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User’s Guide
Creative Rhomba
Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Creative
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.
Copyright © 2003 Creative Technology Ltd. All rights reserved.
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.
NOMAD is a registered trademark of Aonix and is used by Creative Technology Ltd. and/or its affiliates under license.
Microsoft, MS-DOS, and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Intel and Pentium are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
MP3.com and the MP3.com logo are trademarks of MP3.com, Inc.
All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Contents
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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