User guide
Table Of Contents
- RioVolt SP250™ User Guide
- About the User Guide
- Navigating and printing the RioVolt SP250 User Guide
- Copyright and trademark
- Introduction
- Package Contents
- System Requirements (For included software only)
- System Recommendations
- Safety Information
- Getting Started
- Using Your RioVolt SP250
- The Setup Menu
- Using the FM Tuner
- The Remote Control
- How to Upgrade Your RioVolt SP250:
- Troubleshooting
- Problem: The RioVolt SP250 gives a No Disk error message when spinning up.
- Problem: Why is it that when I play a CD with both CD Audio and MP3/ WMA files I can only play th...
- Problem: Why am I not able to get the display to remain lit when using the player in the dark?
- Problem: I am unable to power up the RioVolt. This happens when using new batteries or the AC pow...
- Problem: When the player is left unattended and in a 'stop' or 'pause' state, often when I return...
- Problem: The skip protection for CD Audio does not seem to last for 40 - 160 seconds, is this a p...
- Problem: During playback of MP3/WMA music CDs, the CD appears to stop, is something wrong?
- Problem: The RioVolt is working with batteries, but when I plug in the AC adapter it does not wor...
- Problem: I am hearing some 'popping' or 'skipping' in some MP3/WMA tracks, it is always in the sa...
- Problem: I cannot get the Program function to work on the player. It always tries to set an A-B l...
- Problem: My Macintosh software application is telling me it has expired, what do I do?
- Frequently Asked Questions
- What type of CDs can I play with the RioVolt?
- Can I mix CD Audio with MP3 and/or WMA files?
- Can I put both MP3 and WMA files on the same CD?
- What is the maximum number of songs I can put on a single CD?
- After creating a CD using DirectCD the RioVolt will not read it properly.
- Will the RioVolt play Variable Bitrate (VBR) files?
- Where is the battery indicator on my RioVolt?
- How much playtime can I get from 2 AA batteries?
- What kind of skip protection is there on the Riovolt?
- The CD seems to stop during playback, is this normal?
- How do I encode, "rip", the songs from my CDs so I can listen to them on my RioVolt?
- Where can I find digital music files on the Internet?
- How do I burn my own CDs?
- What are ID3 tags and how can I use this feature?
- What is CDText support?
- Do I have to use the remote control when I use the headphones?
- Can I use any set of headphones with the remote control?
- RioVolt SP250 Specifications
- One Year Limited Warranty
- Regulatory Information
- Glossary
- Contacting Customer Care
Glossary
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MP3
MPEG-1, Layer 3 Audio (MP3) is a compressed digital audio file format. This format allows for near CD quality
sound, but at a fraction of the size of normal audio files. MP3 files encoded from CD-ROM may be compressed
to under 10 percent of their former size. This digital sound encoding and compression process was developed
by the Fraunhofer Institut fur Integrierte Schaltungen and Thomson Multimedia. MP3 uses perceptual audio
coding and psychoacoustic compression to remove all superfluous information–more specifically, the redundant
and irrelevant parts of a sound signal that the human ear doesn't hear. It also adds a Modified Discrete Cosine
Transform (MDCT) that implements a filter bank, increasing the frequency resolution 18 times higher than that
of layer 2. MP3 shrinks the original sound data from a CD-ROM with a bitrate of 1411.2 kilobits per one second
of stereo music by a factor of 12 down to 112-128kbps, without sacrificing sound quality. The MP3 encoding
process is well suited for the transfer of high quality audio files with small file size over telephone or ISDN lines,
and over the Internet.
WMA
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is the compressed audio format created by Microsoft as an alternative to MP3.
WMA offers comparable quality at greater file compression than MP3, enabling you to store more music on
your PC or portable player.