Panasonic SV-MP810V User Manual

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Operating Instructions

Digital Audio Player

Model No.

Dear Customer

Thank you for purchasing this product. Before connecting, operating or adjusting this product, please read the instructions completely. Please keep this manual for future reference.

Caution

This unit is not waterproof and should not be exposed to excessive moisture.

“EB” on the packaging indicates the United Kingdom.

SV-MP810V

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Web site: http://panasonic.net/

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Safety precautions

• Leave some slack in the cord of the earphones and the strap if you wind them around the unit.

• Keep this unit out of the reach of babies and little children.

Babies or little children may accidentally swallow the unit. If you believe that this

might have happened, seek medical advice immediately.

• Do not disassemble, remodel, drop, or allow the unit to get wet.

• Do not use or store in locations directly exposed to sunlight, corrosive gases, a heat vent, or a heating appliance.

• Do not use or store in humid or dusty locations.

• Do not use force to open the battery lid.

• Do not play your headphones or earphones at a high volume. Hearing experts advise against continuous extended play.

• Do not use while operating a motorized vehicle. It may create a trafﬁc hazard and is illegal in many areas.

Batteries

• Align the poles (+ and -) properly when inserting the battery.

• Do not recharge ordinary dry cell battery.

• Remove the battery if the unit is not to be used for a long time.

• Do not use batteries if the covering has been peeled off.

• Mishandling of battery can cause electrolyte leakage which can damage items the ﬂuid contacts and may cause a ﬁre.

If electrolyte leaks from the batteries, consult your dealer.

Wash thoroughly with water if electrolyte comes in contact with any part of your body.

• If electrolyte gets into your eyes, you may lose your sight. Do not rub your eyes but wash them with clean water, and seek medical advice immediately.

• Do not throw into ﬁre, short-circuit, disassemble, or subject to excessive heat.

• Keep the battery out of the reach of babies and little children.

Babies or little children may accidentally swallow the battery. If you believe that

this might have happened, seek medical advice immediately.

Allergies

Discontinue use if you experience discomfort with the earphones or any other parts that directly contact your skin. Continued use may cause rashes or other allergic reactions.

This product may receive radio interference caused by mobile telephones during use. If such interference is apparent, please increase separation between the product and the mobile telephone.

Caution:

• Use only the provided shielded interface cables when connecting to a computer.

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To reduce risk of radio interference caused by headphone, earphone or microphone cables, only purchase accessories with a cable length of less than 3 m.

To avoid product damage, do not expose this product to rain, water or other liquids.

Table of contents

Introduction

Supplied accessories ...........................................................4

Battery (included) .................................................................5

System requirements ...........................................................5

Listening to music .................................................................6

Recording music CDs on your computer ..............................7

Recording music on the unit ..................................................8

Files and folders structure display on your computer .........12

Saving data ..................................................................................13

Basic operations

Name of parts and basic operations ...................................14

Selecting modes .................................................................15

MUSIC mode

Playing music .....................................................................17

Selecting a playlist and listening to music ..........................18

Selecting various play modes .............................................20

PLAY MODE settings ...................................................................20

A-B REPEAT ................................................................................21

FM RADIO mode

Listening to FM radio ..........................................................22

Recording the FM radio ......................................................23

Presetting stations (FM1, FM2) ..........................................24

VOICE RECORD mode

Voice recording ...................................................................

LINE IN mode

LINE IN recording ...............................................................28

Setting mode

Setting various items ..........................................................30

Making basic settings ...................................................................31

Other information

Erasing folders and ﬁles .....................................................34

Formatting ..........................................................................36

Troubleshooting guide ........................................................37

RESET procedure ..............................................................38

Speciﬁcations .....................................................................39

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Supplied accessories

Use numbers indicated in parentheses when asking for replacement parts.

(As of March 2006)

USB Cable (with Line-in) —1 pc Alkaline battery (LR03) —1 pc

(K1V207Y10001)

Strap Stereo earphones —1 pc

(L0BAB0000205)

Will come apart if pulled strongly. (This is a safety feature.)

Marks

Earphone holder

R L

1. Align the marks and insert securely.

2. Turn to mount in place.

• WMA is a compression format developed by Microsoft Corporation. It achieves the same sound quality as MP3 with a ﬁle size that is smaller than that of MP3.

• Other names of systems and products mentioned in these instructions are usually the registered trademarks or trademarks of the manufacturers who developed the system or product concerned.

The ™ and ® marks are not used to identify registered trademarks and

trademarks in these instructions.

• This product is protected by certain intellectual property rights of Microsoft Corporation and third parties. Use or distribution of such technology outside

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of this product is prohibited without a license from Microsoft or an authorized

Microsoft subsidiary and third parties.

Battery (included)

Note

1 alkaline battery (LR03)

■ Battery indicator

Full Empty→ Replace with a fresh battery

• When the battery charge is low and the display ﬂashes, the display panel backlight will not light.

• If rechargeable batteries are to be used, rechargeable batteries manufactured by Panasonic are recommended.

• Operation is not guaranteed when used with manganese batteries. Do not use manganese batteries.

Changing the mode can sometimes cause the battery indicator to change.

Changing the mode ( page 15, Selecting modes)

Introduction

System requirements

OS: Microsoft® Windows® Me, Windows® 2000 Professional,

Windows® XP Home Edition/Professional

• The player cannot be used on Microsoft® Windows® 3.1, Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows® 98SE, Windows NT® or Macintosh®.

• Operation on an upgraded OS is not guaranteed.

• Operation on an OS other than the one pre-installed is not guaranteed.

• Multi-CPU or Multi-boot environments are not supported.

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Listening to music

Step

Have the music CDs recorded on your computer beforehand. ( page 7)

Use Windows Media Player, a standard Windows program.

● This unit supports WMA and MP3 music ﬁles.

You can also use music content (as either WMA or MP3 music ﬁles) downloaded from music distribution services. For details, go to the sites of the applicable services.

Connect the unit to the computer. ( page 8)

Record the music from the computer onto the unit. ( page 10)

Use the unit to listen to the music. ( page 17)

software

■ Windows Media Player

• If you have Version 8 or earlier, we recommend that you upgrade to Version 9 or 10. Check which version you have by clicking [About Windows Media Player] on the [Help] menu.

• If you have Version 9, you will need an auxiliary plug-in program to convert to the MP3 format.

For details on operation, refer to [Help]; for the latest information or details on plug-ins, go to the Windows Media Player Web site. See the Microsoft Web site for details.

■ Where the music recorded in the computer is saved

Unless the setting of the destination where the music is to be saved has been changed, the music will be saved in the following folder: My Music in My Documents. (These displays differ depending on the operating system.)

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Recording music CDs on your computer

An example of how to record music CDs is given below using Windows Media Player (hereafter abbreviated to “WMP”) Version 9 (“WMP9”) or 10 (“WMP10”).

Insert the music CD into your computer, and start

WMP.

Select [start] → [All Programs] → [Accessories] → [Entertainment] → [Windows Media Player]. (The displays given here are examples of what may appear.)

● When WMP is started up for the ﬁrst time

The WMP setup (installation) screen appears. Follow the onscreen instructions.

Before recording music, set the content protection of

WMP to disabled.

1. On the [Tools] menu, click [Options…]. (If the [Tools] menu does

not appear, click [ ] at the top right.)

2. WMP9: Select the [Copy Music] tab.

WMP10: Select the [Rip Music] tab.

3. Click to clear the “Copy protect music” check box.

4. Click [OK].

Select the tracks and record them.

1. WMP9: Select the [Copy from CD]. WMP10: Select the [Rip].

2. Select the tracks to be recorded.

3. WMP9: Select the [Copy Music]. WMP10: Select the [Rip Music]. Recording now starts.

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WMP10 screen

Your attention is drawn to the fact that recording pre-recorded tapes or discs or other published or broadcast material may infringe copyright laws.

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Note

Recording music on the unit

Connecting the unit to the computer

Before connecting the unit to the computer, be absolutely sure to insert the battery into the unit. ( page 5)

USB cable (included)

Start the computer.

Open the USB port cover and connect the USB cable to the unit.

Insert straight in so that the arrow side faces in the direction shown above.

■ Connection precautions

Slanted

Connect the USB cable to the PC’s USB port.

• When the connection is complete, “USB CONNECTED” appears, and music can be recorded.

• On your computer, open My Computer, and check whether the unit is indicated as a "Removable Disk".

• When the "LOW BATTERY" or "NO BATTERY" message appears on the screen, replace the battery with a new one.

X=Incorrect

Arrow side facing in the opposite direction

Removable Disk (x:)

• Keep the USB cable as straight as possible. Bending the cable too much may destroy music data or cause problems with the computer.

• Operation cannot be guaranteed if you use a USB hub or extension cable.

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Inserting the cable forcibly into the USB connector diagonally or the wrong way round may deform the connector, causing problems with the unit and any device connected to it.

Copy and paste the MP3/WMA ﬁles

In My Computer or Explorer, open the folder for the

unit (Removable Disk or device).

Open the MUSIC folder.

Copy and paste or drag and drop the MP3/WMA ﬁles or

folder from your computer’s folder into the MUSIC folder.

“ACCESS” appears on the unit’s display. When downloading is completed, “USB CONNECTED” re-appears.

Computer folder MUSIC folder

You can ﬁrst put ﬁles into a new folder and then put that folder into the MUSIC folder. The folders are treated as sublists by the player and the names appear when you select playlists.

■ Recording complete albums

Drag and drop the folder in which the WMA or MP3 ﬁles were directly saved, into the MUSIC folder. The folder name will be displayed as a playlist name by the unit.

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Recording music on the unit

Note

Using WMP9 or WMP10 to record music

Select [start] → [All Programs] → [Accessories] → [Entertainment] → [Windows Media Player]. (The displays given here are one example.)

WMP9: Click [Copy to CD or Device].

WMP10: Click [Sync].

For WMP10:

1. Select [Tools] → [Options] → [Devices] → “Removable Disk (x:).”

2. Click [Properties] to display “Removable Disk (x:) Properties.”

3. Check the “Create folder hierarchy on device” check box on the “Synchronize” tab to turn this setting on.

(Once performed, this procedure is stored in the memory and so need not be performed again in the future.)

Select "Items to Copy" and "Removable Disk" for the

"Items on Device."

When WMP9 is used, select the MUSIC folder as the transfer destination.

WMP9: Click [Copy].

WMP10: Click [Start Sync].

• The music is recorded from the computer onto the unit.

• Only data selected on the “Items to Copy” list will be transferred.

• The ﬁrst 256 characters (128 full-size characters or 256 half-size characters) of the ﬁlename created on the computer are displayed on this unit.

• Some characters cannot be displayed due to an embedded font data limitation.

• Supports MP3 ID3 V1 tags, ID3 V2.3 tags and WMA tags.

• If there are no ID3 tags, the display shows the “ﬁlename.mp3”.

• ID3 tags will not be displayed correctly if the language of the ID3 tag recorded for the MP3 is different from the language setting for this unit.

• Compatible with DRM (PDDRM

• MP3/WMA ﬁles should always be saved in the MUSIC folder. If saved in the root folder, the ﬁles cannot be played back or deleted from the unit.

• The recorded tracks are saved in the unit’s MUSIC folder.

• The saved tracks can be moved to subfolders in the MUSIC folder only on the computer.

• The subfolders in the MUSIC folder are treated as playlists by the unit. ( page 12, Files and folders structure display on your computer)

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• This unit can support the Windows Media Player (Version 10) sync download function.

, Microsoft®).

Disconnecting the unit

Right-click the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon on the computer’s taskbar.

The “USB Mass Storage Device” window appears on the computer screen. Follow the on-screen instructions to disconnect the USB cable. When the USB cable is disconnected, the unit’s power goes off.

Depending on the OS, the display differs.

If the above procedure is not followed, the music data may be destroyed, making it impossible to play the data properly. Use the unit or the computer to delete the music data which has been destroyed. If the data cannot be deleted, initiate resetting ( page 38). Once resetting has been initiated, all the stored data will be lost. Rerecord the music data on the unit.

■ Do not connect or disconnect the USB cable while “ACCESS” on the unit’s display

• Otherwise, the music data may be destroyed and problems may be

caused with the computer.

• Trouble may also develop in the unit.

Recording and operating problems may occur on some computer systems. Please note that Panasonic and Panasonic dealers cannot be held liable for any lost audio data or other direct or indirect damage except in cases of intentional or gross negligence.

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Files and folders structure display on your computer

MUSIC

FM RADIO

VOICE

LINE IN

ARTIST_A

ARTIST_B

aaatrack.mp3

bbbtrack.mp3

ccctrack.mp3

ALBUM_A2

ALBUM_A1

dddtrack.mp3

eeetrack.mp3

ffftrack.mp3

This unit

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Removable Disk or device (this unit)

Copy and paste or drag and drop MP3/WMA ﬁles into the MUSIC folder.

Up to 7 levels of subfolders can be created under the MUSIC folder.

Naming ﬁles and folders

Extension

aaatrack.mp3

File name

• Folder and ﬁles will play in the order in which they are downloaded.

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If "ARTIST_B" has been sent after "ARTIST_A,"

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FM RADIO, VOICE and LINE IN folders are

the playback sequence will be: "ARTIST_A," "ALBUM_A1," "ALBUM_ A2" and "ARTIST_B."

automatically created to store ﬁles when you record.

• You may not be able to play on another device the ﬁles which you originally created in the FM RADIO, VOICE or LINE IN folder and subsequently copied to your computer.

Data storage

Make folders like this when saving ﬁles other than MP3 and WMA.

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