User manual CREATIVE ZEN STONE PLUS

[. . . ] The Software License Agreement is found in a separate folder on the installation CD. Version 1. 0 May 2004 Sound Blaster, the Sound Blaster logo, and the Creative logo are registered trademarks, and Sound Blaster Live!, and EAX are trademarks of Creative Technology Ltd. NOMAD is a registered trademark of Aonix and is used by Creative Technology Ltd. Microsoft, MS-DOS, and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] When selecting an option, instead of pressing the OK button, you can also tap the touch pad control. To enable this feature, see "TouchPad" on page 3-24. LOCK SWITCH Locks and disables all buttons on your player. Slide the switch to the right. RESET HOLE Resets your player. Push the end of a thin object (for example, a straightened paperclip) into the Reset hole. A Tour of Your Player 1-7 Getting Started Getting Started Charging the Battery Using the power adapter The high performance lithium-ion battery supplied with your player needs to be fully charged before you use it. The Zen Touch CD supports Windows AutoPlay mode and starts running automatically. If not, you need to enable your CD-ROM drive's autoinsert notification feature. When prompted, connect your player to your computer as shown in Figure 2-2. USB port Figure 2-3: Connecting your player to your computer. Getting Started 2-4 Transferring Music and Data Audio selections have been preloaded to your player to get you started quickly. If you wish to listen to music immediately, simply press the Play/Pause button . Basic instructions on how to use Creative MediaSource and NOMAD Explorer are provided in the Creative MediaSource and NOMAD Explorer Help. If you wish to download additional music tracks to your player, you can either download music tracks from Internet music sites (see "Downloading from the Internet" on page 2-6) or rip them from your audio CDs to create digital files on your computer. Music files can be encoded into the supported formats (MP3, WMA or WAV file formats), and then transferred to your player with Creative MediaSource Organizer. Data files can also be transferred to and stored in your player, for example, you can transfer a large data file from one computer to another. Data can be transferred to your player with the Creative NOMAD Explorer application. Getting Started 2-5 Downloading from the Internet To get MP3 files from the Internet, use a search engine to locate sites with MP3 content. You can also try out these sites (web sites listed here are correct at the time of this document's release): Walmart. com http://www. music downloads. walmart. com Bestbuy. com http://www. bestbuy. com It may be illegal to encode MP3 files for trade or sale unless you have the express or explicit permission of the copyright holder(s). Buy. com http://www. buy. com Soundbuzz. com http://www. soundbuzz. com Epitonic. com http://www. epitonic. com Follow the instructions on the site to download the music files to your computer. When connecting to your Internet Service Provider, usage charges are incurred. Getting Started 2-6 Ripping from a CD 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. The Repeat All icon appears on the screen and the Selected Music list is repeated continuously until you stop it. Playing and Managing Your Music 3-5 Shuffle The Shuffle play mode can be used once ("Shuffle"). The Shuffle icon appears onscreen and a track is selected at random and played back. The Selected Music list stops playing once all the tracks in the Selected Music list are played back once. Shuffle repeat The Shuffle play mode can be used continuously ("Shuffle Repeat"). Press the Menu button . If there is only one track in the Selected Music list when "Shuffle Repeat" is enabled, that track will be repeated continuously. 2. The Shuffle Repeat icon appears onscreen and tracks are selected at random and played back continuously until you stop playback. You can also play all tracks randomly by pressing the Random button on your player. Playing and Managing Your Music 3-6 Track once When the Selected Music list is played normally, every track in the Selected Music list is played, from the first to the last. When the Track Once play mode is enabled, however, playback stops once the current track ends. The Selected Music list stops playing once the track ends. Playing and Managing Your Music 3-7 Managing your Music To transfer audio tracks to your player's Music Library, refer to the Creative MediaSource Help. You can use Music Library to: Find tracks, playlists, albums, artists or genres Add audio selections to the Selected Music list View track information Delete tracks, playlists, albums, artists or genres When audio tracks are transferred to your player, they are organized into the following Music Library categories: Album Artist Genre All Tracks Modifying or renaming albums, artists, or genres must be done in Creative MediaSource. All transferred tracks can be found in the "All Tracks" category, but depending on your Creative MediaSource settings, tracks can also be found in other categories. For example, take a fictitious track called "Toffee Apple Smile", performed by "The Nano Singers", from the soundtrack to the movie "The Big Sneeze". Besides "All Tracks", the "Toffee Apple Smile" song would also be found in the "Soundtrack" genre, the "Songs from The Big Sneeze" album, and the "The Nano Singers" artist category. Playing and Managing Your Music 3-8 Finding a Music Track in Music Library In the following example, you will be shown how to find a track by navigating through Music Library. For example, if you want to find a track in a particular album, select Albums. Note: If selecting All Tracks, go to Step 5. 4. Select a letter on the list to search for your track. Playing and Managing Your Music 3-9 Adding Music Tracks to the Selected Music list Audio selections from Music Library can either be added sequentially after selections already in the Selected Music list ("Add to Selected") or replace the Selected Music list ("Play"). To add an entire audio category to the Selected Music list 1. [. . . ] Visit www. NOMADWorld. com for the latest news on accessories. Frequently Asked Questions C-2 Windows XP tells me that the software for the player is not certified. At the time of this product's release, Microsoft strongly encouraged companies to submit their hardware solutions for certification. If a hardware device driver is not submitted, or does not qualify, for Microsoft certification, a warning message similar to the one below appears. You may see this message when installing this driver or update. Creative has tested this driver or update on Windows XP, and it does not impair or destabilize your computer. Frequently Asked Questions C-3 Maintenance Selecting Format All from the Rescue mode screen clears your player's memory and erases all hard disk content. [. . . ]