Stormblue A9+ User manual

STORMBLUE CO., LTD.
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A9+ User Manual
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Safety instructions
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Safety instructions
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Cautions!
Do not shake or apply heavy shocks on the product.
It might be the cause of malfunction or damaged.
Avoid contacting the product with water.
This may cause serious damage to the product. If the player gets wet,
wipe with a soft towel or rag as soon as possible.
When using your headphones/earphones.
Do not wear earphones while driving an automobile, bicycle, or motorcycle.
Not only it is dangerous but also it is illegal in some jurisdictions.
Listening to the music by earphones at large volume level for extended
periods of time may result in damaging your ears.
You must not newly make any file to CONFIG folder of the player.
To maintain good performance
Avoid high or low temperature
and moisture.
Do not have other
different things in the
product.
Avoid placing the
product under high
moisture or dust level
Avoid direct sunlight,
high temperature from
heating device.
Do not drop and impact
the product.
Do not use thinner,
alcohol, or benzene
when cleaning the
product
Do not place any
magnetic device near
the product.
Never disassemble,
repair or rebuild

Appearance of player
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Appearance of player
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Accessories Description of each part of the player
Reset
Mode/EQ LED
Up
Menu/Navigation
Forward SD card slot
Down
Microphone
Rewind
USB Conector Hold key
Power/Play
REC/A-BLine-inEarphones
Installation CD, User manual Earphones
Bluetooth stereo headset USB Adaptor Arm Band
Accessories could be changed without notice in advance to increase the performance or quality of the product.
Neck strap Encoding cable, USB extension cable Carrying caseUSB Gender
Optional

Preparation to use the player
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Preparation to use the player
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Connecting MP3 player to your PC
1. You can connect the player to your PC by included USB cable. Pick up the included USB extention cable and
connect it to the USB port of your PC.
2. Plug USB extension cable in the USB port of MP3 player and Plug the other side of the USB Minijack in the Female
USB port of the extension cable.
3. Turn on the player by push and hold the power button. Then, a removable disk will appear in your PC when you open
windows explorer.
4. Earphone should not be inserted into the Player when the player is connected to PC
File upload/Download
The player should be turned on in advance before you plug it in the USB port
a. Open Windows Explorer and select the removable disk newly created.
b. You can just copy/move files from your PC to the removable disk.
c. You can create many folders in the removable disk to sort out music files.
d. Just copy or move any files including music files from your PC to a certain folder in your removable disk.
You must not newly make any files to the CONFIG folder of the removable disk.
e. You can delete/rename any files stored in the removable disk in the same way as you do in the PC.
Disconnecting the player from your PC
a. Before unplugging the player from the PC, make sure to double click the Green Arrow icon on the task bar on the right
bottom of the PC screen.
b. When the dialogue box is displayed on the monitor, Click the stop button to stop USB Mass Storage Device.
c. When a new dialogue box appears, click “OK ” to clearly remove the removable disk from your PC.
d. If you use Windows 98 or 98SE, first open windows explorer. Click the removable disk by right button of the mouse
and pop-up menu will appear. Then, you can proceed to disconnect the player accordingly.
Caution
For users whose OS version is Windows 98 or Windows 98SE
The Driver for Window 98 and 98SE must be installed in your PC before you connect this player to your PC if you
use Windows 98 or 98SE OS. Do not install the driver if your OS is Windows ME/2000/XP.
- Insert the provided program CD to the CD Rom drive in your PC.
- Enter Win98 driver folder and Run the Driver for Win98/SE OS.
- You can visit our website www.stormblue.biz to download the driver for Windows 98/SE
Caution
Fatal error may occur in the PC or the player if you remove the player without completing above procedures.

Operation of the Player
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Preparation to use the player
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Format the player
Operation in Playback mode
Click and hold Mode button and move to Audio play mode by or button. Then, click Menu button to select the mode.
To enter the Mode menu, click and hold the mode Mode button. To select the Mode and get out of the Mode menu, click
Menu button.
To play music files, select Audio play mode. To play video files, select moive play mode. In the same way, photo view
mode is for image file like JPG and TEXT view mode is for playing TEXT file.
Just click Menu button to enter navigation mode. In navigation mode, you can display any file such as music file, video
file, text and image file by click or PLAY button when the cursor is over the file you want to play.
Copy or move files from your PC to proper folder of the player. Video files to movie folder, TXT files to document folder
and image files to photo folder.
a. Open Windows Explorer and click the removable disk by the right button of the mouse.
b. Click the format menu by the left button of the mouse.
Charging the player
Just connect the player to the USB port when your PC is turned on. Then the charging lamp will be turned on. You don’t
need to turn on the player before connecting to the USB port if you only want to charge the player. When fully charged, the
charging LED will be turned off.
When the player is turned off. : The player is fully charged within 1.5 ~ 2 hours.
When the player is turned on. : The player is fully charged within 4 to 5 hours.
Caution
Format function will delete all files in the player. Backup all the important data before formatting the removable disk.
Button
PLAY
FF
REW
Click
long
shortly
long Playback
Playback / Pausing
Navigation mode
Playback
Playback / Pausing
Navigation mode
Playback
Power on
Power OFF Turn on
Turn off
Playback of music and movie files.
Pause
Foward fast
Playback of the Next file
Go to the subfolder
Rewind fast
Playback of the previous file
Go to the Previous folder
shortly
shortly
long
shortly
shortly
Present Status Operation when clicked

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Operation in Playback mode
Button
REC/A B
Menu/Navi
Hold
Click
shortly
long
shortly Playback
Playback/Pausing
Hold Off
Navigation mode
A B repeat
Playback
Playback Start A-B repeat function marking A point
Start A-B repeat function marking B point
Finish A-B repeat
File Copy, Delete, Cancel
Enter Navagation mode
Enter menu
Deactivate all button
Hold On Activate all button
long
push
Present Status Operation when clicked
Power On / Power Off
- Push and hold the Power/Play button to turn on the player.
- Do the same to turn off the player
Playback / Pause
- When powered on, just click Power/Play button
- You can replay music file by click button when the cursor is over the very file in Navigation mode
- In this same way, you can also run text files and JPG image files.
- If you power off the player during playback of the music file and turn it on again, just click the Power/Play button.
Then, it resumes the music file from the last point of playback.
Photo & Text file display
- Image display function only support JPG file. Just copy jpg files from your PC to the player.
- Text display function only support TXT file. Just copy TXT files from your PC to the player.
- To display TXT files and JPG files, click Play button in navigation mode when the cursor is placed over the file to display.
- To see the TXT file writen in local languages, you first have to set up the language option at your language.
+(Up)
- (Down)
MODE/EQ
Playback
Navigation mode
Playback
Navigation mode
Playback
Power on
Volume up
File serach
Volume down
File serach
Switching EQ
(Flat-POP-Rock-Live-Classic-Vocal-Dbass-User EQ)
Enter Mode menu
long/short
shortly
long/short
shortly
shortly
long

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FF and REW ( and )
During playback of music and movie files
- Push and hold button, then it will forward the current file fast.
- Click button, then it will replay or move to the next file.
- Push and hold button, then it will rewind the current file fast.
- Click button, then it will replay or move to the previous file.
[ When running a JPG image or TXT file ]
- Click button, then it will run the next file.
- Click button, then it will run the previous file.
Volume control and File Navigation
- Click or button to increase or decrease the volume level.
- Click or button to move up and down cruising on the file in the Navigation mode.
A-B Repeat
- When replaying music file, click REC/A B button to mark the start point of the repeat
- Then, click the same button in a few moment to mark the ending point of the repeat. Then, the repeat will start.
- To finish A-B repeat, just click the same button again.
Hold
- Push this button in the direction of the arrow. It disables all the button to avoid unintentional operation
Changing EQ
During playback, just click MODE/EQ button and EQ will be switched sequentially.
Flat POP ROCK Live Class Vocal DBass USER
Reset
- When your player suddenly get halted for some reason, push the reset button with a sharply-ended instrument like pin or
clip and It will reset the player by force. Then, turn on your player.
- Reset is different from Format and all data is safe after reset
Operation in Radio mode
- Click and hold Mode button and move to FM radio mode by or button. Then, click Menu button to select
the mode.
Button
PLAY
Click
short
REC Pause
Recording
Mute ON
Mute OFF Mute ON
Mute OFF
Pausing the current recording
Restart the paused recording
Present status Operation when clicked

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Button
REW
REC/A B
Menu/Navi
Click
Long
Short
Preset
Scan-Save
REC/Ready
Scan
Auto Scan
Scan-Save
Scan Move to the next station decreasing Frequency
Decrease the register address to save current satation
Stop searching for other station
Decrease the frequency by 1step
Move to next station saved
Decrease the register address to save current station
Start recording
REC Finish recording
Preset Auto Memory Scan start and up to 20 stations can be registered.
Scan
Scan saving
Scan
Preset
Turn to the Save mode to save the selected station
Save the selected station
Turn to Preset mode
Turn to Scan mode
Long
short
Short
Present status Operation when clicked Scan mode and save the each station manually
The default of FM radio is set in Scan mode.
- Click and hold or button to move to next station.
- To save the current station, click REC/A-B button and the register address for the station will appear
- The address can be changed up and down by click or button.
- After you adjust the address, click REC/A-B button again to save the station.
Preset mode and save all station automatically
- You can switch to Preset mode after you save at least one radio station in Scan mode.
- Click Navi/Menu button to switch to Preset mode.
- Click REC/A-B button to automatically search for all available station and it will be saved automatically up to 20 stations.
- Click or button to move to next station.
Mute
- To mute FM radio, click Play button. To resume FM radio, click the same button again.
FM recording
- Listening FM radio, click hold on REC/A-B button to record the current broadcast.
- To finish the recording, just click the same button.
- To pause and resume the recording, click the PLAY button.
- Recorded file is found in FMREC folder in Navigation mode.
FF
Long Scan
Save
Auto Scan
Move to the next station increasing Frequency
Increase the register address to save current satation
Stop searching for other station
Scan Increase the frequency by 1step
Preset Move to next station saved
Save Increase the register address to save current station
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Operation in Line-in Recording
Click and hold Mode button and move to Line in REC mode by or button. Then, click Menu button to select the
mode.
Dubbing CD track to MP3 player
- Connect your MP3 player and other sound resources like CD player with included encoding cable.
- Press and hold EQ/Mode
- Click play button of the CD player and REC button of MP3 player simultaneously.
- To finish dubbing, click REC button of MP3 player again.
- To pause and resume the recording, click PLAY button sequentially.
Use CD sync function
- With CD sync function turned on in setup menu, you can dub all track of CD into each WMA file at once.
- When you dub your Cassette tape to MP3 player, make sure to deactivate CD sync option.
Operation in Voice Recording
Click and hold Mode button and move to Voice REC mode by or button.
Then, click Menu button to select the mode.
- Click REC button to start recording. To finish recording click the same button again.
- To pause and resume the recording, click PLAY button sequentially.
- Recorded file is found in Voice folder in Navigation mode.
Navigation mode
To enter navigation mode, just click the menu button
File copy between SD card and the player / Delete file
A9+support external SD card.
- Put SD card into the SD card slot and ‘external’ folder will be created
- Click Menu button to enter navigation mode.
- Enter a certain folder and move the cursor on the file you want to copy Click and hold REC button
- When the dialog box appears, you can choose file copy or delete function using REW( ) buttton or FF ( ) button
- To select and run copy or delete function, Click Menu button.
- Files are copied to ‘copied folder’ Find the ‘copied’ folder in Navigation mode
Button
Menu
REW ( )
FF ( )
REC
Click
Short
Long
Short
Short
Short
Short
Long
Run the file selected
Move to setup mode
Move to the upper folder
Move to the sub folder
Moving cursor
Cancel and return
Copy file, delete file
Operation when clicked

Setup Menu
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Setup Menu
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Display Setup
The function of Button in this Setup
and : up and down of the cursor
Menu button : Enter the submenu / Select (finish) the option in submenu and go back to the previous stage
button : Go back to the initial stage. After getting back to the initial stage, click and hold Menu button to completely
get out of the Setup menu.
This chapter is to set up all option of the player. Click and hold Menu button to enter Setup menu.
Move to each Setup by or button and click Menu button to enter the selected setup menu.
To enter submenu, click Menu button
To select options in submenu and go back to the previous menu at once, also click Menu button
To go back to the initial stage of Setup menu, click button.
To completely get out of the Setup menu, Click and hold the Menu button.
Information
File name : display the file name of the song going on.
ID3 tag : display the ID3 tag of the song going on
Lyric : display the lyric of the song going on manually or
automatically
Language select
Select language at your preference
Current Time
Adjust the current time
Backlight Time
Adjust the time during which the backlight is on if there is no click
on any button.
Time Setup
The function of Button in this Setup
and : up and down of the cursor / Adjust the figure (number) / Switch AM and PM
Menu button : Enter the submenu / Select (finish) the option in submenu and go back to the previous stage
and : Move to the next column
button : Go back to the initial stage / After getting back to the initial stage, click and hold Menu button to completely
get out of the Setup menu.
Mode button : Switch On and Off

Setup Menu
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FM REC Time
Adjust the time for automatic recording of the designated station.
You have to adjust starting time and finishing time as well as a
day of the week and the radio station.
Time Setup
Folder mode
Folder1 : replay the songs in the current folder
Folder all : replay songs in all folder in the player
Repeat mode
Normal : no repeat
Repeat 1 : repeat the current songs going on
Repeat all : repeat all songs in the current directory or all directory
Random : replay all songs in the current directory or all directory at
random
Intro : replay only the introductory part of the songs for overview.
Play Setup
The function of Button in this Setup
and : up and down of the cursor
Menu button : Enter the submenu / Select (finish) the option in submenu and go back to the previous stage
and : Increase or decrease the percentage in play speed setup / Move to the next column in search speed setup/
button : Go back to the initial stage. After getting back to the initial stage, click and hold Menu button to completely
get out of the Setup menu.
Sleep Time
Adjust the time after which the player is turned off.
Alarm Time
Adjust the time on which you want to wake up or get noticed
Off Time
Adjust the time after which the player is turned off if there is no
click on any button.
This setup doesn’t work if there is any file going on or the player is
in FM mode.

Setup Menu
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Setup Menu
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Line in REC Volume Setup
Adjust the volume of the recording by and button
Play Setup
Sound Setup
The function of Button in this Setup
and : Up and down of the cursor / Adjust the EQ level in User EQ / Switch WOW and Trubass in SRS setup /
Menu button : Enter the submenu / Select (finish) the option in submenu and go back to the previous stage
and : Move to next EQ column in User EQ / Adjust the level of SRS and Trubass in SRS setup
button : Go back to the initial stage. After getting back to the initial stage, click and hold Menu button to completely
get out of the Setup menu.
EQ mode
Select EQ at your preference.
Recording Setup
The function of Button in this Setup
and : up and down of the cursor
Menu button : Enter the submenu / Select (finish) the option in submenu and go back to the previous stage
and : Increase or decrease the recording level
button : Go back to the initial stage. After getting back to the initial stage, click and hold Menu button to completely
get out of the Setup menu.
Mode button : Switch On and Off in audio REC setup.
Voice REC Setup
Adjust quality of the recording by and button
Search speed
Adjust the search speed for forwarding fast and rewinding of
songs.
Audio REC setup
Adjust quality of the recording by and button. Switch on
and off for CD sync function. CD sync is a function to dub all track in
CD into respective WMA file.
Audio Recording Setup
Play speed
Adjust the playback speed by percentage. The default is at 100%

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Setup Menu Setup Menu
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Sound Setup FM radio Setup
FM radio Setup
The function of Button in this Setup
and : Up and down of the cursor
Menu button : Enter the submenu / Select (finish) the option in submenu and go back to the previous stage
button : Go back to the initial stage. After getting back to the initial stage, click and hold Menu button to completely
get out of the Setup menu.
FM area
Select the correct area for FM broadcast for your nation.
Stereo mode
Switch mono and stereo.
User EQ
Make your own EQ setup
Control Setup
The function of Button in this Setup
and : Up and down of the cursor
Menu button : Enter the submenu / Select (finish) the option in submenu and go back to the previous stage
button : Go back to the initial stage. After getting back to the initial stage, click and hold Menu button to completely
get out of the Setup menu.
Format
This menu will format your player and all files will be deleted.
Memory information
Show the current status of memory use.

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Setup Menu
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Firmware upgrade
See the firmware upgrade part
Load default
This will change all setup to the status of factory setup.
This function doesn’t delete any file.
Control Setup
Setup Menu

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Transcoding video files
Manual for Transcoder program Manual for Transcoder program
1. Click the icon of “Transcoder” and see the
main picture as below.
2. Press the “Add File” button
and open the file is available
to be converted. Or drag and
drop the Movie file to the file
list.
3. To change the Folder be saved the
transcoded file, press the “Select” button
and point the location.
If you specify the “File name header”, be
added when the transcoded file will be
saved automatically.
Manual for Transcoder program
Transcoder program is to compress certain movie files such as AVI, MPG, WMV, ASF as well into a special format for
this player so as to replay those video files in this player.
Install transcoder program
1. Put included program CD in the CD Rom Drive of your PC
2. Enter the ‘transcoder Folder’
3. Install the program by double-click on the setup file
PC System Requirements
- PENTIUM 3 / WINDOWS 98/ME plus
- DIRECTX 9.0 / WMV 9.0 plus must be installed in your PC
- Integrated Codec must be installed in your PC.
Available Format
- RAW, AVI, MICROSOFT WMV, DAT, MPG, ASF...
- Some files in above format may not be compressed by Transcoder program.
Necessary Codec to be installed (3 codecs mentioned below must be installed)
Direct X : install 9.0 version or later version.
Visit www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.sapx and enter download center menu
Download Direct X and install it.
- WMV9 : Visit above site and enter download center menu. Download and install windows media player version 9.0 or
later version. (No need to install if your current version of windows media player is later than 9.0 version)
- Integrated codec : Visit www.free-codecs.com and download a latest version of ‘K-lite codec pack’ and install it.

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Manual for Transcoder program
Setup Transcoder program
Click ‘Setup’ button
Video
Adjust the size and image quality of Transcoding video files. The maximum size is 220 176.
Audio
Adjust the sound quality of Transcoding files.
Path
Designate the folder in which to save the transcoding files.
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Manual for Transcoder program
4. Press the “Settings” button and adjust
the setting in connection with Video
/Audio/Caption.
More details, see the instruction beside
of setting menu.
5. Press the “Start” button and be started
the progress of transcoding. (To be
showed the progress of states for
transcoding as blue bar)
6. If show the “Processing completed
100%”, were able to play the file be
transcoded by A9+normally.
Be saved the transcoded file as XXX.AVI.
If copy the transcoded file to the Movie folder or Root, be able to play the file same as music one.

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Using Bluetooth function
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Using Bluetooth function
Select ‘search device’ menu to automatically find and register the bluetooth headphones or speaker.
If there are any bluetooth equipments already registered, use ‘connect device menu’ to connect them
quickly.
Password must be input to register any bluetooth product. There is the password of the connecting device in its
manual. Use or button, or button to choose numbers and click Menu button to input the number.
After finishing to input password, move the cursor to ‘OK’ button and click Menu button to complete this process.
When connected or failed to connected, it display the message.
Bluetooth is optional function and this section is only for A9+Bluetooth model
Using Bluetooth function
The function of Button in this Setup
and : up and down of the cursor
Menu button : Enter the submenu / Select (finish) the option in submenu and go back to the previous stage
button : Go back to the initial stage. After getting back to the initial stage, click and hold Menu button to completely get out of the Setup menu.
[The first stage to connect Bluetooth equipment]
Move to the Bluetooth setup menu
Click Menu button to enter subment
Place the cursor at ON and click Menu button again to initialize the Bluetooth.
To connect the Bluetooth headphones or speakers, they must be turned on and ready to be connected.

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Firmware upgradeUsing Bluetooth function
Firmware upgrade
1) Please, keep up with new firmware released on our website at www.stormblue.biz
2) Download a updated firmware file from the STORMBLUE website and unzip the file if the file format is zip file.
3) Turn on the player and connect it to the USB port of your computer and then a removable disk will appear. Copy the
firmware file to Config folder of the player
4) Safely remove the removable disk and pull the player off the USB port. (When disconnected, the player will be
automatically turned off).
5) Power on the player and click and hold the ‘Menu’ button to enter menu mode.
6) Enter control menu and enter F/W upgrade menu by clicking Menu button. Click ‘yes’ by Menu button and then it
upgrade F/W by itself.
Caution!
Check the current firmware version of your player. Firmware upgrade will be implemented only for higher version
of firmware.
When you make a firmware upgrade, make sure the battery has been charged enough.
(The remaining battery must be over one-third of battery full)
1. There could be radio(electric wave) interference between bluetooth equipment and other device such as
industrial equipments, medical equipments and microwave ovens which use similar range of frequency. It
can not be avoided technically.
2. Stand at least 5m away from wireless LAN area to use bluetooth without radio interference
3. The available range of bluetooth is basically 10m and it will be disconnected if it gets away more distantly.
The range can be changed depending on the circumstance of the place. Some high obstacles like
partitions, corner of the wall affects the radio acceptance causing noise to the wireless sound transmission.
4. Touch on the antenna part of bluetooth can cause some noise and malfunction.
5. When registering bluetooth equipment to the player, do not place them far.
[Bluetooth instructions]

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Specifications Specifications
Support OS
Audio
EQ
Copyright Protection
FM Radio
Audio post processing
Firmware Upgrade
Music Management
Dimension
Lyric Support
ITEM
PC Interface
Contents
USB 2.0 : Mass Storage Class
Speed : Up Load 5 Mbps / Down Load 4Mbps
Windows98 / 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003
Headphone Out, Line-In, Bluetooth TX (Option)
POP, Rock, Classic, Vocal, Live, D-bass, Flat, 5 Band User EQ
WMA Portable Device DRM (WMA PD DRM), MarkAny DRM (XSync)
FM Tuner (20Preset) / World wide channel support
Equalizer (Normal, Pop, Rock, Live, Classic, Vocal, Dbass, User)
Firmware Upgradeable
Play List( M3U )
84 43 19mm (70g)
Automatic & Manual (Media Sync)
Specifications about MP3 part
Audio Encoding
Recording time
Display
Sound
Battery
File System
Capacity
Extendable slot
Playback Time
ITEM
Audio Format
Image
Video Format
Contents
MPEG1,2,2.5 Layer3(8~320Kbps, VBR), WMA Version 9 (32 ~ 320Kbps)
Ogg Vorbis (Q1 - Q10)
ID3 Tag Ver1.0/ 1.1/ 2.0 Support
WMA (32Kbps - 128Kbps)
Max 35 hours with 512MB
Support MPEG4 Simple Profile.
Support AVI file format with .mp4 extension.
Support 220 176, 20 frames.
Support Windows Tool program, which is released transdcoder.
Text View
JPEG (ISO/ IEC 10918-1, Annex F - Sequential DCT-based mode of operation.)
2.0” TFT LCD (220 176)
23mW 23mW sound output / S/ N ratio : 90dB
1050mA Li-poly battery (charging time : 140 minutes)
FAT12, FAT16, FAT32
1GB ~4GB
For SD card
MP3 Play time : 39 hours, LCD off (11 hours with movie files)