Creative RHOMBA User manual

User’s Guide

Creative Rhomba

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Technology Ltd. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,

including photocopying and recording, for any purpose without the written permission of Creative Technology Ltd. The software

described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of

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.

The Software License Agreement is found in a separate folder on the installation CD.

Version 1.0

August 2003

MediaSource, EAX and the Creative logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. in the United States

and/or other countries.

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All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Contents

Safety and Other Instructions

Caring For Your Player.............................................................................................................................. i

Technical support .............................................................................................................................. i

Introduction

Before You Begin......................................................................................................................................... i

Package Contents .............................................................................................................................. i

Software Included .............................................................................................................................. i

Creative Media Detector ............................................................................................................... ii

Creative MediaSource..................................................................................................................... ii

Creative MediaSource Player.............................................................................................. ii

Creative MediaSource Organiser ...................................................................................... ii

Minimum System Requirements .......................................................................................................... iii

Document Conventions.......................................................................................................................... iv

Web Information ....................................................................................................................................... v

Online Registration .................................................................................................................................... v

1 A Tour of Your Player

Your Player at a Glance........................................................................................................................ 1-1

Using the Menu Scroller....................................................................................................................... 1-4

Scroll Select..................................................................................................................................... 1-4

2 Getting Started

Installing Software................................................................................................................................... 2-1

Charging the Player................................................................................................................................ 2-2

Power Level Indicators ......................................................................................................................... 2-3

3 Transferring Tracks or Files

Downloading from the Internet......................................................................................................... 3-2

Creative MediaSource........................................................................................................................... 3-3

Transferring Tracks or Files ...................................................................................................... 3-3

Editing audio track information ................................................................................................ 3-4

Ripping Audio CD Tracks.......................................................................................................... 3-5

4 Using Your Player

Turning On/Off your Player................................................................................................................ 4-1

Adjusting the Volume............................................................................................................................ 4-2

Playing Audio............................................................................................................................................ 4-2

Playing music or recordings....................................................................................................... 4-3

Repeating a section....................................................................................................................... 4-4

Playing FM Radio ..................................................................................................................................... 4-4

Changing FM frequency............................................................................................................... 4-4

Storing your FM channel............................................................................................................. 4-5

FM Radio recording...................................................................................................................... 4-5

Voice Recording...................................................................................................................................... 4-5

Making a voice recording............................................................................................................ 4-6

Changing Player Settings....................................................................................................................... 4-6

Selecting equaliser setting......................................................................................................... 4-10

Repeating music........................................................................................................................... 4-10

Editing play list.............................................................................................................................. 4-10

Deleting tracks............................................................................................................................. 4-11

Changing the LCD setting........................................................................................................ 4-12

Turning on backlight................................................................................................................... 4-12

Changing the Visualiser setting ............................................................................................... 4-13

Changing FM region ................................................................................................................... 4-13

Enabling the audio track marker ............................................................................................ 4-13

Changing microphone sensitivity ........................................................................................... 4-14

Locking and unlocking your player.................................................................................................. 4-14

Formatting the Player .......................................................................................................................... 4-15

A Technical Specifications

Size.......................................................................................................................................... A-1

Weight................................................................................................................................... A-1

Capacity................................................................................................................................. A-1

Recording time.................................................................................................................... A-1

Battery type ......................................................................................................................... A-1

Battery playback time ....................................................................................................... A-1

Interface ................................................................................................................................ A-1

Playback Formats ............................................................................................................... A-1

Voice Recording Format.................................................................................................. A-1

Signal to Noise Ratio......................................................................................................... A-2

FM Frequency Range......................................................................................................... A-2

THD....................................................................................................................................... A-2

Earphone Output............................................................................................................... A-2

LCD backlight...................................................................................................................... A-2

B Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting

AutoPlay..................................................................................................................................................... B-1

General ...................................................................................................................................................... B-2

Usage .......................................................................................................................................................... B-3

Safety and Other Instructions

Safety and Other Instructions i

Safety and Other Instructions

Caring For

Your Player

While your player is quite robust, observing these handling procedures will

prolong its life:

❍ Follow the information in this User's Guide only.

❍ Do not take the product apart or make alterations to the player, including

the built-in battery. This could make irrelevant any or all services the

product entails, including any free after-sales services.

❍ Do not use your earphones at high volume continuously as this may

damage your ears.

❍ Do not shake or vibrate your player excessively as this may damage your

player or cause it to malfunction.

❍ Do not expose the player to high temperature or extreme temperature

change.

❍ Keep the player away from strong magnetic fields.

❍ Keep the player away from excessive moisture.

❍ Keep the player away from chemicals like alcohol, polish, or benzene.

Technical

support

Visit www.creative.com and go to your region’s web site for general help.

Creative will not be

responsible for any

loss of data due to an

y

reasons whatsoever,

including loss of data

due to product

breakage or

malfunction.

Introduction

Introduction i

Introduction

Creative Rhomba allows you to play both MP3 and WMA (Windows Media

Audio) formats. Its built-in internal memory provides ample capacity to store

your favorite music files, and doubles as a storage device for documents,

presentations and other data files. The player also has a built-in microphone

and an FM radio.

Before You

Begin

Package Contents ❍ Creative Rhomba

❍ Earphones

❍ Installation CD including User’s Guide (on CD)

❍ Quick Start leaflet

❍ Neck strap

❍ USB cable

Software Included ❍ Creative Media Detector

❍ Creative MediaSource

The package

contents listed

here may differ

from country to

country.

Introduction ii

Creative Media

Detector

Media Detector makes it easy for you to access multimedia content from

various internal or external media. There is no need to hunt through a maze

of different software to play different types of files.

Media Detector automatically recognises the insertion of CDs, and

connection of external devices like Creative Rhomba. Upon recognition, the

content in the media will automatically start playing.

Creative

MediaSource

Creative MediaSource is your ultimate all-in-one digital entertainment

software, designed for playing, creating, organizing and transferring digital

music. It includes several applications like the Player and Organiser.

For more information and usage details on Creative MediaSource, refer to its

online Help.

Creative

MediaSource Player

Unlike other media players, Creative MediaSource Player provides exclusive

features (such as SmartFit), specially designed to manage and configure

your Creative Rhomba more efficiently. With Creative MediaSource Player,

you can play back a wide variety of digital audio and video formats such as

MP3, WMA, WAV, Audio CD, Midi, VCD, AVI and MPEG-1 on the computer.

You can also use the integrated recorder in Creative MediaSource to record

audio.

Creative

MediaSource

Organiser

The Organiser can be considered an extended view of the Player, as it

provides additional features to help you manage a huge music library more

easily. With it, you can:

❍ rip Audio CDs and create high quality digital audio files (up to 320 kbps

for MP3 and 160 kbps for WMA)

❍ configure the settings for Creative Rhomba while it is plugged-in to

Creative MediaSource

Introduction iii

❍ “squeeze” more audio tracks into your player with SmartFit, which

employs intelligent track management and WMA compression

❍ view the contents of your computer and your Creative Rhomba using the

dual-window transfer panel, convenient for file transfer

❍ locate songs in a few seconds, just by typing some keywords into the

sophisticated music search engine

Minimum

System

Requirements

❍ Microsoft

®

Windows

®

XP, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows

2000, or Windows 98 Second Edition (SE)

❍ Intel

®

Pentium

®

II 233 MHz

❍ CD-ROM drive

❍ USB 1.1 port

❍ 128 MB RAM

❍ 100 MB free hard disk space (more needed for storing audio)

❍ SVGA graphics adapter (256 colours, 800 x 600 resolution or better)

The software

applications on the

installation CD may

have higher

requirements for

basic functionality.

Refer to each

application’s

documentation for

details.

Introduction iv

Document

Conventions

We use icons to highlight useful or urgent information for you:

Tip. This tells you about shortcuts or hints relating to a feature.

Note. This highlights additional or important information about

a feature.

Caution! This highlights proper usage of your player. Use this

information to avoid situations involving risk.

Warning! This warns you of possible hazards to yourself or

your player, which may result in injury or damage.

Introduction v

Web

Information

Visit www.creative.com regularly for information on:

❍ firmware updates

❍ tips and tricks

❍ FAQs

❍ troubleshooting

❍ documentation updates

❍ software updates or purchases

❍ technologies used in your player

❍ an online glossary

Online

Registration

Enjoy a host of benefits by registering your product during installation, or at

www.creative.com/register. Benefits include:

❍ Service and Product support from Creative.

❍ Exclusive updates on promotions and events!

When checking on

product

information, go to

your respective

region.

1

A Tour of Your Player

A Tour of Your Player 1-1

A Tour of Your Player

Your Player at

a Glance

Record button

LCD screens

display song

titles, player

settings and

status

Menu scroller

Earphone jack

connects the

earphones to

your player

Volume button

Front View

Side Views

R (Section repeat) button

Play/Pause button

Mode button

Hold button

USB port

connects the

player to the

computer for

audio or data

transfers, and

battery charging

Microphone

A Tour of Your Player 1-2

Button What It Does Usage Tips

PLAY/PAUSE

❍ turns the player on and off

❍ starts, pauses or continues playback

❍ changes FM radio presets

❍ stops recording (for FM radio recording

only)

❍ press and hold until player turns

on or off

VOLUME

❍ increases and decreases the volume

❍ press and hold the "+" or "–"

buttons to increase or decrease

the volume quickly

RECORD

❍ records voice or FM Radio channels

❍ in Voice or FM Radio mode,

press to start or stop recording

MENU SCROLLER

❍

starts or stops playback

❍ goes to the previous or next track

❍ moves ahead or moves back

❍ scrolls through menu options

❍ selects menu options

❍ changes FM radio frequencies

❍ during playback, turn the Menu

scroller to go to the previous or

next track

❍ during playback, turn and hold

the Menu scroller to move ahead

or move back

❍ during playback, press the Menu

scroller to stop playback

❍ turn the Menu scroller to scroll

through menu options and press

the Menu scroller to select them

(for more information, see "Using

the Menu Scroller" on page 1-4)

A Tour of Your Player 1-3

R (SECTION

REPEAT

)

❍

repeats a specific section of a track

❍ mutes audio (for FM Radio mode only)

❍ during playback, press once to

mark the beginning of a section,

and again to mark the end of the

section (section will repeat

automatically)

MODE

❍ selects Music, FM Radio or Voice mode

HOLD

❍ locks the player buttons so they will not be

accidentally pressed

Button What It Does Usage Tips

A Tour of Your Player 1-4

Using the

Menu Scroller

Scroll Select The Menu scroller is one of the most important features of your Rhomba. In

this document, we will use a new term, “Scroll Select”, to indicate that you

should use the Menu scroller to scroll through options and then select the

option by pressing the Menu scroller.

Depending on the screen you are in, you can have different menu options.

You can also choose options from a list.

To "Scroll Select",

use the Menu scroller

to scroll to the option

you want, and select

the option by

pressing the Menu

scroller.

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