Super-Slim MP3 and Video Player with Touchpad Control MP-C7055 MP-C7085 MP-C7095 MP-C7405 Instruction Manual Please read this manual carefully before operation
PRECAUTIONS For Customer Use: Enter below the serial number that is located on the rear of the unit. Retain this information for future reference. Model No. Serial No. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock.
PRECAUTIONS Protect your hearing: Hearing experts advise against the constant use of personal stereos played at high volume. Constant exposure to high volumes can lead to hearing loss. If you should experience ringing in the ears or hearing loss, discontinue use and seek medical advice. Note: If the product suddenly has no response or powers off, an electrostatic discharge may be the cause.
PRECAUTIONS FCC Statement: 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 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 Class B digital devices, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 1. Read Instructions: All the safety and operating instructions should be read before the product is operated. 2. Retain Instructions: The safety and operating instructions should be retained for future reference. 3. Heed Warnings: All warnings on the product and in the operating instructions should be adhered to. 4. Follow Instructions: All operating and usage instructions should be followed. 5. Cleaning: Unplug this product from the wall outlet before cleaning.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS of power supply to your home, consult your product dealer or local power company. For products intended to operate from battery power or other sources, refer to the operating instructions. 12. Grounding or Polarization: This product may be equipped with a polarized alternating-current line plug that has one blade wider than the other. This plug will only fit into the power outlet in one direction. This is a safety feature.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 15. Outdoor Antenna Grounding: If an outside antenna is connected to the product, be sure the antenna system is grounded so as to provide some protection against voltage surges and built-up static charges.
TABLE OF CONTENTS PRECAUTIONS...................................................................................................2 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS................................................................5 TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................8 PACKAGE CONTENTS..................................................................................... 10 FEATURES................................................................
TABLE OF CONTENTS BROWSER MODE............................................................................................24 Smart Menu Options................................................................................. 24 Delete Controls................................................................................... 24 Power........................................................................................................ 25 Power Off............................................................
PACKAGE CONTENTS 10 Please make sure that the items shown below are included in the package. Should an item be missing, please contact the local retailer from which you purchased this product. 1. COBY MP3 Player 2. USB Cable 3. Instruction Manual 4. Professional Stereo Earphones 5. AC Adapter 6.
FEATURES • Integrated 2GB Flash Memory • Touchpad control with LED backlight • 1.66” TFT LCD Full-color display • Plays Music, Video, Photos and Text • Plays Digital Music from most online stores and subscription services* • ID3 and LRC Support for song and synchronized lyric information display • Integrated FM Radio • USB 2.0 high-speed transfers www.cobyusa.
POWERING YOUR PLAYER Charging the Battery 12 Your player has an integrated rechargeable battery. Typical music playtime is up to 8 hours (when playing an MP3 encoded at 128 kbps and the battery is fully charged) Upon initial use, the battery must first be charged fully (12 hours) to ensure optimal performance and battery life. To charge your player: • USB Charge: Your player can be charged through a PC USB connection.
POWERING YOUR PLAYER Turning Your Player On/Off • To turn the player on, press and hold the POWER button until you see the “Initializing” screen. • To turn the player off, press and hold the POWER button until you see “Good Bye!”. Locking/Unlocking Your Player’s Keys (Hold) When engaged, the Key Lock feature disables your player’s controls to prevent accidental key presses when it is in your pocket or bag.
LOCATION OF CONTROLS 14 2 1 10 11 Top Bottom 3 4 7 5 9 8 6 12 Front Back 1. HOLD Switch 10. USB Port 2. Power On/Off 11. Headphone Jack 3. MENU 12. Reset 4. UP / Volume up 5. Left / Previous 6. DOWN / Volume down 7. Option 8. Play / Pause 9.
DISPLAY OVERVIEW Plays Status Lock icon Battery Level Time Clock Equalizer Current track/ Total track Song name Play Mode Time Elapsed Time Remaining Music Playing Mode www.cobyusa.
BASIC OPERATIONS Using the Touchpad Controls 16 Your player comes equipped with a touch-sensitive control pad. To use the controls, touch the arrow keys on the front of the player lightly just as you would a button and the controls will light up. If you touch and hold a key, it will register as a continuous button press. Using the Controls to Navigate To navigate through the different menu options and files on your player: • Touch the Arrow keys to move the selection in the direction of the arrow.
MUSIC MODE Enter Music mode to play your MP3, WMA, or WAV audio files. To enter MUSIC mode, select and confirm from the Main Menu. Upon entering Music mode, you will see a list of all available musics that located on your player. Music Playback Controls Select a track and touch to start playback. While the track is playing: • Touch to play the next track. • Touch to play the previous track. • Touch and hold to fast forward through the track. • Touch and hold to reverse through the track.
MUSIC MODE 18 No Repeat Play tracks once in sequential order. One Play the current track repeatedly. All Play all tracks repeatedly. Random All Play all tracks in random order. DirRepOne Repeat all tracks in the current folder. DirRep Repeat all tracks in all folder. DirRanAll Play folders in random order. Equalizer The Equalizer option optimizes the way your player processes audio signals. Select the option which best suits the music you are listening to.
PHOTO MODE Enter Photo mode to display your JPEG photo files. To enter Photo mode, select and confirm PHOTO in the Main menu. Photo Controls Upon entering Photo mode, you will see a list of all photos that located on your player. • Touch or to move the selection up or down. • Touch to confirm and display a selection. • While a photo is displayed: • Touch to display the next photo in the list. • Touch to display the previous photo in the list. • Touch to return to the photo list. www.
VIDEO MODE 20 Enter Video mode to play your MTV video files. To enter Video mode, select and confirm VIDEO in the Main menu. This Coby player supports playback of MTV files. Please see the Video Conversion section for details on how to create video files that are compatible with your player. Video Controls Upon entering Video mode, you will see a list of all videos that located on your player. • Touch or to move the selection up or down. • Touch to confirm or play a selection.
FM RADIO MODE Enter FM Radio Mode to listen the FM Radio broadcasts. To enter FM Radio Mode, select and confirm FM Radio from the Main Menu. Upon entering FM Radio mode, you can tune into stations manually (Normal) or by using preset stations (Preset). • Touch to toggle between these Normal and Preset tuning modes. • Touch or to decrease or increase volume level.
FM RADIO MODE 22 Smart Menu Option (Preset Actions) The Smart Menu gives you quick access to your player’s option settings. To access the Smart Menu, touch . The Smart Menu options are: Del/Add Preset. Add Preset (Manual) Manually save the current station as a Preset station. Make sure the player is in Normal tuning mode. 1. Tune to the station you want to store and then touch Smart Menu. 2. Touch • or to select “Add Preset”, and touch “Preset confirm 3. Touch to access the to confirm.
E-BOOK MODE Enter E-BOOK mode to read TXT E-book files. To enter E-BOOK mode, select and confirm E-BOOK from the Main Menu. Upon entering E-BOOK mode, you will see a list of all text files that located on your player. • Touch or to move the selection up or down. • Touch to confirm and play a selection. • While a text file is displayed: • Touch page. to skip backward one page; touch • Touch to return to the E-BOOK file list. www.cobyusa.
BROWSER MODE 24 Enter Browser mode to manage (Delete) the files on your player. To enter Browser mode, select and confirm BROWSER from the Main Menu. Upon entering Browser mode, you will see a “tree view” which will display all of the folders on your player. • Touch or to select a folder and press • Touch to access the Smart Menu Options. to view its contents. If there are no files in a selected folder, the player will not enter the folder.
SETTING MODE Enter the Setting mode to set your player’s system options. To enter Setting mode, select and confirm SETTING in the Main menu. Upon entering Setting mode, you will have the following options: Power, Language, Display, Sys Tools, Time, and USB Mode. Touch or to select a setting and then press return to a previous menu screen. to confirm. Press to Power This setting contains two options: Power Off and Sleep.
SETTING MODE 26 Display Set the Brightness and Backlight. Brightness Set the Brightness (Contrast) level of the display. • Touch or to adjust the Brightness level. • Touch when you are finished to save. • Touch to return to the Display menu without saving. Backlight Set the duration of time until the LCD screen turns off when your player is idle. The options are: 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s and On. A setting of “On” will disable this power-saving feature.
SETTING MODE • Touch or to select a Format option and touch • Touch or to select “Yes” or “No” and touch mat your player. • Touch to confirm. to confirm and for- to return to the Sys Tools menu without formatting. Reset Return all of your player’s internal options to their factory-default settings. • Touch or to select “Yes” or “No” and then touch • Touch to return to the Sys Tools menu without saving. to confirm. Sys Info View the Firmware, date, and memory information of your player.
SETTING MODE 28 To set the USB mode of your player: • Touch or • Touch when you are finished to save. • Touch to return to the Setting menu without saving. Page 28 to select MSC mode or MTP mode.
USB CONNECTIONS Connect the Coby player to a computer with the USB 2.0 cable provided to: • Transfer files to and from your player • Perform basic file management functions. USB Driver Installation (Required for Windows 98 SE Only) It is not necessary to install the USB driver if your computer is running Microsoft Windows ME/2000/XP or newer, or Macintosh OS X. Computers running these operating systems will recognize your player automatically when connected. If your computer is running Windows 98 SE: 1.
USB CONNECTIONS Connecting to a Computer Connect the player to your computer with the supplied USB cable. Upon connection: 30 USB Port • Your computer will automatically USB Port Computer recognize the player as an MTP Device. An icon representing your player will appear under “Audio Devices” when you open “My Computer”. • It may take Windows several minutes to recognize and set up the device the first time it is connected depending on your hardware configuration.
USB CONNECTIONS Microsoft Windows 1. Double-click the “My Computer” icon on your desktop and then doubleclick the icon that represents your Coby player (e.g., MP-C7095) (MTP Multimedia Player). 2. Your player contains two folders: Data and Media. • Drag your media files to the Media folder (e.g., MP3, WMA files). • Drag all other types of files to the Data folder for storage. Data files are only visible from a computer; these files will not be available from within the player itself. Macintosh OS X 1.
USB CONNECTIONS Disconnecting from a Computer 32 Disconnect your player as instructed below to detect data loss or file/firmware corruption. Microsoft Windows 1. Double-click the green arrow in the taskbar located on the lower-right side of the computer screen (Safely Remove Hardware). . Safely Remove Hardware: Select “USB Mass Storage Device” from the list that appears and then click on “Stop”. Stop a Hardware Device: Select “USB Mass Storage Device” from the list that appears and then click on “OK”. 3.
VIDEO CONVERSION Use the video conversion software utility included on the Installation CD to create video files that are suitable for playback on your Coby MP3 player. Your player supports MTV files with the following specifications: 160 x 128 resolution at 15 frames per second (fps) For detailed instructions and information about the video conversion software, please refer to the manual included on the installation CD.
VIDEO CONVERSION 34 System Requirements OS Support: Microsoft Vista, XP, 2K, Me, 98 Memory (RAM): 50MB Free HD Space: 100MB CPU: Pentium class equivalent or better Video: Adapter capable of 24-bit color for QuickTime support Sound: DirectX 7-compatible sound card supporting 2 audio channels (stereo) sampled at 16-bit/44.1Khz or better DirectX: DirectX 9.0 QuickTime: QuickTime 7.0 WMP: Windows Media Player 9 or better Installation 1. Copy the folder “MTV Video Converter” to your computer.
VIDEO CONVERSION Video Converter at a Glance 1 5 2 3 6 4 1. Seek Bar for preview and time selection. 2. Starting and Ending time-point selection. 5. Video preview window. 6. Select the destination folder of the converted video file. 3. Select the video file to convert. 4. Select the size of the converted video (ensure that this is set to 160X128). www.cobyusa.
VIDEO CONVERSION Converting Video 36 1. Start the Video Conversion program. 2. Select the source video file to convert. The source file must be one of the following video types: AVI (*.avi), WMV (*.wmv, *.asf), MPEG-1 (*.mpg), QuickTime (*.mov, *.qt), MPEG-2 (*.vob), RealMedia (*.rm, *.rmvb), MPEG4, or 3GP (*.3gp). DirectX 9.0, Windows Media Player 9.0, and other codecs must be installed to support all media types. 3. Select the destination folder that the converted file will be saved to. 4.
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER Windows Media Player 10 (WMP10) You can use Windows Media Player 10 (WMP10) and a USB-MTP connection to manage your music media library with Microsoft Windows XP or newer. Music File Transfers To transfer files using WMP10: 1. Run Window Media Player 10 2. Connect your player to the computer. A “Device Setup” window will appear. 3. In the ‘Device Setup” window, choose “Synchronize this device with this library for this session only” and click “Finish”. 4. Select “Sync”.
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER • 38 Select a playlist from the “Sync List” drop-down menu. Click “Start Sync” to start transferring the files in the selected playlist. For more information and support regarding music transfer and synchronization with Windows Media Player (WMP), please see the help section included with WMP (click Help > Synchronizing Content to Devices).
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER Creating Playlists Playlists are an easy way to organize and store your favorite music mixes so you can listen to them whenever you want. When a playlist is transferred using Windows Media Player, every song in the playlist will be transferred as well. To create playlists using WMP10: 1. Run Window Media Player 10 2. Select “Library” and then drag the desired song(s) to the “Now Playing List” on the right side. www.cobyusa.
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 40 3. Highlight all of the songs in the “Now Playing List” and then use the mouse to right-click the list. Choose “Add to” and then “Additional Playlists...” An “Add to Playlist” window will appear. 4. Select “New” and enter the playlist name, then click “OK”. A new playlist will be created.
TROUBLESHOOTING If you have a problem with this player, please read the troubleshooting guide below and check our website at www.cobyusa.com for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and firmware updates. If these resources do not resolve the problem, please contact Technical Support. Address COBY Electronics Technical Support 56-65 Rust Street Maspeth, NY 11378 Email techsupport@cobyusa.com Web www.cobyusa.
TROUBLESHOOTING 42 The sound quality of the music is poor. • Try playing the file on your computer. If the sound quality is still poor, try downloading the file again or re-encoding the file yourself. • Ensure that the bit rate of the file is not too low. The higher the bit rate of the file, the better it will sound. The minimum recommended bitrate is 128kbps for MP3s and 96kbps for WMAs. • Ensure that the headphones are attached securely to the player. The buttons do not work.
TROUBLESHOOTING has been properly installed. • Ensure that the supplied USB cable is securely attached to the player and the PC, or try using another USB cable. • If you have connected the player through a USB hub, try connecting the player directly to your computer. • Ensure that the player’s memory capacity is not full. • Ensure that there are less than 2500 items loaded on the player.
SPECIFICATIONS 44 Display Type 1.66” Full-Color TFT Display Resolution 160 x 128 Memory MP-C7055: MP-C7085: MP-C7095: MP-C7405: Audio Format Support MP3, WMA, DRM-WMA, WAV Video Format Support MTV: 160 x 128, 15fps Photo Format Support JPEG Song Info Support ID3, Windows Media PC Interface USB 2.
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