is MUSIC.

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1). playback:
Under stop or pause status, press the “ ” button to start to playback. The LCD displays
the playback indicator, repeat indicator, song number, song time, the battery level ,
volume, and track icon.
2), Pause/Stop/Power off
Pause: under playback mode, press “ ” button, it paused, and the pause indicator
displayed on the LCD. Press the button again, the unit continues to play.
Stop: under playback or pause status, press and hold “ ” button until the stop sign ■
is displayed on the LCD. The unit stops playing.
Power off: under playback/pause/stop status, press and hold “ ” button (about 5
second) until the LCD displays the schedule bar. The unit powers off when the schedule
bar is full.
The time of pressing “ ” switch: power off ＞stop ＞pause.
3). Previous file/Next file, FF/REW
A. Press ◄◄ button to skip to the previous file; press ►► to skip to the next file.
B. Press M button to enter menu, press ◄◄ or ►► button to select “setting” and press
M button to confirm. Then select “FF/REW” and press M button to confirm and
returns to the previous menu. Press and hold ◄◄ or ►► button to realize the

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FF/REW function. Press M button to cancel the FF/REW function.
4). Output EQ Mode Setting:
Press M button to enter the menu, press ◄◄ or ►► button to select “setting” and press
M button to confirm. Select “EQ” and press M button to confirm to enter. Press ◄◄ or
►► button to shift among NORMAL, JAZZ, DISC, POP and CLASSIC. Press M
button to confirm and return to the previous menu.
5). Volume Adjustment
Press and hold ◄◄ button to decrease the volume; press ►► button to increase the
volume.
6). Repeat Mode Select
Press M button to enter the menu, then press ◄◄ or ►► to select “setting” and then
select “Play sequence”. Press M button to confirm to enter. Press ◄◄ or ►► to select
NORMAL, REPEAT ONE, REPEAT ALL, RANDOM and RANDOM ALL. Press M
button to confirm and return to the previous menu.
7).Delete Track
Press M button to enter the menu, then press ◄◄ or ►► to select “delete” and then
press M button to confirm. Select “music” and press M button to enter the delete mode.
The LCD displays “delete files?”, the file name and confirm letter “yes” and “no”. Press

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button to select “yes” or “no”. Select “yes” and press M to delete the current file and
skip to the next one. Select “no” to give up deleting the current file and skip to the next
one. Press ◄◄ or ►► to select the track you want to delete.
8). Backlight Setup
Press M button to enter the menu, then press ◄◄ or ►► to select “Setting” and press it
again to confirm. Then choose “Backlight”, press M button to enter the backlight setting
mode. Select the backlight color among: OFF, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Cyan,
White and Multi-Color by pressing ◄◄ or ►► button. Finally press M button to
confirm and return to the previous menu.
9). Auto power
Press M button to enter the menu, then press ◄◄ or ►► to select “Setting” and press it
again to confirm Then choose “power setting” by ◄◄ or ►► button, press M button to
enter the auto power off setting mode. Select the auto off time (disable, 1 min, 2 min, 5
min, 10 min) by ◄◄ or ►►button, and finally press M button to confirm your choice
and return to previous menu. Thus, the unit will power off automatically if there is no
operations under stop status as per the selected measure.
10). Check the capacity of memory
Press M button to enter the menu, then press ◄◄ or ►► to select "Query" option and

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press M button again to confirm, the LCD will display "VER", "Total Capacity", "Rest
Capacity", press any button to exit.
11). Language selection:
Press M button to enter the menu, then press ◄◄ or ►► to select “Setting" and press
M button again to confirm. Then select “Language" option and press M button to enter.
Select the language you want by ◄◄ or ►►button. Finally press M button to confirm
and return to the previous menu.
12). Time setting
Press M button to enter the menu, then press ◄◄ or ►► to select “Setting” and press it
again to confirm. Then choose “Time Set”, press M button to enter the time setting mode.
Select the option you want to adjust by pressing ◄◄ or ►► button, and press M button
to confirm. Press ◄◄ or ►► button again to adjust the time or time format. Press
“cancel” to give up setting; press “OK” button or press and hold “M” button to confirm
and return to the previous menu.
13). Date setting
Press M button to enter the menu, then press ◄◄ or ►► to select “Setting” and press it
again to confirm. Then choose “Date Set”, press M button to enter the time setting mode.
Select the option you want to adjust by pressing ◄◄ or ►► button, and press M button

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to confirm. Press ◄◄ or ►► button again to adjust the date or date format. Press
“cancel” to give up setting; press “OK” button or press and hold “M” button to confirm
and return to the previous menu.
14). Check Time/Date
Press M button, select “time/date” by ◄◄ or ►► button, and then press “M” button,
the LCD displays the current time and date of the player. Press “M” button to exit.
3. Lyrics edit:
1). Open the Winamp, load the mp3 you want to edit, then open the LRC (4.0) 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 (not fill is also acceptable).
4). finally, click “saves as (A)” in “file (F)” in LRC to save the edited lyrics.

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Note: 1. each sentence shall not exceed 12 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 1KB or the exceeded characters
cannot be displayed.
4. The LRC format lyrics cannot be copied under the MTP mode
4. Voice Play
Note: This player only supports WAV file of IMA ADPCM format. Refer to
Troubleshooting for related information.
Press M button to enter the menu, press ◄◄ or ►► button to select “voice” and press
M button to confirm, it enters the stop status of the voice mode then.
1) Play
2) Pause/Stop/Power off
3) Previous REC file/Next REC file, F.F/REW

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4) Volume Adjustment
5) Delete Track
The above operations are as same as the operations of MP3, WMA.
5. A-B Repeat
Setting: Under playback mode, press REC button to set the start point A, the LCD
displays A-; then press REC button again to set the end point B, the LCD display A-B at
this time.
Cancel: A. Press REC button to cancel A-B repeat set before and play from the place
where canceled.
B. Long press “ ” button to stop to play and cancel A-B repeat.
6. FM tuner
1). Enter FM tuner
Press “M” button to enter the menu, select “FM” and press “M” button to confirm to
enter the FM mode. The LCD displays the icon “FM”
2). Auto-searching
Under FM status

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·Search for next station: Press “ ” button to shift to the searching status. Press and
hold “►►”button to search for the next station from high frequency; press and hold
“◄◄” button to search for the next station from low frequency.
·Auto searching: Press “ ” and “REC” button at the same time to start to searching for
all of the stations. The player will save the stations automatically. The unit can store
20 stations at most.
·Stop auto-searching: Under auto-searching status, press “M” button to stop auto
searching.
Note: Before searching or if no station was stored, the station will be default at 87.5
MHz.
3). Manual searching:
Under FM mode, press key to shift to searching status. 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 and hold 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

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the power directly, the file will lose .so if you want to keep them, you must press and
hold button, until the unit powered off normally.
5). Previous/Next station
Under FM receiving status, press◄◄ button to skip to the previous station, and press
►►to skip to the next station.
Note: if there were noises, press “REC” button to improve the voice.
6). Compulsory single channel: in case of poor stereo effect of FM station, press “REC”
key to enter the compulsory single channel function, in this way it may reduce the noise.
And press “REC” key to recover the stereo.
7). Volume adjustment:
Under FM playing, press and hold ►► or ◄◄ button to increase or decrease the
volume accordingly. The volume icon will change accordingly.
7. REC
1) Under music or voice mode, press and hold REC button to enter the record mode.
2).Under FM mode, press and hold “REC” button to enter the FM recording mode.
·when the recording source is “FM tuner”, the player will record the FM programs and
save it in the flash memory. You may monitor it by earphone.

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·when the recording source is microphone, the player starts to record and save the
external sounds in the flash memory.
3). Pause recording
Under recording status, press button to pause recording; press button again
to resume.
4). Stop recording
Under recording status, press REC button to stop recording. Other keys are invalid.
Note: Fxxx. wav is FM record files and is kept in FM folder. Vxxx. wav is the single
channel record file whose record source is microphone, and is kept in VOICE folder.
8. Folder Function
Select “Folder” in the main menu and press Mbutton to enter. If there are files and
folders that the user build in the “folder”, press or button to select.Press
button to enter the fodler you select, or press to play the file you select. Press M
button to return to the previous menu. If you want to delete files in the folder, press REC
button, the display appear the name of the file you want to delete and “delete files? Yes
or no”, then press or button to choose “Yes” or “No”, select “yes”and then
press Mbutton finally to delete the file; select “no”and press Mbutton to cancel deleting
file. Only if the folder is blank, you can delete the folder.

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9. Connecting with a computer:
1). Installation of Driver program
Note: A. Windows98 needs installation of the driver program, while Windows
200/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.
1. Load the provided installation CD into the CDROM or download the driver program
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2. Double click on SETUP. EXE file, then click Next>Yes>Next>Next>Finish according
to the screen changes. The driver program installation is now finished.
Note: if the window shown below appears, please click yes (Y) to continue the
installation
1). Connecting to a computer
Connect your MP3 player to PC via USB cable, press “ ” button or under the
condition that the unit was turned on, the window will appear indicating the new

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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.
2). Upload/ Download files
So long as the driver program has been properly installed, the MP3 player itself is a
mobile disk after being connected to a computer. Therefore the file transfer is operated in
the same way as the ordinary disk.
Note: Do not 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.
Special notice: Normal un-installation for USB device is required under Windows 2000