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User’s Guide
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Unpacking Siren Flash MP3 Player Premium Earbuds Carrying Case Armband AAA Battery USB Cable Installation CD Quick Start Guide Customer Service Card Bonus Track List Copyright/Trademarks © 2006 Siren, Inc.. All rights reserved. Marketed by Siren, Inc., San Jose, CA 95118. Siren shall not be liable for any errors contained herein or for any damages arising out of or related to this document of the information contained herein, even if Siren has been advised of t
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Table of Contents Using the FM Tuner .....................23 1 - Getting Started Switching to FM Tuner Mode .............. 24 Welcome .................................. 4 Searching for FM Stations ................. 24 Player Overview .......................... 5 Saving Presets ............................... 24 LCD Overview ............................. 7 Selecting Presets ........................... 24 Inserting the Battery .................... 8 FM Radio Recording & Playback .......
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1 - Getting Started Welcome Congratulations on your purchase of this Siren digital audio player. This sleek, elegant unit fits in the palm of your hand and plays all your favorite MP3 and WMA files. It even doubles as a recordable FM tuner and voice recorder. Cool Features MP3 and WMA playback PC & Mac support Sleek, small and elegant 128x64 Mono Backlit LCD 1GB SD/MMC Expansion slot FM Tuner / FM Recording / Voice Recording 5 Band Adjustable EQ with Presets up to
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Player Overview 1 Stereo Headphone Jack - Connects to the supplied earbuds or other headphones equipped with a 1/8” (3.5mm) stereo mini-plug. 2 LCD Screen - Displays the current status of the player; see page 7. 5
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3 Control Pad - Controls playback and selects menu options: PLAY/PAUSE - Starts and pauses playback. STOP - Stops playback. PREV - Skips to the previous track (or to the start of the current track). Press and hold to scan backward. NEXT - Skips to the next track. Press and hold to scan forward. 4 Battery Cover - Remove to install a single AAA battery (alkaline or NiMH). 5 POWER Button - Turns the player on. Press and hold to turn the player off. 6 HOLD Switch - Locks th
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LCD Overview Indicators: 1 EQ Setting - Displays current EQ mode (Normal, Rock, etc.) 2 Shuffle - Displays current Shuffle mode (On or Off). 3 Repeat - Displays current Repeat mode (Repeat One, Repeat All, or Off). 4 Hold - Displays current Hold status (On or Off). 5 Battery Level - Displays current Battery status (Full, Medium or Low). 6 Track Info - Displays current Title, Artist, and Album. 7 Progress Bar - Graphically displays elapsed playback time. 8 Track Status - Displays: E
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Inserting the Battery 1 Remove the battery cover as shown 2 Insert the supplied AAA battery, paying attention to the correct polarities (+ and -). 3 Replace the cover. Connecting the Earbuds Connect the supplied earbuds as shown. 6
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System Requirements Installing the Software — Intel Pentium® II 300 MHz or If you are running Windows 98SE please above first install the required drivers found on — 128 MB RAM minimum the enclosed CD before your connect your — 150 MB available hard Siren player.Turn on your computer and drive space insert the CD in the CD-ROM drive. — USB port — CD-ROM drive — Operating Systems No driver installation is required for Windows ME/2000/XP or Mac OS X. — Supported: W
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2 - Loading Your Tunes Connecting the Player to your Computer In order to download tracks to the player, you must first connect the player to your PC or Mac using the supplied USB cable. 1 Connect the smaller end of the supplied USB cable to the mini-USB port on the player as shown. 2 Connect the larger end of this cable to any available USB port on your computer. The player will power on automatically. If this is the first time you have connected the player to a PC running Wind
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Using Windows Media Player You can use Windows Media Player 9.0 and 10 to manage your music files, copy tracks from your audio CDs, transfer tracks to the player, and more. The following is an overview of the options on the Windows Media Player taskbar: Windows Media Player 9: 1 Now Playing - Watch/listen to currently playing media. 2 Media Guide - Search for media (music, movies, etc.) online. 3 Copy from CD - Burn CD Audio tracks to WMA format. 4 Media Library - Create playlists and
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Windows Media Player 10: 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 N o w Pl ay in g - Watch/listen to currently playing media. 2 Lib r a ry - Create playlists and manage your media files. 3 R ip - Copy CD Audio tracks to WMA format. 4 B u r n - Copy MP3/WMA tracks to a recordable CD. 5 Sy n c - Copy MP3 or WMA tracks to your player. 6 G u id e - Search for media (music, movies, etc.) online. 6
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Adding Tracks to your Media Library Windows Media Player will automatically gather all MP3 and/or WMA files on your PC into a media library, where they can be played, edited, burned to CD, or copied to your digital audio player. Windows Media Player 9: 1 Click Tools > Search for Media Files (or press F3). 2 In the “Add to Media Library by Searching Computer” dialog box, browse to the drive and folder where your music files are stored. 3 Click Search. 4 Windows Media Player will automa
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Windows Media Player 10: 1 Click Tools > Search for Media Files (or press F3). 2 In the“Look in”: dialog box, browse to the drive and folder where your music files are stored. 3 Click Search. 4 Windows Media Player will automatically add all tracks in the selected folder(s) to your library. 5 When searching is complete, click Close. 6
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Ripping Tracks from your CDs You can also use Windows Media Player to build your music library by encoding your Audio CD's to music files. Windows Media Player 9: 1 Insert an Audio CD. 2 Click Copy from CD. The contents of the CD will be displayed. By default, all tracks are checked. 3 Uncheck any track you do not want to encode into a music file. 4 Click the Copy Music button to begin encoding the selected tracks. NOTE: You can change your track encoding options by selecting
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Transferring Tracks to the Player To copy files from your PC to the player: Windows Media Player 9: 1 Make sure the player is powered on and connected to your PC using the supplied USB cable. 2 Click Copy to CD or Device. 3 Under "Items on Device” select "Removable Disk" to view the contents of the player. 4 Under "Items to Copy", browse to the folder containing the tracks you want to add to the player. 5 Click the check box(es) next to the desired track name(s). 6 Click Copy.
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Using Other Music Management Applications • NOTE: Many online music stores offer their own music management applications, which may or may not be compatible with the player. The player supports playback of MP3, WMA, and WMA DRM files. WMA DRM music files must be copied to the player via Windows Media Player or the music management software compatible with your online music store. The player is NOT compatible with iTunes. 6
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Using the Player as a Removable Drive If you prefer, you can simply drag and drop files to the player, which appears as a removable hard drive on your PC or Mac. Using this method, any type of file (homework, presentations, pictures, etc. ) can be placed on the player as if it were a portable drive. Only MP3 and WMA files will playback while stored on the player, however. NOTE: The player will not play DRM-protected files (such as those purchased from online music stores) unless they are
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Safely Disconnecting the Player If you are using Windows ME/2000/XP, it is recommended that you safely unplug the player as follows: 1 Double-click the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in the Windows toolbar. 2 Select the player from the list of Hardware Devices. 3 Click Stop. 4 Click OK to confirm. 5 Click Close. 6 It is now safe to unplug the player from your PC. • NOTE: Make sure all file transfers are complete before disconnecting the player. 6
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3 – Using The Player Basic Operations Powering On the Player To turn on the player, press POWER button . To turn off the player, press and hold POWER button . Basic Playback To play the current track, press PLAY/PAUSE . To pause playback, press PLAY/PAUSE again. To stop playback, press STOP . To skip to the previous track (or to the start of the current track), press PREV . To skip to the next track, press NEXT . To scan backward within a track, press and hold
