Roadstar MP-450 User manual

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MP-450
1.8” PORTABLE MP4 PLAYER WITH FM
STEREO RADIO
Contents
Overview ……………….……………………………………………………………………………………………1
Know your player……….…………………………………………………………………………………………..3
Main Menu…………………………………………………………………………………………………………4
Music……….………………………………………………………………………………………………………5
Movie………………..…………………..………………….……………………………………………………….6
Record………………..…………………..………………….……………………………………………………….6
Voice………………..…………………..………………….……………………………………………………….7
M radio……………………….…………….………………………………………………………………………7
Photo……………………………………………..………………………………………………………………8
Setup…..…………………………….…………………………………………………………………………….9
E-book……………..…………………..………………….……………………………………………………….9
Game………………..…………………..………………….……………………………………………………….10
Using USB Disk…………………………………………………………………………………………………...10
Upgrade your Player……………….…………………………………………………………………………….11
Other setting………………………………………………………………………………………………………13
Convert video format files into AMV………..………………………………………………………………......17
Troubleshooting…………………………………………………………………………………………………...19
Technical Specifications………………………………………………………………………………………….20

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Know your player
Key Function Definition
1．: Confirm/Power On/off , Play, Pause, Stop
2．M: Entry main menu or exit from current menu.
3．ON/OFF: Power switch.
4．VOL: Volume selection
5．: Next, fast forward & volume up
6．:Previous, fast backward, volume down
7．USB: USB port
8．Earphone port
Battery Level
Battery is full on 3.7 V. As time goes on, the power indication displayed will decrease.
Indicator shows blank when battery almost ran out. You should charge your battery at that time.
Battery recharge:
Please switch on the player before charge. This player cannot be charged in case of power off. You also can
connect the unit to PC to charge.
Please switch off power when not using the player.
Main menu
Basic function
Set the ON/OFF switch to ON position.

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zAccess to Menu
Press Menu key to enter into the menu.
●List of Menu
press or buttons
Musicmode
Moviemode
Record mode
Voicemode
FM Radio mode
Picture mode

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Setupmode
E-book mode
Gamemode
Music
zSimple actions
1. Turn on/off: with ON/OFF switch to ON position and unit turned off press and keep pressed play
button to turn it on; with unit turned on, press and keep pressed play button to turn it off.
2. Select Music in main menu, and press to enter the files, short press again to play music; during
playback press play button to pause music.
3. Select a music: : Previous music;
: Next music.
4. Volume adjust: Short press VOL key, and press to decrease volume
press to increase volume, to return to previous menu press menu or do not press any
button for 10 seconds.
When playing music, press M key to entry play submenu;
Synchronous Lyric Display
The player supports lyric files with *.LRC suffix, and displays synchronously.
How to use lyric files?
Please make sure the lyric has the same name to the music

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For example:
Music file: My heart will go on.mp3
Lyric file: My heart will go on.lrc
How to know if lyric available?
When the lyric is available, during playback, press and keep pressed Mkey to enter lyrics interface：
1. the lyrics are displayed
2. press menu button to return to music mode.
Movie
Before play the movie, please convert the format into AMV. You can find the convert tool in the assorted CD.
Under main menu, select Movie, press to enter, and short press to play the movie.
Select a movie: : Previous movie;
: Next movie.
Volume adjust: Short press VOL key, and press to decrease volume
Short press VOL key, and press to increase volume
Record
Enter main menu and select Record and press key to enter
Short press key to start recording, press again to pause recording.
Long press Mkey to save the current recording.
Voice will be recorded in Voice folder.
If displayed “Memory full”, it means mo space to save new record files, please delete other files to release
memory space.
If “Fold full” shown, it means there are 99 record files in this fold. Please choose another one.
The player only responses to and M key when record processing
zSelect Record Type
1. before starting recording, press “M” to enter the submenu.

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2. Press to select ‘REC type’ submenu, and short press to enter,
.
3. Press button to select recording mode and confirm with button.
32K Bit Rate WAV file
64K Bit Rate WAV file
Voice
Under main menu, select Vo ice, and short press to enter the voice play interface, then press again to play.
Select a voiced file: : Previous file;
: Next file.
Volume adjust: Short press VOL key, and press to decrease volume
Short press VOL key, and press to increase volume
FM radio
Under main menu, select FM radio, and short press to enter
Auto search
Press Mbutton to enter submenu, press button to select auto search, press button to start stations searching.
The 20 stations found will be automatically saved.
Volume adjustment: short press VOL button, press button to decrease the volume
Short press VOL button, press
button to increase the volume

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Manual tuning
Press : Downward 100 KHz
Push : Upward 100 KHz
Save channels manually:
In order to manually store a radio station you need to free a memory first, set on the station to delete, press M
button and choose delete channel and short press button to delete the station. Search the desired station, press M
key, select Save and press key to save.
Listening to a saved channel:
If there are more than one saved channels. You can press to choose a saved channel.
Radio recording
Press Mkey and choose FM radio recording, press to enter recording mode and press again to start recording,
press and keep pressed Mbutton to stop and save recording.
Photo
Support JPEG, BMP photos.
Under main menu, select Photo,
Press key to entry corresponding submenu:
Press or to select the photo you want to read, press to play it, press M key to enter submenu setup.
Long press Mkey to return to main menu.
Setup
Under main menu, select Setup, and press to enter
○“System time” Setting
Press to entry ‘system time’ interface：
ShortpressVOL to set from the year
Press / to adjust the data

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ShortpressVOL switch to month
After adjust, press Mto exit.
LCD Set You can adjust the black screen time for automatic turn off display through the
submenu.
Language Select the language you want to use as default by pressing /, and press to
confirm.
Power off set Time setting for automatically unit turn off.
Sleep setting
Online mode PC connection setting
Memory info Check the memory free space
Firmware version Display the current firmware version
Firmware upgrade Firmware upgrade (only connected to PC)
Exit Exit from the current interface
E-book
Under main menu, select E-book
Press / select the document you want to read, press key begin to read; press M key to enter submenu setup.
Note: press / buttons to scroll the text.
Game
Under main menu, select Game, and press to enter the game
Tetrix
“ ” Move to left
“ ” Move to right
“ ” Pause/ begin
“M”changeshape,longpresstoexit
“VOL”: Speed up

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Using as USB Disk
The player is also a standard USB disk. Supported by Windows XP, Vista and 7.
The player supports USB power supply. To entry, when on “waiting mode”, press Mreturn to main menu and
choose the operation you need while the player is connected to PC.
This player supports Suspend mode.
When connected to PC, The player works on the three modes below:
Connect PC Download data
Upload data
Upgrade your player
You can use Pc software to maintain or upgrade player’s firmware.
1. Connect player to PC
2. Running upgrade tools MP3 Player Update Tool (supplied with installation CD), then click ’Select new
firmware file’ to choose the upgrade file.
3. Select a new firmware file.

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4. Click ‘Start Upgrade’, the upgrade process will start.
5. While upgrade successful, the player will display like this:
Firmware upgrade is to improve player’s performance; you can still use it normally without doing upgrade
process
Player may not work by incorrect process! Please read this manual carefully before doing upgrade process.
The upgrade software cannot work for other player and vice verse.

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Other settings
zChoose other fold (Stop submenu)
You can classify files into several different folders that ease to manage them (folders should be created on PC).
The player can identify 9 folders in root
2. Press M key to entry Stop submenu
1. When stopped
4. Press / to select a folder3. Press key to entry folder choosing
interface
5. Press key to entry the selected folder
Please note: You can set folders independently in Music / Record / Voice mode
zDelete file (Stop submenu)
You delete correspond files/channels in each Music/Voice/FM modes.
1. When Stopped. (No stop interface in
FM mode)
2. Press key to entry Stop submenu
3. Press / to choose ‘Delete ’ or
‘Delete all’
4. Press / to select the file you
want to delete, press key to enter
delete interface. Select YES or No.
5. Press key to confirm delete
‘Delete all’ will delete all files in current folder of current mode. I.e. Choose ‘Delete all’ in Music mode will

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delete all music files; recorder files will not be affected.
On FM mode, all saved channel will be removed.
Please safely removed player and unplug USB cable after delete files on PC, otherwise some files will not be
removed.
zPlay mode (Play submenu)
You can choose different play mode (i.e. repeat, shuffle) when playing music or recorded files
○REPEAT
(Normal) Playing music files in sequence until the end of
folder
(Repeat One) Repeat single music file
(Folder) Play all music files in folder
(Repeat Folder) Repeat all music files in folder
(Repeat All) Repeat all music files
○SHUFFLE
(Random) Play music files in folder randomly
○INTRO
(Intro) Play the 10s of each music files in sequence
EQ mode
Natural
Rock
Pop
Classical
Soft
Jazz
DBB
About Secret Space
NOTE: MP3 Player Disk Tool is not compatible with Windows Vista.
Some MP3 user may worry about divulging secret. They do not want others to find private information
contained, therefore these data have to be removed before lend their own MP3 to others. It makes some trouble.
However, this problem has totally solved by ‘Secret Space’ technique!
You can use provided software to divide the whole USB disk into two parts, and encrypt one of them. You can

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move your privacy into the encrypted part; they will be protected by password.
To active ‘Secret Space’:
1. Connect your player to PC
2. Run Media Player Disk Manager which can be found in provided CDROM
3. Click ‘Partition and Encrypt’ card, Allocate appropriate space and set username and password, and then
click Start.

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4. After restart you will find two disks (only one disk can be seen on Windows 2K SP4or prior), click the
encrypted disk (the second one) as follow:
5.Running executable file ‘RdiskDecrypt.exe’ and input username and password. If all are correct, disk will be
opened, and files can be copied into.
6.You must enter username and password each time access encrypted disk.
Warning: Divide one disk into parts will remove all data and so does combine process.
Warning: Please remember username and password. If you forget it, you can only making combine
processing and you will loss all encrypted data.
Convert Video files into AMV format
The below video formats could be converted into AMV format video file by using Program tools provided in the
assorted CD driver:
AVI format (.avi)
Windows Media format (.asf, .wmv & .wma)
MPEG 1 format (.mpg, mpeg &.dat)
Realplayer format (.rm)
Quicktime format (.mov)
MPEG 2 format (.vob)
NOTE: to convert some formats it is necessary to have installed the related codec (for example quicktime © for
“.mov” files or DivX Codec© for some “.avi” files)
Installation: Put the assorted CD driver onto your computer CD disk driver, open the file clip name AMV
transfer tool, select program named “Setup.exe” and double click it to run the installation program.
After installation finish, you could find the program named Media Player Utilities 4.25 in your computer, select
the AMV&AVI Video Converter to start your converting.

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1. Run “AMV&AVI Video Converter”, click to choose the folder where to save the AMV files, then
click to select the position where the original files are.
2. Select unprocessed AMV/AVI files, then click , the icon will be highlighted into and a dialog box
will show. Choosing the setting of the AMV/AVI file you want to obtain, then click OK to confirm. (Note: Only
pixels in “160 * 120 can be supported for this player at AMV format, pls refer below)
3. Click to start converting.

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4. After convert, the AMV files will be played automatically.
Troubleshooting
Technical Specifications
Screen Matrix (128*160), 65536 colours
Connecting to PC USB2.0 Full Speed
Memory 4GB
Power Supply Maximum 4/5 hours in music play mode or 2 hours for video.
Sample rate 8KHzVoice Recorder
Format WAV (32K bps)
No Power Check if battery have no power
Make sure you have switched the player on
No Sound Make sure volume is not on 0 position and the connection to
earphone is valid
Please make sure the earphone is clean
Damaged MP3 files may have noise and even cannot be
played
Strange characters on display Make sure you have chose correct language
FM has bad performance Adjust place of player and earphone
Switch off power appliance nearby
Earphone MUST be used as antenna
Cannot Download Music Check USB cable, and make sure the player is properly
connected to the PC
Check if the driver has well installed
Check if there is still blank memory

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Time 35hours (512M Flash)
Max. Output (L) 10mW + (R) 10mW (32Ohm)
MP3 Bit rate 8K bps – 320K bps
WMA、Bit rate 5K bps – 384K bps
Freq. Response 20Hz to 20KHz
MP3、WMA
SNR 85dB
Frequency Range 87 MHz – 108MHz
Maximum Stored
Channels 20
Max. Output (L) 10mW + (R) 10mW (32Ohm)
FM Radio
SNR 45dB
Supported Music Formats MP3, WMA, WAV
Supported Video Format AMV
Operate Temperature -5 to 40 degree
Multi Languages Display English, Italian etc
Supported Systems Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
Please note: Design and characters may change for product improvement without prior notice.
This marking shown on the product or its literature, indicates that it should not
be disposed with other household wastes at the end of its working life. To
prevent possible harm to the environment or human health from
uncontrolled waste disposal, please separate this from other types of wastes
and recycle it responsibly to promote the sustainable reuse of material
resources. Household users should contact either the retailer where they
purchased this product, or their local government office, for details of where
and how they can take this item for environmentally safe recycling.
Business users should contact their supplier and check the terms and conditions
of the purchase contract. This product should not be mixed with other
commercial wastes for disposal.