Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Digital Audio Box Astone
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-1- Content s Legal Disclaimer ……………………..….….…………….………….….…… 3 W arning …………………………………..….………..… ……………………… 4 1. Brief Product Introduction ………….……………………….
-2- 3.6 Play Recorded File .…………………………………………...……………. 33 3.7 FM Radio …………………………………………………………………….. 35 3.8 System Setting ……..……………………….
-3- Legal Disclaimer 1. Astone Holdi ngs Pty Lt d k nown herein as ‘ Astone’, does n ot guarantee the accurac y or validity of th e information o utlined in this user manual, althou gh all attem pt s ha ve been made to displa y the most accurate information.
-4- Wa r n i n g Battery must be removed from the unit if it is to be lef t unused for an extended period. Failure to do so can result in the battery leaking, and damaging the unit.
-5- 1. Brief Product Introduction Thank you for purchas ing this high qua lity Astone pro duct. The Astone Samba 1 000 Digital Audio Box is a u nique unit capable of pla ying Mp3 music, FM Radi o and recording high quality voice or radio.
-6- 1.1 Function Overv iew ¾ Support multiple a udio frequency , such as MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV , ASF and W A V . ¾ Firmware up dating Download the latest updating software from the website for function extension.
-7- ¾ Synchronized dis play of lyric (Karaok e) Support the most popular LRC l yric file on internet. ¾ Record/repe at Recording through micr ophone, then save it as W A V and ACT file format with the option to select section repe at or contrast repeat.
-8- ¾ Animation menu V ivid an imation menu comes along with the display of words, which makes it handy and easy to use. 1.2 S pecifications Size: 60(L)*23(W )*15(H)mm Display screen: 32mm(L)*10 mm(W), back-lighted EL Connection: USB2.
-9- MP3,WMA ： MP3’ s bit rate: 32Kbps-320Kbps WMA ’ s bit rate: 5Kbps-192Kbps Frequenc y response: from 20HZ to 20KH Z Signal to Noise ratio: > 85db Distortion: <0.
1.3 Packing List MP3 playe r CD S trap earphone USB connection line User manual Maintenance card 2. Appearance introduction ● Appearance and keys ① USB port ② “ ” PREV (Previous S ong) ③ .
● Player Introduction (1) Display Screen (2) Battery This machine adopts the monitoring on po wer volume . z The display of electricit y volume is full an d will decrease i n use.
-12- z The icon of bat tery turns to blank while the v olume is used up and the bat tery need to be charged acc ordingl y . 3. Operation Introduction 3.1 Simple operation 1) Connect earp hone 2) Long-press PLA Y key to st art player; enter “Music Mode” and short-press PLA Y ke y again to play music.
(long-press to enter while in halted state), the playing submenu (short-press to enter) and the S topping submenu (sh ort-press to enter) 3.2.2 Browse Oper ation A.
Record mode: Play mode : FM mode: S ystem setting: USB mode: Press the MODE key to enter the main menu in the Other Modes; Enter the USB mode by connecting the PC -14-.
Music mode and Play mode Key A c tio n Halted state Play St atus Play Sub Menu Stop Sub Menu Play Long- press Short-press Tu r n o ff Play Turn Off S top Turn Off Exit menu Turn Off Exit menu Mode Lon.
Record mode Key A ction Halted st ate Record S t atus Play Long-press Short-p ress T urn of f; S t art Recording S top Re cording; Pause Re cording Mode Long-pr ess Short-p ress Enter Main Menu; Enter.
3.4 Music Mode instructions (1) Operation in halted state z Directory selection In order to manage files and pla y music easil y , users c an store the fi les in different directories (directories shoul d be made in advance and stored in the computer).
3) Press NEXT or PREV key to s elect the option you want. 4) Press MODE key to confirm what you selected. Note: Customer can m ake indi v id ual director y for Music Mode, Record Mod e and Play Mode. These three modes can b e in different directories.
2) Short-press MODE key to stop sub-menu. 3) Short-press NEXT or PREV key to select “Delete File” or “Delete All File s” on the menu. 4) Short-press MODE key to enter Delet e interface.
6) Short-press MODE key to start deleting files. Pressing “Delet e All” will delet e all the correspondin g files under the curre nt directory in current Mode. (E.g. press “Delete All” button in the Music Mode, only the music files will be deleted, while the recor ded file will not be delet ed).
(2) Operation under PL A Y mode z Play Mode Different P lay Mode can be selected (such as Repeat and Shuffle) when playing music and recorded music file s.
z Sound effect mode: 1) Music playing ( as shown in right). 2) Short-press MO DE key to enter sub menu. 3) Short-press Next ke y to select “sound effect mode” menu.
5) Short-press Next key to select ; short-press Mode key to confirm. z Synchronous display of lyric (KA L AOKE function) The player s upports *.LRC” lyric file (the us ers can do wnload the files from (http://www .51l rc.com) or obtain this kind of file by searching “LRC lyric” on intern et) and synchronizes lyric and song.
B. Long-press MODE ke y to enter the ly ric interface, then the l yric will be displaye d: C. Short-press MODE key to return to the music mode. D. Short-press VOL KEY to read the lyric back and forth manually . z Play S peed: Y ou can select different Play S peed (slower or faster) when you pl ay music (MP3 format only) or the recorded file.
1. Music playing ( as shown in right) 2. Short-press MODE key to enter Play sub-menu. 3. Short-press NEXT key to enter “Play S peed” menu. 4. Short-press MO DE key to enter “Play S peed” selection menu. 5. Short-press NEXT key to select faster speed.
the “Repeat button ” , waiting to determine the start point “B”. 6. Note: Un der Repeat Mode, you can press VOL+ or VOL- directly to set “Play S peed”.
on the screen changes to “ ”. Press NEXT key to enter Compare function. Note: Press PREV key to go back to “ A -B Repeat” mode . ● Comp are function ( Play mode does not support this function) ： 1. After selecting Compare functi on, the icon on the screen is “ ”.
-28- Please refer to “Back-Ligh t time” for setting method. The interval time bet ween two pla ying is determined b y Repeat inter val (unit: second). How to study language by using automati c repeat function? Now more and more lang uage-training materials ar e made in MP3 for mat.
3.5 Sound Recording Make sure the battery comes wit h enough volume while recording, this pla yer supports the storage of 99 recordin g files under each director y . z R e c o r d i n g i n “ r e c o r d i n g m o d e ” : 1. Enter main menu 2. Press Next ke y to select record mode 3.
(1) The recorded sound will be stored in the current folder set in “S top Recording Sub Menu/Mai n Disk Directory”. (2) If “space full” is show n on the screen, meaning that there is no space for recording, new file. Please d elete other files to release space.
2. Press MODE key to enter recording submenu to record. 3. Press NEXT key to select “RECORDING TYPE” submenu 4. Short-press MODE key to enter the recording t ype for selection interface 5.
Note: Recording T ype av ailable High Qualit y Record ing, W A V format, Superior Timbre Long-pl ay Recording, ACT format, Ordinary Timbre Fine Sou nd Control, W A V format, Sound Control Recordi ng T.
(2) It’s suggested to record sounds in an environment with little noise for better result. (3) Do not speak when the reco rding is starting. In order to achieve the best result, leave 5-6 seconds for t he pla yer to be familiar with audio surroundi ngs, then start to speak.
3. Press MODE key to enter playing mode interface( as sho wn in below). 4. Press PLA Y ke y again to play 5. Select recording files 6. PREV key: Select PREV recording file 7.
3.7 FM Radio 1. Go to main menu 2. Short-press NEXT ke y to select FM Mode 3. Press MODE key to enter “FM mode” 4. Automatic Search Press PREV OR NEXT key for 2 seconds, the player will search r adio channel based on every 100KHz and will stop w hen a channel is found.
5. Small Adjustment Short-press PREV key to move backward 100KHz frequen cy Short-press NEXT key to move forward 100KHz frequency 6. Save found freque ncy Short-press MODE key to enter FM submen u Short-press MODE key again to save this broadcasting channel 7.
T w o types of frequenc y can be sel ected, “Regular F requenc y” (from FM87 t o 108MHZ) and “Japan Frequency”(from FM76 to 90MHZ)). (Short-press MODE ke y to enter FM submenu, then s hort-press NE XT key to se lect appropriate frequenc y). (1) Symbol “ ” w il l show on the screen if current broadcasting is stereo.
2) Short-press NEXT key to select “System Setting” 3) Press MODE key to enter “System Setting” -38-.
Relative Parameter Introduc tion ： Record T ime Set date and time when recording files are s aved Backlight time The lasting shinin g time (second) after backlight function is induced without any following oper ation.
Set “Record Time” ： 1) System setting interface 2) Short-press MODE key to enter Record T ime setting screen 3) Short-press VOL+ to set time starti ng with year (VOL- to set from opposite direct.
Set “Backlight T ime” ： 1) System setting interface 2) Short-press NEXT key to select “Backlight T ime” 3) Short-press NEXT/PREV ke y to adjust time 4) Press MODE key to exit after finishing adjustment 5) Set “Language Selectio n” Note: Refer to “Music Mode” setting for operation guides.
-42- from the halted state, which is no operat ion on the player . Figure 0 represents that this function is closed. “Sleeping Mode” means to au tomatically power off player at any status by counting the setting time (Unit: Sec) from the latest operation on player .
-43- z “Online Mode ” Refer to “Music Mode” setting for setup proce dure. Certain systems (Window2K SP4 previous version) cannot support one USB with two modules.
z “Firmware Update” The firmware of this pla yer can be updated or maintained by software tools installed in computers. 1 ) E n t e r m a i n m e n u 2) Short-press NEXT key to select “System Se.
4) Short-press NEXT key to select “Firmware Updating” 5) Short-press MODE key to enter “Firm ware Updating” menu 6) Install driving program a nd applicatio n so ftware in the PC platform, which is going to be updating.
6) Select *.bin firmware updating file. 7) Click “S t art Updating” key to update the system 8) Updating Success -46-.
9) It will show information as follo w: Wa r n i n g ： (1) Firmware updating is used to impr ove and optimize performances of this player , of which normal opera tion won’t be influenc ed if not in this way . (2) F irmware might result in the player trouble due to error operati on.
3.9 Use USB disk This player is installed with standard USB disk an d supports Windo ws98 (driver program installation required), Windo ws 2K system or above (driver program installation not required), Mac OS X10.3 or above, and Linux2.4 or above. This player supports “Suspend” mode.
through the e arphones. New folder: T he player can id entify 99 first-route folders set u p in the mobile d isk by the users. 3.10 Convert ACT to W A V The ACT format files recorded by the play er can be con verted to W A V format by the installation tool package setting up in the player .
can play W A V and MP3 format files. 4. Inst allation Program Installation program includes: driver progra m, formatting tool and recor d converting tool. z Install driver and applications The MP3 player does not ne ed to install driver under Windo ws Me/2000/XP system except Windo ws98SE.
Click "next" button to confirm installation Click "next" button to start installati on Click "close" button to finish the insta llation, the computer woul d need to be re-booted.
Find the “MP3 Player Utilities 1.43” suite under the progr am item in the start menu, including: MP3 Player Disk T ool, MP3 Player Update tool a nd Sound Conv ert.
Mode” to select “Single Normal Disk” or “Single E ncryption Disk”) and encr ypt one of them (not necessary to encr ypt disk an d these t wo disks can be use separately), therefore the information can be hidden. The information can not be accessed without password.
Input user name and pass word corresp ondentl y . Confirm your new password by entering the same password, click “S ta rt” button and start p artitioni ng disk. (3) T he information belo w appears after p artition finish. (4) After pressing “OK” button, a tip come s up for restarting computer , please confirm and restart computer .
(6) Run executable file “RdiskDecr ypt.exe”. Please input user name and password in the window coming up. If the password is correct, you can open the disk and copy file. (7) Y ou need to input us er name and pass word to open the encrypted disk each time.
-56- 6. T rouble Shooting No Power z Make sure that the batteries are correctl y inserted. z Check whether the player is turned o n. Unable to hear sound through earphone z Make sure that the connecti on of earphone is correct and the sound volume status is not at 0 point.
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