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User’s Guide Creative Digital MP3 Player FX120 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 ma
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Contents
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Contents Before You Begin Introduction............................................................................................................................................. vii Minimum System Requirements....................................................................................................... vii 1 A Tour of Your Player Your Player at a Glance..................................................................................................................... 1-1 Using the Sc
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Changing Play Modes.......................................................................................................................... 3-4 Repeating music................................................................................................................ 3-4 Playing a track once......................................................................................................... 3-6 Shuffling music.............................................................................
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Play Mode Icons .................................................................................................................................. B-3 Information Diagrams........................................................................................................................ B-4 C Frequently Asked Questions General .................................................................................................................................................. C-1 Usage ..........
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Before You Begin
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Before Your Begin Thank you for purchasing Creative’s new multi-format player, Creative Digital Introduction MP3 Player FX120! Your player can store songs in its music library, and comes equipped with a USB 2.0 connector, so you can transfer audio tracks and data quickly and easily. With your player’s built-in FM radio, you can listen to your favorite radio stations. You can also record FM radio in stereo! ® ® ❍ Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), Windows Minimum 2000,
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A Tour of Your Player
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A Tour of Your Player Your Player at a Glance Volume Decrease Volume Increase button button Hold switch Scroller Top View LCD screen Play/Pause button Front View A Tour of Your Player 1-1
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Headphone jack USB port Strap lug Side Views Battery panel Bottom View A Tour of Your Player 1-2
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Button/Switch What It Does Usage Tips ❍ Turns the player on and off. PLAY/PAUSE ❍ Starts, pauses or continues playback. ❍ Press and hold until player turns ❍ Changes Scroller mode in FM Radio on or off. mode. HOLD ❍ Locks and disables all buttons on your ❍ Slide the switch to the right to player. lock the player. VOLUME DECREASE ❍ Press and hold to decrease the ❍ Decreases the volume. volume quickly. VOLUME INCREASE ❍ Press and hold to increase the ❍ Increases the volume. volume quickly. ❍ D
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Using the Scroller Scroll Select The Scroller is one of the most important features of your player. In this document, we will use a new term, “Scroll Select”, to indicate that you should use the Scroller to scroll through options and then select the option by pressing the Scroller. To "Scroll Select", use the Scroller to scroll to the option you want, and select the option by pressing the Scroller. The Scroller Use the Scroller to scroll Press the Scroller to select an (top view) throu
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Getting Started
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Getting Started Your Creative DMP FX120 includes software so that you can create audio Setting Up tracks, manage your music library, and use your player in all supported Your Player Windows operating systems. Your installation CD also includes the drivers necessary for Windows 98 SE. 1. Make sure that your player is NOT connected to your computer. 2. Insert the Creative DMP FX120 CD into your CD-ROM drive. To install the software, Your CD should start automatically. If it does not, follow t
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Insert the supplied battery into your player as shown below. Inserting Battery a b When opening or closing the battery compartment, handle with care. Figure 2-4: Inserting the supplied battery into your player. Getting Started 2-2
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Power Source After inserting the battery, your player displays one of the following icons, depending on the battery’s status. and Level Icon What the icon means Notes Indicators ❍ this battery state icon ❍ your player’s battery is full shows that the battery is full The amount of ❍ this battery state icon playback time ❍ your player’s battery is 60% full shows that the battery available depends on power level is high various factors (for example, volume ❍ this battery state icon leve
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Audio selections have been preloaded to your player to get you started Transferring quickly. If you wish to listen to music immediately, simply press the Files Play/Pause button . To transfer files 1. Connect your player to your computer’s USB port using the supplied USB cable. WMA files with Digital Rights Management technology cannot be copied to your player using Windows Explorer. You can only do so with applications like Windows Media Player or Creative MediaSource. 2. On your de
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Downloading To get music files from the Internet, use a search engine to locate sites with music content. You can also try out these sites (web sites listed here are from the Internet correct at the time of this document’s release): ❍ Soundbuzz.com ❍ ArtistOne.com http://www.soundbuzz.com http://www.artistone.com It may be illegal to ❍ Epitonic.com ❍ SoundClick.com encode music files for trade or sale unless http://www.epitonic.com http://www.soundclick.com you have the express ❍ AMP3.com o
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Ripping from a The first phase in making an MP3 file is extracting audio data from an audio CD. To extract audio data, you will need a CD-ROM drive that can extract CD digital audio data, and a program known as a ripper. With Creative MediaSource Organizer, you can rip tracks from most audio CDs. This program uses the CD-ROM drive to read the audio tracks from the audio CD and stores it on your hard disk. The time needed for a successful audio extraction depends on: ❍ CD-ROM drive speed ❍ d
