Creative MuVo Slim - Manual

iv 2 Getting Started Installing Drivers and Software........................................................................................................ 2-1Charging Battery ..............................................................................................................................

v Recording Voice ...................................................................................................................... 4-15Recording FM Radio............................................................................................................... 4-16 Playing Recordings ........

Introduction xiv 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 highlights proper usage of your product. ...

A Tour of Your Player 1-1 A Tour of Your Player Your Player at a Glance Play/Pause button LCD screen Headphones connector connects to your headphones USB port Scroller Volume Decrease button Volume Increase button Front View Right View Battery panel Strap lug Left View Top View

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

A Tour of Your Player 1-3 Using the Scroller Scroll Select The Scroller is one of the most important features of your Creative MuVo Slim. In this document, we will use a new term, “Scroll Select”, to indicate that you should use the Scroller to scroll through options and then select the option by pr...

Getting Started 2-2 Charging Battery To charge your battery, you can connect your player directly to the computer using the supplied USB cable, or to a USB charger (available separately). 1. Insert the supplied battery into your player. When opening or closing the battery compartment, handle with ca...

Getting Started 2-4 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 example, volume level). For more information, see "Usage...

Using Your Software 3-3 Transferring Tracks or Files With Creative MediaSource or Windows Explorer, you can transfer files and audio tracks to and from your player. Using Creative MediaSource 1. Connect your player to your computer’s USB port using the supplied USB cable (see Figure 2-2). 2. Click S...

Using Your Software 3-4 8. Click the Destination Transfer button to transfer the selected tracks.The Now Transferring dialog box appears, showing the current transfer status. Using Windows Explorer 1. Connect your player to your computer’s USB port using the supplied USB cable (see Figure 2-2 on pag...

Using Your Software 3-5 Creative MediaSource Only basic instructions on how to use Creative MediaSource with your player are provided in this chapter — configuration instructions and more detailed usage information are found in the Creative MediaSource Help file. Editing audio track information You ...

Using Your Software 3-6 4. Type in the new Album, Artist or Genre. 5. Click the OK button. 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 k...

Using Your Software 3-7 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 (replace E: with the drive letter of your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive). 4. In...

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 recorded by the player, are played back. To switch betwe...

Using Your Player 4-2 Enabling a Mode 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-1 appears. 2. Scroll Select the Music icon , Recordings icon , Microphone icon or FM Radio icon . Playing Music Tracks To play a track 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-2 appears. 2....

Using Your Player 4-3 To pause a track Press the Play/Pause button . To go to the previous track Turn the Scroller towards the left and release it. To go to the next track Turn the Scroller towards the right and release it. To stop a track 1. Press the Play/Pause button to pause the track. 2. Turn t...

Using Your Player 4-4 Skipping Folders When you have audio files grouped in different folders, and you want to listen to those in a particular folder immediately, use this feature. After the last audio file in that folder has been played back, those from the next folder will be played next. To selec...

Using Your Player 4-5 Changing Play Modes Your player has play modes that allow you to change how your tracks are played back. You can select the play modes during music, voice or FM radio playback, or when you are in Music or Recordings modes. The following play modes are available: ❍ A-B ❍ Repeat ...

Using Your Player 4-6 Depending on which mode you want, follow the corresponding step: To repeat a portion of a track 1. Scroll Select the A-B icon (Figure 4-9). The icon appears on the screen. 2. Press the Scroller to mark the begining of the portion you wish to repeat. The icon appears on the scre...

Using Your Player 4-7 To repeat a folder Scroll Select the Repeat Folder icon (Figure 4-12).The Repeat Folder icon appears on the screen and tracks in the current folder are repeated continuously until you stop them or skip to another folder. Playing a track once When the Track Once play mode is ena...

Using Your Player 4-8 Shuffling music You can choose to randomly play tracks. 1. Press the Scroller. 2. Scroll Select the Play Mode icon (Figure 4-16).A list appears (Figure 4-17). Depending on the mode you want, follow the corresponding step: To randomly repeat all tracks continuously Scroll Select...

Using Your Player 4-9 To randomly play all tracks in a folder once Scroll Select the Shuffle Folder icon (Figure 4-20).The Shuffle Folder icon appears on the screen and all tracks in the folder are selected at random and played back. Playback stops once all the tracks in the folder are played back o...

Using Your Player 4-10 Listening to FM Radio With MuVo Slim, you can listen to your favorite radio station. Your player can automatically scan for stations available in your region, and store the stations as presets for you. In FM Radio mode, your player will display the current radio channel and it...

Using Your Player 4-11 To perform an autoscan and autosave 1. Press the Scroller.The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-28 appears. 2. Scroll Select the FM Radio icon (Figure 4-29).A radio frequency appears on the LCD screen (Figure 4-30). 3. Press the Scroller. 4. Scroll Select the Autoscan icon (Figure...

Using Your Player 4-12 3. Turn the Scroller to select the preset channel you want. To manually scan an FM radio channel 1. Press the Scroller.The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-35 appears. 2. Scroll Select the FM Radio icon (Figure 4-36).A radio frequency appears on the LCD screen (Figure 4-37). 3. I...

Using Your Player 4-13 8. Turn the Scroller to select the preset number you want. Your channel is stored and appears at the bottom-left corner of your screen. 9. Repeat steps 2 to 6 to store another channel. To delete a channel 1. Press the Scroller.The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-39 appears. 2. S...

Using Your Player 4-14 To switch to FM Preset view or Manual Scan view In FM Preset view, you can see the preset channels and scroll from one preset channel to another. If you need to fine-tune the radio channel, switch to Manual Scan view. The preset channel disappears in this view. 1. Press the Sc...

Using Your Player 4-15 Recording Audio Another great MuVo Slim 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 into IMA ADPCM (at 16 kHz, 4-bit, Stereo) file format. W...

Using Your Player 4-16 To make a voice recording 1. Press the Scroller.The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-49 appears. 2. Scroll Select the Microphone icon (Figure 4-50).The recording bar appears on the screen. 3. Press the Play/Pause button to start the recording. 4. Press the Play/Pause button again...

Using Your Player 4-17 To make an FM radio recording 1. Press the Scroller.The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-52 appears. 2. Scroll Select the FM Radio icon (Figure 4-53).A radio frequency appears on the LCD screen (Figure 4-54). 3. Turn the Scroller to select the preset channel you want. 4. Press th...

Using Your Player 4-18 Playing Recordings It is simple to play back the voice and FM Radio tracks you have recorded. In Recordings mode, your player will display the elapsed time, track number and file name of the recorded track. To play a recording 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Fi...

Using Your Player 4-19 EQ Settings Enhancing Your Music Your player allows you to enhance your listening experience with EQ settings. The EQ settings available in your player include: ❍ Rock ❍ Pop ❍ Classical ❍ Jazz ❍ Custom EQ ❍ Normal You can use EQ settings with your currently playing audio. This...

Using Your Player 4-20 Depending on which EQ setting you want, follow the corresponding step: To select Rock, Pop, Classical, Jazz or Normal Scroll Select the EQ setting you want.The selected EQ icon appears on the screen. To define your own EQ settings 1. Scroll Select the Custom EQ icon (Figure 4-...

Using Your Player 4-21 Deleting Audio Files This action permanently deletes tracks or recordings from your player. To delete an audio file 1. Press the Scroller. The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-63 appears. 2. Scroll Select the Music icon or Recordings icon . 3. In Music or Recordings mode, go to t...

Using Your Player 4-22 1. Press the Scroller.The Main Menu similar to Figure 4-66 appears. 2. Scroll Select the Settings icon (Figure 4-67).A list appears (Figure 4-68). Depending on which configuration option you want, follow the corresponding step: To set the contrast level for your player’s scree...

Using Your Player 4-23 To change the default language 1. Scroll Select the Language icon (Figure 4-71). 2. Scroll Select the language that you want. To change the FM region 1. Scroll Select the FM Region icon (Figure 4-72). A list appears. 2. Scroll Select the region that you are in. To specify how ...

Using Your Player 4-24 Locking and Unlocking Your Player Locking your MuVo Slim will disable all buttons on the player. This feature is useful when you do not want any buttons (for example, Pause) pressed accidentally. If you press a button while the player is locked, a menu appears for you to unloc...

Using Your Player 4-25 Formatting your Player You may at times need to clear your player's memory during normal use. Use Windows Explorer to easily clear your player's memory for the efficient transfer, storage and playback of music files. To clear your player’s memory 1. Connect your MuVo Slim to y...

Technical Specifications A-1 Technical Specifications Player Size (W x H x D) ❑ MuVo Slim 128 MB: 55.0 mm (2.2") x 85.0 mm (3.3") x 7.0 mm (0.3") ❑ MuVo Slim 256 MB: 55.0 mm (2.2") x 85.0 mm (3.3") x 7.0 mm (0.3") ❑ MuVo Slim 512 MB: 55.0 mm (2.2") x 85.0 mm (3.3") x ...

Technical Specifications A-2 Recording Formats ❑ Voice: IMA ADPCM (at 8 kHz, 4-bit, Mono) ❑ FM Radio: IMA ADPCM (at 16 kHz, 4-bit, Stereo) Signal to Noise Ratio ❑ >90 dB (Headphones) Channel Separation ❑ >60 dB (Headphones) Frequency Response ❑ 24 Hz~20000 Hz Harmonic Distortion ❑ <0.05% Op...

Technical Specifications A-3 LCD ❑ Monochrome ❑ Large 132 x 32 pixel ❑ Blue EL backlit display Battery Charging ❑ Via USB port USB Travel Charger (available separately) ❑ 5 V DC 1.5A

On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide B-1 On Screen 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 your player. ❍ battery is charging

On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide B-2 Playback Icons The following icons appear on the screen when the associated playback action is used. Icon Action/Meaning ❍ Play ❍ Pause ❍ Go to previous track ❍ Go to next track ❍ Move back ❍ Move ahead ❍ Record ❍ Stop

On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide B-4 Error Diagrams If an error occurs, you may see one of the following diagrams, indicating the general nature of the problem. Diagram Likely Causes Suggested Action ❍ physical defects ❍ numerous high-impact shocks ❍ call Technical Support ❍ unexpected power loss wh...

On Screen Diagram and Icon Guide B-5 ❍ corrupted audio file ❍ unsupported file system ❍ check that your recorded voice file is not corrupted ❍ clear your player’s memory ❍ check that the file system you have selected during formatting is FAT only ❍ player’s memory is full ❍ delete some files ❍ batte...

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 installation program through the My Computer shortcut menu...

FAQs and Troubleshooting C-2 General Where can I get official information on MP3 player products?Visit Creative’s web site at www.creative.com for updates and downloads relating to all Creative’s MP3 players and accessories. Windows XP tells me that the software for the player is not certified. What...

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 created on the player). Other types of files will be skipped. Files/tracks are corrupted when transferred to the player. Transfer m...

FAQs and Troubleshooting C-4 File transfers to the player are very slow (less than 100 kb/sec). Try clearing your player’s memory. For more information, refer to "Formatting your Player" on page 4-25. Can I use the MuVo Slim for portable data storage?Yes, you can. I have to charge the batter...