AUGEN PRIZM

Portable Digital Music Player

User Manual
Version: V4.0W

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Thank you for purchasing an AUGEN PRISM digital music player. Please read the following user
instructions and safety guide before attempting to operate your player.

The Digital Music Player Safety Guide

This safety guide contains important safety and handling
Information for AUGEN PRIZM digital music players.
Keep the digital music player Safety Guide
for your digital music player handy for future
reference.

Important Safety Information

Avoiding hearing damage
Permanent hearing loss may occur if earbuds or
Headphones are used at high volume. Set the volume to a safe level. You can adapt
over time to a higher volume of sound that may sound normal but can be damaging to
your hearing. If you experience ringing in your ears or muffled speech, stop listening
and have your hearing checked. The louder the volume, the less time is required before
your hearing could be affected. Hearing experts suggest that to protect your hearing:

Limit the amount of time you use earbuds or headphones at high volume.

Avoid turning up the volume to block out noisy surroundings.

Turn the volume down if you cant hear people speaking near you.

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Handling the digital music player

Do not bend, drop, crush, puncture, incinerate, or open the digital music player.
Avoiding water and wet locations
Do not use the digital music player in rain, or near washbasins or other
wet locations. Take care not to spill any food or liquid into the digital music player. In case the digital music player gets wet,
unplug all cables, turn the digital music player off and allow it to dry thoroughly before turning it on again.
Repairing the digital music player
Never attempt to repair the digital music player yourself. The digital music player does not contain any user serviceable
parts.
The rechargeable battery in the digital music player
should be replaced only by PRIZM authorized service providers.

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This player is a new generation portable digital audio & video product, which supports multi-format
music files, such as MP3, WMA, WAV, etc.

General preview
Display:

65K full-color CSTN/TFT screen.

Multi-format support: MP3, WMA, WAV etc. music & image files.
Cartoon movie function:
Browse pictures:
E-book:

Play AMV format movie and music files.

Browse JPG, BMP format pictures.

Display TXT format files for reading.

FM stereo radio:

Search stations both automatically and manually.

USB drive without driver: No need for management program software, operates directly through
moveable disk in My PC,
Private Space Memory management MENU:

Refers to the memory of the player as a USB drive.

Users may divide the memory into two parts in any proportion by accessing accessory tools. One
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part can be encrypted as a Private Space which needs a password to access. (If users do not
encrypt both parts, the player may be treated as two individual USB drives)
Record / Repeat:

Using the microphone, you can record voice and save them as WAV or ACT

format files. Repeat a segment of the file with comparison.

7 equalizer MENUs:

Natural, Rock, Popular, Classic, Soft, Jazz, Dbb.

Multi-play MENU:

Normal, Repeat ONE, Folder, Repeat Folder, Repeat all, Random.

Automatic shut off:

You can set sleep timer to save battery time.

GETTING STARTED
Attach the player to your computers USB connector with the provided USB
cable
Please set the power switch to the ON position to charge the player,
otherwise, the player cannot be charged.
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 Very important: The MENU button is the ENTER or SELECT button and the
arrow buttons are the scrolling buttons as well as track skip and fast forward
and rewind. Scroll with the ARROW buttons and choose function by hitting the
MENU button. Center button is PLAY.

General preview ..

Declaration .

Battery .

Basic function

Button operation 8
Play movies .. 12
Play music .. 13
Voice recording . 15
Voice MENU . 16
FM radio .. 19
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Browse photos

.. 20

E-book . 20
System setting .. 21
USB drive function 24
Other setting . 25
Troubleshooting .. 34
Specification . 35
Convert video files into AMV format files .. 36

Battery
The PRISM comes with a built-in Li-polymer rechargeable battery. It can charged using
either the supplied USB cable or an optional AC charger adapter.
Set the power switch to ON position ( Switch ON the player ) to charge the battery,
otherwise the player cannot be charged.
Unit will display

when the battery is fully charged.

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 When the battery is nearly drained, the battery icon

will show empty. This indicates

it is time to re-charge your battery.

Basic function
Enter Menus
Press MENU button to enter the menu which you desire. There are 3 basic menus,
1- Main-menu ( press & hold MENU button to enter main menu to choose basic function of device
such as music, picture, movie, etc ),
2-Play menu ( Press MENU button while playing to adjust EQ, repeat MENU, etc)
3-Stop menu ( Press MENU button to stop play ).

Browse operation
Use arrow buttons to browse and select a song, or a menu.
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 Press MENU button to select a song

To move backward use left arrow

, to move forward use right arrow.

Use same procedure to skip forward or skip backward while song is playing.

Press and hold arrow buttons to fast forward

or rewind

while song is playing.

Enter function MENUs

Scroll with arrow buttons to search for the desired menu and hit menu button to select the menu you
wish to enter.
To return to main menu, press and hold the menu button for a few seconds.

The main menu consists of 8 choices:

01
07

Music /

E-book /

08

02

video /

03

Recorder /

04

playback

05

FM Radio /

06

Photo /

setting

To adjust volume:
Press button VOL first, then press button left arrow
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to decrease the volume, press right arrow

button

to increase the volume.

Electrical system ON/OFF (This is different from power ON/OFF )

Press and hold the play button for electrical system power on/off.

Button operation
Button function introduction
Left arrow stands for Last, or Vol-.

Right arrow

stands for NEXT or Vol+,

Vol for volume

Video MENU
Button

Play
MENU
Right
arrow
button
Last

Operation

Stop status

Play status

Stop-submenu

Long press

Switch off

Switch off

Switch off

Press

Play

Stop

Exit from menu

Long press

Enter Main-menu

Enter Main-menu

Enter Main-menu

Confirm the choice or

further step

Right arrow button song

Play right arrow button song

Select a submenu

forward browse continuously

Fast forward

forward continuously

Press

Last song

Play last song

Select a submenu

Long press

Backward browse continuously

Fast backward

backward continuously

Press
Press
Long press

Enter

Stop-submenu

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Vol+
Vol-

Press

Increase volume by step

Play right arrow button song

Long press

Increase volume continuously

Fast forward

Press

Decrease volume by step

Play last song

Long press

Decrease volume continuously

Fast backward

X
X
X
X

Music MENU and Play MENU

Button

Play
MENU
Right
arrow
button
Last

Vol+

Operation

Stop status

Play status

Play-submenu

Stop-submenu

Long time press

Switch off

Switch off

Switch off

Switch off

Press

Play

Stop

Exit from menu

Exit from menu

Long time press

Enter Main-menu

Enter Main-menu

Enter Main-menu

Enter Main-menu

Press

Enter Stop-submenu

Enter Play-submenu

Confirm your choice

and enter it

Confirm your choice

and enter it

Right arrow button song

Play right arrow button

song

Select a submenu

Select a submenu

Press
Press and hold

Browse forward
continuously

Fast forward

Move forward
continuously

Move forward
continuously

Press

Last song

Play last song

Select a submenu

Select a submenu

Press and hold

Browse backward
continuously

Fast backward

Move backward
continuously

Move backward
continuously

Press

Increase volume by step

Increase volume by step

Press and hold

Increase volume
continuously

Increase volume
continuously

Press

Decrease volume by
step

Decrease volume by
step

Press and hold

Decrease volume
continuously

Decrease volume
continuously

Vol-

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Record MENU
Button

Play
MENU

Operation

Stop status

Record status

Long press

Switch off

Stop recording

Press

Start recording

Pause recording

Long press

Enter Main-menu

Save recorded file

Press

Enter Record-submenu

FM MENU
Button

Play
MENU
Right
arrow
button
Last
Vol+
Vol-

Operation

FM radio status

FM submenu

Long time press

Switch off

Switch off

Press

Right arrow button channel

Exit from menu

Long time press

Enter Main-menu

Enter Main-menu

Press

Enter a submenu

Confirm your choice and enter it

Press

Increase by step 100KHzor stop searching

Select a submenu

Increase step by step 100KHz automatically

Move forward continuously

Press

Decrease by step 100KHzor stop searching

Select a submenu

Press and hold

Decrease step by step 100KHz automatically

Move backward continuously

Press

Increase volume by step

Press and hold

Increase volume continuously

Press

Decrease volume by step

Press and hold

Decrease volume continuously

Press and hold

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Browse pictures
Button

Play
MENU
Right
arrow
button
Last
Vol+
Vol-

Operation

Stop status

Play status

Long press

Switch off

Switch off

Press

Start

Stop

Long press

Enter Main-menu

Press

Enter a submenu

Long press

Move forward continuously

forward continuously

Step forward

Step forward

Long press

Move backward continuously

Backward continuously

Press

Step backward

Step backward

Long press

Press

Long press

Press

Operation

Menu status

Play status

Long press

Switch off

Switch off

Press

Start

Stop

Long press

Enter Main-menu

Enter Main-menu

Press

Enter a submenu

Long press

Move forward continuously

forward continuously

Step forward

Step forward

Move backward continuously

Backward continuously

Press

Enter Main-menu

E-book
Button

Play
MENU
Right
arrow
button
Last

Press
Long press

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Vol+
Vol-

Press

Step backward

Step backward

Long press

Press

Long press

Press

Play movies
Movie MENU
1. Movie MENU interface.

2Press MENU button to enter the Play-submenu

3Press MENU button to quit submenu

4Press play button to start playing files.

Play music
Simply operation
1. Connect earphone
Connect the earphone plug into the jack on the player.

2. Playing music
Press and hold the Play button to switch the player ON (only if the
device is in Sleep time mode), enter the music MENU, then
press the Play button to start playing music.

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3. Select a track
Left arrow LEFT ARROW BUTTONSelect the last song
Right arrow Button Right arrow buttonSelect the
right arrow button song

4. Volume control
Press the button VOL and then press right arrow for increasing
volume, left arrow for decreasing volume

Equalizer MENU
1. When the player is playing music

2Press MENU button to enter the EQ sub menu

3Press right arrow to scroll to equalizer button to select

Equalizer MENU.

4Press MENU button to enter Equalizer MENU.

5Press button either arrow button to selectand press

MENU button to confirm.

6Equalizer introductionEQ

Lyric display

Natural /
Soft /

Rock/
Pop /
Jazz/
DBB

Classical

( Karaoke function )

This player supports *.LRC lyric files, and lyrics may be displayed synchronously while playing
music.
How to use lyric file
Save the lyric file with the same name as that of the corresponding music file.
For example
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Music file nameAndy-water.mp3

Lyric file nameAndy-water.lrc
The icon

displays on the bottom-right corner in music MENU, if there is a lyric file that matches

the music file.

How to display lyric
1 Find a track with the lyric icon.

2. press and hold the menu button to enter lyric interface

3Display the lyric.

4Press MENU button to return to music MENU.

Voice recording
Record MENU
1 Enter main menu.

2. Press LEFT ARROW BUTTON to select record MENU.

4Press Play button to start recording.

5After recordingpress and hold MENU button to save the recorded file.
3Press MENU button to enter record MENU

If the screen displays Fullit means there is no capacity for recording new recorded files. Delete
old files to free up space for new recordings.
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Select recording file format

1 Record stop interface.

2 Press MENU button to enter record submenu.

3 Press right arrow button to select type of

recording-submenu
Type of recording

4 Press MENU button to enter this item.

Recording type interface

5 Press Right arrow button to select

recording type.

6 Press MENU button to confirm your choice.

7 Press play button to start recording.

8 Type of recording
High quality recording: WAV format.
Long time recording: ACT format, normal quality.
High quality voice control: WAV format
Long time voice control: ACT format.

Voice MENU
1.

Enter main menu

2 Press

Right arrow button to select voice MENU.

3Press MENU button to enter the voice MENU interface.

4Press play button again to start playing.

5Select a recorded file.

6Control volumepress VOL button

arrow button

LEFT ARROW BUTTONSelect last file.

Right arrow buttonSelect right arrow button file.

VOL+ Increase volume.

LEFT ARROW BUTTON

VOL - Decrease volume.

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then press right

FM radio
1.

Enter the main menu.

3. Press MENU button to enter FM MENU.

2. Press Right arrow button to select FM MENU.

4. Search automatically:
Press Right arrow button for more than 2 second, player searches at
the step of 100KHz backward/forward until it finds a station. Just press

1. Inching adjust

button Right arrow button to stop searching.

6. Save desired radio station

Press LEFT ARROW BUTTONStep backward at

100KHz

Press MENU button to enter FM submenu.

and then press MENU to save it.

Press Right arrow buttonStep forward at 100KHz

7. Select a saved station frequency for listening.
If there is more than one station being saved, you can
press play button to skip through preset stations one by
one.

8. Control volumePress Vol, and then press

LEFT ARROW BUTTONIncrease volume.
Right arrow buttonDecrease volume.

9Built in recording
Press MENU button to enter FM submenu, select
recording MENU.

Notice
There are two bands, Normal bandFM 87 - 108MHz and
Japan bandFM 76 90MHz Press MENU button to enter FM
submenu press Right arrow button to select the proper band

Browse photos
1. Enter main menu

2.

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Press Right arrow button to select Photo browse.

3.

Press MENU to enter Photo browse

4. Press play button to enter Photo browse MENU. Press play

button again to quit.
LEFT ARROW BUTTON Select last file
button Right arrow button Select right arrow button file

5.

Press MENU button to enter photo browse submenu

6. Press button Right arrow button, select browse photo

submenu

7.

Press MENU button to enter playing setting interface.

8.

Enter automatic playing submenu.

E-book
1. Enter main menu
3.

Press MENU button to enter E-book submenu

2. Press button Right arrow button to select Ebook

4. Press play button to enter E-book MENU. Press play
button again to quit.
LEFT ARROW BUTTON Select last file
button Right arrow button Select right arrow button file

5.

Press MENU button to enter E-book submenu.

6. Press Right arrow button, select E-book submenu

item.

7.

Press MENU button to enter playing setting interface.

8.

Enter automatic playing submenu.

System setting
How to enter
1 Enter main menu

2 Press Right

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arrow button

to select System

3 Press MENU button to enter System

Features introduction
Message

Show the manufacturer information

LCD setting

Set the screen brightness and dark MENU(optional).The players screen will go dark without
operation after the time ( Unit: second ) you set

language

Set a language

power off

Set a automatic power off or sleep timer. The player will power off or sleep automatically after the
time you set

Interface sel

Set interface one( static) or interface two(dynamic).

Replay

Set manual replay or auto replay

MENU

Online MENU

Only for Secret space function

Memory info

Check memory capacity and free volume

Firmware

Display firmware upgrade version of this player

version\upgrade

Exit

Exit from present interface

How to use
message
Show the manufacturer information
LCD set setting
1 System interface

2 Press button

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Right arrow button

to select LCD

set

3 Press MENU button to enter

4 Press button Right

arrow button/Last

to adjust

NoticeWhen set gray MENU and black screen MENU, you can only
select one of them. Press MENU button to confirm entering submenu,
the operation are the same as Brightness adjust.
6.

5 Press MENU button

Select language setting

power off setting

After adjusting, press MENU button to exit.

( Refer to EQ MENU setting. )

( Refer to LCD set setting. )

Interface sel: set interface one( static) or interface two(dynamic)

Replay MENU

Refer to EQ MENU setting )

Notice Manual MENU: Repeat from A to B. / Automatic MENU: Repeat sentences

automatically.
Online MENU

( Refer to EQ MENU setting )

Memory info
The number stands for the total capacity, percentage stands for used capacity proportion.
Firmware version\upgrade
Display the players present firmware version.

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Use as a USB drive

This player can be used as a standard USB drivewhich supports Windows98need to install drive
program
Windows 2000 aboveno need to install drive program systemMac OS X 10.3 and
aboveLinux Red hat 8.0 and above.
This player supports USB power supplyplaying without battery. Under the waiting status press
MENU buttonreturn to main menu and select the MENU what you want and enter it.
This player supports Suspend MENU.
How to connect your PC
Switch on the player, and plug the USB cable, then the player will enter MENU 1 as below.
Upon connecting the PC, there are 3 kinds of display MENUs as follows:
1. Waiting status,

2. Downloading, 3. Uploading.

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Other setting

Select different itemsStop sub-menu

Customer can save different files in different foldersYou have to determine the folder in advance

in order to sort and manage the files.

1In Stop interface. For example, in music MENU, record
and play can select an item.

2Press MENU button to enter Stop-submenu.

3Press MENU button again to enter your choice.

3 Press

Right arrow button or Last to select.

5Press MENU button to confirm your choice.

NoticeYou can set music MENU, record MENU and play MENU in different independent folders.
That is, the 3 MENUs can be saved in different MENU.
Delete filesStop-submenu
Under music, voice, movie and FM MENU, you can delete files or station frequency.
1Under stop menu.There isnt a interface in FM status

2Press MENU button to enter stop-submenu.

3Press Right arrow button or Last and select delete files in

the menu.

4Press MENU button the enter delete interface.

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5.

Press MENU button to enter right arrow button submenu.

6.

Press Right

arrow button to confirm, start

deleting.
7. Press MENU button to enter a menu and select delete files
delete all or Exit.

8. After selecting, press MENU button.

delete all means, delete all the relative files in present folder. For example, you are in music
MENU,

delete all can delete all music files, but leaves the record files.

FM delete wipes out preset stations, only the 1st 3 steps are necessary
NoticeWhen you delete files in your computer, please make sure to remove the USB cable after it
displays the player interface, otherwise, the files may not to be deleted.

Repeat MENU Play sub-menu

When you play/stop music and play voice recording files, you can select different playing MENU such as
repeat, shuffle, etc.
The 3rd item in Stop menu is repeat MENU, The unit plays according your selection.
1. Stop music

2Press MENU button to enter Play-submenu.

3Press Right arrow button to select Repeat MENU item.

4Press MENU button to enter Repeat MENU item.

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5Press Right arrow button to select, then press MENU button to

confirm.

NoticeIn music MENU, you can set repeat MENU, even if the player is in stop music submenu or
play music submenu. Once you set one, you set the whole play MENU. The operation method is the
same.
REPEAT
Normal

Play music files in sequence until the end of folder.

Repeat One

Repeat one music file.

Folder

Play all music files in the folder

Repeat Folder

Repeat all music files in the folder

Repeat All

Repeat all music files.

SHUFFLE
Random

Play music files in present folder randomly.

INTRODUCTION
Introduction

Play the beginning 10 seconds of music files in sequence

Select music MENU

1Music stopping.

2Press MENU button to enter stop-submenu

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3Press MENU button to enter Local folder.

4Press Right

arrow button

to Select music item. Select a

song

Play speedPlay sub menu

When you play music only available for MP3 filesand play record files, you can choose different
speeds. ( fast or slow)but the tone is the same as original.
1Playing music

2Press MENU button to enter Play-submenu.

3Press Right arrow button to select Playing speed

item.

4Press MENU button to enter Playing speed item.

Play speed choice

5Press Right arrow button to increase playing speed,

press LEFT ARROW button to decrease playing speed.

6Notice
All music playing speed is the same until right arrow button is set.

Repeat MENU Play sub menu

Enter play submenu

A-B repeat
1Playing music or voice recording

2Press MENU button to enter Play-submenu.

3. Press Right arrow button to select

Repeat MENU item.

4. Press MENU button to enter Repeat MENU.

Repeat MENU
Mark A flash in repeat icon, waiting for beginning A confirmation

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5. Press Right arrow button, Confirm

Beginning point A. Then the repeat icon
flash
waiting for confirmation of End point B.

will
6. Press Right arrow buttonconfirm End point B. Then the icon
appear without flashing. The player starts repeating between the segment A &
B for the times you set You can re-set by pressing LEFT ARROW button.
For the repeat times, please refer to right arrow button item: Repeat
times

Following-up reading
1Repeating A-B segment.

2Press Right arrow button to enter follow-up reading MENU.

3Repeat icon change to follow-up reading

icon, starting recording voice, the period is the
same as A-B repeats.

4Once finished the follow-up reading, the player will play the original voice,
and the icon return as before At the present, you can press the Right

arrow button to enter comparison function.

In this situation, press LEFT ARROW BUTTON to return A-B repeat status.
Comparison function
1Enter comparison function, the icon appears
as at this time, it plays original voice.

2After playing original voice, the icon changes to at the same time, the
player will play follow-up voice.

3The player doesnt stop the loop until you press MENU button to exit.

In this situation, Press LEFT ARROW BUTTON to return Follow function status.
In the above state, press MENU button to exit repeat MENU.

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Repeat timesPlay-submenu
1. Play music

2Press MENU button to enter Play-submenu.

3. Press Right arrow button to select Repeat

times item

4. Press MENU button to enter Repeat times.

Press MENU button again to exit.

Repeat intervalPlay-submenu
Refer to Repeat times

Set the repeat intervalUnit: second.

z Secret Space
Some users may wish to hide files or tracks they do not want others to find.
You can use provided software to divide the whole USB disk into two parts, and encrypt one of them.
You can move your private files into the encrypted part and they will be password protected.
To active Secret Space:
1. Connect your player to PC
2.

Run MP3 Player Disk Tool which can be found in provided CDROM

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3. Click Allocation and Encrypt card, Allocate appropriate space and set username and password,
and then click Start.

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4. After space allocation, shown as below:

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5. Click OK to restart.
6.

After restart you will find two disks (only one disk can be seen on Windows 2K SP4or prior), click
the encrypted disk (the second one), you will find three files, two are hidden, one is executable

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7. Running executable file RdiskDecrypt.exe and input username and password. If all are correct,
disk will be opened, and files can be copied into.

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8. You must enter username and password each time you want to access the encrypted disk.
Warning: Dividing one disk into parts will remove all data, and so does combine process.
Warning: Please remember username and password. If you forget it, you can only redo the
combine process and you will loss all encrypted data.

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Troubleshooting
Check whether the player is turned ON.
Check whether the battery has been charged.
Check whether you set the power switch button to ON position when you
charge the player.
No sound is heard from the earphone Check whether the Volume is set 0 and connect the earphone plug to the
jack on the player firmly.
Check whether the earphone plug is dirty.
Corrupt music files may make a static noise or the sound cant be heard.
Check the files.
Characters on display are corrupt
Check whether the right language has been selected.
FM radio is not clear
Adjust the position of the earphone and player.
Turn off the power of other electric devices near the player.
The earphone may be used as the antenna.
Cant download music files
Check whether USB cable is damaged and is connected properly.
Check whether the drive program is installed correctly.
Check whether the players memory is full.
No power

Specification
Display

full-color CSTN/TFT screen

PC connection

Full speed USB2.0

Memory

Flash memory 128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB

Battery

Li-polymer rechargeable battery

Record

Sample rate

8KHz

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MP3, WMA, WMV etc.

FM Stereo Radio

Recording format

WAV32K bpsACT8K bps

Max headphone output

L10mWR10mW32Ohm

AMV bit rate

128K bps

MP3 bit rate

32K bps 320 K bps

WMAWMV .bit rate

5K bps 384K bps

Frequency response

20Hz to 20KHz

SNR

85dB

Frequency range

76MHz 90MHz / 87MHz 108MHz

Stations

20 / 20

Max headphone output

L10mWR10mW32Ohm

SNR

45dB

Music Format

MP3WMA. etc.

Working Temperature

-5 to 40 Celsius degree

Language

English, Spanish

Operating System

Windows98/SE/ME/2K/XPMac OS 10Linux 2.4.2

Convert Video files into AMV format ones

This program is used to convert video files into AMV format, currently only WMV format is supported.
1 Run AMV Convert Tools, click
then click

to choose the folder where you want to save the AMV files,

to select the folder where the original files are

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Click

to start converting

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3 After conversion, the AMV files will be played automatically.

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Webste: www.augenus.com
Phone Number: 1-888-AugenOK
Address:230 N Dixie Hwy Bay#23 Hollywood,FI 33020

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