Astone SAA AV manuale d’uso

Samba A V - 1 - www.astone.com.au Content s Legal Disclaimer ……………………..….….…………….………….….…… 3 W arning …………………………………..….………..………………………… 4 1. Brief Product Introduction ………….……………………….….….….…. 5 1.1 Function Overvie w ?[...]

Samba A V - 2 - www.astone.com.au 3.6 Play Recorded File .…………………………………………...……………. 38 3.7 FM Radio …………………………………………………………………….. 40 3.8 Photo viewer ………..………………………..…………….…….......... ....... 43 3.9 System Setting …?[...]

Samba A V - 3 - www.astone.com.au 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. 2. Astone will not be held liable for an y loss, accident[...]

Samba A V - 4 - www.astone.com.au 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.[...]

Samba A V - 5 - www.astone.com.au 1. Brief Product Introduction Thank you for purchasin g this high qual ity Astone product. The Aston e Samba A V Digit al Audio Box is a unique unit c apable of play ing Mp3 m usic, Video files, FM Radio and recording high quality voice or radio. Designed with modern and contemporar y views in mind, the Sam ba A V [...]

Samba A V - 6 - www.astone.com.au ¾ A u to playback func tion, automatic playbac k when next time power on ¾ Firmware up dating Download the latest updating software from the website for function extension. ¾ FM stereo radio Automatic broadcast station searching with storage capability up to 20 bro adcasting channels with various freque ncies. ?[...]

Samba A V - 7 - www.astone.com.au 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 w ith th e option to select section repe at or contrast repeat. This fulfills the function of digital repeat. ¾ Seven EQ Norm[...]

Samba A V - 8 - www.astone.com.au ¾ Animation menu V ivid a nimation menu which makes it handy and eas y to use. 1.2 S pecifications  Size: 60(L)*23(W )*15(H)mm  Display screen: 65K OLED colour dis play  Support playable format: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV , ASF , W A V sound format  Exclusive AMV video format  JPEG photo viewer  16 [...]

Samba A V - 9 - www.astone.com.au  Record time: 9 hours for 128M B  MP3,WMA ： MP3’ s bit rate: 32Kbps-320Kbps WMA ’ s bit rate: 5Kbps-192Kbps  FM Radio Freq uency res ponse rang e: 76MH Z-90MHZ/87M Hz-108MHZ  Frequenc y response: from 20HZ to 20KH Z  Signal to Noise ratio: > 85db  Distortion: <0.05%  Channels storag[...]

Samba A V - 10 - www.astone.com.au 1.3 Packing List MP3 player Windows 98SE Driver CD S t rap earphone W arranty card 1 x AAA Battery USB connection cable User manual 2. Appearance introduction ● Player Introduction (1) Display Screen Samba A V display screen can be separated into 10 areas:[...]

A: Sampling rate and pla ying types. B: Repeat mode (Normal, loop al l, loop one, loop folder , intro and random) C: Equalizer (Natural, Rock, Po p, Classic, Soft, Jazz and DBB) D: Playing time and song tot al time E,F: Folde r name G: Name of the song H: How many songs in unit and which one is pla ying I: V olume display J: Only appear when the so[...]

Samba A V - 12 - www.astone.com.au (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. 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[...]

Samba A V - 13 - www.astone.com.au volume. 5) Long-press PLA Y key to turn on or turn off the player . 3.2 Basic operation 3.2.1 Entering menu Press the Mode key to enter the menu. T he menu consists of main menu (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)[...]

3.3 Enter various function modes Enter various function modes through main menu. Main menu: Music mode: Record mode: Photo mod e: Samba A V - 14 - www.astone.com.au[...]

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 Samba A V - 15 - www.astone.com.au[...]

Samba A V - 16 - www.astone.com.au 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 Long-press Short-press Ente r Main Menu; Enter S top Sub Menu Ente r Main Menu Enter Playi ng Sub Menu Ente r Main Men[...]

Samba A V - 17 - www.astone.com.au Note: Short-press PLA Y key: PLA Y/STOP (p ause w hile recording ), fast exit from menu or other interface (such as volume adjustment). Record mode Key A c tion Halted st ate Record St atus Play Long-press Short-p ress T urn of f; S tart Recordi ng S top Recording; Pause Re cording Mode Long-pr ess Short-p ress En[...]

Samba A V - 18 - www.astone.com.au PREV Shor t-press Long press Single- step Decreas e 100KHZ, or S top Searching ; Continually Decrease 100K HZ and Search Move Sub Menu; Continua lly Reverse V ol+ Short-press Press Single- step Adding vol. Continually Add V ol. X X V ol- Short-press Press Single- step Decreasi ng V ol. Continually Decrease V ol. X[...]

1) In S top interfac e. 2) Press Mode key to enter the S top sub-menu. Samba A V - 19 - www.astone.com.au a) Press Mode key again to ente r Directory selecting interfac e.[...]

3) Press NEXT or PREV key to s elect the option you want. 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. z Delete Files Files and the stored chann el can be delet ed in music mode, play mode an d FM mode. Samba A V - 20 - www.astone.com.au 1) In S top[...]

2) Short-press MODE key to stop sub-menu. 3) Short-press MODE key to enter Delet e interface. 4) Short-press NEXT or PREV key to select “Delete File” or “Delete All File s” on the menu. 5) Short-press NEXT key to “YES” position. 6) Short-press MODE key to start deleting files. Samba A V - 21 - www.astone.com.au[...]

Samba A V - 22 - www.astone.com.au 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). The Delete interface in FM Mode is much simpler . T here ar[...]

(2) Operation under PLA 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. The first selection on th e PLA Y su b-menu is “Play Mode”. After confirming selection, the player will run as the setting Repeat: Normal After finishing the music files in the cu rrent direc[...]

z Sound effect mode: 1) Music playing (as shown in right). 2) Short-press MODE key to enter sub menu. 3) Short-press Next key to select “Equalizer” me nu. 4) Short-press Mode key to enter “Equalizer” menu. (as sho wn in below): Symbols represent various sound effect s (EQ): Samba A V - 24 - www.astone.com.au N a t u r a l Rock Pop C l a s s[...]

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 .51lrc.com) or obtain this kind of file by searching “LRC l yric” on internet) and synchronizes lyric and song. A) How to use the l[...]

B. press MODE key 3sec to enter the ly ric interface, the n the lyric will be displaye d: C. Short-press MODE ke y to return to the music mode. D. Short-press VOL KEY to read the lyric back and forth manually . Samba A V - 26 - www.astone.com.au[...]

z Play S peed: Y ou can select different Play S peed (slower or faster) when you play music (MP3 format only) or the record ed file. The tone of music will not change. 1. Music playing (as sho wn in right) 2. Short-press MODE key to enter Play sub-me nu. 3. Short-press NEXT key to select “T empo rate” menu. 4. Short-press MODE key to enter “T[...]

● A-B Repeat ： 1. Play music or recorded files. 2. Short-press MODE key to enter Play sub-m enu 3. Short-press NEXT key and select “Repeat Mode” 4. Short-press MODE key to enter “Repeat Mo de” 5. Short-press NEXT key and confirm the start point A. Letter B is flashing on the “Repeat button ” , waiting to determine the start point ?[...]

section “Repeat Times”). ● Echo function ( This function does not exit in Play Mode) ： 1. A-B section is repeating. 2. 2) Short-press NEXT key to enter Echo mode 3. Repeat icon “ ”changes to Echo icon “ ”. T he player start s to record user ’ s voic e. The recording time is same as the A-B repeati ng time. 4. When the time is over[...]

2. After finishing playing the recorded file, the icon on the sc reen changes to “ ”. Now the player plays original audio. 3. After finishing playing the original audio, the player will st art to play echo audio again. This repeat ed situation will not stop until pressing Mode key to exist. Note: Press PREV key in this mode to return to “Echo[...]

Samba A V - 31 - www.astone.com.au 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. The key feature of these materials is pure la nguage material without music or nois e background. Therefore in regar ding to this kind of learni ng materials, the Repe at function of [...]

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 key to select record mode Samba A V - 32 - www.astone.com.au[...]

3. Press MODE key to enter recording mode 4. Short-press PLA Y key to start recording, short-press PLA Y ke y again to stop. 5. Long-press PLA Y or MODE key to save recorded file duri ng recording. (1) The recorded soun d will be stored in th e current folder set in “S top Recordi ng Sub Menu/ Main Disk Directory”. (2) If “sp ace full” is s[...]

z Select Recording T ype: 1. The interface of stop recording 2. Press MODE key to enter recording submenu to record. Samba A V - 34 - www.astone.com.au[...]

3. Press NEXT key to select “RECORDING TYPE” submenu 4. Short-press MODE key to enter the recording t ype for selection interface 5. Press NEXT key to select appropriate recording t ype 6. Press MODE key to confirm selection Samba A V - 35 - www.astone.com.au[...]

Note: Recording T ype av ailable High Qualit y Record ing, W A V format, Superior T imbre Long-pl ay Recording, ACT format, Ordinary Timbre Fine Sou nd Control, W A V format, Sound Control Recording Ti me Limited Sound Control, ACT format, Sound Control Recording Samba A V - 36 - www.astone.com.au[...]

(5) Press PLA Y key to start recording z Sound Control Recording: (1) Sound control recording me ans the on-of f status of recording is controlled b y sound. Recording will stop when no sound received whereas it will continue. This function helps to save storage space. (2) It’s suggested to record sounds in an environment with little noise for be[...]

3.6 Play recorded file 1. Enter main menu 2. Short-press NEXT key to select “PLA YING MODE” Samba A V - 38 - www.astone.com.au[...]

3. Press MODE key to enter playing mode interface( as sho wn in below). 4. Press PLA Y key ag ain to play 5. Select recording files 6. PREV key: Select PREV recording file 7. NEXT key : Select next recording file 8. V olume Control 9. VOL+: Increase volume, VOL-: Decrease vol ume Samba A V - 39 - www.astone.com.au[...]

3.7 FM Radio 1. Go to main menu 2. Short-press NEXT key 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. Press PREV or NEXT key again to stop searching. Samba A V - 40 - www.astone.c[...]

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. Select and play saved broadc asting channel Press PLA Y key to listen different progr ams[...]

Page 15 for deleting chann el procedure. T w o types of freque ncy ca n be selected, “Regu lar Freq uency” (from FM87 to 108MHZ) and “ Japan Frequency”(from FM76 to 90MHZ)). (Short-press MODE key to enter FM s ubmenu, then short-press NEXT key to select appropriate frequenc y). (1) Symbol “ ” will show on the screen if current broadcast[...]

3.8 Ph ot o view er Samba A V can watch photo which comes from JPEG format 3.8.1 Photo selection: Enter main menu an d selection photo vi ewer Folder will be e mpty if no phot os supported Push “Play” Key to enter vie wer mode Push “Next / Prev” key to select which photo want to see Push “Mode” key to enter sub menu It have two statuses[...]

1. Play in manual, 2. play in Auto In Auto mode, play time can be set from 1sec to 8sec per photo 3.8.2 Photo viewer status When watching photo: Short push “Next / Prev” key to see next photo Short push “Play” key to back to photo sel ection Long push “Mode” key to back to main menu Samba A V - 44 - www.astone.com.au In photo viewer mod[...]

3.9 System Setting How to enter system setup: Setup system parameters here, each option will change with firmware updating. 1) Enter main menu 2) Short-press NEX T key to select “Sy stem Setting” 3) Press MODE key to enter “System Setting” Samba A V - 45 - www.astone.com.au[...]

Relative Parameter Introduc tion ： Samba A V - 46 - www.astone.com.au Record Ti m e Set date and time when recording fil es are saved Backlight time The lasting shinin g time (second) after backlight function is induced without any following oper ation. Language Selection Set different Languages Power of f Setting Set a count down time (minutes) [...]

Samba A V - 47 - www.astone.com.au Contrast Ratio Adjustment Set the contrast ratio of LCD screen Online Mode Select “different space” function S t orage S tatus Check usable RAM size Firmware V ersion Display the version of curr ent player firmware Firmware Update For firmware update Exit Exit menu[...]

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 starting with ye ar (VOL- to set from oppos ite direction) 4) Short-press NEXT key to increase value (PREV key to decrease) 5) Press MODE key to exit after finishing adjustment Set “Backlight T ime” [...]

Samba A V - 49 - www.astone.com.au 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. z “Shut down Setup” Refer to “Backlight T ime” sett ing for setup p rocedure. The “Po wer Saving Mode” means t[...]

reset for the next time if needed. z “Repeat Setup” Refer to “Music Mode” setting for setup proced ure. “Manual Mode” means th at sentences from A to B only c an be br oken by man ual operati on instead of automatically . “Automatic Mode” means that sentenc es from A to B can be brok en automatically . (For English reciting without [...]

Samba A V - 51 - www.astone.com.au Refer to “Music Mode” setting for setup proce dure. Certain systems (Window2K SP4 previous version) cannot support one USB with two modules. Hence, when running “As ync hron ous S pace” function, you need to indicate which modul e is the current disk, which is named “Mono-regul ar Disk” or “Mono-encr[...]

in computer . 1 ) E n t e r m a i n m e n u 2) Short-press NEXT key to select “System Setup” 3) Short-press MODE key to enter “System Setting” 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, whi[...]

following part) 4) Connect the player to PC USB port. 5) Run updating software “MP3 Player”, then click “Select New V ersion” ke y 6) Select *.bin firmware updating file. Samba A V - 53 - www.astone.com.au[...]

7) Click “S tart Updating” key to update the s ystem 8) Updating Success 9) It w ill sh ow information as follow: Samba A V - 54 - www.astone.com.au[...]

Wa r n i n g ： (1) Firmware updating is used to impr ove and optimize performance of t his player , of which normal operation won’t be influenced if not i n this way . (2) F irmware might result in the player trouble due to error operati on. Please read the instruction carefully befor e update. It is recommended that customer who wants to updat[...]

3.10 Use USB disk This player is installed with standard USB disk and supports Windows98SE (driv er program installation required), Windo ws 2000 system or above (driver program installation not required), Mac OS X10. 3 or above, an d Linux2.4 or abov e. This player supports “Suspend” mode. How to connect the player to PC? T urn on t he player [...]

( 2) Downloading (3) T ransmitting data When unit pla ys music files in USB mode , it plays onl y through the c omputer , not 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. Samba A V - 57 - www.astone.com.au[...]

4. Inst allation Program Installation program includes: driver progr am, formatting tool, sou nd convert tool and AMV 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. Please run the W indows/setup.exe fil e under the disk dir ectory to begin the [...]

Click "next" button to confirm installation Click "next" button to start installati on Samba A V - 59 - www.astone.com.au[...]

Click "close" button to finish the insta llation. Find the “MP3 Player Utilities 3.57” suite under the progr am item in the start menu, including: MP3 Player Disk T ool, MP3 Player Update tool So und Convert tool an d MTV Convert tool. Samba A V - 60 - www.astone.com.au[...]

4.1 Using Converter program 1. When pressin g the “AMV Convert T ool” b utton, you will get the main display lik e the image b elow 2. Press “ ”button to open co nvertible video cli ps files. 3. Press “ “button to select the target folder for the converted files 4. Press “ “button to repla y the selected video clips 5. Click the” [...]

Samba A V - 62 - www.astone.com.au 5. Import ant Recommendations z “My Domain” Function Because beset generall y by “data disclosure”, each MP3 user doesn’t l ike to make personal data seen by others, these “privacies’ has no option but to be deleted when being len t to friends, this will result in many troubles. From this day onwards[...]

t o t h e P C . The steps are as follows: (1) Run “MP3 Pla yer Disk T ools” softw ar e, like the figure on the right: (2) Formatting T ool form appears on the screen and select “Partition an d Encryption” t o set appropriate capacity for the encrypted disk. Then select user name or pa ss word. Input user name and pass word corresp ondentl y[...]

(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 . (5) Y ou can find t wo disks after computer r ebooted. (Y ou can find only one disk if use Windows2K Pre-SP4 version). Click the encr ypted disk (listed on the secon d place[...]

correct, you can open the disk and cop y file. (7) Y ou need to in put user name and password to open the encr ypted disk each time. ● The pla yer can not identify th e files in the enc rypted disk. ● Please back up your data before disk p artition or disk i ntegration becaus e the data saved on the disk will be clear durin g these processes. ?[...]

Samba A V - 66 - www.astone.com.au 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. Cannot play movie z Make sure the movie fo rmat is correct (*.amv) Unable to hear sound through earphone z Make sure that the connection of earphone is correct and the sound volume status[...]