Model: MP-400 MP3 / WMA Player Operating Instructions • MP3 and WMA compatible slot for up to 512M SD/MMC • Card memory card for extra storage • Deluxe stereo earphones with neck strap • Preset 6 position selectable equalizer • 512M built-in total storage space • Lock button prevents accidental usage • Includes USB cable and software disc • Operates with one AAA alkaline battery also be used to record and transfer • Can files as a portable media device • Track, Song time, Battery, Volume and Play mode in
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1Start to use 1-1 Preface………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 1-2 Features……………………………………………………………………………………………….3 1-3 Device Overview…………………………………………………………………………………….4 1-4 LCD Display Overview…………………………………………………………………………………6 1-5 Battery Installation…………………………………………………………………………………7 2Software Installation (for Windows 98SE) 2-1 Basic System Requirements…………………………………………………………………………7 2-2 Installing Software Driver and Utilities………………………………………………………………….
1 - Start to Use 1-1. Preface Before you use this DURABRAND digital audio player MODEL MP-400, read all the following materials carefully. You can play your favorite MP3 and WMA music files with this portable player, and we hope you will enjoy this product.
1-2. Features • • Built-in 512MB flash memory (total space, including operating system files). • • • • • • • • • Plays MP3, WMA music format files and can store any digital file. • • • Separate power ON/OFF button for easy operation. Expansion SD/MMC card slot. Accepts up to 512MB SD (Secure Digital) / MMC (MultiMedia Card) card (not included) for extra storage. Upgraded stereo earphones with neck strap. One AAA alkaline battery included. Standard Mini USB port Plug & Play (cable included).
1-3. Device Overview Fig. 1-3-1 Device Overview 1 EARPHONES jack - Connect earphones or a home theater etc. with a 3.5mm stereo plug. 2 LCD screen - Displays current status of the player, details on page 6. 3 Lock button 4 POWER button - Locks controls to prevent accidental operation. - Turns the player on or off. 4 IB-MP400-WC-E-060505.
- In STOP mode, press and 5 Memory selection / Play mode selection button hold to select between internal flash memory and external SD/MMC card (if card is inserted inside the set). Press a short time to select the 4-mode playback: normal, repeat 1, repeat all, random (details on page 15). 6 Mini-USB port - Lift the cover and connect the player to your computer using the supplied USB cable. 7 EQ button - Select the 6-Band Equalizer: normal, pop, rock, jazz, classic, bass.
1-4. LCD Display Overview Fig. 1-4-1 LCD Display Overview Indicators: 1. Playing Time - Shows song’s playing time (12 minutes and 23 seconds) also displays Power ON/OFF, PC connection, 2. Number 3. Status 4. Lock for uploading and for downloading. - Shows current track number 19 or total number of tracks. - Music playing status (rotates while playing music). - Buttons are locked when 5. Volume flashes in the display.. - Volume control with 16 levels (more bars = louder volume). 6.
1-5. Battery Installation S D/MMC 1 Slide the battery cover off as shown. 2 Insert one AAA battery, beware of correct polarities (+ and -). 3 Put the cover back. Battery Safety ä ä ä ä Slide to open Do not dispose of any battery in fire! Do not put the battery in a damp place! Please take out the battery if you don’t use the player for a long time! Battery should be installed by adults for safety. Fig. 1-5-1 Inserting the Battery 2- Software Installation 2-1.
Fig. 2-2-1 Installing Software Driver and Utilities NOTE: No driver is required for Windows Me, XP, 2000 or Mac OS X 10.2.6 or above. 4 Install Windows Media Player 9.0. If you have not installed Windows Media Player 9.0 (or later), you will be prompted to install it or update your current version. (Details of Windows Media Player 9.0 on Pages 19-22). 5 Browse the Driver Setup disc to check out: Windows 98SE Driver Windows Media Player 9.
2-3. Connecting the Audio Player and Computer Both PC or Mac users must use the USB cable to connect the player and computer before you can download or upload music files to the computer. 1 Connect the smaller plug of the USB cable to the mini-USB port on the player as shown. Plug only fits one way, if the plug does not match the mini-USB port, don’t force it, just reverse it and try again. 2 Connect the larger plug of the USB cable to any available USB port on your computer.
2-4. Using the Audio Player as a Removable Drive (USB Disk) The Audio Player can also be used as a removable drive (or known as a USB flash drive). You can drag and drop files into the player. (Up to the limit of about 512 MB for internal memory or external card.) 1 Connect the USB cable to the computer and MP-400. 2 Click “My Computer” icon on your Windows desktop, and it will show up as a “Removable Disk” on the Desktop of the Windows. Storage of SD/MMC memory card Storage of MP-400 built-in memory Fig.
3 Click the “Removable Disk” icon to browse for content. Fig. 2-4-2 Using the Player as a Removable Drive 4. Select the folders or songs or files you want to copy to your MP-400. 5. After you have highlighted the files you want to copy, click on “edit” (next to file on top), click on “copy to folder” (below edit). 6. Find the removable disc (such as E:) and click on it to highlight it for copying. 7. The file that is copying to your MP-400 will show. 8.
Click on this icon to disconnect the USB cable safely. NOTE: Usually a small icon will appear, clicking this icon will show the “safely remove hardware” screen. Fig. 2-5-1 Safely Disconnecting the Player 3 - Basic Operation of the Audio Player 3-1. Hanging the Earphones and Neck Strap Connection 1. Slide the thin part of the neck strap into the hole 2. After it is through, loop the lock through it R 5. Plug the earphones plug into the jack marked 6. Insert the earphones in your ears 4.
3-2. Player Power On/Off POWER ON/OFF To turn on the player, press and hold the POWER set will start to play. button, the To turn the player off, press and hold the POWER again. Shows when you press and hold the Power ON/ OFF button To turn on the player. button It will show if the battery is very low or if the battery is almost empty, please insert a fresh battery. (If the battery is completely dead, nothing will show in the display).
STOP NOTE: The Player has an Auto-Power Off function to economize your battery (it will aut omat ically power off after 60 seconds in STOP status and 120 seconds in PAUSE status if you don’t press the play button). It will display the “NO SO” (NO SONG) if the Flash memory or SD/ MMC card has no music files, simply transfer files into your player. Fig. 3-3-1 Music Playback NOTE: Your player comes with a few demo songs, you may keep these or delete them.
3-6. Adjusting Equalizer and Play Modes The 6-band equalizer can let you personalize your favorite sound effect of the player during play. When you play the music: to select from the 6-band EQ: normal (no dislay), 1. Press the Equalizer button pop, rock, jazz, classic, bass EQ SET POP EQ SET ROCK EQ SET Fig. 3-6-1 Pressing the EQ-button to select from the 6-band EQ 2.
3-7 Using an External SD/MMC Memory Card (Optional - not included) 1. Turn off the player. Open the back cover, see (1) in diagram. 2. Confirm the card is SD/MMC type (maximum size 512 MB) and insert the card with correct direction, see (2) in diagram. Memory selection 3. Turn on the player. In the stop mode, press and hold the button (See Fig. 1-3-1 Device Overview - (5) on page 4) to select the SD/MMC card. 4. To remove the SD/MMC card, first turn off the player, then press and remove the SD/ MMC card.
4. Select the songs or files you want to delete, this can be 1 file (highlighted in a darker color), or many files (many are highlighted). To highlight many files, hold down the shift button while pressing the down arrow on your computer. To select all the files in a directory, press and hold down the Ctrl button then press the A button, this will highlight (darken all the files). 5.
3-10 Storage Information of the Player To check the storage of the player, first connect the player to the computer. Two “Removable Disk” icons will show up in Windows Desktop. MP-400 is the internal flash memory disk, Removable Disk is the SD/MMC disk. Highlight the disc you want to check. Right click on the mouse (press the mouse right button) and then click on “Properties”, then you can see the storage information of this player. Fig. 3-10-1 Storage Information of the Player 18 IB-MP400-WC-E-060505.
4 - Using Microsoft’s Windows Media Player 4-1. Basic Information You can install Windows Media Player 9.0 from the supplied Driver Setup disc (or it may already be on you computer). Details of the Taskbar of Windows Media Player as below: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Fig. 4-1-1 Using the Windows Media Player Now Playing - Check / listen to currently playing media tracks. Media Guide - Search of media files (music, movies, etc.) online. Copy from CD - Copy and convert CD Audio tracks to WMA format.
4-2. Ripping Tracks from Music CDs Windows Media Player can also help you to build up a media library, by converting your Audio CDs to WMA format so that you can transfer them to your MP-400 player. WMA format condenses the files to a smaller space so that more songs can fit into your MP3 player. 1. Insert an audio CD into your computer. 2. Setup WMA music encoding options by: Tools > Options > Copy Music. Adjusting the audio quality will allow more or less songs to fit into your player.
3. Click “Copy from CD”. A list of contents of the CD will come out. 4. Click the “Check Box” next to the track you want to select (for example #2, #3, #4, and #5) for ripping into WMA format. 5. Click the “Copy Music”, copy options may pop up, if it does, select in option 1 “don’t add copy protection”, click on “next” and copy option 2 “keep the formats the same” then click “finish” to begin encoding (changing to WMA) the selected tracks. 2 1 Fig.
4-3. Copying CD Tracks from Computer to the Player To copy music (such as *.WMA) from your computer to the player : 1. Connect the player and your computer by using the supplied USB cable. 2. Click “Copy to CD or Device”. 3. Under “Items on Device,” select “Removable Disk” to view the contents of the player. 4. Under “Items to Copy”, browse the folder content that you want to add. 5. Click the “Check box(es)” next to the selected track name(s). 6.
5 - Helpful Information 5-1. Troubleshooting Symptoms S et do e s n o t p la y normally. MP3 Player will not turn on. No sou n d earphones. fro m Sound is distorted. Solutions Causes Battery is weak (it may test OK on tester but it is weak for MP3 operation). Replace battery with fresh alkaline battery. Battery life with a fresh battery is about 6 hours for continuous play (rechargeable battery has 1/2 of that life). The type of the files are not supported on this MP3 player.
5-2.Technical Specifications MP3 Decoding Format ........ Constant or Variable bit rate (8~320kbps) Sampling frequencies 8-48 kHz WMA Decoding Format ...... Constant bit rate (5~192kbps), Sampling frequencies 8-48 kHz Internal Flash Memory........ 512MB NOTE: Some of the 512MB memory is used by the operating system. The actual memory available is less than 512MB as in all MP3 players. External Memory Support..... SD/MMC card (not included) any of these sizes are OK (16/32/64/128/256/512MB) LCD Display .....
5-3. Important Safety Instructions 1. Read and keep these instructions. Follow all instructions. Heed all warnings. 2. To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not use or operate this apparatus in or near water or wet locations. Do not spill liquid on this apparatus. 3. Apparatus should not be exposed to dripping or splashing water and no objects filled with liquids, such as vases, should be placed on the apparatus. 4. Do not disassemble or modify this apparatus.
5-4. Product Care 1. Exposure to extreme hot or cold temperatures may cause damage to the player or cause it to malfunction. Do not expose the player to direct sunlight continuously or leave it in a vehicle with the doors and windows closed. The case may become deformed or discolored or the player may malfunction. Do not use the player near an open flame. 2. If moving from a cold environment to a warm environment, let the player’s temperature stabilize before operation. 3.
5-6. Copyright © 2005 DURABRAND All rights reserved. Marketed by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Bentonville, AR 72716. DURABRAND shall not be liable for any errors contained herein or for any damages arising out of or related to this document or the information contained herein, even if DURABRAND has been advised of the possibility of such damages. This document is intended for informational and instructional purposes only.
5-7. Demo songs Music provided courtesy of Balboa. http://www.BalboaNYC.com Lillies and Stray (Instrumental) written and performed by Loam Disher, Torello Disher, Robb Bruns and Tate Overton. 28 IB-MP400-WC-E-060505.
LIMITED WARRANTY We warrant this product to be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use for a period of 1 year after purchase and we will repair it free of charge or replace it at no charge, should it become defective under this warranty, providing you submit proof of purchase (sales slip) with the set. During the initial 1 year period after original purchase, we will service the set that is returned to LENOXX ELECTRONICS CORP, prepaid, at no charge.
