Albatros - Mp3 player ZipyLife - Free user manual and instructions

USER MANUAL Albatros ZipyLife

2. AIDigital is committed with a Sustainable Environment and is concerned about

battery disposal. Please make sure NOT TO THROW AWAY your device at the trash container. Your store has adequate recycle bins.”

3. The information of this manual is based on the current version of the product.

4. The material in this manual is for informative purposes only. The products that

are described are subject to changes without prior notice due to the continuous process of development of the brand.

5. Do not expose this device to high temperatures since that may affect the system.

This can invalidate the device guarantee.

6. We reserve the rights to change with out prior notice.

7. Please turn on the player when charging.

1. Prevent friction with hard things, or it may lead surface abrasion, battery fall off

and hardware damage.

2. When the player is at pause state for a period of time, it will turn off

3. Do not disconnect the device when formatting , uploading and downloading date.

Cause this can lead to loss of data.

4. Please don't replace battery by oneself or break battery and throw in fire .

Otherwise it will hurt yourself.

5. Please don't dismantle or unload this machine without authorization, if have any

New version released

Minor changes5 Lock / Unlock In Video, Music or Radio mode, move the power switch to the lock position to lock the player so as to avoid careless button operation. Unlock: move the power switch back to the original position and button and touch operation will be enabled again. Volume Adjustment Under Music, FM radio or Video mode, press +, – button to adjust volume. Press + to add volume, and press – to reduce volume. Reset If the player encounters dead halt during use, press RESET button to restart the player. Connection to PC and Data Exchange Connect the player to PC with the USB cable, and the player will enter “U disk” mode. Press MENU button or safely remove U disk, and the player will be under USB charging mode. In USB charging mode, touch the screen or press MENU to enter the main applications interface.

Charging This player has high capacity lithium battery. For charging, connect the player to the USB port of the PC or to a Micro-USB Charger. Low Power When battery power is low, the player will prompt and power off and enter Standby mode automatically. Do not power on and charge the player instead. To fully charge the player, it takes around 6 hours via USB port of PC, you can also choose to buy an extra Micro-USB Charger, the recommended power current of the Micro-USB charger is: 400-500mA. File Storage Files of different types should be stored under different directories. For example, music file should be stored under MUSIC dir. Record file stored under RECORD dir. Picture files under PICTURE dir. Video files VIDEO dir. Text files TXT dir. the corresponding application unable to find the file6 If it is not saved in this way, How to use Micro SD card When this player is connected to PC, two movable disks will be found. The first one is the internal memory, and the second one is Micro SD card. If no card inserted, the second disk can not be opened. This player is compatible with maximum 8GB Micro SD card. How to insert and pull out Micro SD card How to insert: with the front (the side with characters) of the Micro SD card up (towards the screen of the player), slightly push to insert into the card holder of the player to connect. After the card is inserted, the player can play the files in the Micro SD card. How to pull out: slightly push the Micro SD card and the Micro SD card will partly come out, and then pull the card out. Note: please insert or pull out the card when the player is off, or the internal files of the player will be lost or damaged. Geneal Button /Icon Description Button /Icon

Description Return to upper directory Return to main menu Delete file or folder Return to previous operation interface Main Menu Interface This player provides a touch screen OS for direct operation. The main menu interface is shown in the picture below:7 1． The system date and time is shown on the upper left corner of the main menu interface The battery is shown on the upper right corner of the main menu interface. 2． Under the main menu interface, touch an icon on the screen, and the player will enter the selected mode. 3． After the player enters a mode, touch the icon on the bottom right corner or press and hold the MENU button to return to the main menu interface. Music Mode In the main interface, touch the “Music” icon to enter music mode. Music Interface Description

Button /icon Description Number of the song being played / Total songs

Playing style Song playing progress bar. Drag the bar to adjust playing progress. Volume bar. Drag the bar to adjust volume. Touch it to switch to previous song, long press for fast rewind Play /pause /stop the current song. Click the play button, and the button will be change to pause button. After a song is finished, it will change to stop button.8 Touch it to switch to the next song, press and long press for fast forward Music Setting Interface Click one of the 4 buttons at the bottom of the interface to enable an appropriate function. Icon Description Click Browser to enter different song lists - main directory, card directory, all songs, ID3 list, play list, and tag list. Click Settings to choose SRS setting: WOW, WOWHD, USER Click USER to enter user setting interface. Drag the bar or chick the options to set the functions. Click OK to confirm the settings. EQ setting: click to enter User EQ setting interface, move up or down the bar to select sound effect, and click OK to confirm. Add list9 Add tag Click return to play screen. Song information display. Lyrics Display The player is compatible with lyrics files of “*.LRC” format and enables playing song with synchronous lyrics. The name of the lyrics file should be the same as that of the song file. When there are the lyrics with the same name of the song being played under the play list directory, the lyrics of the song will be displayed on the playing interface. Video Mode In main interface, click the “video” icon to enter Video mode. Directly click the video file on the screen to start playing the selected video. When play a video file, the up/down buttons and the progress bar will appear automatically by touching the screen.

Play: click and it will change to pause button , and click again to continue playing.10 Touch it and the Volume bar will pop out at the bottom. Drag the bar to adjust volume. Return to main menu Fast rewind: long press for fast rewind. Short press for the previous video file.

Click to change to the List mode.

2. Directly click the thumbnail to browse pictures. Click the picture, and the buttons will appear11

automatically at the bottom of the screen.

Button Description Manual play: click the button, and the button will change to , and click again to enter auto play mode. Main dir and card dir. return to upper directory to browse picture list. Slide interval: 1 -5 seconds Previous picture Next picture Return to the main menu Radio Mode

1. In the main interface, click the “Radio” icon to enter radio Mode.

2. If no headphone, the player will prompt the user to insert a headphone.12

Description Radio channel list, click to show radio channel list. Manual search: click to enter manual search mode; short press

button to manually search up /down for radio channels, and the player is mute where no channel being found. Auto search: click to enter auto search mode. All channels can be automatically searched and saved. After search is completed, the player will play radio at the preset channel 1. During channel search, click or button to stop auto search. Save channel Delete channel Change to channel of lower frequency Change to channel of higher frequency Radio mode change: click and the button will change to , and channel search will be paused. Enter FM station recording interface Select frequency range: China, Japan, Europe and US. FM Recording Interface

1. In Radio mode, click to enter FM station recording interface.13

Description Stop, click it and it will change to play icon to enter recording mode Save the recorded file. View recorded file. Record settings

1. Recording format: WAV &MP3 formats.

2. Quality: high, medium, low.

1. In the main interface, click the Ebook icon to enter the mode.

2. Select a TXT file to enter Ebook browser interface.14

Description Manual browse: click it and it will change to to enter auto browser mode. Auto browser time setting: 10 seconds, 15 seconds, 20 seconds, 25 seconds, 30 seconds. Save and pick tag, click to show the tag list, and then click to save or select tag. Click or the part outside Save tag box to exit from the tag setting box.

Skip to: click to show “Skip to” dialogue box, and click or to select the skip percentage. Click outside part of the “Skip to” box to exit.

TXT file browser: local directory, card directory. Previous page Next page15 Camera Mode

1. In the main interface, click the “Camera” icon to enter the mode.

2. In the menu, select one of 3 functions: camera, video camera

1. Click “camera” to enter the mode.

2. In frame interface, touch the screen and top & bottom button bar will appear. Touch again, and

the up/down button bar will disappear. Button Description Switch to video camera mode. Number of pictures that can be taken. Self Shootting time setting: 5 seconds, 15 seconds, 20 seconds, off. Default setting is off. Return to the main menu. View the pictures. Picture mode settings

White balance: auto, indoor, outdoor. Default setting is auto Brightness: value range -3 to +3. Default setting is 0. Exposure mode: auto, indoor, outdoor. Default setting is auto Special effect: off, black & white, sepia, negative. Default setting is off.

2. Save path: local device, card device. The default is local device Shutter

sound: off, sound effect 1, sound effect 2 and sound effect 3; Default setting is sound effect 1.

3. Date stamp: off, date stamp or date and time stamp. Default setting is off.

To make no settings, touch the screen outside the menu to exit.16 Resolution switch: 320x240, 640x480, 1024x768, 1280x960. Take picture Take white balance setting as an example: Click or to select among different mode, then click screen to confirm selection and exit. Video Camera Setting Interface

1. Touch the screen and top/bottom button bar will appear. Touch again and the button bar will

disappear. Button Description Change to camera mode. 3 exposure modes: Auto (default), indoor (lamp) and outdoor (sun). 4 types of special effects: black & white, negative, sepia, off (default). Return to the main menu. View video file. Video camera mode setting

1. Brightness: value range -3 to +3. Default setting is 0.

2. Save path: local device, card device. The default is local device.

To make no settings, touch the screen outside the menu to exit.

Resolution switch: 176x144, 224x176, 320x240. Start video recording17 Video Camera Interface Click to enter video recording interface, touch the screen and a button bar will be displayed at the bottom. Button Description Video recording: click to pause video recording. Save video file, and return to video setting interface. Note: the video recording time is shown in the middle, on the left is the recorded time, and on the right is the available time remaining for video recording. PC Camera Select “PC Camera” function to enter PC camera mode, the player will detect if USB cable has been connected. With the video conversion tool, this player can be used as a PC camera on PC to produce video or picture files. Please refer to Chapter Video Conversion Tool for more details on how to use the tool. 择 Explorer Mode In the main interface, click the “Explorer” icon to enter the mode: Flash Memory and Card Memory (not displayed if no card inserted). All files and file folders in the player can be listed, and the user may play the compatible music, video, e-book and picture files under this interface; or, the user may directly delete the selected files.18 Application In the main interface, click the “Application” to enter the mode. Recorder Click recorder to enter internal MIC recorder interface. The operation is the same as that of FM recorder. Calendar Click or button to select month and year. Select date by directly clicking the number on the screen and the number will become blue color.19 Stopwatch Click “Start counting”, “Next” or “Clear” at the bottom to realize different functions. As counting begins, “Start counting” will change to “Pause”. Calculator Simply press the corresponding button.20 Notebook Only valid in Simplified Chinese and English environment. Input characters in the input box. Input Method

Switch input methods, from left to right: English, numbers & symbols, Chinese, all input methods (can be used to recognize three types of characters).

1. Click “Chinese” button to use Chinese input mode, as shown above. After input, choose the

appropriate Chinese character on the keyboard. From left to right: delete the character before cursor, space and enter.

2. Click button to enter numbers & symbols input mode, and the keyboard is as follows:

Delete all characters

Delete the previous character

3. Click “return” to return to Chinese input interface, or click to enter English input

4. After input, click button at the left bottom to save, and the player will

automatically jump to notebook file list interface. Click to return to the input interface. System Setting In the main interface, click the “system settings” icon to enter the mode. Player Information Relevant read-only product information Set Time

1. Time format: on or off.

2. Time and date: click and to set.

Language Three languages available for selection: English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Simply click to select the appropriate language. Display

Click and to set. There are 9 options: 0 second, 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes and 30 minutes.22

2. Brightness adjustment

There are 5 options: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The higher the level is, the brighter the LCD is. Click the corresponding to icon to set. Calibrate When the touch screen position is not accurate, recalibrate with this function. After the player enters this mode, touch the center of calibration sign + to calibrate. Power Off Setting Sleep time: click and to set. There are 6 options: off, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes and 120 minutes. The setting will change to the default value “Off” if re-start the player. Default Settings After the player enters this mode, the player will prompt an auto warning about whether to restore system default setting or not. Click “Ok” to restore factory default settings. Click “Cancel” to abandon this restoration. Upgrade After clicking this icon, the player will enter “hardware upgrading” warning interface. At this point, connect the player to the USB port of a PC to update the firmware of the player. Touch “cancel” on the screen to abort this upgrading. Other Settings Format device: click “format system disk” or “format card” to start formatting, and the selected item will become blue color. The system will pop up a confirmation box as follows:23 Select device: click “U disk” or “MTP device” to select the device connection mode with PC, and the selected item will become blue color. Video Conversion Tool Video conversion tool is used to convert AV files into advanced AVI or WMV video file format to make them viewable on this player; or to take pictures or record video files when this player is used as a PC Camera. Operating Platform For Windows2000, Windows XP, Vista, DirectX, Version 9.0 or above should be used. It is not recommended to use this tool under Windows98 or Windows Me. What format can files be converted into This tool can converted the video files of the following formats:

8) .AVI and .WMV files can be converted into .AVI files again;

9) .AVI and .WMV files can be converted into .WMV files again.

What format can video files be recorded into This tool can be used to record video files of 320*240, 30-frame AVI format. What format can picture files be taken into This tool can be used to take picture files of 320*240, JPG format file.24 Software Installation Automatic Installation Start PC, enter Windows system, place the tool installation CD into the CD-Rom, and the installation will be automatically run. Please follow instructions to click “next step” button, and click “off” button when installation is completed successfully. Manual Installation If automatic run is not set up in the PC, then the installation needs to be started manually: First, double click the Setup.exe file under the root directory of the CD to start the installation guide; follow instructions to click “next step” button, and click “off” button when installation is completed successfully. Video File Conversion

1. Running this tool.

Run software, click the “add file” button on the right side of the “input file” column to add AV files to be converted, and a dialogue box will automatically pop out for adding one or more AV files. After the file is added, the path of the AV file will be displayed in the “input file” field as shown below; and, relevant information of the added file, such as the check box, file name and path, status and file length, will be displayed in the status column.25

1) Select the file to be converted

In status column, on the left side of each AV file name, there is a check box and a sequence number. The check box is used to choose a plurality of AV files to be converted, and the newly added AV files are checked as default setting. If a file is not checked, it indicates that this AV file will not be converted. In addition to directly tick the check box, the AV file may also be selected or removed by right clicking the mouse over the file and choosing “select” or “remove” in the pop-out window. To remove any AV file from the adding list, simply right click the mouse over one or more AV files, select “remove”, and the files will be removed from the list.

2) Select the storage path of the video files

This conversion tool uses C:\ as the default path for storage of video files. Before file conversion, click the video storage path button on the right side of the “output file” column to specify the location for saving the video file. When the “browse file folder” dialogue box pops out, select the specified storage path, and then click “confirm” button.26 Afterwards, the path in which the video files are stored will be displayed in the “output file” column of the conversion tool interface.

3) Properties setting

Before converting AV files, some important parameters of the video files need to be set, such as the type (AVI or WMV), the intercepted part and the length of the video file, image exchange, image quality. There are two methods to enter the properties setting interface: A. After selecting one or more AV files, click the settings button in the “output information” column to enter; B. After selecting one or more AV files, right click the mouse and select “settings” to enter; “Select” here does not mean checking the AV file in the check box, but using the mouse to click file name to make the file background color blue.

4) Start converting file

Confirm that the check box of the AV file to be converted is checked. Press the conversion button in the tool interface to start, the tool begins to convert all selected AV files of which the check box has been checked, and the file status will be changed from “not processed” into “being converted”, and the conversion progress bar will be displayed in the conversion progress column at the same time. In addition to the above file conversion methods, the AV files stored in the hard disk may also be selected and converted by right clicking the mouse and selecting the “start video conversion” in the pop-out menu, and the tool will automatically run and directly start file conversion. Recording Video and Taking Pictures

1. Opening the video window

When the PC camera is connected, the tool will automatically pop out the video window; when the PC camera connection is completed, and the video window is in hidden status, click the icon on the right side of the tool interface to make the video window shown. If the PC camera is not connected, click the button and the tool will prompt “PC camera not connected”.27

2. Recording video and taking pictures

Default storage directory is the same as the storage directory of the converted video files, which can be specified by clicking the icon in the “select directory” window. The changed path will be displayed in the path column. Click icon to enter the PC camera setting interface to change parameters for recording video or taking pictures.

3. Recording and playing video

Record: in the viewfinder status of the video interface, click the icon to start recording video files, and “video recording” will be displayed at the bottom of the video interface. When a video file is being recorded, the start icon becomes a pause icon, and at the same time the stop icon is active. Pause: under the recording mode, click the icon to pause recording, and at the same time the start and stop record icons are active. Stop: under recording or pause recording mode, click the icon to stop recording and save the video file to the specified directory, and at the same time the start icon is active; return to the viewfinder interface, the thumbnail icon of the video file will be displayed at the bottom of the viewfinder interface. Play video: when the recorded video file is saved, click the icon in the video interface to preview the thumbnail icon of the video file, and click icon to switch between thumbnails; double click the thumbnail icon of the file to open a play window and start playing the video files.

4. Taking and previewing pictures28

Taking pictures: in the video interface under viewfinder mode, directly click the icon to take pictures, and at the same time picture files are saved under the specified directory. Previewing pictures: upon completion of storage, pictures are displayed in thumbnail icons at the bottom of the interface; click icon to switch between thumbnails, and double click the thumbnail icon of the pictures to start preview. Notices

directly played with the Windows Media Player in the PC, then an appropriate decoder for the Windows Media Player shall be installed. Until the files can be played properly with the Windows Media Player can proper conversion be completed, or this tool will not run properly.

3. This tool cannot be used to produce sound or display Chinese characters in the AVI video file

converted from Flash animation (SWF file). Firmware Upgrade This player provides with firmware upgrading tool to upgrade or repair the firmware in the player.

1. Down load the latest firmware.

2. Connect the player to PC’s USB port correctly; make sure no other movable disks are connected

to the PC at the same time.

If the firmware in the player is in good condition, the tool will shift to firmware upgrading mode; it displays the information of the player’s firmware such as version etc in the box on the upper left corner of the tool interface. Click button “Select new version firmware file” to select the firmware file to be upgraded. After the firmware file detected to be correct by the tool, it displays the information of the selected firmware such as version etc in the box on the upper right corner of the tool interface. Now click button “Start upgrading” to upgrade the firmware. If the internal firmware of the player has been damaged, the tool will change to firmware restoration mode. The version information of the player’s internal firmware now will not be displayed in the box on the upper left corner of the software interface. It requires the user to select a correct firmware file to repair the damaged one. At the same time, the information such version etc of the firmware file to be repaired is displayed in the box on the upper right corner of the interface; click button “Start upgrading” to upgrade the firmware.29

4. Do not disconnect the player from the PC during firmware upgrading or repairing. After the

upgrading is completed, a prompt “firmware upgrading succeeded, the program will exit automatically!” pops out. Now confirm, the tool will shut down and reset the player, the whole upgrading is completed. Connection to TV/VCR This player can output audio/video signals to TV/VCR, with the following adapter cables:

1. For stereo audio signals, an adapter cable that has one stereo 3.5mm male plug and goes into

two RCA male plugs (RED / WHITE) is required. Connect the 3.5mm plug to earphone socket of this player and connect the RCA plugs to the RCA audio (RED / WHITE) sockets of the TV/VCR.

2. For video signals, an adapter cable that has one stereo 3.5mm male plug and goes into one

RCA male plug (YELLOW) is required. Connect the 3.5mm plug to TV-OUT socket of this player and connect the RCA plugs to the RCA video (YELLOW) socket of the TV/VCR.30

AID WARRANTY CONDITIONS

AID, in compliance with the Customer Protection Law (Ley 23/2003, July 10th, of Warranty in the Sale of Consumer Goods, BOE no. 165, 11/07/2003), offers Direct Warranty to Spain and Portugal customers for all our brands’ products: ZIPY, MUSE, NEW ONE, AC-RAYAN, TNB, BARKAN, BRASFORMA, THE COMPLEMENTS, and GO BY ZIPY, under the following conditions: A – Our products have a two year warranty. During the first year original defects that may be detected are repaired. In those cases stipulated by law, the buyer will be entitled to the replacement of the device by a new one, provided that the defects are not due to the negligence or exclusive fault of the buyer in handling the device. During the second year the buyer will need to prove that the malfunctioning of the device is due to a manufacturing defect. In both cases the warranty will apply provided that:

1. The product has been used for its destined purpose alone.

2. It was not opened, manipulated or altered in any way by someone other than the

Official Technical Service.

3. It has not undergone shock, flood, overheating, electric overcharge or any other

external circumstance that may constitute a possible reason of INVALIDATING the warranty.

4. The product will be returned to AID in proper packaging together with the receipt

where the brand and type of product, the date of the purchase, the name and address of the shop that sold it and the reason for the malfunctioning should be clearly stated. Any of the following circumstances invalidates the present warranty:

1. Breaking the ports, the screen or the glass.

2. Loss of liquid from the screen.

3. Wearing out, obvious marks of incorrect manipulation, unappropiate use,

ill-treatment, shock, falls, dirt, and so on.

4. The data contained in the products are under no circumstances covered by any

warranty whatsoever, nor are they to be considered during the physical repairing process of the products. AID guarantees absolute confidentiality of the data.

5. AID does not cover the incorrect configuration or instalation of the software /

hardware on the part of the client, neither as a component nor as a peripheric, included prives / controllers included.

6. The legislation on guarantees sets certain limits. “the guarantee does not cover

additional components such as batteries, nor any elements that are subject to maintenance due to its use such as earphones”. These accessories have a 6 months guarantee.

7. Waterproof bags have a 48-hour trial period, such as indicated on the product itself,31

therefore once this time period is elapsed they will no longer be covered by any guarantee.

8. Final users do not need to send us the device accessories, especially if they are not

the original ones, since we will not be held responsible for them. CASES:

1. If the product is out our guarantee, the AID technical department will facilitate a

budget for the repair by fax or e-mail. Said budget will need to be authorized in writing, sealed and signed, and the user will have to satisfy the repair fee as well as the freight.

2. If the budget is not accepted a diagnosis fee will be charged. (6€)

3. Repairs have a 90 days guarantee, provided that the breakdown is under the same

concept and in the case of budgeted breakdowns alone. B – All the freight costs for the product will be covered by AID using only the transportation company designed by AID following the authorization procedure. The expenses derived from incorrect or unjustified returns on the part of the client will be covered by the client alone. C – Any incidence detected at the moment of the reception of the merchandise must be immediately notified at the AID Post-Sales Department: maria@accesoriosdigital.com In compliance with Article 366 from the Code of Commerce, AID will not consider complaints about breakages, shocks or absence of boxes or pieces 24 hours after the delivery of the merchandise. In the case of shipments originated in Canarias, Ceuta and Melilla, AID will not pay the customs tax nor any kind of reimbursable expenses.DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY ACCESORIOS INTELIGENTES DIGITAL S.A.

6 CARPINTEROS, OF-13 VILLAVICIOSA DE ODON. 28670 MADRID

We hereby declare, under our exclusive responsibility, our conformity with the product: MP/5 : ALBATROS by ZIPY made in China To which this declaration refers with the following directives: EN55013:2001+A1:2003+A2:2006 EN55022:2006+A1:2007 EN55020:2007 EN55024:1998+A1:2001+A2:2003

In compliance with the resolutions of the Directive 99/05/CE, of the European Parliament and the March 9

1999 Council, included in the Spanish law system by El Real Decreto 1890/2000, November 20