media-tech MT821 User Manual

UTAH PLAYER

User Guide

Portable Digital MP4/MP3/WMA/ASF Player

MT821

Contents

Introduction ................................................................................. 2

Features..........................................................................................3

Safety instructions .....................................................................3

Player description ......................................................................4

Display ............................................................................................ 4

Battery capacity ..........................................................................4

Basic function ..............................................................................5

Music mode ..................................................................................7

Voice recording ........................................................................... 8

Playing recording fi le ................................................................8

Converting ACT recording fi les to WAV ..............................9

FM Radio ......................................................................................10

Playing video..............................................................................11

System setting ...........................................................................11

Text fi le viewer ...........................................................................12

Graphic fi le viewer ...................................................................12

USB disk function .....................................................................13

Other setting ............................................................................ 14

Encrypt disk function ........................................................... 15

Convert video fi le to AMV format ..................................... 16

Troubleshooting ..................................................................... 18

Specifi cation ............................................................................. 19

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Introduction

Welcome in MP4 users exclusive club. Because Your
new MP4 player is quite sophisticated device, please
read this manual fi rst to discover all exciting features
of it.

MEDIA-TECH Team

Features

■ Really small size

■ Supports most of audio and video formats such as:

MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV, MTV, AMV.

■ Stereo FM Radio with auto-scanning and manual

scanning frequencies. Up to 20 FM stations can be
stored in the memory

■ Text viewer to read TXT fi les

■ Picture viewer to browse JPG and BMP pictures

stored in MP4 memory

■ USB disk mode to easy replace standard fl oppies

and even CD-ROM discs when You need a move
some data from/to the computer.

■ Encrypted disk mode allow You to keep safe Your

valuable data secured by secret password

■ Voice record & replay mode turns MP4 player into

professional digital voice recorder. You can record

voice everywhere You are and always with good

quality thanks to very sensitive built-in micro­phone.

■ 7 settings of equalizer to make music more familiar

to Your ears.

■ 7 playing modes to browse and repeating Your fa-

vorite songs

■ Telephony database to store Your friends phone

numbers

■ Color OLED display to show movies & pictures in

sharp and bright 65K colors enviroment

■ Built-in lithium battery to power Your device with-

out need to replace battery. Just simple connect to
USB port and recharge

■ External +5V power adaptor to charge Your device

from normal, 230V home power outlet

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Safety instructions

The manual contains the important safety instructions
and information of the device’s proper usage. Make
sure to read carefully and understand all the instruc­tions to avoid accident.

 Do not expose the device to extreme temperature

(above 40C), especially in cars with shutting win­dows in summer.

 Do not expose to moisture. Do not store in humid or

dirty areas.

 Avoid the device falling and bumping strongly. Do

not make OLED suff er from violent shake; otherwise,
OLED could be damaged or displayed abnormally.

 Choose the suitable volume. Do not turn up the vol-

ume of the earphones too high while using it. If you
get ringing in your ears stop using the device or turn
the volume down.

 Do not disassemble the device yourself and do not

wipe the surface of device with alcohol and ben­zene and thinners.

 Do not using the device in areas with prohibiting

electronic devices, such as in plane.

 Do not use the device while driving an automobile

or walking in the street, otherwise, an accident may
result.

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Player description

Buttons

ձ Earphone socket
ղ MODE button
ճ PREV button
մ NEXT button
յ VOLUME button
ն PLAY/PAUSE buton
շ Power ON/OFF switch
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Display

BIT/FILE FORMAT

FOLDER

TRACK INFO

DATE

BATTERY
LEVEL

VOLUME LEVEL

PLAY MODE EQ MODE

PLAY TIME

Battery capacity

battery is full. Predicted time of playing up to 8

hours. During playing battery level is decreasing.

battery is empty. Should be charged immediately.

Please connect to power source (USB port or +5V
power adaptor).

To charge, please turn ON the power switch in the

device, otherwise device will be not charged.

When MP4 player is not in use, please turn it OFF

by power switch.

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Basic function

■ Enter main menu
Press and hold MODE button to enter main menu.

To enter any submenu press MODE button shortly.

■ Browse modes
Use NEXT and PREV buttons to choose right mode

from menu

■ Enter option menu
When player is in one of modes (ex. Music, Movie or

Record mode), please push MODE button to enter
option menu for specifi c mode.

Music mode

Main menu

Recording mode

Playing recording
mode

Radio mode

System settings

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Text viewer mode

Picture viewer mode

Connection with PC
mode

■ Volume control
Press VOL button, and then NEXT and PREV to in-

crease or decrease volume

■ Turn ON/OFF
Press and hold PLAY/PAUSE button to turn device

on or off

■ Playing & stopping
In music mode press PLAY/PAUSE shortly to play

music or pause playing or again start playing. Hold
PLAY/PAUSE to stop playing music.

■ Recording / stop recording
In recording mode press PLAY/PAUSE shortly to

start recording or pause recording or again start re­cording. Hold PLAY/PAUSE to stop voice recording.

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Music mode

Playback

1. Insert earphone plug into the earphone socket

2. Move power switch to ON position

3. Press and hold PLAY/PAUSE button to turn device
ON

4. By PREV/NEXT buttons choose the music mode
and push MODE button to enter music mode

5. To choose track (song) use NEXT and PREV buttons.
Press PLAY/PAUSE to start playing.

6. If the fi le containing movie will be set, a video will
start display

Note. Exactly the same procedure will be used for dis­playing video fi les.

Equalizer setting

1. When music is playing shortly press MODE to enter
option menu

2. Using NEXT/PREV buttons choose Equalizer

3. Use MODE to confi rm choice

4. Choose one of eff ects: Natural, Rock, Pop, Classic,
Soft, Jazz, DBB

5. Confi rm You choice by MODE.

Displaying lyric

Player supports LRC fi le format which allows to display
song lyric simultaneously with music. To use lyric fea­ture, LRC fi le must have the same name as MP3 song.

For example:
Music fi le is: TRACK-4.mp3
Lyric fi le should be named: TRACK-4.lrc

The MP3 song containing matched fi les with lyric are
displayed on screen with “

” icon, close to battery

icon:

1. Chose MP3 fi le with matched LRC fi le

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2. Push MODE to switch to lyric mode

Voice recording

Entering Voice recording mode

1. Enable main menu

2. By NEXT/PREV set Record option and confi rm by
MODE button

3. Press PLAY/PAUSE shortly to start recording

4. Press PLAY/PAUSE shortly to pause recording or
hold this button to stop recording.

File with voice recorded is stored in current folder

which can be set in Record submenu (push MODE
button)

If SPACE FULL information is displayed, it means

that there is not enough space to store more re­cordings. Please delete unnecessary fi les to recov­ers memory space.

If MENU FULL information is displayed, it means

that maximum capacity of current folder (99 fi les)
has been reached. Please change or create new
folder for recordings.

Voice recording type

In stop recording status, press MODE button to enter
record setting menu. Select RECORDING TYPE and
press [MODE] button to enter.

Fine recoding, WAV format, good voice quality
Long recording, ACT format, fair quality and longer

recording time
Fine VOR, WAV format, good voice quality, will pause
recording automatically when there is no sound de­tected
Long VOR, ACT format, fair quality, will pause record­ing automatically when there is no sound detected

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Notice: VOR

1. VOR is that voice controls recording on/off . Record­ing will stop without voice in order to save memo­ry.

2. For fi ne recording, please record in little noise back­ground.

3. Please do not talk before recording and start record­ing in 5-6 seconds.

Playing recording fi le

1. Choose VOICE from main menu

2. Press MODE to enter

3. Choose recorded fi le using NEXT/PREV

4. Press PLAY to start playing

Converting ACT recording fi les to WAV

The player can convert ACT fi les to WAV by attached
installation tool.

1. Run“Sound Converter” and click [Open] button,
the picture will appear as below:

2. Select ACT fi les that is converted and click [Open]

3. Click [Convert] button and begin to convert to WAV
format

Notice. Besides this function, the tool can play WAV
and MP3 formats.

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FM radio

Choose FM Radio from main menu

Press MODE button to enter FM radio menu in
FM radio mode

Save Save currently tuned frequency to a channel
Delete Delete current preset channel
Delete All Delete all preset channels
Normal Band Frequencies from 87MHz-108MHz
Japan Band Frequencies from 76MHz-90MHz
Auto Search Auto search channel
Exit Escape from FM radio mode

Auto search

1. Hold NEXT or PREV button for two seconds to tune
frequency upward or downward by 100KHz. When
a radio station is located, it will stop automatically.
Press MODE button briefl y to enter radio submenu
to save orderly channels. Press again NEXT or PREV
button to resume auto searching and press NEXT or

PREV button shortly to stop the auto searching.

2. Use radio submenu to search channels automati­cally.

Manual search

press PREV button briefl y to search channel upward
press NEXT button briefl y to search channel down­ward

Listen to FM radio

Press PLAY/PAUSE button to listen the saved channel.
If no channel is saved, you can listen channels by auto
or manual searching.

Notice: Normal band and Japan band can each store
20 preset channels.

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Playing video

1. Enter into main menu, short press NEXT to choose
Video.

2. Short press MODE into video playing interface like
below:

3. Short press PLAY/PAUSE to start playing. Push it
again to stop playing video.

Note. The player supports AMV video format only

System setting

Enter System setting mode from main menu

Clock

1. Use PREV/NEXT buttons
to change values

2. Use VOL button to switch
between cells

LCD setting

Available settings for disp­lay: brightness – setting of
display brightness; scrnsav
– setting of time to enable
screen saver; darkle - sett­ing of time to turn off disp­lay backlight; black - setting of time to turn display off .

Language

Allows to change user
interface language.

Power off setting

Off time mode: To set

the self-power off time
when the player playback
is stopped and no button
is pressed. If “0” is selected,
this function will be disabled. The time unit is seconds.
Sleep time mode: To set self-power off time after last
key pressed, regardless of whether the player is active
or stopped. The time unit is minutes.

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Replay mode setting

Two options are available:
Auto replay – end point
of A-B replay is set after
silence detection (used in
language learning)
Manual replay – start and end point of A-B replay is set
manually by user.

Text fi le viewer

1. Choose Textread mode from the main menu

2. Use NEXT/PREV to choose TXT fi le and push PLAY/

PAUSE to display its content

Graphic fi le viewer

1. Choose LookPic mode from the main menu

2. Use NEXT/PREV to choose JPG or BMP fi le and push

PLAY/PAUSE to display it.

Online mode

Refer to other mode setting.
Some operating systems (Windows 98/98SEP4) can­not support USB disk with two disks icons display in
MY COMPUTER. When disk is encrypted, select [multi
driver], [normal only] and [encrypted only] in the player
via connection to PC.

Memory information

To display the built-in memory size and used memory
percentage.

Firmware version

To display the fi rmware version and date.

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Connection is active but suspended

Data downloading

Data uploading

USB disk function

USB display mode

■ The player can be used as a large mobile storage de­vice. For Windows 2000, Mac OS 10.3 or Linux Red­hat 8.0 pro, no driver is required. For Windows 98,
driver is required.

■ The player supports USB bus-powered and began
to charge up when connecting to PC. In suspending
mode, press [MODE] button briefl y to escape from
USB mode, then re-select the mode you want to go.

■ The player supports Suspend mode and user can
create 99 fi les in one folder.

■ When connected to a computer, the OLED will indi­cate three diff erent modes: suspending mode, data
downloading, data uploading.

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Other setting

Select diff erent folders (stop sub-menu)

Users can save diff erent music fi les in diff erent folders
(folders are prepared in advance in computer), so that
users can administrate and display fi les. The player can
display one-level sub-menu.

1. In stopping status (in music, record, voice mode us­ers can select folder), press MODE button to stop­ping sub-menu.

2. Press MODE again button to enter local folder

3. Use NEXT/PREV button to select folder and press

MODE button to confi rm the selected folder.

Note:

 In music mode, record mode, voice mode, users

can set corresponding folder.

 the player can not read the folder without music

fi les in it.

Delete fi les (stop sub-menu)

1. In stopping status (FM has no stopping interface),
press MODE button briefl y to enter stop sub-menu.

2. Use NEXT/PREV buttons to select delete all, then
press MODE button briefl y to enter deleting inter­face.

3. Use NEXT/PREV buttons to select [YES] or [NO].

4. Use MODE button to delete or exit deleting inter-
face.

Note:

 [delete all] will delete all fi les in the current folder

in the current mode(for example, “delete all” will
delete all musical fi les in music mode and will not
delete all record fi les.

 It is simple and easy for deleting interface of FM

radio. Just operate the fi rst 3 steps and only delete
the preset channels.

 In music, voice and radio mode, users can delete

corresponding fi les and saved channels.

Playing mode (playing submenu)

During playing music and recording fi le, you can
choose diff erent playing mode which contains:

Equalizer

See “Equalizer setting”

Repeat mode

In music play menu, the user could enter Repeat inter­face. Use PREV/NEXT buttons to select repeat mode.

Normal Play all the songs once
Repeat One Repeat play one song
Folder Play the selected folder once
Repeat Folder Repeat all songs

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mode] of [system set] [will see other icon]. Encrypted
disk would hide all private data, other cannot access
data without password.

■ Disk partition steps

1. Connect the player to PC and run attached proce­dure: MP3 PLAYER DISK TOOL.

Repeat All Repeat all songs
Random Randomly select song to play
Intro Play the fi rst part of all saved tracks for

10 seconds

■ Tempo rate
Use NEXT/PREV buttons to set speed of playback rate.
Move puller to positive direction to increase speed and
move o negative to decrease speed of playback. “0”
value means normal tempo rate.

■ Replay mode
A—B replay: set replay tag A and B, use the NEXT/PREV
buttons to set tag A and tag B.

■ Replay time
In music play menu, enter [replay time] by using NEXT/
PREV button to select the number of replays. Then
press MODE to confi rm.

■ Replay gap
Enter replay gap option. Refer to “replay time” setting
and set replay time gap between every replay (time
unit is second).

Encrypt disk function

User can use the attached tool to set partitions for USB
disk. One is normal disk, other is encrypted disk. (User
can see two disk icons in computer. WINDOWS 2K need
install SP4, otherwise, user only see one disk icon and
selecting [normal only] or [encrypt only] of [online

2. Choose [partition and encrypt] option and decide
available size of each disk. Set username and pass­word, put username in [new user] and new pass-
word in [new password], then confi rm them. After
clicking [start] button, dividing disk begins. Click
[OK] to reboot computer.

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3. After rebooting computer, users will see two disk
icons (SP4 installation is a must). Click the encrypted
disk and three fi les is in the encrypted disk. Two are
hidden fi les and one is executive fi le. Disk capacity is
only 300K.

4. Run executive fi le: RDISK DECRYPT.EXE, put user­name and password in dialog window. If correct,
user can access disk.

Note:

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Data in encrypted disk cannot be read by the player.

 It is necessary for access encrypted disk to input

username and password when connecting to
computer.

 Setting partitions will erase data, please backup

data. Combination disks would also erase data.

 Please do not lose username and password. Oth-

erwise, you cannot access encrypted disk. You can
combine disks to cancel encrypted disk at risk of
damaging data in encrypted one.

Convert video fi le to AMV format

This device supports only AMV format for video fi les. To
watch other video format fi les such as AVI, MPG, MOV,
WMV etc. you have to use a converting application
which is delivered on driver disc together with player.

1. Run “AMV Convert Tool”, and click button to
choose the path for fi le need to convert, then;

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2. Click button to choose the path for destination
fi le.

3. Click button to start conversion.

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If you encounter other diffi culties in warranty, please contact our company.

Troubleshooting

If the player couldn’t play normally, please use trouble shooting guide to help you.

Symptom

The player cannot be turned on Please check the battery capacity.

Please check if the device’s procedure is damaged.

The player crashes Press RESET button to start the player.

The player cannot work Please check the battery capacity.

Please check if HOLD mode is set.
Please check volume is set to “0” and make sure that
earphones are connected properly and clean.
Corrupted music data will make noise in some extent
even be played abnormally; make sure the fi les are full.
Please choose FAT fi le system in dialogue box when
formatting disk.

The player cannot upload /download fi les;
no disk icon in computer

Please check USB cable is correctly connected.
Please re-install properly driver.

The player cannot record Please check if memory is suffi cient.

Please check the battery capacity.

Strange characters are displayed on screen Please check if the correct language is selected.

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Specifi cation and appearance is subject to change and improvement without prior notice.

Specifi cation

If the player couldn’t play normally, please use trouble shooting guide to help you.

Item Specifi cation

Dimensions 56x30x13mm (W*H*D)

Weight 26g

Display OLED 96*64ppi 65K colors

Interface USB1.1

File formats supported Music&Video: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV, AMV, JPG, BMP, Record: ACT, WAV

FM frequency 76MHz–96MHz/87MHz–108MHz

S/N rate 85dB

The max output power (L) 10mW+(R) 10mW (320hm)

Built-in memory 128MB/256MB

Power 3.7V lithium battery built-in

Time of working on battery (without recharging) Play time: up to 7h, Record time: up to 8h, Radio FM listening time: up to 8h

Operating temperature -5°C – 40°C

Operating System WINSE/ME/2K/XP, Mac OS 10.x, Linux 2.4.2, (WIN98 needs the driver)

Accessories User’s manual, earphone, power adaptor, USB cable, driver CD

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