SMPK4233 - Mp3 player SYLVANIA - Free user manual and instructions

Product Type	Portable MP3 Player / Media Player
Brand	Sylvania
Model	SMPK4233
Display	2.4 inch Colour TFT
Internal Memory	128MB to 4GB flash (varies by model)
Dimensions (W x H x D)	50mm x 84mm x 8mm
Weight	50g
Power Supply	3.7V Lithium battery (charges via USB)
Interface	USB 2.0 High Speed
Audio Formats Supported	MP3 (8-320 kbps), WMA (5-384 kbps)
Video Formats Supported	AVI (320x240 resolution)
Photo Formats Supported	JPG, BMP, GIF
Ebook Formats Supported	TXT
Recording Formats	ACT, MP3
Audio Output Power	9mW x 32 ohms
Signal-to-Noise Ratio	85dB
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise	<0.6%
Operating System Compatibility	Windows 98/2000/XP
Language Support	12 languages (including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, etc.)
Care and Cleaning	Clean with a soft, dry cloth. Avoid water and harsh chemicals.
Safety and Disposal	Do not dispose with household waste. Recycle according to local regulations.
Spare Parts and Repairability	No user-serviceable parts. Contact Sylvania support for repairs.

Frequently Asked Questions - SMPK4233 SYLVANIA

How do I charge the Sylvania SMPK4233?

Connect the player to a computer via the USB cable. The charging animation will appear on the screen. The player is fully charged when the animation stops.

How do I transfer music files to the player?

Connect the player to your PC via USB. It will appear as a removable disk. Open the disk, then drag and drop your music files (MP3 or WMA) into it. Always safely eject before disconnecting.

Why can't I enter Music mode?

If you cannot access Music mode, try formatting the player's memory while connected to your PC. Backup your data first, then format the removable disk (FAT32 recommended). After formatting, reconnect and try again.

How do I convert video files for playback?

Use the included AVI Converter software (found in Start > Programs > MP3 Player Utilities 5.02). Select your source video and a target folder, then click Convert. Only .AVI files with 320x240 resolution are supported.

How do I change the language on the device?

From the main menu, select Settings (or Language) using the Previous/Next buttons, then press M to enter. Scroll to Language, press M again, choose your language from the list, and press M to confirm.

How do I display and edit lyrics?

Create a .LRC file with synchronized lyrics (e.g., copy from internet). Save it with the same filename as your .MP3 or .WMA file, and place both in the same folder on the player. During playback, hold the Vol- button twice to display lyrics; hold again to hide.

How do I set repeat or shuffle mode?

While playing music, press M to open the submenu. Select Repeat Mode, then choose from Sequence, Repeat One, Repeat All, Random Play, or Intro. Press M to confirm your choice.

How do I use the equalizer?

During music playback, press M to open the submenu. Select EQ Mode. You can choose from 7 presets (Normal, Rock, Pop, Classic, Soft, Jazz, DBB) or create a custom User EQ by adjusting frequencies with -/+ buttons.

How do I record voice?

From the main menu, select Recorder. Press M to start recording. Press the Play/Pause button (or M) to stop and save. Recordings are saved in ACT or MP3 format and can be played back from the Voice menu.

How do I read ebooks on the player?

Save .TXT files to the player's memory. From the main menu, select Ebook. Press M to enter, then choose a file. Use Next/Previous to scroll. You can set Auto Play Gap for automatic scrolling in the submenu.

USER MANUAL SMPK4233 SYLVANIA

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Install Software

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Get Connected

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Transfer Media

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Plug Your Ears & Enjoy

SMPK4233

Content

What's in the blister?	2
System Requirement	3
Software Installation	4
Connect & Charge	5
Transfer	6-7
Software Operation	8-9
Settings	10
Know Your Player Well	11-12
Music Playback	13
Edit Lyrics	14
Repeat Mode	15
EQ Mode	16
Video Playback	17
Photo Browse	18-19
Ebook	20
Recorder	21
Technical Data	22
Trouble Shooting	23

What's in the box?

What's in the blister?

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Portable Media Player

Earphone

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USB Cable

CD-ROM containing:
• Media player driver for Windows® 98
- Software for converting video files

System Requirement

You'll need a computer with:

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Windows® 98/2000/XP

Pentium Class or faster Processor

CD-ROM Drive

64MB RAM

30MB free hard disk space

USB Port

Software Installation

Software Utilities Installation

Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive of your PC.

Click Setustab driver installation.

Follow the on-screen-menu to complete the installation.

Click Close your latest the Complete screen.

For Windows® 98 users, please install the driver in the CD-ROM before downloading any files to your player.

Connect & Charge

Connect

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Your player will be charged while being connected to PC through the USB cable.

! You will see the charging animation on the display.

The player is fully charged when the charging animation stops.

Transfer

Get Your Player Connected

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Step 1: Plug the USB cable to the USB ports of your PC and player. Once the connection is successfully made, the removable disk of the player will be found.

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Step 2: The above screen (1) would appear. (Apply only to Windows® XP) Choose Table click action OK to close the window.
Double click My Computer desktop and the above window (2) would appear. Look for the Removable Disk icon.

Transfer

Step 3:

Double click the Riemovable Disk

Note: Do not disconnect the USB cable once you click into the removable disk window. Such action may cause data loss or problems to the player.

Drag and drop your media files into the removable disk. Close the removable disk window and disconnect the player from your PC after the data transfer.

Transfer Music, Image, Movie & Ebook

Software Operation

Software Operation

You can convert your favorite video file in any other format into the .AVI format with the help of the AVI Converter (Start\Programs\MP3 Player Utilities 5.02 \AVI Converter

After selecting the source video file and your preferred target file path. You can press the Convert button to start it. The converted .AVI file will be played automatically after conversion via Media Player.

Software Operation

Software Operation

Your can enjoy songs from both PC and your player thru the Media Manager

(Programs\MP3 Player Utilities 5.02\Media Manager).

If the updated firmware version is available, please use

to upgrade it.MP3 Player Fi

Language Selection

Press Portion to select on the main menu, and press → to enter its sub-menu. Press Preselect/ Next Language Select, and press → again to the language options list.

12 languages are available: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Russian.

Press Previous/ Next button to select your preferred language, and press Mo confirm.

Setting Date & Time

Press President/ nexte setting Date, and Time and press to confirm.

Select Abjupressing and Time

Then you can press Previous to Next

Year / Month / Day / Hour / Minute,

and press - / + to adjust them.

At last, press to confirm your setting.

Press button to return to the main menu.

Know Your Player Well

Plug Your Ears, and Enjoy

Know Your Player Well

	To	Press
General	Power On/Off	Switch the On/Off switch
	Turn On/Off	Hold Playlong
	Scroll through lists	Previous/ Next
	Select Option	M
	Lock	Hold for 2 seconds+/-
	Unlock	Hold for 2 seconds +/-
	Return to previous menu	Play
		• (just for Music and Video mode)
Music	Play/Pause songs	Play
	Jump to next song	Next
	Fast Forward	Hold long Next
	Move back to previous song	Previous
	Fast Backward	Hold longPrevious
	Display lyrics	Hold twiceVol -
	Stop lyrics display	Hold Vol -
	Volume up	+
	Volume down	-
Movie	Play/Pause a movie	Play
	Jump to next movie	Next
	Fast Forward	Hold longNext
	Move back to previous movie	Previous
	Fast Backward	Hold long Previous
Images	Select image	M
	Jump to next image	Next
	Jump to previous image	Previous
Ebook	Select article	M
	Scroll downwards	Next
	Scroll upwards	Previous
	Quit to main menu	Press Play

Music Playback

Music Playback

Press Pro/selectNeon the main MyrMusic

and press → to enter it.

Select And press to view the songs list.

Then you can select different songs by pressing

Previous/ Next, and you can easily play the song you've chosen by a simple press of M.

While enjoying music, you can press Pto/pause

or continue the music;

Press Provinove back to the previous song

or jump to the next song;

HoldPrlong to move your song forward or rewind it.

When playing music, hold M button to enter the Sub Menu.

When playing music, press Pity return to the previous menu, press P again to return to the main menu.

Display Lyrics

The edited lyrics will be displayed synchronously

if you hold twice while playing music.

You can hold Voice again to quit the lyrics display scene.

Edit Lyrics

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Edit Lyrics

You can copy the synchronous lyrics from internet, and create a new Text Document on your PC, paste them, and then select to save this document in the extension of LRC shown as below.

Then put both .LRC and .MP3 (or .WMA) files of the same song into the same folder in the removable disk. Your lyrics would be shown when you play that song.

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Repeat Mode

Repeat Mode

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Procedure:

Press M while playing music to enter the sub-menu screen (1).

Select Repeat press to enter the Repeat menu screen (2).

Press Pto select your preferred repeat mode, and press to confirm.

5 Repeat Modes are available:

Sequence, Repeat One, Repeat All, Random Play, Intro.

Sequence

All music files will be played one by one and stopped at the last music until you disable this function.

Repeat One

The currently played song will be played repeatedly until this function is disabled.

Repeat All

All music would be played from the beginning to the last one repeatedly until this function is disabled.

Random Play

All music would be played randomly until this function is disabled.

Intro

All music would be played for 10 seconds from the beginning until this function is disabled.

EQ mode

Listen to your music at its best

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Procedure:

Press ☒ while playing music to enter the sub-menu screen (1).

Press Ntoselect and press to enter the Equalizer menu screen (2).

If you don't feel satisfied with the 7 fixed EQ Modes:

Normal, Rock, Pop, Classic, Soft, Jazz, DBB.

You can press Notselect, and Presede to its sub-menu screen.

Press Next select, and press mode to enter the User EQ Setting screen.

you can press Ptevino ve to each item; and press / to adjust them.

At last, press to confirm your setting and get back to the previous menu.

Video Playback

Video Playback

Press Pto select Not the main MyVideo and press to enter it. Select Dly pressing Choose ,and Memory to enter the video files list. Press Pto select different movies, and press to play.

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While enjoying video, you can press Play/pause or continue the movie, and press Play/move back to the previous movie or jump to the next one. You can move your movie forward or rewind it while playing by holding Plongus/ Next If you want to adjust the volume, please press - / + . When playing the video, press to enter the sub-menu and choose exit to back to the previous menu. Press again to return to the main menu.

Photo Browse

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Press Previous/Next to select MonPrint main menu, and press to confirm. Select Postpressing

Press ▼ to Dim Distress to enter it. Choose Local Memory list will be shown after you press ▼.

Then you can press Pto select a picture, and press \~ to play it.

While playing a picture, you can press Pte plays/ Next the previous or next picture, too.

When browsing photos, press P button to get back to previous Menu, press P again to return to the Main menu.

Photos Preview

Press Pto select Non the sub-nBrandMy Picture, and press to enter its options list.

Press Nto choose, and press Mode confirm you setting.

Then you can preview all the pictures after you select to enter the pictures list.

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Photo Browse

SlideShow

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If you want to create a slideshow for all photos, you can press it to select Play the sub-menu of My Picture, and press to enter its options list.

Press No choose, and press by to confirm. Then the pictures could be played one by one automatically according to the Slide Gap you preset.

Slide Gap Setting:

Press Pto select Next Slide Gap

on the sub-menu of My Picture.

You can press - / + to adjust the time setting of slide gap between two pictures.

Ebook

Ebook

Press PrevselectNext the main MenEbook

and press M to enter it.

Press Next, and prelist to enter it.

The ebooks in the extension of .TXT will be listed after you press M.

Auto Play Setting

While reading an article, you can press to choose Manual Mode or Auto Play Gap to the article will be scrolled automatically according to the Auto Play Gap you preset.

Press to select on the sub-marked EboGupPrevious/ Next You can press - / + to adjust the time setting of auto play gap.

Recorder

Voice Recording

Press PtoselectNon theorelemenu, and press → to enter it.

Select N and pressdingo start it.

You can press ✘ to save the recorded voice.

To preset the format of the recorded voice file, you could select to go into Rent the sub-menu of Recorder.

Press button to return to Main Menu.Play

Voice Playback

If you want to play the recorded file, you can press Ptevious/ Next select MmMbe main menu, and press to enter it.

Press No select , and then redacted voice files will be listed after you press .

You can press Pro/selection one, and press to start playing.

When playing the recorded audio file, Hold Mbutton to return to the Main Menu.

Technical Data

General Information		Audio Playback
Capacity	128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB internal flash memory	Compression Formats	.MP 3 (8kbps ~ 320kbps), .WMA (5kbps ~ 384kbps) for music at Constant Bit Rate
Display	2.4 inch Colour TFT display
Power Supply	3.7V Lithium battery	S/N ratio	85dB
Operating System	Windows® 98/2000/XP	THN+D	<0.6
Interface	USB 2.0 High Speed	Crosstalk	>50dB
Dimensions	50mm x 84mm x 8mm	Earphone Output Power	9mWx, 32ohm
Weight	50g	Photo Browse
Voice Recording		Supported File Types	.JPG, .BMP and .GIF for photo files
Supported File Types	.ACT and .MP3 files	Viewing Mode	Manual Browse, Slideshow
Video Playback		Ebook
Supported File Type	.AVI files ( )Resolution 320 x 240	Supported File Type	.TXT files
		Viewing Mode	Manual Mode, Auto Mode

What should I do if...

Q: I cannot enter the MUSIC mode after using the player for a period of time.

A: You should format the memory of the player under connection to PC. (Be sure you remember to backup the data in your player before performing the above action.)

Q: I cannot convert my video file into the .AVI format.

A: Please make sure that the media player software for video files has been installed on your PC. Then try to convert again.

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Disposal of your old product

Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) contains materials, parts and substances which can be dangerous to the environment and harmful to human health if wastes of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are not disposed correctly.

Equipments which are marked with the WEEE logo (as shown on the right), should not be thrown away with your household waste. Contact your local Authority Waste Disposal Department as they will be able to provide details of the recycling options available in your area.

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