Creative Muvo Muvo TX 256MB User Manual

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User’s Guide MuVo TX FM Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Creative Technology Ltd. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any mean...

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Contents ...

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ii Contents Safety and Handling Instructions Caring For Your Player ................................................................ vi Introduction Before You Begin Package Contents ....................................................................

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iii 2 Getting Started Inserting the Battery ................................................................. 2-1 Power Source and Level Indicators .............................. 2-2 Installing Drivers and Software ..................................

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iv EQ Settings ............................................................................ 4-21 Enhancing Your Music ................................................ 4-21 Skipping Folders ............................................................

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v B Onscreen Diagram and Icon Guide Information Diagrams ............................................................... B-1 Playback Icons ......................................................................... B-2 Play Mode Icons ................

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vi Safety and Handling Instructions Caring For Your Player While your player is quite robust, observing these handling procedures will prolong its life. Do not store or use in areas exceeding 45ºC or 113ºF. Do not subject to excessive force...

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vii Introduction Congratulations on making an excellent decision in purchasing the Creative MuVo ® TX FM! Your new multi-format portable player allows you to store songs in the player’s Music Library and also comes equipped with an USB 2.0�...

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viii Before You Begin Package Contents ❍ MuVo TX FM (consists of one USB Flash Drive and one battery module) ❍ Armband or neckstrap ❍ Installation CD incorporating PDF User’s Guide ❍ Quick Start Booklet ❍ Stereo earphones ❍ One AAA s...

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ix Creative MediaSource Creative MediaSource is your ultimate all-in-one digital entertainment software, designed for playing, creating, organizing and transferring digital music. It includes several applications like the MediaSource Player and ...

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x Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe Acrobat Reader is a software application that enables you to view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on all major computer platforms. Minimum System Requirements ❍ Microsoft ® Windows ® XP,...

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xi Document Conventions We use icons to highlight useful or urgent information for you: Tip. This tells you about shortcuts or hints relating to a feature. Note. This highlights additional or important information about a feature. Caution! This ...

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xii Web Information Visit www.creative.com regularly for information on: ❍ Firmware updates ❍ MuVo accessories ❍ Tips and tricks ❍ FAQs ❍ Troubleshooting ❍ Documentation updates ❍ Software updates or purchases ❍ Technologies used i...

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A Tour of Your Player ...

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A Tour of Your Player 1-1 A Tour of Your Player Your Player at a Glance Play/Pause button LCD screen Earphone connector Microphone Scroller Volume Decrease button Volume Increase button Front View Side View ...

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A Tour of Your Player 1-2 Button What It Does Usage Tips PLAY/PAUSE ❍ turns the player on and off ❍ activates the LCD backlight ❍ starts, pauses or continues playback ❍ press and hold until the player turns on or off ❍ when your player is ...

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A Tour of Your Player 1-3 Using the Scroller Scroll Select The Scroller is one of the most important features of your MuVo TX FM. In this document, we will use a new term, “Scroll Select”, to indicate that you should use the Scroller to scroll...

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Getting Started ...

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Getting Started 2-1 Getting Started Inserting the Battery cba ...

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Getting Started 2-2 Power Source and Level Indicators After inserting the battery, your player displays one of the following icons, depending on the battery’s status. The amount of playback time available depends on various factors (for exam...

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Getting Started 2-3 Installing Drivers and Software Your MuVo TX FM comes with drivers for Windows 98 SE, together with software that helps you create audio tracks, manage your music library and use your player. Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Wind...

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Getting Started 2-4 Connecting the USB Flash Drive to your Computer You are now ready to connect your player to your computer. Your MuVo TX FM features a USB 2.0 port for data transfers to and from your computer. Be sure that you have installed ...

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Transferring Tracks or Files ...

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Transferring Tracks or Files 3-1 Transferring Tracks or Files Creative MediaSource is included on your installation CD (see "Installing Drivers and Software" on page 2-3). Creative MediaSource is the best way to organize and transfer audio...

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Transferring Tracks or Files 3-2 Downloading from the internet To get MP3 files from the Internet, use a search engine to locate sites with MP3 content. You can use your MuVo TX FM player to download audio files from all the major Internet music ...

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Transferring Tracks or Files 3-3 Creative MediaSource Only basic instructions on how to use Creative MediaSource with your player are provided in this chapter— extensive instructions are found in the MediaSource Help file. Transferring Tracks o...

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Transferring Tracks or Files 3-4 Editing audio track information You may need to edit track information when the information is incomplete or wrong. To edit information about a track 1. If you are not already in Creative MediaSource Organizer, clic...

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Transferring Tracks or Files 3-5 Ripping Audio CD Tracks The first phase in making an MP3 file is extracting audio data from an audio CD. To extract audio data, you will need a CD-ROM drive that can extract digital audio data, and a program known ...

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Transferring Tracks or Files 3-6 To rip a CD 1. Insert an audio CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2. If you are not already in Creative MediaSource Organizer, click the Player/Organizer View button. 3. In the Sources window, select [e:] Audio CD (where &q...

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Using Your Player ...

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Using Your Player 4-1 Using Your Player Your player can function in Music, Recordings, Microphone or FM Radio mode. In Music mode, only MP3 or WMA files are played back and in Recordings mode, only microphone and FM radio recordings that are recor...

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Using Your Player 4-2 Turning On/Off your Player Remember to unplug the USB Flash Drive from your computer and insert it into the battery module before turning on the player. To turn on your player Press and hold the Play/Pause button until your ...

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Using Your Player 4-3 Disconnecting your Player To disconnect your player in Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows Me Click the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the Taskbar, click Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device, and disconnect your player when...

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Using Your Player 4-4 Music Playback To add audio tracks to your player, see "Transferring Tracks or Files" on page 3-3. If you are in Recordings mode and the Recordings Mode icon appears onscreen, do the following to return to Music m...

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Using Your Player 4-5 Playing music tracks Follow these steps to play music tracks. 1. Press the Play/Pause button for a few seconds. The MuVo TX FM logo appears onscreen, and music tracks stored in your player are automatically played back. To p...

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Using Your Player 4-6 Play Modes Your player has Play Modes that allow you to change how your tracks are played back. The following Play Modes are available: ❍ A-B ❍ Repeat Track ❍ Repeat All ❍ Repeat Folder ❍ Track Once ❍ Shuffle Repe...

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Using Your Player 4-7 Repeating music You can choose to repeat a track, folder, all tracks or a portion of a track. 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu (Figure 4-5) appears. 2. Scroll Select the Play Mode icon. A list appears (Figure 4-6). 3. Depe...

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Using Your Player 4-8 To repeat a portion of a track 1. Scroll Select the A-B icon . The icon appears, prompting you to select a start point for the portion of music to repeat. 2. Press the Scroller to mark the begining of the portion you wish to...

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Using Your Player 4-9 Shuffling music The Shuffle Play Mode can be used to shuffle all tracks (or tracks in a folder) once, or to repeatedly shuffle all tracks. 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu (Figure 4-7) appears. 2. Scroll Select the Play M...

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Using Your Player 4-10 To Shuffle Repeat all tracks continuously Scroll Select the Shuffle Repeat icon. The Shuffle Repeat icon appears onscreen. Tracks are in random sequence and played back continuously until you stop playback. Playing a track ...

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Using Your Player 4-11 Normal mode Once the "Normal" mode is enabled, each track is played back, from the first track to the last. 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu (Figure 4-11) appears. 2. Scroll Select the Play Mode icon. A list appe...

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Using Your Player 4-12 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu (Figure 4-14) appears. 2. Scroll Select the Settings icon (Figure 4-15). A list appears. 3. Scroll Select the FM Region icon (Figure 4- 16). A list appears. 4. Scroll Select the region that ...

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Using Your Player 4-13 4. Scroll Select the Autoscan icon (Figure 4-20). The player scans and stores channels it detects. At the end of the autoscan, it plays the first channel. To select a channel 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Fi...

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Using Your Player 4-14 3. If you see a preset channel, press the Play/ Pause button to switch to Manual Scan view. The preset channel disappears. 4. To scan for a channel, move the Scroller towards the right or left, and hold for one second. 5. ...

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Using Your Player 4-15 5. Scroll Select the Delete Preset icon (Figure 4-31). 6. Scroll Select the Delete Preset x icon (Figure 4-32). The preset channel is deleted and your MuVo TX FM plays the next available preset channel. To switch to FM Pres...

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Using Your Player 4-16 4. Scroll Select the Scroller mode icon (Figure 4-36) to switch to the different views. Alternatively, you can press the Play/Pause button to switch to the different views while playing a station. Figure 4-36 ...

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Using Your Player 4-17 Voice Recording Another great MuVo TX FM feature is its ability to record voice and FM radio. Recorded voice is encoded directly into IMA ADPCM (at 8 kHz, 4-bit, Mono) file format and recorded FM radio is encoded directly in...

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Using Your Player 4-18 Recording FM Radio When recording FM radio, you will see one bar showing you the time available for recording, and another showing you the elapsed recording time. Also the FM Radio icon appears in the bottom-left corner of t...

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Using Your Player 4-19 5. Scroll Select the FM Recording icon (Figure 4-42). A recording bar appears on the LCD screen and recording starts. 6. Press the Play/Pause button to end the recording. A name is automatically assigned to your FM radio rec...

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Using Your Player 4-20 To play a recording 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-44 appears. 2. Scroll Select the Recordings icon (Figure 4- 45). 3. Scroll Select a recording you want to listen to. The track is played back autom...

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Using Your Player 4-21 EQ Settings Enhancing Your Music Your player allows you to enhance your listening experience with EQ settings. EQ settings available in your player include: ❍ Normal ❍ Rock ❍ Pop ❍ Classical ❍ Jazz ❍ Custom EQ You...

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Using Your Player 4-22 Depending on which EQ setting you want, follow the corresponding step: To select Normal, Rock, Pop, Classical or Jazz Scroll Select the EQ setting you want. The selected EQ setting icon appears onscreen. To define your own EQ s...

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Using Your Player 4-23 Skipping Folders This action skips the playback to a selected folder. To skip to the next folder 1. Press the Scroller. 2. Scroll Select the Skip Folder icon (Figure 4-49). 3. Scroll to the folder that you want to skip to. 4....

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Using Your Player 4-24 User Preferences Your player offers many configuration options. You can: ❍ Change the LCD orientation ❍ Specify contrast settings ❍ Change the LCD screen’s backlight duration ❍ Specify idle time duration before the p...

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Using Your Player 4-25 Rotating the LCD screen MuVo TX FM has a handy feature: you can rotate the LCD screen by 180 degress. This may be useful for left-handed users. Follow the step below to rotate the LCD on your player. To rotate the LCD screen...

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Using Your Player 4-26 To set the contrast level for your player’s screen 1. Scroll Select the Contrast icon. The Contrast screen (Figure 4-55) appears. 2. Use the Scroller to increase or decrease the LCD contrast. The lower the number, the lower...

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Using Your Player 4-27 Locking and unlocking your Player Locking your MuVo TX FM will disable all buttons except the scroller on the player. This feature is useful when you do not want any buttons (for example, Pause) pressed accidentally. If you...

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Using Your Player 4-28 Formatting Your Player If you need to format your player, first backup the files on your player to your computer. When you format your player, all songs and files will be deleted. By default, your player is already formatted...

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Technical Specifications ...

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Technical Specifications A-1 Technical Specifications Size ❑ 36.7 mm (L) x 74.0 mm (H) x 16.0 mm (W) Weight ❑ 32 g (without the battery) or 43 g (with a AAA battery) Capacity ❑ 128 or 256 MB built-in memory Battery type ❑ One Alkaline AAA si...

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Technical Specifications A-2 Channel Separation ❑ Up to 63 dB Frequency Response ❑ 20 Hz~20000 Hz Harmonic Distortion ❑ <0.05% Operating System/ Firmware ❑ Upgradeable via Internet Headphone Out ❑ 1/8" stereo minijack, 5~7 mW LCD...

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Onscreen Diagram and Icon Guide ...

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Onscreen Diagram and Icon Guide B-1 Onscreen Diagram and Icon Guide Information Diagrams Diagram Action/Meaning ❍ your player is connected to your computer. To use your player, disconnect it from your computer. ❍ files are being transferred to...

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Onscreen Diagram and Icon Guide B-2 Playback Icons The following icons appear onscreen when the associated playback action is used. Icon Action/Meaning ❍ Play ❍ Pause ❍ Stop ❍ Forward ❍ Reverse ❍ Skip forward ❍ Skip back ...

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Onscreen Diagram and Icon Guide B-3 Play Mode Icons Icon Action/Meaning ❍ Repeat Track ❍ Repeat Folder ❍ Repeat All ❍ Shuffle Once ❍ Shuffle Repeat ❍ Shuffle Folder ❍ Track Once ❍ Repeats a selected section of a track ...

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Onscreen Diagram and Icon Guide B-4 Error Diagrams If an error occurs, you may see the following diagram, indicating the general nature of the problem. Diagram Likely Causes Suggested Action ❍ physical defects ❍ numerous high- impact shocks ❍ ...

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Onscreen Diagram and Icon Guide B-5 ❍ unsupported file format ❍ check that the file you are trying to play back is a .WMA, .MP3 or recorded voice file ❍ the player’s low remaining storage space is depleted; recording cannot proceed �...

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Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting ...

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FAQs and Troubleshooting C-1 FAQs and Troubleshooting AutoPlay What do I do when the installation does not start automatically after the Installation CD is inserted? The AutoPlay feature in your Windows system may not be enabled. To start the insta...

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FAQs and Troubleshooting C-2 General Where can I get official information on all MuVo products? Visit www.creative.com for updates and downloads relating to all MuVo products, Creative’s MP3 players and accessories. Windows XP tells me that the s...

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FAQs and Troubleshooting C-3 Usage After playing a sequence of tracks, the player skips a track. The player will only play valid formats (.MP3, .WMA or .WAV recordings). Other types of files will be skipped. Files/tracks are corrupted when transferr...

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FAQs and Troubleshooting C-4 page 4-28. ❍ use fresh batteries if batteries used are depleted. Can I use the MuVo TX FM for portable data storage? Yes, you can. I have to change the battery quite often. Is there anything I can do to make it last lo...