User manual CREATIVE MUVO SLIM

[. . . ] User's Guide Creative MuVo Slim Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Creative Technology Ltd. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose without the written permission of Creative Technology Ltd. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any other medium except as specifically allowed in the license agreement. [. . . ] You can only do so with applications like Windows Media Player or Creative MediaSource. Using Your Software 3-4 Creative MediaSource Editing audio track information Only basic instructions on how to use Creative MediaSource with your player are provided in this chapter -- configuration instructions and more detailed usage information are found in the Creative MediaSource Help file. You may need to edit track information when the information is incomplete or wrong. To edit information about a track 1. If you are not already in Creative MediaSource Organizer, click the Player/Organizer View button. In the Content window, locate the track you want to edit, and right-click it. The new track information will be stored. To edit information about multiple tracks 1. If you are not already in Creative MediaSource Organizer, click the Player/Organizer View button. In the Content window, locate the tracks you want to edit, hold down the CTRL key and select them. Right-click to edit the Album, Artist or Genre. Using Your Software 3-5 4. Click the OK button. Ripping Audio CD Tracks Rather than manually entering track information, retrieve such audio CD information from CDDB before ripping tracks. The first phase in making an MP3 file is extracting audio data from an audio CD. To extract audio data, you will need a CD-ROM drive that can extract digital audio data, and a program known as a ripper. With Creative MediaSource Organizer, you can rip tracks from most audio CDs. This program uses the CD-ROM drive to read the audio tracks from the audio CD and stores it on your hard disk. The time needed for a successful audio extraction depends on: CD-ROM drive speed defects, like scratches on the audio CD error-checking features on the CD-ROM drive Encoding is the second phase of making an MP3 file. Encoders are used to convert the stored audio tracks, usually WAV files, into MP3 files. MP3 encoding is considered lossy compression, which means that some data is lost during compression. However, using the standard sampling rate and bitrates will ensure that your MP3 files retain much of their audio quality. The standard bitrate of most MP3 files is 128 Kbps, although some are set higher, at 160 or 192 Kbps. Higher bitrates will result in larger MP3 file sizes, with better audio quality. Use Creative MediaSource Organizer to extract audio tracks and encode MP3s. You can rip an audio CD's tracks to your player, hard disk or PC Music Library. You can choose to rip an entire CD, or selected tracks from the audio CD. Using Your Software 3-6 Change the default ripping format and bitrate for higher or lower quality audio. See Creative MediaSource's Help file for details To rip a CD 1. [. . . ] The Lock icon appears at the top of the LCD screen. To unlock your player Figure 4-76 1. The player is unlocked. Figure 4-77 Using Your Player 4-24 Formatting your Player You may at times need to clear your player's memory during normal use. Use Windows Explorer to easily clear your player's memory for the efficient transfer, storage and playback of music files. To clear your player's memory For Windows XP and Windows 2000, under the File Allocation Table (FAT) system option, you must select FAT, instead of FAT32, before formatting the player. 1. In Windows Explorer, select the drive your player is assigned to, for example, Removable Disk (F:) (replace F: with the drive letter of your player). [. . . ]