Nextar ma977 User manual

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THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES. OPERATION IS
SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TWO CONDITIONS : ( 1) THIS DEVICES MAY NOT
CAUSE HARMFUL INTERFERENCE, AND (2) THIS DEVICE MUST ACCEPT ANY
INTERFERENCE, RECEIVED, INCLUDING INTERFERENCE THAT MAY CAUSE
UNDESIRED OPERATION.
Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class
B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not
Installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference
to radio ommunications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not
occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference
to radio or television reception, which an be determined by turning the equipment
off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more
of the following measures:
-Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
-Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
-Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the
receiver is connected.
-Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
NOTE: THEMANUFACTURER IS NOT RESPONSIBLEFOR ANY RADIO OR TV
INTERFERENCE CAUSED BY UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATIONS TO THIS
EQUIPMENT. SUCH MODIFICATIONS COULD VOID THE USER'S AUTHORITY
TO OPERATE THE EQUIPMENT.
FCC Certification

Table of Contents
1. Announcement 1
● Display synchronized lyrics (Karaoke function) 9
● Sound effect mode 9
● Simple operation 8
6. Play music 7
● Record mode 7
● Music mode , Play mode 6
5. Operation 6
● Press PLAY 5
● Key lock function 5
● Adjust volume 5
● Start up/shutdown 3
● Use different function modes 4
● Browse Tracks 3
● Enter a menu 3
4. Basic functions 3
● Display screen 3
3. Getting to know the player 2
2. Function summary 2
● Appearance and keystroke 2
● Add and delete files 7
● How to play DRM music 9

● Choose record type 14
● Record mode 14
7. Voice recorder 14
14. Definition 27
13. Important recommendation 26
● Reread separation (play submenu) 25
● Reread times (play submenu) 25
● Reread mode (play submenu) 24
● Play speed (play submenu) 23
● Play mode (play submenu)
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15. Troubleshooting 28
16. Technical specifications 29
8. Transfer recorded file of ACT into WAV on your PC 15
9. System Setup 15
● Choose different directories (stop submemu) 22
12. Miscellaneous settings 22
11. Upgrade player 21
● New folder 20
10. Use USB disk 20
● Detailed operating instructions 17
● Brief introduction to every options 16
● How to enter 15
● Play recorded files 15

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● Digital Audio for mats
MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV (Easy to work with Windows Media Player).
2. Function summar y
● Fir mware upgrades (Check periodically)
www.macvision.com will provide the latest software upgrades and functions.
● Function of free-drive U disk
Manipulate files via the "mobile disk" in "My PC" without any additional programs on
your PC(drive program needs to be installed for operating systems prior to WIN2000).
● "Dream-space" disk mode
Enables you to separate the storage disk via the "mobile disk" in "My PC" into two
disks using the utilities included on the accompanying CD and encrypt one of those
disks to hide the disk space. This encrypted space can then not be read by others.
● Record/Replay
Record your voice with the microphone and save as WAV or ACT. You can then choose
to replay that all such recordings or to replay selected recordings.
● Seven tone equalizer
Can be set to Natural, rock, pop, classical, soft, jazz or heavy bass.
1. Announcement
Thanks for purchasing our MP3 player. Before using the unit please read this
manual carefully to obtain the best possible performance from your player and
keep it for future reference.

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● USB connection
Quick connection to USB port.
3. Getting to know the player
● Appearance and keystroke
Volume+
Volume-
Earphone hole
● Full-car toon menu
Graphic menus with corresponding text display.
Power/Play/
Pause/Stop
Next
Mode(Push-in)
Prev
USB
LCD display
REC
Hold
● various play modes
Can be set to Natural, cycle single song, play directories, cycle directories, cycle all,
shuffle or browse.
● Shutdown timer
Sleep mode and power-save mode to simplify and extend battery use.

Start up/shutdown
Start up or shutdown player by press and hold "PLAY".
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Display screen
A B
MP3 03 0 4 : 1 3
ALL1 Pre
Sky. M P 3
Work mode
Play state
File format
Song number
Singer/Name of song Sound effect mode/Follow and contrast
Play time
Display electric quantity
Cycle mode
Reread mode
4. Basic functions
Enter a menu
Menus: Main menu (entered by momentarily holding Mode key when not playing),
Play submenu (entered by pressing Mode key while playing), and Stop submenu
(entered by pressing Mode key when not playing).
Browse Tracks
 Browse forward by sliding Mode key clockwise and backward by sliding Mode
key anti-clockwise;
 Skip track forward or backward while playing song by sliding and holding Mode
key clockwise or anti-clockwise;
 Skip to next track or back to previous track while playing song by sliding and
Mode key clockwise or anti-clockwise.

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Go into different modes from main menu by sliding Mode key clockwise or
anti-clockwise then pressing Mode key:
Use different function modes
00:00:00
8K/ACT 0 1 / 1 5
REC04 2 0 0 4 / 0 7 / 2 8
Select Record mode, display
shows something like this:
00:00:00
8K/ACT 0 1 / 1 5
REC04 2 0 0 4 / 0 7 / 2 8
Select Play mode, display
shows something like this:
Select System setup, display
shows this:
Record Time
Enter USB mode by connecting
with PC:
USB
Music Disk
Main menu:
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Jay - Sky.mp3
Select Music mode, display
shows something like this:

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Dial HOLD switch to the position of lock.
When Hold is ON, any operations on buttons will be displayed as:
Key lock function
Press PLAY
Play or stop (or pause while recording); exit from submenu.
Adjust volume
Decrease volume by pressing VOL-; Increase volume by pressing VOL+.
When Hold is ON, USB mode will be displayed as:
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01 01: 1 3
Jay - Sky.mp3

5. Operation
● Music mode , Play mode
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KEY Action Stop state Play state Play submenu Stop submenu
Play
Shutdown ShutdownShutdown Shutdown
Hold
Play Stop Exit from menu Exit menu
Mode
Enter main menu Enter main menu Enter main menuEnter main menu
Enter/stop
submenu
Select option or
enter next level
Enter/play
submenu
Long press
Press
Press
Next
Last
Vol+
Vol-
Dial Next song Next song and
play it Move submenu Move submenu
Browser forward
continuously Skip forward
Press
Last song Last song and
play it Move submenu Move submenu
Browser backward
continuously Skip backward Move backward continuously
Increase volume
continuously
Decrease volume
continuously
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Decrease volume
continuously
Press
Move forward
continuously
Increase volume
by one step
Hold Move forward
continuously
Dial
Hold Move backward
continuously
Hold
Hold
Increase volume
continuously
Increase volume
by one step
Decrease volume
by one step
Decrease volume
by one step
Select option or
enter next level

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Play
Mode
● Record mode
Key Action Stop state Record state
Hold Shutdown Stop record
Press Start to record Pause record
X
Enter main menuHold
X
Enter record submenuPress
6. Play music
● Add and Delete files
To add and delete music file on your PC or Notebookcomputer to your MP3 player,
simply connect the unit to the USB port of your PC or Notebook computer, click open
the "RemovableDisk" drive then you can add or delete files.
Before you disconnect the player, please follow these steps or it may result in lost of
files:
1). Double click the "Safely RemoveHardware icon" in the dialog box.
2). Click stop and the next dialog box appears on the display.
3). Click "OK", then you can unplug the unit safely.

"Delete all" will delete all files of the current mode under the current directory.
(For example, only music files will be deleted if you choose Delete All under the
music mode).
Files can be deleted under their respective modes.
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Jay - Sky.mp3
Delete file
1). On Stop mode. 2). Press Mode to enter "stop submenu".
3). Dial Next or Last to choose "delete
one" or "delete all".
4). Press Mode to enter delete interface.
Del. file? Delete...
6). Dial Mode to confirm
and begin deleting.
5). Dial Next to select "YES".
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Del. file?
Attention: you must eject player from USB if you delete files on PC, or it will tell
you "the files are not deleted".
Delete file (stop submenu)
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● Simple operation
1). Connect earphone plugging the pin of
earphone into earphone jack.
2). Please make sure keyboard is unlocked.
3). Start up player and enter "music mode"
by holding PLAY momentarily; press PLAY
to play music.
Attention:
 All keys have no effect if keyboard is locked;
◇ Player will shut down automatically at set "Power
Off/power- save mode" time.
5). Control volume
VOL+: increase volume
VOL-: decrease volume
4). Choose music
Last: choose last song
Next: choose next song

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● Sound effect mode
5). Dial Next to choose, press Mode to
select.
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Jay - Sky.mp3
Natural
1). Playing music 2). Enter play submenu by pressing MODE.
3). Dial Next to choose menu item. 4). Enter "Equalizer" by
pressing MODE.
6). Instruction for all kinds of sound effect (EQ):
(Heavy bass, DBB)
(Natural effect, Natural)
(Rock effect, Rock)
(POP effect, Pop)
(Classical effect, Classical)
(Soft effect, Soft)
(Jazz effect, Jazz)
● Display synchronized lyrics (Karaoke function)
This player supports "LRC" files. (Search online for "LRC lyrics", play song and
lyrics simultaneously.)
How to use lyric files:
Keep the names of lyric file and song the same.
Such as:
Name of song: Jay-Sky.mp3
Name of lyric file: Jay-Sky.lrc

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How to display the lyrics:
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Jay - Sky.mp3
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Jay - Sky.mp3
All of your time spent,
Every time we're down.
4). Return to music mode
by pressing Mode.
1). Find lyric match with song: 2). Press and hold Mode to enter
lyric interface.
3). Display lyrics.
5). Cycle lyrics manually: Turn lyrics forward or backward by pressing VOL+ or VOL-
How to know whether a song has lyrics:
If there is a lyric file matching the song, the icon on the upper left corner of music
mode should change to " " .
● How to play DRM music
1). Connect player to PC, after 10 seconds a dialog will be appear,
select "Take no action" or click "Cancel" button to continue.
How to add DRM music
System Requirement:
· Windows XP+SP2;
· Windows Media Player 10.3646 or above (New install do not upgrade from old version);
Although you can copy music files from somewhere, you can't
get the DRM license. Only Windows XP support MTP(Media
Transfer Protocol). You can setup the player as a U-disk or MTP
device.

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2). Open "My Computer", clean up the device as the following steps:
a). Click the MTP device icon use the right button of the mouse, and
then select "Format";
b). Waiting for the format processing until finish.
3). Run "WMP10"(Windows Media Player 10), the "MTP" device will be discover. Select "Sync",
and then open the local folder where your music files saved.
4). Select all music you want to sync to player, and drag them to the "Sync List" on the left
side of WMP 10, click "Start Sync" to began download:

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5). When finish downloading, you can see the music files on the right side of WMP 10.

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Browser "My Computer", you can see the files already downloaded to player.
6). Disconnect the player, it will make ID3 Playlist automatic, this will cost about 8 seconds.
7). Then the player will process DRM licence, it will cost 5~10 seconds.
How to play
At first, you must enter into System setup and setup the "DRM Time"(The detailed
operation steps see Pg.19), set it to current time, otherwise the DRM music can't
play accurately.
After setup "DRM Time", you can go back to music mode to play and listen to music.

● Record mode
5). Other operations use steps 1 through 3.
1). Enter main menu. 2). Dial Next to choose
record mode.
00:00:00
8K/ACT 0 1 / 1 5
REC04 2 0 0 4 / 0 7 / 2 8
3). Press Mode to enter
record mode. 4). Press Play to start recording.
7. Voice recorder
Make sure batteries have enough energy for recording.
Save ninety-nine recorded files in every directory.
6). Voice recordings are saved in the current
directory; set in "stop record/submenu/ directories
of main disk"
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● Choose record type
00:00:00
8K/ACT 0 1 / 1 5
REC04 2 0 0 4 / 0 7 / 2 8 ROOT
1). At the interface
of stop record.
2). Press Mode to enter
record submenu.
REC type Fine REC
3). Dial Next, choose the
submenu "Record type":
4). Press Mode to enter
the option:
5). Dial Next to choose record type. 6). Press Mode to confirm your choice.
If "The space is full" displays, there is no more space for new files; delete other
files to open more space.
If "The directory is full" displays, there are 99 record files in the current directory;
delete files or switch to another directory.

7). Press Play to start recording
(VOR can pause recording).
8). Record type:
32K/WMA: high-quality, WAV format
8K/ACT: long recordings ACT format
32K/VOR: high-quality, sound control, WAV
8K/VOR: long records, sound control, ACT
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8. Transfer recorded file of ACT into WAV on your PC
00:00:00
8K/ACT 0 1 / 1 5
REC04 2 0 0 4 / 0 7 / 2 8
1). Enter main menu. 2). Dial Next to choose
"Replay mode".
3). Press Mode to enter
replay mode.
4). Press Play to start playing.
6). Control volume:
VOL+: increase volume
VOL-: decrease volume
5). Choose record file:
Last: choose last record file
Next: choose next record file
Files recorded into the player in ACT format can be changed into WAV format with
the installation program:
1). Run "Sound Converter", click "open"
2). Choose the ACT files you want to change
3). Click "Transform" to start transforming to WAV files
Besides transforming ACT into WAV, this tool can also play files of WAV and MP3.
● Play Recorded files
9. System Setup
● How to enter

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Record time Set save time and date for record files
Backlight The number of seconds the display light stays on
Language Set different language
Power Off Set a timer to shut player down automatically
Replay mode Set the replay to manual or automatic
Contrast Adjust the contrast of display screen
Online mode Set the "dream space" function
Memory Info View the memory space filled (megabytes and percent)
Firmware version Display the version of installed firmware
Firmware Upgrade Exclusively used for upgrading firmware
Exit Exit the current interface
Record type Set save format for record files
Online Device
DRM time Set time and date for DRM files
Choose which device to be used when connect to PC
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● Brief introduction to ever y option
Record Time
3). Press Mode to enter "System setup".
1). Enter main menu. 2). Dial Next to choose
"system setup".
Set system parameters here; every option should change with firmware upgrade.