MP3-DJ - DJ Equipment GENIUS - Free user manual and instructions

Product type	MP3 player / DJ equipment
Brand	Genius
Model	MP3-DJ
Dimensions (H x W x D)	72 x 26 x 18 mm
Net weight	22.5 g
Power supply	1 rechargeable AAA battery (up to 10 hours battery life)
Internal memory	Internal flash 256 MB / 512 MB
Interface	USB 2.0 full speed
Supported audio formats	MP3, WMA
FM radio	87.5 - 108 MHz, stereo, up to 30 presets
Voice recording	ADPCM with built-in microphone
Display	LCD 128 x 32 pixels, blue LED backlight
Signal-to-noise ratio	90 dB
Frequency response	20 Hz - 20 kHz
Audio output	5 mW (L and R)
Total harmonic distortion	< 0.05%
Lyrics display	Synchronized (.lrc file)
Equalizer	Normal, Pop, Classic, Jazz, Rock
Lock function	Yes (HOLD switch)
Care and cleaning	Avoid liquids, extreme temperatures, disassembly. Clean with a soft, dry cloth.
Safety	Do not expose to moisture, do not use at high volume for long periods, do not leave in sunlight.
Compatible operating systems	Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP, Mac OS 9.2.2 or higher

Frequently Asked Questions - MP3-DJ GENIUS

How to transfer music to the player?

Connect the player to the computer via USB cable. The player appears as a removable drive in 'My Computer'. Copy MP3/WMA files and paste them into the removable drive folder. Wait for the screen to display 'Ready' before disconnecting.

How to use the FM radio?

Press M to enter the menu, navigate to 'FM' and press M. You can use automatic search (press A-B) or manual (press ◄ / ►). To save a frequency, select it, then press M and choose a preset number (P01-P30) with ◄ / ►, then confirm with A-B.

How to record an FM radio track?

In FM mode, press and hold the A-B button to start recording. A '●' appears. Press M to stop; 'Saved' appears. Files are saved in the 'FM' folder at the root of the player.

How to make a voice recording?

In music or voice mode (playing or stopped), press and hold A-B to start recording via the built-in microphone. Press M to stop. Files are saved in the 'Voice' folder.

How to change the ID3 display language?

Press M to enter the menu, navigate to 'Settings' > 'Language'. Choose from: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Deutsch, Portuguese, Russian. Confirm with M.

How to lock the keys?

Slide the HOLD switch to the lock position. The '' icon appears. To unlock, slide the switch back to the initial position.

How to delete files from the player?

In the menu, go to 'Delete' > 'Music' or 'Voice'. Use ◄ / ► to select the file, then press A-B to delete it. Confirm if necessary.

How to adjust the equalizer?

In the menu, go to 'Settings' > 'EQ'. Choose from: Normal, Pop, Classic, Jazz, Rock. Press M to confirm.

How to set auto power off?

In the menu, go to 'Settings' > 'Power Saving'. Select the idle time before power off: Disabled, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min or 10 min. Confirm with M.

What to do if the player is not recognized by the computer?

Make sure the USB cable is properly connected. Under Windows 98SE, install the driver from the provided CD. For Windows 2000, update with Service Pack 4. Restart the computer and try again. The player should appear as a removable drive.

USER MANUAL MP3-DJ GENIUS

Introduction 1
Accessories 1
System Requirements 1
Care and Maintenance 2
Knowing your MP3 PLAYER 3
Software Installation 5
Connecting to PC. 6
Downloading music 7
Function Instructions 8
Overall View of LCD 10
Menu Settings 10
Listening to FM Radio 15
Specifications 18

Introduction

Genius MP3 PLAYER

Thank you for purchasing the Genius MP3 player. You do not need to carry a cassette tape or CD anymore.

With this MP3 Player, enjoying CD-quality music becomes a breeze. You can store dozens of MP3 files in the built-in flash memory. Also, you can listen to the radio or even record your favorite radio program, interview, conversation or lecture.

Accessories

Stereo Earphone

USB cable

Install CD/Manual

AAA rechargeable battery

System Requirements

• Pentium 200 MHz
• 40MB hard disk space
• USB 1.1 Port or above
  CD/DVD-ROM Drive
• Microsoft Windows 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP or Mac 9.2.2 or above

Care and Maintenance

• Do not set the volume level too high. Avoid using the equipment continuously for a long period of time to minimize impairment to your hearing.
  Extreme temperatures may have a temporary effect on the operation of your MP3 player. This is normal and does not indicate a fault.
• Do not modify or disassemble the equipment. There are no user serviceable parts.
  Vibration during walking or exercising will not affect the MP3 player. However, dropping the player or dropping a heavy object on the player may result in distorted sound.
• Avoid contact with liquids. If the equipment becomes wet, remove the power immediately and contact your retailer.
• Do not leave the equipment in direct sunlight or in a humid, dusty or hot area.
• Keep metallic and magnetic items that may accidentally touch the terminals away from the equipment.
  When connecting the player to an external source, read the operating instructions of the equipment for the correct connection and safety precautions. Ensure the player is compatible with the product it is being connected to.
  When disposing of any packing materials or old equipment check with your local authorities for information on recycling.

Knowing your MP3 player

1. Power On / Play / Pause / Stop / Power Off

Press the button to power on the player

Playback or pause playback of music or voice file

Press and hold to power off the player

2/3. FORWARD / BACKWARD

Press to skip to next track

Press and hold to fast forward within the current track

Press to skip to previous track

Press and hold to fast reverse within the current track

4. MENU M

Press to enter menu or sub-menus to configure different settings of the player Press to confirm the selected menu option

Press and hold to exit menu and return to playback mode

5. A-B A-B

Repeat between Section A and B during music mode

Press and hold to start voice recording

Press to set the start point (A- appears and flashes)

Press again to set the end point (A-B appears)

6. MIC

Built-in microphone for voice recording

7/8. VOLUME (+) / VOLUME (-) +/-

Press to increase the volume level

Press to decrease the volume level

9. USB 2.0 Port

You can upload / download files via this port with the USB cable

10. Earphone Jack

1. Battery Door

12. HOLD HOLD

Software Installation

Connect the player to your PC, the built-in flash memory of the player will be shown under "My Computer" as a Removable Disk Drive. After it is finished, you can upload, download and manage the files in the player.

How To Install the Driver:

Windows Me / 2000 / XP

The installation CD is not required when installing your player under these operating systems. However, for those who are using Windows 2000, we recommend you to update the OS by Service Pack 4.

Windows98 SE

1. Insert the software installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. If the setup program does not run automatically, go to steps 2 to 3. Otherwise, skip to step 4.
2. Click Start -> Run.
3. In the Run dialog, type D:\ShowMenu.exe (where D:\ is your CD-ROM drive) and click OK. Follow up the install instruction.
4. At the Genius Driver screen, click on the "INSTALL" icon once.
5. The driver installation wizard starts. Follow the instructions given by the wizard to complete the installation.
6. Restart your computer once for the new hardware installation to take effect.
7. After your computer has restarted, connect your player to the computer, and the new hardware will be found: mp3 player

Connecting to PC

1. Plug the flat USB connector of the USB cable to your computer.
2. Plug the mini connector of the USB cable to the player.
3. The player will power on automatically.

When your MP3 player is connected to your computer, it starts working as a removable hard disk (external drive) on your computer. You can transfer, copy, paste, and delete the data (audio

files, voice recording files, etc.), which are stored on your player into your computer very conveniently. It can also be used for storage of non-music files.

Attention:

The removable drive can be found under "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer". Also, open the "Device Manager" of your Windows and you will see the player is recognized as "USB Mass Storage Device" USB Device", which becomes one of the disk drives in your computer

Downloading music

To download music or files to the player, connect the player with PC first, then:

1. Select the track you want to download to the player by clicking on the file icon.
2. Right-click on the files, a menu appears. Click Copy.
3. Under My Computer, double-click Removable Disk to open the drive. The Removable Disk window appears.
4. Right-click on the Removable Disk window and click Paste in the menu.
5. Start copying the files. The display will show:

Please do not disconnect your player until you see "Ready" comes up on the LCD. For users of Windows Me / 2000 / XP, please remove the MP3 player safety.

Function Instructions

■ Voice recording in music / voice mode

This feature offers high quality, one-touch voice recording. You can use the player to record lectures, interviews or meetings. Under music or voice mode, the player is in playback or stop mode, press and hold A-B to start recording.

During recording, a "●" will be shown on the LCD.

To stop recording, press M once. You will see "Saved" displayed on the LCD. The recorded files will be named and saved automatically to a Voice folder at the root Directory.

Key Lock (Hold) HOLD

You may lock the buttons on the player to prevent inadvertent contact to the buttons during playback.

The MP3 player supports key lock function, just push HOLD , the steps are as follows :

While the player is in playback, stop or FM radio mode, push HOLD once.

"8" icon appears on the LCD, implies the key lock function has deactivated.

To deactivate key lock function, push HOLD back.

" 8 " icon disappeared from the LDC , implies the key lock function has deactivated.

Key lock function will NOT work when the player is in power off status.

ID3 Tag Display

This MP3 player is able to display the name of the current track, artist, album, etc. during playback. It displays ID3 tag information in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Deutsch, Portuguese and Russian. However, you may have to configure the language setting manually inside the MENU.

In case if the ID3 tag information is too much and exceeds the display area of the LCD, the rest of the information will be displayed by dynamic scrolling, from right to left across the LCD.

■ Lyric Display Synchronization

The MP3 player supports standard (file extension - .lrc), synchronized lyric display. You may download the lyric document (.lrc) from the Internet, or create one yourself by using lyric editor software, such as Windows Notepad.

After you have downloaded or created the lyric document (.lrc), please rename the file in accordance with the name of the corresponding MP3 track.

For example, when you are uploading the track - Love.mp3 onto your MP3 player, at the same time, you have to upload the lyric file - Love.Irc as well.

Afterwards, the lyric display will be synchronized with the corresponding MP3 track and displayed on the LCD during playback.

Power Off

Press and hold / for 3 seconds, the player will power off.

Overall View of LCD

Indications

1. Battery Power Indicator
2. Play Mode
3. A-B Looping Function
4. ID3 Tag
5. Current / Total Track Number
6. Mode Indicator (Music / Voice / FM radio)
7. EQ Mode
8. Volume
9. Time Elapsed
10. 10.Hold

Menu Settings

While your player is in playback or stop status (idle), you may press M at anytime to enter the MENU, it allows you to change different settings of the player according to your own preferences.

Inside the MENU, you may press / to move to the next or previous MENU setting. Press M again to enter sub-menu (if any). Again, you may press / to move to the next or previous available options inside the sub-menu(s). Press M to confirm your selected options inside the MENU or sub-menu(s). Press and hold M for 2 seconds to exit the MENU and return to music mode.

			Remark
Music			Go to Play Music
Voice			Go to Play Voice
FM			FM Radio
Setting	EQ	Normal	Normal effect
		Pop	Pop music effect
		Classic	Classic music effect
		Jazz	Jazz music effect
		Rock	Rock music effect
	Play Mode	Normal	No repeat
		Repeat one	Play current music repeatedly
		Repeat all	Play all music repeatedly
		Shuffle + Repeat	Random play music repeatedly
	Language	English	Id3 Tag Language
		French	Id3 Tag Language
		German	Id3 Tag Language
		Italian	Id3 Tag Language
		Spanish	Id3 Tag Language
		Deutsch	Id3 Tag Language
		Portuguese	Id3 Tag Language
		Russian	Id3 Tag Language
	Back Light	Disable	No backlight function
		3 second	The backlight shuts off after 3 sec
		5 second	The backlight shuts off after 5 sec
		10 second	The backlight shuts off after 10 sec
	Contrast		Adjust the LCD screen contrast value
	Power Saving	Disable	No power saving function
		1min	The player shuts off time (How long the player is idle)
		2min	The player shuts off time (How long the player is idle)
		5min	The player shuts off time (How long the player is idle)

ENGLISH

		10min	The player shuts off time (How long the player is idle)
	Scroll	Speed 0-16	Adjust the Id3 Tag & Irc display speed
	Exit		Exit to Menu screen

Delete	Music	Choose one song to erase
	Voice	Choose one voice memo to erase
	Exit	Exit to Menu screen
About		Displays the Firmware version, Media capacity and Free space
Exit		Go to Play Music

MENU-1 Music

Choose Music from menu will return to music mode (playback of MP3/ WMA).

MENU-2 Voice

Choose Voice from menu to enter voice-recording mode. You may browse your voice files, playback voice files, or start voice recording. Please note that the way to playback voice files is exactly the same as playback music files.

MENU-3 FM

Choose FM from menu to enter FM radio mode. Please refer to "Listening to FM Radio" below for further details regarding its operation.

MENU-4 Settings

Choose Settings from menu to enter and configure different settings for the player. Press M again to enter sub-menu.

MENU-4-1 EQ

There are 5 audio output effects available:

Normal - Pop - Classic - Jazz - Rock

MENU-4-2 Play mode

There are 4 play modes available:

Normal - Repeat one - Repeat all - Shuffle + Repeat

MENU-4-3 Language

8 settings are available:

English/French/German/Italian/Spanish/Deutsch/Portuguese-Russian

• You may have to change the language setting according to the language used in the ID3 tag and lyric display of the music track.

MENU-4-4 Back Light

This setting controls the duration time of back light. Available options are:

Disable - 3 second - 5 second - 10 second

MENU-4-5 Contrast

This setting controls the contrast of the LCD display. Press / to adjust the level of contrast you desire.

MENU-4-6 Power Saving

With this power saving control, you may set the standby time for the player to power off automatically when it remains idle for a period of time. It aims to save battery power. Available options are:

This setting controls the scrolling speed for ID3 tag and lyric display during playback. Available options are:

0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16

0 - slowest speed

16 - fastest speed

MENU-4-8 Exit

Press M once to exit sub-menu(s) and return to MENU-4 Settings.

MENU-5 Delete

Choose Delete from menu if you want to erase any music or voice files on your MP3 player. Press M again to enter sub-menu.

MENU-5-1 Music

Delete your music files (MP3 / WMA) here.

Press / to browse and select the music file(s) that you wish to delete.

Press A-B to start deleting the selected file as shown below:

Press M to exit.

MENU-5-2 Voice

Delete your voice files (voice recording) here.

Press / to browse and select the voice file(s) that you wish to delete.

Press A-B to start deleting the selected file.

Press M to exit.

MENU-5-3 Exit

Press M once to exit sub-menu(s) and return to MENU-5 Delete.

MENU-6 About

Choose About from menu to view the current status of your MP3 player.

The following information serves as an example:

Ver: 1.1.4 (Current Firmware Version of the MP3 player)

Flash: 254 MB (Total capacity of built-in memory available on the MP3 player)

MENU-7 Exit

Choose Exit from menu to exit MENU and return to music mode (playback of MP3 / WMA).

Listening to FM Radio

To activate FM radio mode

Press M once, press / until MENU-3 FM comes up on the LCD.

Press M to enter FM radio mode.

The range of FM radio frequency is 87.5 108 MHz.

There are 2 modes available for FM radio - Search and Preset. Press M to toggle to your desired mode.

Search Mode

When search mode is activating, symbol appears on the LCD at the same time. See diagram below for illustration:

Auto Search

Press A-B to activate auto-search function.

Auto-search will try to locate and identify the available channels within the frequency range.

Once the player captures a frequency, auto-search will be paused automatically and saved it to the preset channel from 1 to 30 one by one.

Press M to cancel the auto-searching while it is searching.

Manual Search

Press 四 / 四 to search for available frequency manually.

Each time when you press it will increase or decrease frequency at a step size of 0.1 MHz. Search direction can be either forward or reverse, depending on the button that you pressed.

NOTE: You are advised to change your location from time to time in order to increase the reception quality under Auto or Manual search function.

Preset Frequency

Press to select a desired frequency. Press once, at the same time, "Save?" comes up on the LCD.

Press to assign a channel number (P01 - P30).

Press A-B to confirm and preset the frequency, at the same time, "Saved" comes up on the LCD.

Up to 30 frequency preset channels are available.

NOTE: Once a channel number is assigned to a preset frequency, you will not be able to delete it and release the memory. However, you can always use the same channel number repeatedly and replace it by another preset frequency. Simply repeat the above steps, and choose the channel number in which you want it to be replaced by another preset frequency.

Preset Mode

When preset mode is activating, symbol appears on the LCD at the same time. See diagram below for illustration:

Press to select a desired preset channel.

To exit FM radio mode

Press and hold M to exit FM radio mode and return to MENU.

FM radio recording in FM radio mode

Press M once, keep pressing until MENU-3 FM comes up on the LCD.

Press M to enter FM radio mode.

Select the radio station that you wish to record.

Press and hold A-B to start recording in FM radio mode.

During recording, a "●" will be shown on the LCD.

To stop recording, press M once. You will see "Saved" displayed on the LCD.

The recorded files will be named and saved automatically to a FM folder at the root directory

Note: Radio recording quality depends on the reception quality.

Specifications

Size (H x W x D)

72x26x18 mm

Net Weight

22.5gram

Memory Capacity

Internal Flash Memory 256MB/512MB

Power Supply

1 AAA Rechargeable battery

Play time up to 10 hours (Normal/1KHz)

Interface

USB 2.0 Full Speed

FM Tuner

87.5 - 108 MHz FM stereo broadcasting

Up to 30 frequency preset channels available

Digital Music Format

MP3

WMA

Voice Recording

ADPCM type

Built-in MIC

FM tuner recording

Display

128 x 32 Dot-Matrix LCD

LED (Blue) Back Light

Signal to Noise Ratio

90dB

Frequency Response

20 Hz ~ 20 KHz

Output

5mW (L & R output)

Total Harmonic Distortion Output

< 0.05%

■Lyrics Display

Supports .Irc file for lyric display