X-Micro XMP3-Y User manual

X-VDO MP4 F610
User’s Manual
V1.0

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INFORMATION TO USER
Product Name: X-Micro X-VDO MP4 F610
Model Name: XMP3Y-F512, XMP3Y-1G, XMP3Y-2G
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Operation is subject to the following two conditions:(1)this
device may not cause harmful interference,and (2) this device
must accpt any interference received, including interference
that may cause undesired operation. Conforms to the following EMC Product
Testing Specifications FCC part 15.109, Class B-Residential Emissions at 3
meters. Testing was performed in a FCC Listed 3 meter semi-anechoic
chamber. FCC Part 15.107, Class B-Residential Emissions at shield Room.
Testing was performed in a FCC Listed shield Room.
The referred test report(s) show that the product complies
with standard(s) recognized as giving presumption of
compliance with the essential requirement in the above listed
EU Directive(s). Other relevant Directives have to be
observed.

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Copyright
Copyright 2006 by X-Micro Technology Corp., All rights reserved. No part of
this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a
retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in
any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical,
chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of X-Micro
Technology Corp.
Disclaimer
X-Micro Technology Corp. makes no representations or warranties, either
expressed or implied, with respect to the contents hereof and specifically
disclaims any warranties, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose.
Any software described in this manual is sold or licensed "as is". Should the
programs prove defective following their purchase, the buyer (and not this
company, its distributor, or its dealer) assumes the entire cost of all
necessary servicing, repair, and any incidental or consequential damages
resulting from any defect in the software. Further, X-Micro Technology Corp.,
reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time to
time in the contents hereof without obligation to notify any person of such
revision or change.
All brand and product names mentioned in this manual are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Index
1. Introduction……………………………………………………….………………….…….P.4
2. Function Keys and Display Icons annotations………..…………………….…….…..P.5
3. Specifications …………………………………………………………………….…….…..P.6
4. Installing the MP3 Player…………………………………….………………….…….…..P.6
5. Transfer data to and from the MP3 Player…………………..……………….…….…..P.7
6. Turning the player on / off…………………………………………….……….………….P.8
7. Listening to your WMA/MP3 music………………….……………………….……….…P.8
8. Playing your music……………………………………………………………….………...P.9
9. Video…………………………………………………………………………………………P.10
10. Voice Recorder…………………………………………………………………………...P.12
11. FM Tuner……………………………………………..……....................………………..P.13
12. Photo.....................................................................................……………….............P.17
13. Advanced Setting………………………………..……………..…………….……….…P.17
14. To Format the MP3 Player……………………………………………………………...P.19
15. Hold Function……………………………………………………………..……………...P.19
16. Removing the MP3 Player from your computer………………….………………...P.19
17. DRM……………………………………………………....……………................……….P.19
18. Trouble Shooting………………………………………………………………….……..P.20
19. Safety............................................................................................................…........P.21

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1. Introduction
This device incorporates a portable WMA/MP3 Player, Video player, FM Radio, Photo
Viewer, Voice Recorder and USB 2.0 Mass Storage Device; it will bring you pleasure and
enjoyment in this digital era.
1.1 MP3 Player Features:
•WMA/MP3 player
•MTV Player
•Photo viewer
•Synchronous lyric display with WMA/MP3 music
•Voice recorder
•FM Radio with 20 presets
•FM Recording
•USB mass storage device
•Integrated USB connector
•Backlit display
•Superb audio quality
1.2 System support:
•Supports Windows 98Se/Me/2000/XP
Note for Windows 2000 users: Windows Service Pack 3 must be installed before
installing MP3 Player drivers
•Supports Windows 98 SE after installation of drivers (see below)
•Supports Mac OS X (version 10.2.6 or above) without driver
Note: To minimize damage from static electricity, avoid operating the player in an
extremely dry household environment. The product may malfunction and require
user to reset the product.
1.3 Battery management
Battery: Built-in Rechargeable Li-ion battery
Charge: Connect the MP3 Player to the computer. Press and hold "Power on/off” button
for few seconds until a battery icon appear on the top of the MP3 Player's screen. The
battery is charging. When the battery icon stays fully indicating that means the battery is
fully charged.
Note: Please recharge the battery when the screen displays
picture as follow.

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2. Function Keys and Display Icons annotations
2.1 Function Keys:
A. Power On / Off
B. Earphone jack
C. Menu button
D. Play / Pause /Up
E. Skip Next / Fast forward
F. Skip Previous / Fast Rewind
G. Hold Switch
H. Stop / Down
I. Microphone
J. Volume up
K. Volume down
L. USB Port cover
M. Enter / A-B
2.2 Display Icons:
1. Play / Pause
2. Equalizer
3. ID3 Tag
4. Volume level
5. Process bar
6. Elapsed Time/ Track Time
7. Hold
8. A-B repeat / Repeat Mode
9. Battery Indicator
10. Current track number / Total track number
11. Music information

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3. Specifications
Product name X-MICRO X-VDO MP4 F610
Model name XMP3Y-F512, XMP3Y-F1G, XMP3Y-F2G
Capacity 512MB/1GB/2GB
Music support MP3/WMA
Equalizer Normal, XBass, Rock, Jazz, Classical, Pop
Display 128 x 128 Dot-Matrix 262K OLED display
Bus interface USB 2.0 High Speed
FM Tuner (Option) 87.5 ~ 108 MHz ; 20 presets
Signal to Noise Ratio > 90dB
Frequency Response 20 Hz ~ 20 kHz
Format type FAT/FAT16
Power Supply Built-in high capacity rechargeable Li-ion battery
Dimension 44 x 76 x 16.5 mm
OS support Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
4. Installing the MP3 Player
4.1 Windows ME/2000/XP
Installation of drivers for computers using Windows ME/2000/XP is not necessary. For
Windows 2000 users: Windows Service Pack 3 must be installed before installing MP3
Player drivers.
4.2 Windows 98 SE
Windows 98 SE users will need to install the USB driver for PC to recognize the MP3
Player on system.

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Step of Installation:
1. Insert the bundle CD into the CD-ROM of PC.
2. The install selection will appear automatically.
3. Click on the “Windows 98 Driver” to begin the installation.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
5. Transfer data to and from the MP3 Player
1. Make sure that the MP3 Player is turned off.
2. Remove the USB port cover of the player. Disconnect the
earphone.
3. Plug the MP3 Player into the USB port of your computer. The
built-in screen displays "USB Connected", indicating that the
player is in USB mode. The player is then automatically
recognized (in 'My Computer') as removable media devices.
4. Transfer files to or from the internal Flash RAM using Windows
explorer
•Right click on the start button
•Choose Explore to open Windows Explore on PC
•Select the data file to save, drag and drop it into the player
5. Unplug the MP3 Player from your computer, WMA/MP3 files can
now be listened to and all data stored can be transferred to another
computer
Note: Other types of data such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
JPEG, etc. can be stored and transferred

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6. Turning the player on / off
To turn the player on, press the power button.
To turn the player off, press and hold the power button for about 5 seconds.
7. Listen to WMA/MP3 music files with the MP3 Player
1. Follow the instructions for the transfer of data to and from
the MP3 Player to copy WMA/MP3 music files to the MP3
Player.
2. Connect the supplied headphones to the earphone jack.
3. Press the Power button to turn on the player.
4. Press the Play button to play the music.
5. Use the MP3 Player controls to adjust playback and volume
level to listen to your WMA/MP3 music.
7.1 A-B Repeat function
If you want to listen to one section of the music
repeatedly, you may use this A-B repeat function.
In the mode of playing music, press the A-B
button to set up the starting point (A point) of the
music, press the A-B button again to set up the ending point (B point)
of the music. And then the A-B section will be played repeatedly on
the player.
You may press and hold the A -B button again to cancel this A-B repeat function.
Note: The interval between A point and B point must be more than 3 seconds.
7.2 Lyric display function
The MP3 Player supports lyric files in LRC format.
1. Prepare a MP3 or WMA music, for example, happymusic.mp3;
2. Download a lyric file from internet. The lyric file must be with an extension file name
LRC. For example, happymusic-2004.lrc.
3. Rename the lyric file. For example, happymusic.lrc. It is to make sure the lyric filename
is same as the corresponding music filename.
4. Copy the lyric file & music file to the MP3 player.
5. Disconnect the MP3 player.
6. Use Up and Down buttons to select the music file, for example, abc.mp3. Press Play
button to play.

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7. The lyric displays synchronously on screen while the music is being played.
Note: The MP3 player supports LRC format only.
Note: If the lyric does not synchronize with the music, please download one better
lyric file from Internet and try again.
Note: Make sure the MP3 music and LRC file is located in same directory and the
filename is same. If not, the MP3 player cannot recognize the lyric file.
8. Playing your music
In the main menu select music and press Enter button to enter the
submenu, you can use the Up and Down buttons to select one option
and press Enter button to enter the submenu or confirm your selection.
Use the Menu button to go back to previous menu.
Music
Select Music in the submenu of the Music and press the Enter button to
play the music.
Browse
You can find and play the music quickly by using this browse
function.Use Menu button to enter main Menu.
1. Select Music and press Enter button to enter submenu
2. Select Browse and press Enter button to enter the browse mode.
3. Press Up and Down buttons to select a file or folder and use Skip
Next button to play the music or enter the folder.
4. Select the Back icon at first row in Browse menu and press Menu
button to backward to upper level.
Note: When a folder is selected in browse mode, presses on Enter
button, sub-menu windows will pop-up. To enter the folder, select
Enter. To play music located in the folder, select Play.
When a file is selected in browse mode, presses on Enter button, sub-
menu windows will pop-up. To play this file, select Play. To erase, select
Delete.

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Repeat settings
The available repeat modes are:
oNormal
oRepeat One
oRepeat All
oRandom
oRandom All
1. Select the Repeat in the submenu of the music and press Enter
button to enter.
2. Select one option and press Enter button to apply.
Equalizer settings
The equalizer setting is to adjust the music playback effect. There are 6
equalizer presets available: Normal, XBass, Rock, Jazz, Classical, POP
1. Select the Equalizer in the submenu of the music and press Enter
button to enter.
2. Select one option and press Enter button to apply.
9. Video
The MP3 Player allows you to play the video files. You can convert the WMV, MPEG video
file to the SMV video file by the software within the bundle CD.
•Note: Only SMV files can be played on this MP3 player.
•Note: Make sure Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or above version have been installed
on your computer, otherwise an error message will appear while
converting or the converted files may be not played correctly on your player.
1. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM.
2. The install selection will appear automatically.
3. Click "Install Utility" button to begin the installation.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

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5. Click X-VDO MP4 F610 icon upon desktop.
6. Setup the value for the video quality .To acquires golden quality of motion, it
is strongly recommended to configure the settings as following:
In the Quality Level window, select High.
In the Dimension window, select 128x128 and Full Screen.
7. Click Convert button.
8. Wait for a moment, after converting, copy the SMV file to the MP3 Player.
9. Press the Menu button.
10.Select Video and press Enter button to enter the list of video files.
11.Select one file and presses Enter Button, a submenu window will pop up .To
play this file, select Play. To erase, select Delete.
12.Press Enter button to confirm your selection.

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10. Voice Recorder
10.1 Record Setting
1. Select Record in the main menu list and press Enter button to enter Record menu,
select Record Settings and press Enter button to enter the submenu.
2. Press the Up and Down buttons to choose one record setting: Source, Format, or
Sampling rate.
3. Press the Enter button to enter the submenu and choose one option as your current
settings.
4. Press the Enter button to apply.
5. Press the Menu button to go back to the previous menu.
A high record sampling frequency brings an increase in sound quality but also a
corresponding increase in memory usage.
10.2 Start Record
After the record settings have been finished, you can start record.
1. Select Start Record and press Enter button to begin recording.
2. Press the Stop/Menu button to stop the recording.
The voice recording will be saved as a file named Vxxx.WAV (For example V001.WAV) in
the Voice folder.
Note that the screen will show a disk icon as above picture when all available memory has
been used.
10.3 Playback of record
This operation is similar to the playback of music.

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1. Select Voice in the Main Menu to enter Voice mode.
2. Select a recording to listen to by pressing the Up and down buttons.
3. Press the Enter button and a message will pop up, select play to
playback the recording, select Delete to erase the file, and select Cancel to exit.
11. FM Tuner
The MP3 Player allows you to listen to FM radio with the built-in digital FM tuner.
11.1 Start the FM Tuner
To switch to FM radio mode, please select FM from the Menu list
and press the Enter button.
Note: When using the MP3 Player Tuner at the first time, the
MP3 Player will automatically start to seek all available FM
radio stations and save them into preset list. Please wait
until the scan icon disappears from the display.
To exit FM radio mode, press and hold the Menu button for about
2 seconds.
11.2 Exit to Main Menu from FM mode
Press and hold the Menu button for a while and release it. The MP3 Player will exit FM
tuner mode.
11.3 Listen to FM radio
After the FM tuner finishes the automatic seeking, the MP3 Player tuner will stop at the
first FM station of preset 01 (P01).
To listen to another FM radio station this was seeked and saved automatically by the MP3
Player, press the Play or Stop button repeatedly. Every press on the buttons will cause the
MP3 Player to change to another FM radio in the preset list.
11.4 Using the FM Settings menu

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The FM Settings menu offers several convenient functions.
1. In FM Radio mode, press the Menu button to enter the FM Settings menu.
2. Press the Up and Down buttons to select one menu item.
3. Press the enter button to apply.
4. To exit the FM Settings menu, select Return and press Enter button to return to the
FM mode , select Exit and press Enter button to go back to the music mode.
11.5 Add to Preset
The MP3 Player tuner allows user to save a FM radio station to preset. After you have
tuned to an FM radio station,
1. Select "Add to Preset" in the FM Settings menu and press the Enter button.
2. Press the Up and down buttons to decide a preset will be used for current FM radio.
3. Press the Enter button to save.
Note: The unit can save 20 preset stations.
11.6 Load Preset
To select a FM radio station from the preset list to listen,
1. Select "Load Preset" in the FM Settings menu and press the Enter button.
2. Press the Up and down buttons to select one FM radio station in the preset list.
3. Press the enter button to listen.

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11.7 Auto Scan
To re-scan all FM radio stations and save them to the preset list automatically,
1. Select "Auto Scan" in the FM Settings menu and press the Enter button.
2. The MP3 Player tuner starts to seek and save the FM stations automatically. Please
wait a moment.
11.8 How to delete an FM radio station in the preset list?
1. In the FM Radio mode, press the Menu button to enter the FM Settings menu
2. Press the Up and Down buttons to select Delete One and press the Enter button to
enter the preset list
3. Press the Up and Down buttons to select a FM radio station and press the Enter
button to confirm
4. Press the Up and Down buttons to select Delete All and press the Enter button to
enter the preset list
5. Press the Enter button again, use Skip buttons to select Yes or No, and press the
Enter button to confirm
11.9 FM Channel
1. In FM Radio mode, press the Menu button to enter the FM Settings menu
2. Press the Up and Down buttons to select FM Channel and press the Enter button to
switch the channel between Mono and Stereo.

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11.10 How to tune to one FM radio station manually?
In FM Tuner, press and hold the Skip buttons.
The player searches for the nearest station. When it finds one, it stops and plays the
station.
To tune manually, press the Skip buttons. Each time the Skip buttons is pressed; the
player changes the frequency by 0.1MHz.
11.11 FM Recorder
FM Radio Recording
1. When listening to a FM radio, press the Enter button.
2. The MP3 Player starts to record the FM radio.
3. Press the Stop or Menu button to stop the recording and continue to listen the FM
radio.
The FM recording will have been saved as a file named Fxxx.WAV in the FM folder.
The screen will show a disk icon as above picture when all available memory has been
used.
Playback of FM Radio record
This operation is similar to the playback of music.
1. Select Music in the screen menu to enter Music mode.
2. Select Browse and press Enter button to enter the list of files and folders.
3. Use the Up and Down buttons to find the desired Fxxx.WAV file in FM folder.

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4. Press the Skip Next button to playback the recording.
12. Photo
For browse the pictures. Press menu button and select Photo in the main menu list. There
are 3 various ways to view the photos: Manual, Slide Show and Thumbnail. You may
zoom in or zoom out with the Volume buttons.
Note: Support picture with JPEG format.
13. Advanced Settings
To navigate the Settings menu:
1. Select Settings in main menu, press Enter button to enter the
settings menu.
2. Press Up and Down buttons to choose a setting.
3. Press the Enter button to enter the submenu of the option you
selected.
4. After setting is finished, press Menu button to go back to the
previous menu.
Backlight
To adjust the backlight
1. In the settings menu, select Backlight.
2. Press Up and Down buttons to adjust the delay before the
backlight is switched off.
Note: Selecting "Off" will turn off the backlight. Selecting "On" will
always turn on the backlight. Battery life is considerable shorter if
(On) is selected.

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Power Savings
Use the Power Saving function to automatically turn the MP3 Player off
after a predetermined length of inactivity when the player is not playing
music or recording.
1. In the settings menu, select Power Savings.
2. Press Up and down buttons to select time.
Note: Selecting "Off" will never turn off the MP3 Player
automatically.
Default
To reset all settings to factory default setting,
1. In the settings menu, select "Default"
2. Press the Enter button. The default settings are loaded to the
MP3 Player.
Language select
The MP3 Player menu can be displayed in multi-language
1. Press the Menu button button to enter the main menu.
2. Press the Up and Down buttons to highlight Settings and press
the Enter button.
3. In the Settings menu press the Up and Down buttons to highlight
Language and press the Enter button.
4. In the Language menu press the Up and Down buttons to
choose the language, which you want to display on the player
and press the Enter button.
All menu items will thereafter appear in the chosen language.

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About
Information is available regarding the firmware version, built-in
memory size and free memory size.
1. Select About in Main Menu list.
2. The firmware version, Internal Media and free memory space info
appears.
3. Press Menu button to exit to Main Menu list screen.
14. To Format the MP3 Player
1. Connect the MP3 Player to the computer.
2. Format the MP3 Player (removable disk) using the Windows format tool.
Note: Please select FAT/FAT16 type for the format menu. Otherwise, the MP3
Player cannot work and needs to be formatted again.
15. Hold Function
Use the Hold (LOCK) function to deactivate the MP3 Player controls
(to avoid accidental activation).
1. To activate the Hold function, slide the Hold switch to the lock
symbol.
2. Slide the Hold switch back to turn off the Hold function.
Note: The MP3 Player will turn off automatically if the key is held
when turning on the power.
16. Removing the MP3 Player from your computer
1. Click on the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the taskbar (next to the clock).
2. Click on safely remove USB Mass Storage Device.
3. Wait until a Safe to Remove Hardware message is displayed.
4. Remove the MP3 Player.
17. DRM (Digital Right Management)