Benq DA-150, Joybee 150 User Manual
Joybee 150 (DA-150)
Digital Audio Player
User Manual
Welcome
Copyright
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Handling Instructions
1. This player is a highly precise electronic product. Please do not disassemble it.
2. Do not format the memory of the player in FAT32 file format.
3. Do not attempt to alter any part of the player.
4. Do not subject the player to severe impact.
5. Keep the player away from water or direct sunlight.
6. Use damp cloth to clean the player. Do not use any chemical solution.
7. Use only chargers and accessories for use with this particular player model. The use of any other
types will invalidate any approval or warranty applying to the player, and may be dangerous.
8. Keep proper volume while listening or it may cause eternal harm to listening capacity.
9. Dispose of unused player and its accessories according to local environmental regulations.
Table of Contents
Your Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player ....................1
Introduction .......................................................................... 1
Package Contents .................................................................. 1
System Requirements ............................................................ 2
Touring the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player ...................... 3
Buttons/Ports ....................................................................................... 3
The Wired Remote Control ................................................................ 6
The LCD Display ................................................................................. 7
Getting the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player Ready 8
Connecting Earphone and Remote Control ........................ 8
Charging the Battery ............................................................. 9
Installing Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player Software ........... 10
Installing the USB Driver ...................................................... 11
Installing in Windows ME/Windows 2000/Windows XP ................. 11
Installing in Windows 98 .................................................................... 11
Using the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player .............12
Turning the Player On and Off ............................................. 12
Playing Music ........................................................................ 12
Lyrics Synchronization .......................................................... 12
Section Repeat, Time Length Repeat and Frame Repeat .... 12
Play Speed, Equalizer, Play Mode and Repeat Time ........... 13
Play Speed ............................................................................................ 13
Equalizer .............................................................................................. 13
Play Mode ............................................................................................ 13
Repeat Time ......................................................................................... 14
Recording and Related Setup ................................................ 14
Record Setup ........................................................................................ 14
Using the Record Function ................................................................. 16
FM Radio ............................................................................... 17
Entering and Exiting the FM Radio Mode ......................................... 17
Tuning preset Radio Stations .............................................................. 17
Deleting Preset Radio Stations ............................................................ 17
Setting up Tuning Level ...................................................................... 17
Setting up Frequency Step ................................................................... 18
Viewing eBook ....................................................................... 18
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Listening to FM Radio While Reading eBooks ..................................18
Memory Management ...........................................................19
Inquiring Memory Status .................................................................... 19
Deleting Files ........................................................................................ 19
Clearing Folder .................................................................................... 19
Quick Format ....................................................................................... 19
Complete Format ................................................................................ 19
System Setup ..........................................................................20
Selecting Display Language ................................................................. 20
Adjusting Display Contrast ................................................................. 20
Setting up Display Backlight ............................................................... 20
Lyrics Sync ........................................................................................... 21
Updating Firmware and Display Font ................................................ 21
Setting Up the Startup and Shutdown Screen ................................... 25
System Reset ......................................................................................... 25
Viewing System Information ..............................................................25
Using the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player as a USB Flash Drive 25
Using the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player Software 26
Using the Lyrics Editing and Conversion Tool .................................. 26
Batch Converting .txt eBook Files ......................................................29
Using the Startup/Shutdown Screen Editing Tool ............................ 29
Using QMusic ...........................................................32
The Main Screen ...................................... 32
Adding songs to the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player using QMusic 34
Notes, FAQ and Troubleshooting Tips ...................42
Notes .......................................................................................42
FAQ and Troubleshooting Tips ............................................43
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Your Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player
Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player!
The Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player not only provides multiple functions for high quality
music playback and voice recording but consumes lower power to extend your good time. It
supports MP3 and WMA music formats, multi-language display and 8 pre-set EQ modes (5
EQ modes for WMA music).
Besides, it also features language repeated reading, making it an ideal tool for language
learning. The FM radio function allows you to preset 30 radio stations for quick and easy
selection. The eBook reading function enables you to read your favorite articles while
listening to the radio anywhere. With its lyric-music sync function, you can even read the
lyric line-by-line while a song is playing . What's more, you can use the Joybee 150 Digital
Audio Player as a flash drive, thus you can not only make your music mobile, but also move
your important data with you.
In addition to the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player itself, its bundle software tools also
provide you with added convenience for converting and transferring music data, as well as
personalizing the power on and power off screen on the player, making it the most easy to
use and highly personalized digital audio player ever available.
Package Contents
The Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player sales package should include the following items. Please
contact your dealer if any of them is missing or damaged.
Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player
Earphone
Wired remote control
Leather strap
USB cable
Line-In cable
Charger
Carrying pouch
CD-ROM (eManual / QMusic / Driver..., etc.)
Quick start guide
Warranty card
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System Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
Pentium 200MHz or higher
USB port
CD-ROM drive
60MB hard disk space
32MB system memory
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Buttons/Ports
(16)
(11)
(12)
(14)
(13)
(15)
(1)
(11)
(12)
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(5)
(6)
(2)
(4)
(1) LCD Display
Displays the status of the player. (e.g. song title, play time..., etc.)
(2) ON/OFF/Play ( )/Pause( ) Button
When player power is off, press this button to turn on the player and the startup screen
will appear.
When the player is in standby mode, press this button to start playing.
In a menu, press this button to enter or confirm your selection.
When player power is on, hold down this button for 2 seconds to turn it off.
When playing or recording, press this button to pause. The icon will appear on the dis-
play. When paused, press this button to resume playing or recording. The icon will
disappear.
(3) Stop( )/Menu Button
While playing or recording, press this button to stop and put the player into standby
mode.
In a menu, press this button to return to previous menu level.
While playing, hold down this button for 2 seconds to bring up the on-line menu.
(7)
(8)
(3)
(9)
(10)
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(4) Power Switch
Slide this switch to the ON position to turn on the power of the player, and to the OFF position to turn it off. Keep the switch in the ON position in normal conditions. Should the
player fail to respond to your operation and become freezed, slide this switch to the OFF
position and then to the ON position to reset it, and then press the key to turn it back
on.
(5) Previous track/Fast rewind ( ) Button
Skip to the previous track while playing music, or to the previous file while playing
recorded files. If current song or file is already the first one, pressing this button brings
you to the last song or file.
Hold down the button while playing to fast rewind through tracks.
During time length repeat set up, hold down the button to decrease the time length.
Scroll up in menus.
(6) Next track/Fast forward ( ) Button
Skip to the next track while playing music, or to the next file while playing recorded files.
If current song or file is already the last one, pressing this button brings you to the first
song or file.
Hold down the button while playing to fast forward through tracks.
During time length repeat set up, hold down the button to increase the time length.
Scroll down in menus.
(7)/(8) Volume up (VOL +)/Volume down (VOL -) Button
Use the 2 volume control buttons to adjust playback volume: "+" to increase (up to level
17) it and "-" to decrease (down to level 0) it. The volume status is displayed on the display.
Press the VOL – button immediately followed by pressing the EQ/REP button to lock the
buttons on the player to prevent unwanted button operations (the icon will appear on
the display). Repeat the button pressing combination again to unlock the buttons
(the icon disappears).
(9) Section repeat/Time length repeat (A-B/TRP) Button
While playing, press this button to set the starting point for section repeat. The icon "An"
will appear on the display. Press this button again to set the ending point. The icon "AnB"
will appear on the display and meanwhile the player will start playing the section
repeatedly. Press this button to cancel section repeat. The icon "AnB" disappears and
resumes to normal playback mode.
When the TRP time length has been set, hold down this button for 2 seconds to start time
length repeat.
(10) Equalizer/Frame repeat (EQ/REP) Button
While playing MPR (music with lyrics) files, press this button to repeat the current frame.
In FM Radio mode, press this button to choose from the following settings: Select Chnl.,
Search Chnl., FM Level, and Frequency Step.
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While playing, hold down this button for 2 seconds to change the EQ settings. There are 8
pre-set modes available: Normal, Classic, Live, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Treble and Bass (5 modes
available for WMA music: Normal, Classic, Live, Rock and Pop).
(11) Microphone
For voice recording.
(12) Wired remote control jack
For connecting the wired remote control.
(13) Earphone jack
For connecting the earphone.
(14) Hand strap hole
For installing the hand strap.
(15) USB/Charger port
As a USB port, you can connect the USB cable to this port and the USB port on your
computer to establish connection between both.
As a charger port, you can connect the battery charger to this port to charge the built-in
battery.
(16) LINE IN jack
For connecting other sound signal sources such as CD player, MP3 player, PC..., etc. for
recording.
In standby mode, the player will shut down automatically if there is no operation for 3 minutes to save battery
power (this auto power off function will be disabled when the player is connected to PC).
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The Wired Remote Control
(7)
(3)
(4)
(2)
(8)
(5)
(1)
(6)
(1) ON/OFF/Play ( )/Pause( ) Button
Executes the same actions as those by the ON/OFF/Play( )/Pause( )button on the player.
(2) Stop( )/Menu Button
Executes the same actions as those by the Stop( )/Menu button on the player.
(3)/(4) Volume up (VOL +)/Volume down (VOL -) Button
Executes the same actions as those by the Volume up (VOL +)/Volume down (VOL -)
button on the player.
(5) Next track/Fast forward ( ) Button
Executes the same actions as those by the Next track / Fast forward ( ) button on the
player.
(9)
(6) Previous track/Fast rewind ( ) Button
Executes the same actions as those by the Previous track / Fast rewind ( )button on the
player.
(7) Equalizer/Frame repeat (EQ/REP) Button
Executes the same actions as those by the Equalizer/ Frame repeat ( EQ/REP ) button on the
player.
(8) Earphone jack
For connecting the earphone.
(9) Wired remote control jack
For connecting the wired remote control.
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The LCD Display
(11)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(13)
(4)
(5)
(14)
(6)
(15)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(12)
(16)
No. Description
(1) Appearance of this icon indicates that the player is in playback mode.
(2) Appearance of this icon indicates that the player is in pause status.
Appearance of this icon indicates that the player is in language repeated reading
(3)
mode.
When this icon appears in combination with icon (3), the player is in single track
(4)
repeat mode .
When this icon appears in combination with icon (3), the player is in all tracks repeat
(5)
mode .
(6) Appearance of this icon indicates that the player is in A-B repeat mode.
(7) Appearance of this icon indicates that the player is in recording mode.
(8) Appearance of this icon indicates that the buttons on the player are locked.
(9) Shows remaining battery power.
(10) Page up/page down.
(11) Shows the bitrate of current playing song.
(12) Shows the sampling rate of current playing song.
Shows current track number in music playback mode, current channel no. in FM
(13)
Radio mode, or current file no. in eBook reading mode.
Shows total number of tracks in music playback mode, total number of channels in
(14)
FM Radio mode or total number of files in eBook reading mode.
(15) Shows playback mode.
(16) Shows current track elapsed time when playing or recording time when recording.
3 vertical bars in the battery status icon indicate that the battery power is sufficient. Only one bar in the
icon indicates that the power is weak. If there are no bars in the icon , the battery is near empty and
you need to charge it immediately. The player will turn off automatically, and any recording in progress will be
saved.
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Getting the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player Ready
Connecting Earphone and Remote Control
As illustrated, plug the earphone into the earphone jack on the wired remote control, and
then the wired remote control into the wired remote control jack on the Joybee 150 Digital
Audio Player.
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Charging the Battery
Connect the battery charger to the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player and a wall outlet as
shown to begin charging the built-in battery. When charging, the indicator light on the
charger will light up red. It will turn into amber as the charging time passes by. After about 3
hours, the indicator light turns into green and the battery is fully charged. Now you can
disconnect the player from the charger.
If time allows. it is recommneded that you keep the charging process going for one more
hour even when the indicator light on the charger turns into green. A fully charged battery is
capable of providing up to 10 hours of playback time. The maximum playback time will vary
depending on the playback volume and file format.
When the battery is completely drained after your first time use, extend the charging time for 2 more hours than
usual.
Depending on the location where you purchased
the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player, the charger
may not have an indicator light on it. In such
case, please refer to the battery status icon on the
LCD display for the status of battery.
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Installing Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player Software
Insert the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. A few
seconds later, a software installation menu will appear on your computer screen. Click on an
item to select it and start installing the selected software.
If the autorun function of your CD-ROM drive is disabled, look for the file "Setup.exe" in the CD-ROM
directory using Windows Explorer and double-click on it. The software installation menu will then appear.
Follow the on-screen instructions to install. Please refer to the table below for a brief
description of the contents on the CD-ROM and what you can do with these bundle
material.
Items on the
installation screen
Install QMusic
Install Joybee 150 Digital
Audio Player Software
Install Windows Media
Player 9
Install DirectX 8
Install Acrobat Reader
Read User Manual Click this item to access the electronic user manual files.
Introduction
Click this item to install QMusic. QMusic is a powerful music
management software program that allows you to easily
convert CD music into .mp3 format, save the converted files or
update music in the Joybee Digital Audio Player through just a
few clicks, or let it perform update automatically. Besides, you
can also use it as a standalone music player to play music and
create multiple playlists. For how to use QMusic in
combination with the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player, plrese
see "Using QMusic" on page 32
Click this item to install Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player
software. The software consists of 3 different tools: System
Update Tool for updating firmware and display font in the
Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player, Lyrics Editing and Conversion Tool for editing and creating music-lyrics sync files, and
Startup/Shutdown Screen Editing Tool for converting your
favorite pictures into the power on/off screen of the Joybee
150 Digital Audio Player. For more information about how to
use the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player software, please see
"Using the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player Software" on page
26.
Click this item to install Windows Media Player 9. Click this
item if you do not have such program in your computer, or
what you have is an older version.
Click this item to install DirectX 8. Click this item if you do
not have such program in your computer, or what you have is
an older version.
Click this item to install the Acrobat Reader software for
viewing the on-line manual files.
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Installing the USB Driver
Installing in Windows ME/Windows 2000/Windows XP
Turn on the power of the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player by pressing the button, and
then connect it to the USB port of your computer using the USB cable. A New Hardware
Found message will appear and installation will be completed automatically.
Installing in Windows 98
In addition to clicking Install Joybee 150 Driver on the software installation screen, you can
also install the USB driver following the steps below:
1. Turn on the power of the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player by pressing the button, and
then connect it to the USB port of your computer using the USB cable.
2. If the Adding New Hardware Wizard appearss, browse to select the files required for
installation under the Joybee 150 directory in the BENQ folder on the disk drive where
you installed the Joybee 150 Digital Audio Player software.
3. Follow the instructions of the wizard to complete the installation process.
A Removable Disk icon will appear in My Computer window if installation is successfully
completed.
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