Acer MP-S10 User’s Manual Ver 1.
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Contents 1. SAFETY DECLARATION................................................................................................................................................... 1 2. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION................................................................................................................................................. 1 2-1. MAIN FEATURES ...............................................................................................................................................
1. Safety Declaration I． II． III. IV. V. VI. Please carefully and thoroughly read this safely guide Please keep this manual secure for future reference. Please keep the unit dry. Please avoid exposing this unit to sunlight. Don’t pour any liquid into this unit: otherwise it will cause damage or electric shock. Please contact with a professional for handing this: MP-S10 Player if the following situations occur.
● GUI (Graphic User Interface) Menu - Vivid animation menu with corresponding characters for easy and visual operation. 2-2. Button Location S/N Description 1 LCD display 2 Play / Stop / ON/OFF button 3 Next track/Forward ( ) 4 MENU button 5 Volume control button (VOL) 6 Headphone jack 7 USB port 8 Previous track/ Rewind ( ) 9 Power switch 2-2-1.
2-3. Packaging/Accessories Please confirm the packaging and accessories have the contents below: 9 Acer MP-S10 Player 9 Installation CD 9 Earphone 9 Quick Star Guide 2-4. Installation of USB Driver The installation is only needed for windows98 and windows 98 se computers. The steps are as follows: Insert the accessory CD driver and it will work automatically. The interface shows as follows. z Click in the AUTORUN to install Win98 driver.
z Plug-in the MP-S10 device, the system will search the driver software automatically. Please Specify a location to save the driver software. (The original location is C:\program Files\MP-S10\Win98 Driver) z According to the following steps shown in the PC screen, then it will finish the installation of Win98 Diver.
2-5. USB Connection and Safe Removal The player supports standard USB disk function with operating system of Windows98 (driver needed), Windows 2K and above (driver free), Mac OS 10.3 and above, Linux 2.4.2 and above. The player’s power can be supplied through the USB cable. In waiting Mode, press MENU to activate main menu, then select to enter desired mode. Connecting to a PC: Power ON the player and plug in the USB cable to enter the following Mode 1.
○Browsing music files or menu options: Short press / button ○Fast forward or fast backward when playing： Long press / button Volume Control In music mode and voice mode short press VOL buttons to enter the volume control interface and then press the / button to adjust volume. Play & Stop (Pause when recording) Short press the PLAY button III. Function Selection In the main menu, you can select and enter different modes.
3-2. Music Mode I. Interface Description S/N Description 1 EQ mode 2 Replay mode 3 File format / bit rate 4 Folder name S/N of Current music/voice 5 file Quantity of music/voice files 6 in current folder 7 Volume level indication S/N Description 8 Lyric icon 9 Battery indication 10 ID3 information 11 Playback time Length of time with 12 current music Animation 13 Background logo II. Basic Operations 1. Connect the earphones to the player 2. Push POWERÆON to enter the main menu. 3.
III. EQUALIZER Mode 1. While playing music, press the MENU button to enter Play Submenu: 2. Press button to choose Equalizer option: 3. Press the MENU button to enter EQ selection menu. IV. Lyric Display This player supports “*.LRC” lyric files (user can download from http://www.51lrc.com), and lyrics may be synchronously displayed with playing music. y Using lyric files Save the lyric file with the same name as that of the corresponding music file. For example: Music file name: GiGi-Sky.
3-3.Movie mode 1. Enter the main menu and press the / button to select “MOVIE” mode. 2. Press the MENU to enter. 3. Press the PLAY button to start playing AMV files. 4. Choose music: button: previous file. button: next file. 5. Volume control: Short press the VOL button to enter volume control interface and the press the / button to adjust volume. 3-4. Voice Recording Ensure that the battery icon is not indicating “low battery”. The player is able to save 99 recording files under each directory.
4. Press Play again to pause recording 5. Press Play to continue recording. 6. Long press Play to stop recording. II. Selecting REC type 1. In the record mode stop interface, press MENU to enter record submenu: 2. Press / button to select ‘REC type” option 3. Press MENU to enter this option 4. Press / button to select desired recording type REC type: 5. Press MENU to confirm the type selected 6.
2. Press MENU button to enter Voice mode interface and press PLAY button to start playing. 3. Choose music button: to choose previous record file button: to choose next record file. 4. Volume control Short press the VOL button to enter volume control interface and the press the / button to adjust volume. 3-6. E-Book Function This function supports all TXT file. 1. Enter the main menu, press / button to choose“E-Book” 2. Press MENU button to enter TXT file.
z Play set 1. At the text file menu 2. Press MENU button to enter the submenu of text file that you would like to select: 3. Press / button to choose “play set” option: 4. Press MENU button to enter this option: 5. Press (button to choose “Manual play” or “auto play” options. Press MENU button to confirm. 6. Choose the “auto play” option and then enter the interface as follows: 7. Press / button to adjust “auto play” speed. Press MENU button to confirm.
3-7.Photo Album This function supports all JPEG format pictures 1. From the main menu, press / button to choose the “Album” option: 2. Press the MENU button to enter picture selection menu (if there are no pictures, the display shows “No files” on the OLED). 3. Press / button to choose desired picture and press Play to display: 4.Press / button to browse pictures in sequence（only suitable for ”Manual play”）. z Play Set 1. Form the picture menu, press MENU key to enter picture submenu, 2.
3. Press MENU to enter the following interface: 4. Press (button to choose “Manual play” or “auto play” options, press MENU button to confirm. 5. When choosing “Manual play” options, enter this interface as follows: 6. Press / button to adjust “auto play” speed. Press the MENU button to confirm. Remark: when viewing pictures, long press MENU to fast exit from picture interface and return to the main menu. Additionally, Pressing Play will exit from the picture interface. 3-8.
Press MENU to enter System Setting interface as follows: I. Parameter(s) Introduction System Time: Set the date and time when recorded files are saved. LCD set: Set the period of time (in seconds) when Backlight stays on without any operation. Language: Select the language under this mode. Power off: Set a fixed time after which the player turns OFF automatically. Replay mode: Set working states on Replay mode.
3. Press Play to set time in sequence of “YY-MM-DD” 4. Push / button to adjust numbers 5. Press MENU to confirm and exit. “LCD set” setting Operating steps are as follows: 1. From System Setting interface: 2. Press key to select “LCD set” option: 3. Press MENU to enter the “LCD set” submenu: 4. Press (button to choose and press MENU to confirm and enter ‘interface adjustment’, as follows (e.g. Black): ( 5. Press (/( button to adjust time（Unit：second） ，and press MENU to confirm and exit.
Black mode Set fixed period of time (unit: second) so that when no key operation is performed, the players screen will turn black automatically. If “0” is selected, function is invalid. “Language” Setting Operating steps are as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. From System setting interface, press / button to select “Language” icon: Press MENU button to enter “Language” setting interface: Press / button to select desired language.
The Firmware Version information that the player uses can be obtained here. Firmware Upgrade The Player has been specially designed so that it is Firmware Upgradeable. DRM Time: Set DRM Time. The operation is same as set system time. If the DRM time is wrong, the music files with DRM will not display. 3-10. Other Setting I. Select Folders (At Stop Submenu) Users can save files in different folders (folders should be created on PC in advance), to manage and play files according to different types.
4. Press / buttons to choose folder. 5. Press MENU to enter the next folder. Press the PLAY button to confirm the folder to be selected. Select the “\” folder and then press the MENU button to return to previous folder. Note: Independent folders can be set at corresponding modes i.e. Music Mode, Record Mode, Voice Mode, JPEG Album mode and E-book mode. Three modes are not bound to correspond with the same folder. II.
4. Press MENU button to enter Delete file folder: 3. Press MENU button to enter Delete file folder submenu 6. Press button to choose “Delete” or “Delete all” and Press MENU button to confirm and deletion begins Remark: “Delete All” means to delete all the relevant files in the current mode from the current folder. (For example, in Music Mode executing “Delete All”, all the music files in current folders will be deleted, while recorded files will not be affected).
IV. Tempo Rate (Play Submenu) When playing music (MP3 format only) or recorded files, different tempo rate can be set (faster or slower) without changing the tone and sound. 1. When playing music 2. Press MENU button to enter Play Submenu as follows: 3. Press button to choose Tempo Rate option: 4. Press MENU button to enter Tempo Rate interface as follows: 5. Press button to quicken tempo rate and press button to reduce tempo. V.
② Press MENU to enter Play Submenu. ③ Press to select “Replay” ④ Press MENU key to enter “Replay”. “A” flickers in Replay Mode icon ⑤ Press to set “A”. ⑥ Press to set “B”. After “A” is set, “B” flickers in icon The Replay icon and start point is set , and endpoint B needs to be set. is fixed and A-B segment replay begins. When replay times count up to times (set in advance), the player will quit from Replay Mode. In Replay Mode, pressing can set “A” again to select another segment.
③ After recording, the icon changes to , and the original sound is played. Press button to enter Comparison. Note: In this mode, pressing button returns to A-B Replay Mode. Comparison (This function does not exist in Voice Mode) ① Enter this mode and the Replay icon changes to and the original sound is played. ② After playing the original sound, the icon changes to , and the recorded sound of the user is played. ③ After playing the original sound, the recorded sound is played again.
3. Click the button; it will jump to this picture 4. Select the file which the audio file that this tools can support 5. Selected file and confirm, then it will appear the following picture 6.
7. Click button, it will start convert 8. Finish converting file. 9. You can play it in your player Remark: The format of converting tooling of the player is AMV, and the format that can be converted directly is MPEG, DAT and WMV.
4. For DRM music downloading To operate DRM10.0, OS is required: Windows XP + Server Pack 1, Windows Media Player 10.3646 (WMP10) or above. Note: ① At first please turn on the new player before downloading DRM10 songs. ② If you do not use the player for a long time, you should turn on the player before downloading DRM10 songs. WMP10 adopts MTP(Media Transfer Protocol) to download licensed music from website. And Synchronize the music to the MP3 player.
(Synchronizing…) After finished (as follows), pull out the MP3 directly Now the Media database and License will begin to 27 be loaded to the MP3 automatically.
Picture as follows: a).Loading: b) .Loading finished and license renewed: c) .Loading failure: (only in the failure condition) d) .Low battery: (only in the low battery condition) After synchronization DRM songs, users need to set the DRM time in SYSTEM SETTING if users’ operation system is XPⅠ or lower (Details please see 3.5.12 DRM Time) If users’ operation system is XP Ⅱ or above, then users do not need to set the DRM Time 5.
6. Specification Dimension Weight LCM Window PC connection Memory Battery Record 39*89*7mm 43.5g 26*28mm USB2.
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