Nextar MA715 - 1 GB Digital Player User manual

MA715 MP3/MP4 Digital Audio/Video Player
Instruction Manual

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MA715 MP3/MP4 Digital Audio/Video Player
Instruction Manual

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1. Instruction
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(2) Our company is not responsible for any data loss caused by malpractice of software, wrong repair or other accident,
or any indirect loss herein arising of.
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the finial interpretation right to this manual.
(4)
The software, hardware or instruction manual are subject to change and improvement should without notice. All rights reserved.
(5)
Don't press the screen or the buttons too hard to avoid damages to the player.

Content
1. Instruction...................................................................................................................................................................................1
2. Precaution....................................................................................................................................................................................6
3. System requirement ..................................................................................................................................................................7
4. Introduction...................................................................................................................................................................................8
4.1 Features .........................................................................................................................................................................8
4.2 Button layout...................................................................................................................................................................9
4.3 Battery charge .............................................................................................................................................................. 10
4.4 USB driver installation .................................................................................................................................................. 11
4.5 Connection and download ............................................................................................................................................ 11
4.5.1 Connection to PC ........................................................................................................................................ 11
4.5.2 MP3 music download .................................................................................................................................. 11
4.5.3 Remove from USB port ............................................................................................................................... 12
4.6 LCD display .................................................................................................................................................................. 14
4.7 Menu ............................................................................................................................................................................15
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4.7.1 Main menu .................................................................................................................................................. 15
4.7.2 Selection and exit........................................................................................................................................15
4.8 Power on and off...........................................................................................................................................................16
4.8.1 Power on player .......................................................................................................................................... 16
4.8.2 Power off player .......................................................................................................................................... 16
5. Application.................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
5.1 Music playback function................................................................................................................................................ 17
5.1.1 Play all......................................................................................................................................................... 18
5.1.2 Internal device.............................................................................................................................................18
5.2 Photo............................................................................................................................................................................20
5.2.1 Manual browse..........................................................................................................................................20
5.2.2 Slide show .................................................................................................................................................20
5.2.3 Thumbnail ...................................................................................................................................................21
5.3 Movie............................................................................................................................................................................21
5.4 Voice............................................................................................................................................................................. 27
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5.5 Radio............................................................................................................................................................................28
5.5.1 FM radio...................................................................................................................................................... 29
5.5.2 FM record....................................................................................................................................................29
5.6 Record..........................................................................................................................................................................30
5.7 Delete...........................................................................................................................................................................32
5.7.1 Delete one................................................................................................................................................... 32
5.7.2 Delete all .....................................................................................................................................................32
5.8 Settings ........................................................................................................................................................................33
5.8.1 Language ....................................................................................................................................................33
5.8.2 EQ............................................................................................................................................................... 33
5.8.3 Play mode ................................................................................................................................................... 34
5.8.4 Record Type................................................................................................................................................34
5.8.5 FM band...................................................................................................................................................... 35
5.8.6 FM auto scan...............................................................................................................................................35
5.8.7 Contrast.......................................................................................................................................................35
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5.8.8 Timer off ......................................................................................................................................................36
5.8.9 Reset...........................................................................................................................................................36
5.9 About............................................................................................................................................................................ 36
5.10 Exit ...............................................................................................................................................................................37
6. Other functions........................................................................................................................................................................... 37
6.1 A-B play mode.............................................................................................................................................................. 37
6.2 Button lock.................................................................................................................................................................... 37
6.3 DRM music transfer function.........................................................................................................................................38
6.3.1 Download operation of WMA music with DRM9 (PD-DRM) protection......................................................... 38
6.3.2 Operation introduction .................................................................................................................................38
7. Trouble shooting.........................................................................................................................................................................43
8. Specification............................................................................................................................................................................... 44
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2. Precaution
(1) Do not use this player when driving, riding or operating any other vehicles as it may lead to traffic accidents, which
is illegal in some regions. Even when walking on the road, especially crossing the roads, listening with high
volume is also hazardous. Please pay special attention or stop using this player in places with potential hazard.
(2) Before powering of the player, please plug in the earphone to avoid damaging the earphone as well as
maintenance of the player. Turn off the player when stop using it.
(3) Keep it clean. Do not place it near heat resource or subject to direct sunlight, dust, humid or rain.
(4) If the surface becomes dusty, clean it with a soft, slightly dampened cloth. Never use any alcohol or diluted
detergent to clean the cabinet.
(5) Do not use it in extra-dry environment to avoid electrostatics.
(6) Please make sure that the player will not be disconnected in the process of formatting or uploading and downloading
to avoid program mistakes.
(7) When it is used as mobile disc, make sure read and write files with correct method. Any mal-operation may lead to the
loss of data, which is not being responsible by our company.
(8) As the software provided by original equipment manufacturer has the optimum flash storage speed, all players with
memory less than 128MB cannot be formatted as FAT-32 in the operating system.
(9) Attention: Because of the different memory calculating method and the player software (firmware) is stored in the device flash

memory and, it will cause the difference between flash memory marked capacity and real capacity. The real flash memory
capacity is lesser than the marked memory capacity of this device is normal. Due to different firmware size, it will have the
different free flash memory capacity. Please refer the table as below for more details.
Marked
Capacity
Real Capacity
Range
Free Capacity Range
After Stored Firmware
128MB 122MB~128MB 69MB～127MB
256MB 244MB~256MB 185MB～255MB
512MB 488MB~512MB 417MB～511MB
1GB 953MB~1000MB 858MB～999MB
2GB 1907MB~2000MB 1765MB～1999MB
4GB 3815MB~4000MB 3577MB~3999MB
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3. System requirement
System requirement of MP3 player:
Microsoft ® Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP/Vista
CPU series with Pentium 200MHZ or above
USB port
120MB hard disk free space
CD-ROM driver

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4. Introduction
4.1 Features
(1) Support formats such as MP3 WMA WAV SMV JPG BMP
This product supports playback of music files, photo browsing and movie playing with high quality.
(2) Folder management
Easy to choose the folder or music file to play.
(3) DRM 9 playback
This product supports WMA DRM 9 digital authorized music playback.
(4) FM radio function
This product provides FM radio. The user can also record the favorite FM program in WAV files .
(5) Build-in 1.44"CSTN color LCD
There is a build-in 1.44" color screen, which can display photo and movie clearly.
(6) Removable disc
This product can be connected to PC with USB cable and serves as a removable disc.
(7) Build-in rechargeable Li battery
Charging is convenient and no need to buy extra batteries.
(8) Convenient firmware upgrade
The firmware can be upgraded with software downloaded from Internet or in the attached disc
(if any).

4.2 Button layout
(1) Earphone jack
(2) USB port
(3) Display area
(4) Button lock
(5) Rewind button
(6) Microphone
(7) Volume down button－
(8) Play／pause button
(9) Volume up button＋
(10) Reset hole
(11) Fast forward button
(12) Power button
(13) A-B repeat／record button
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4.3 Battery charge
This product adopts build-in rechargeable Li battery.
You can connect the mp3 player to PC or use USB adapter to charge the battery.
This icon will be displayed at the upper left corner of the screen. The following pictures indicate the charging status of the
battery:
(1) When the battery is charging, the icon will be changing from an empty battery to a full one to indicate the
process. Æ
(2) The following icon will replace the charging one when the battery is full but the power supply is not being cut off.
(3) The player will be automatically shut off when the power is used up. In this case, all setting will be saved.
(4) Power saving mode: User can define the power off mode, such as idle off, sleep off, screen off to save
power. Please refer to the setting instruction in function section for details.
Note: The mp3 player only accepts the standard USB 2.0 output voltage and current to charge the built-in Li-Ion battery: 5-Volt voltage and less than
500mA current. If the charging voltage and current are out of the compass, it will damage the battery and the mp3 player. It will be no warranty in this
case. Please make sure the output voltage and current of the USB port on your PC or USB adapter before charging this player. If you found the screen
is blinking during using the USB wall adapter, please use the PC USB port to charge the player instead of USB wall adapter.
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4.4 USB driver installation
（USB driver needs to be installed only on when Windows 98SE operating system is used.）
(1) Execute Setup.exe in driver CD and complete the driver installation.
(2) Reboot the PC.
(3) Connect the MP3 player to the USB port of the PC.
4.5 Connection and download
Connection to PC
Plug the attached USB cable to PC，and connect the other end to the MP3 player.
If the connection is successful, the screen of player will display the following
picture. Note that please don’t use USB hub or USB extended line.
4.5.1
4.5.2 MP3 music download
When the connection is done, select the desired files and click the right key of
the mouse and select “copy”. Double click to open the disc icon of the player
(i.e. “H”, the name of disc may differ) and then click the right key of the mouse
and select “paste”. During the process of writing, the player may display the
following picture. If you want to download authorized MP3 files from Internet,
please refer to the section of DRM music switch function. Note that, this MP3
player supports 500 music files or 30 folders (includes sub-folders), it will build
the play list by scanning the first 500 files which stores in first 30 folders, that
is sorted by letter order. So please don’t use too many folder and sub-folder to
store the music files.
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Remove from USB port4.5.3
(1) Double click the icon of safely remove hardware on the task column, and the relevant dialog box will be
displayed.
(2) On the picture of safely remove hardware dialog box, select the item of “USB mass storage device” and
click “stop” button. The screen will display “stop a Hardware Device” as point (3).
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(3) Click “OK” button.
(4) When the screen displays “Safe to Remove Hardware”, the player can be safely removed from PC.
Special reminder:
Do not disconnect the USB cable when the data is being transmitted between PC and the player, which may damage
and lose the data in the player. Disconnection should be conducted only when “device can now be safely removed
from the system”is displayed; When the USB is in operation, other button is invalid. If the player fails to power on due
to data loss or I/O mistake reminder by mal-operation, please refer to the trouble shooting section for solution.
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4.6 LCD display
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4.7 Menu
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4.7.1
4.7.2
Main menu
(1) MUSIC: Select MUSIC in the main menu, the device will enter music sub-menu.
(2) PHOTO: Select PHOTO in the main menu, the device will enter photo sub-menu.
(3) MOVIE: Select MOVIE in the main menu, the device will enter movie function.
(4) VOICE: Select VOICE in the main menu, the device will enter voice playback function.
(5) FM RADIO: Select FM RADIO in the main menu, the device will enter FM radio function.
(6) MIC. RECORD：Select MIC. RECORD in the main menu, the device will enter microphone record function.
(7) DELETE: Select DELETE in the main menu, the device will enter delete sub-menu.
(8) SETTINGS: Select SETTINGS in the main menu, the device will enter setting sub-menu.
(9) ABOUT: Select ABUOT in the main menu to check the memory status and software version of the device.
(10) EXIT: EXIT the main menu and return to the music playback function.
Selection and exit
(1) Long press play button or press power button to exit and return to the upper level menu. The uppermost
menu is main menu, which includes: music mode, photo mode, movie mode, voice mode, FM radio mode,
record mode, delete mode, setting mode, about and exit.
(2) Select next or previous item by pressing fast forward button or rewind button . If the main menu is in
music picture, press rewind button to switch to information page; if the main menu is in information page,
press fast forward button to switch to music picture.
(3) Press play button  to confirm and enter the selected item.

4.8 Power on and off
4.8.1
4.8.2
Power on player
Press power/stop button to turn it on while the player is off. Power on images will be
shown before going to the defaulted music play mode and followed by music playback.
The power on time is determined by the music file number in the player.
This player supports user-defined image when power on You can save the photo file
with size 128*128 pixel and named LOGO.BMP under the root directory of this device.
The user-defined image will be displayed when you turn on the player on next time.
Power off player
(1) When the player is powered off, the following statuses will be saved, which includes: current mode, music
elapse time, user settings.
(i.e. volume, EQ, and timing off and play mode etc.)
(2) If the player is powered off normally (i.e. the user shut it off or it is shut off according to the setting), the
above-mentioned modes will be saved. If the player is powered off by pressing reset button, the
above-mentioned modes will not be saved.
(3) Expect in record mode, long press power button until the letters of Bye Bye appears and the screen will
turn dark, the player will be powered off.
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Application5.
5.1 Music playback function
Press rewind button or fast forward button in the main menu to
select Music function. Press play button  to enter the sub-menu
of Music Play All or Internal Device.
Operation instruction:
(1) When the music is stopped or played, press rewind button or fast forward button
to select previous or next file.
(2) When playing the music, long press rewind button or fast forward buttonto
move fast backward or forward within the track.
(3) When playing the music, press play button  to pause and press play button
 again to resume the playing. Press power button to stop the playing.
(4) Press A-B/REC button to set the start point of repeat section A-B, the screen
display AÆ，press that button again to set the end of repeat section A-B, the screen will display AÆB and
start repeating section AB. Press A-B/REC button for the third time to cancel section AB repeat function.
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5.1.1
5.1.2
Play all
Press rewind button or fast forward button to select Play All，and press play button
 to enter and start playing all music in the player.
Internal device
Press rewind button or fast forward button to select Internal device，and press play
button  to enter the function of play list. Press rewind button or fast forward button
to select folder or a single music and press play button  to start playing. Use volume up button+ or volume
down- button to enter or exit a certain folder. The player will play the selected music or all the music in a certain
selected layer of folder (sub folder inclusive).
Play one file
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