Imation RipGo! User Manual
User’s Guide
Mini CD-R Burner and
Digital Audio Player
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Copyright Law and Trademark
©2002 Imation. All Rights Reserved.
Imation assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document. Imation makes no
commitment to update the information contained herein. No part of this manual may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording,
for any purpose without the written consent of Imation. The software described in this document is
furnished under a licensing agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the license
agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any other medium except as specifically allowed
in the license agreement. The licensee may make one copy of the software for backup purposes.
Imation, the Imation Logo and RipGO! are the property of Imation Corp.
Microsoft, Windows Media and the Windows logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
This product is designed to assist you in reproducing material for which you own the copyright, are
authorized to copy by the copyright owner, or permitted to copy by exemption in applicable law.
It is the users’ responsibility when using the RipGO! device to ensure there is no infringement of
applicable laws, including copyright law.
It is a violation of copyright law to duplicate and distribute any unauthorized recordings downloaded
from the Internet or made from audio CDs. It is prohibited to re-post recordings on the Internet or give
copies to others.
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
1.1 About the RipGO! Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.0 Knowing Your RipGO! Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
2.1 What You Get.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Location of Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3 Screen Icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.0 Using the RipGO! Device as an Audio Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
3.1 Setting up the RipGO! Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1.1 Inserting the Battery Pack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1.2 Charging the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2 Inserting and Removing a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.1 Inserting a CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.2 Removing a CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3 Power up the RipGO! Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.4 Playing Entire Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.5 Playing a Directory Randomly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.6 Playing Favorite Tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.0 Using the RipGO! Device as a Data Storage Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
4.1 Connecting the RipGO! Device to Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2 Installing RipGO! Drivers in Windows
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Me/Windows® 2000/Windows® XP . . . . . . . . . . . .22
4.3 Installing the RipGO! Driver in Windows®98SE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.4 Installing Burning Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.5 Uninstalling Burning Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.6 Removing the RipGO! Device from Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.0 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Appendix A–Important Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
A.1 General Handling Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
A.2 Cleaning the RipGO! Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
A.3 Using and Replacing Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
A.4 Servicing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
A.5 Power Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
A.6 Proper Care and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
A.7 Health Hazards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Appendix B–Regulatory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
B.1 FCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
B.2 Laser Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
B.3 Laser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Appendix C–How to Get Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
1.0 Introduction
1.1 About the RipGO! Device
The RipGO! device is a mobile 8 cm CD-Recordable drive with built-in compressed digital file playback.
It’s the first portable burner designed expressly with today’s music enthusiast in mind: it can play both
MP3 and WMA files. Furthermore, the RipGO! device can be used to backup crucial files, store data and
create your own digital image library.The RipGO! device gives a whole new meaning to burning on the
fly. Its simple Plug and Play USB connection and battery pack enable you to listen to and record music
on the go and around the world. Everything you need to start recording CDs is in the box – from the
total MP3 solution and powerful burning software to the blank CD-Rs. Get more of what you want in
a CD-Recordable drive: simplicity, value and versatility – all backed by superior reliability. The RipGO!
device is the ideal all-in-one solution on the market for a CD-R drive and MP3 player.
Back-up and Archive Important CDs
When attached to a computer with the USB cable, the RipGO! device becomes a CD-Recordable drive.
A single 8 cm CD-Recordable disc can store up to 180MB of data, the same amount as 125 floppies,
making CD-Recordable a cost-effective way to back-up data. The CD-Recordable drive gives you the
option of creating permanent data archives on CD-R media. Create reliable, custom CD-Rs that can be
shared with more than a billion CD, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM players around the world.
Distribute and Share Files
Using expensive, proprietary, removable media to share your files can quickly become a costly process,
and you can’t be confident that other users can access the data. The RipGO! CD-Recordable drive
provides the perfect low-cost solution, because affordable and reliable CD-R discs can be read by
standard CD-ROM drives.
Create Music and Digital Audio Compilations
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You can record up to six hours of your favorite music on a single 8 cm CD-R disc. The CD-Recordable drive
lets you store and compile your digital music collection in multiple formats, such as MP3, WAV, WMA and
more. Storing your digital music tracks on a CD-R disc instead of your hard drive will free resources on
your computer, letting you do more.
Listen to Music on the Go
The RipGO! device is also a mobile WMA and MP3 player: you can playback your personalized music CDs
on the move. Listen to a maximum of three hours of skip-free MP3 music or 6 hours of WMA music on
a single CD with the RipGO! device’s powerful 5-hour rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery technology.
Enjoy your music anywhere, anytime you want it.
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1.2 Software
Installation of the RipGO! device is about as easy as it gets. The drive’s Quick Setup Guide takes you
through the steps of installing the drive and its drivers, and it includes an overview of the software
installation, complete with screenshots of the applications. The manuals for the RipGO! device are on
the installation CD and include the drive’s functions and features, plus some simple troubleshooting.
The easy-to-use bundled software allows you to copy an entire disc
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, specific files, and even create
a personalized digital photo album or MP3 collection.
Your installation CD contains USB storage device drivers and the burning software.
• USB Storage Device Drivers
• USB storage device driver for Windows 98SE, provided on the Installation CD.
NOTE: The RipGO! device uses the generic drivers of Windows 2000, Windows Me and the Mac OS (9.X).
No additional drivers are needed when using these operating systems.
• Recording/Player Software
The burning software allows you to:
• rip a CD
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and encode it as an MP3 or other compression algorithm such as WAV or WMA.
• burn CDs of different writing types: track at once, disc at once, session at once and multi-session.
• record files of all types (documents, spreadsheets, video and audio files, etc.).
• play back audio tracks of different formats.
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1.3 System Requirements
For PC:
• Microsoft Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows Me or Windows XP.
• 200MHz or higher (Pentium II or better recommended for MP3 encoding).
• 32MB RAM (64MB recommended).
• SVGA graphics adapter (256 colors, 800 x 600) or higher resolution.
• USB 1.1 port.
• 25MB free hard disc space (more for audio content storage).
• CD-ROM drive.
• Internet connection for Internet content downloading recommended.
For Mac:
• Mac OS version 9.X.
• iMac,
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G3 or higher.
• 32MB RAM (64MB recommended).
• USB 1.1 port.
• 25MB free hard disc space (more for audio content storage).
• CD-ROM drive.
• Internet connection for Internet content downloading recommended.
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2.0 Knowing Your RipGO! Device
2.1 What you get!
The RipGO! package contains the following items:
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1) One Power Adapter 2) One RipGO! Device 3) One 1.5m USB Cable
4) One Headphone Set 5) One 8cm RipGO! 6) One Battery Pack
Installation CD, and
Two Imation CD-Rs (8cm).
2.2 Location of Controls
1. –Volume Button
This button is used in play mode to reduce the output volume, in track selection mode to scroll down the
file listing, in contrast mode to reduce LED display intensity and in balance mode to shift the balance to
the left ear.
2. +Volume Button
This button is used in play mode to increase the output volume, in track selection mode to scroll up the file
listing, in contrast mode to increase LED display intensity and in balance mode to shift the balance to the
right ear.
3. EQ Button
This button modifies the Equalization settings of the unit as follows:
Normal: Flat Response.
Rock: Heavy Bass and Heavy Treble Boost.
Pop: Slight Bass and Treble Boost.
Jazz: Heavier Bass Boost with Slight Treble Boost.
Classic: Slight Treble Boost.
Techno: Heavy Bass Boost.
Salsa: Very Slight Bass Boost with Heavier Treble Boost.
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Figure 2.2 – Location of Controls
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4. Shuffle Button
This button toggles between playing tracks in sequential or random order. The Shuffle button is also used
in adjusting LCD contrast. During play, press and hold the Shuffle button and use the +Volume and
–Volume buttons to change the contrast.
5. Play/Pause Button
This button activates initial power-on ifthe RipGO! device is powered-off. If the button is pressed
when the RipGO! device is powered-on, the unit starts to play or if playing, pauses play of the selected
audio track(s).
NOTE: When in USB mode, press and hold this button to disconnect.
6. Repeat Button
This button toggles between continuous (repeat) or one-time (no repeat) playing of a single selected audio
track or a selected track play sequence. The Repeat button is also used in adjusting the audio output
balance. During play, press and hold the Repeat button and use the +Volume and –Volume buttons to
change the balance.
7. Stop Button
This button has a variety of functions depending on the mode of the RipGO! device.
1. If currently playing an audio track, it stops the play.
2. If not currently playing an audio track and no power adapter or USB cable is attached, it causes the
RipGO! device to power-down.
3. If not playing an audio track, no USB cable is attached and a power adapter is attached, it causes the
RipGO! device to enter battery charging mode (if the battery is less than full charge) or to power-down
(if the battery is at full charge.)
4. If not currently playing an audio track and an active USB cable is attached, the unit enters USB mode.
8. Skip Forward Button
Momentary depression of this button is used during play mode to skip to next track.
If the button is held down, then play position is moved forwards through the current track (cue).
This button is used in track select mode to move into current selected directory.
9. Skip Back Button
Momentary depression of this button is used during play mode to restart current track.
If the current playing track is within one second of its start playtime, then the previous track is re-started
unless in random play mode.
If this button is held down, then the play position is moved backwards through the current track (rewind).
This button is used in track select mode to move to parent directory.
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10. Hold Switch
When activated, this slide switch disables the operation of any button pressed. This prevents the user
from accidentally altering device operation.
CAUTION! If the HOLD switch is activated during initial power-on, no power will be applied to the
RipGO! device since the PLAY button is disabled.
11. Open Switch
This switch opens the lid and the disk is immediately spun down. If the device is not currently connected
to a host, then the drive is powered-down. Media removal is prevented during write operations.
12. Line Out/Headphone Switch
Slide this switch to Line Out when using external speakers, and to Headphone when using headphones.
13. Battery Compartment
For safety reasons, the RipGO! device is shipped with the battery pack removed from the battery
compartment.
14. Battery Release Clips
The release clips secure the battery pack in the battery compartment.
15. Power Reset Switch Access
If the RipGO! device stops responding, insert and push a pin into the reset access hole on the underside
to activate the reset switch. This will reset the RipGO! device.
16. LED
The LED is tri-color: green, red and orange.
The LED is orange when a disc is spinning up.
The LED is green when a disc is being accessed.
The LED is red when a write (or test write) operation is in progress.
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Drive State LED
No disc inserted Off
Disc loading Blinking orange
Disc loaded and ready Solid green
Disc in/power save/non powered mode Off
Read or verify activity Blinking green
Writing Solid red
Test write Blinking red
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17. Audio Output Socket
Analog Audio is available via this socket. The Line Out/Headphone switch allows you to switch between
lineout and headphone audio. Headphone volume is controlled using the volume control buttons on the top
of the RipGO! device.
For Line Out function, you need an additional cable to connect your speakers to this socket. The RipGO!
device volume is set to half while the speaker volume is set to minimum. Slowly increase the speaker
volume to the most comfortable level.
18. USB Port
The USB terminal is a mini USB socket located on the rear of the device. A USB cable is included for
connecting the RipGO! device to the host computer.
CAUTION! Do not use USB extension cables with your RipGO! device, as data loss may result.
19. Power Socket
Socket for connection to the supplied power adapter.
CAUTION! Use only with the supplied power adapter.The RipGO! device may be damaged when used
with other power adapters.
2.3 Screen Icons
The following table describes the various icons that may appear on the RipGO! device screen.
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Icon Description
Norm, Rock, Pop, Jazz,
Class, Tech, Sals EQ Settings: Displays the EQ setting selected.
Battery Level: Displays charge level remaining in battery.
Volume Indicator: Displays currently selected volume level.
Skip Forward: Displayed when Skip Forward button is pressed.
Skip Backward: Displayed when Skip Backward button is pressed.
Playing: Displayed when currently selected track is playing.
Pause: Displayed when currently playing track is paused.
Stereo: Displayed when the track playing is in stereo.
Repeat Mode: Displayed when Repeat option is selected.
Shuffle Mode: Displayed when Shuffle option is selected.
Balance: Displayed when adjusting the audio balance.
Contrast: Displayed when adjusting the LCD panel contrast.
3.0 Using the RipGO! Device as an Audio Player
As a portable Audio Player,the RipGO! device can be powered using a single rechargeable Lithium-Ion
battery. Use the power adapter when the battery is weak.
NOTE: Before first use, charge the battery continuously for 3 hours. Connect the power adapter,
press the Play button and then the Stop button to initiate battery charging.
The RipGO! device supports both compressed audio (MP3 and WMA files) and normal music CDs. You can
organize your favorites into different directories or using a playlist file (with extension .m3u).
The RipGO! device searches and displays the playable contents in the entire disc using its 4-line LCD
display. Browse through the display to select tracks (see Section 3.6). You can choose to play the entire
disc, selected directory, selected track(s) or from a playlist file.
3.1 Setting Up the RipGO! Device
3.1.1 Inserting the Battery Pack
NOTE: The Battery Pack must be inserted
when operating the RipGO! device
with the power adapter.
1. Locate the Battery Pack that comes with
your RipGO! device.
2. Ensure you have it in the correct orientation,
Figure 3.1.1, and push it firmly into the
battery compartment (located on the underside
of your RipGO! device) until two “clicks” are heard
as the retaining clips engage. Press near each side
of the battery assembly to be sure both sides “click.” If it appears that either clip is not engaged,
press outward on the clip with a fingernail or small screwdriver while pressing inward on the battery.
Failure to engage the clips may make the RipGO! device work intermittently, since the battery
terminals are not making proper contact.
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Figure 3.1.1 – Inserting Battery Pack
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3.1.2 Charging the Battery
Refer to Appendix A-3 “Using and Replacing Battery” for important safety and handling information.
The Battery Pack comes with a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery already installed. The RipGO! device will
charge the battery when in the Battery Charging mode.
Charging for the First Time:
1. Connect the power adapter to a wall mount power socket and plug the DC jack into the RipGO! device.
Power the unit on by pressing PLAY and then off by pressing STOP .
NOTE: The RipGO! device may not activate if the battery level is extremely low (<1.7v). When this
happens, wait about 15 minutes and try again.
Caution: Battery may explode when
improperly replaced. Follow directions
closely when changing battery. Always
use the same or equivalent battery type
as recommended by the manufacturer.
Always follow manufacturer instructions
when disposing of old batteries.
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