Cowon IAUDIO 4, User Manual

Page 1: ...User Guide...

Page 2: ...38258 5510752 and 5736897 BBE and the BBE symbol are the registered trademarks of BBE Sound Inc All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners Copyright laws prohibit reproducing the s...

Page 3: ...e provided with the player may be changed without notice Operations of this player with software other than that provided is not covered by the warranty In order to receive specialized iAUDIO services...

Page 4: ...of of purchase All customers located outside of the United States ofAmerica shall be responsible for shipping and handling charges IN NO EVENT SHALL COWON s LIABILITY EXCEED THE PRICE PAID FOR THE PRO...

Page 5: ...ons may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference...

Page 6: ...to service the product yourself as opening or removing covers may expose you to dangerous voltage or other hazards The warranty will be voided if this happens Pay attention to the USB cable direction...

Page 7: ...t use the product for an extended period of time remove the batteries to avoid possible damage from battery leakage and corrosion Note that malfunctions may occur if you use the product in places wher...

Page 8: ...le LCD Display Basic Operations Advanced Operations Troubleshooting Using Buttons Menu List 2 JetShell What is JetShell Connecting iAUDIO and Installing JetShell Introducing JetShell Downloading Music...

Page 9: ...iAUDIO 4 9 Converting Audio CD Tracks to MP3 Files and Downloading Them to iAUDIO Other Features Installing and Using JetAudio Guide to Firmware Upgrade 62 65 68 69 TableofContents...

Page 10: ...ovides high quality voice recording perfect for capturing ideas dictating memos and saving reminders anytime anywhere You can also save them to your PC for playback later on and send the message as an...

Page 11: ...ers the highest quality sound powered by 5 bands EQ and the following sound effects BBE Improves brilliance and clarity of music Mach3Bass Provides deeper and tighter bass MP Enhance Adds warmth and c...

Page 12: ...ckageContents Battery AAAsize 1 ea Bundled Earphone Installation CD JetShell JetAudio User Guide Fashionable Carrying Case Simple USB Connector USB Cable Line in Recording Cable Armband iAUDIO MP3 Pla...

Page 13: ...international characters Enhanced Navigation Play Pause Intro play Stop Record Next Track Previous Track Fast Forward Rewind Section Repeat Adjustable Seeking Speed Volume 40 levels Various EQ and Sou...

Page 14: ...20kbps 192kbps 8kHz 48khz WAV PCM format only MP3 32Kbps 128Kbps Up to 9 hrs of recording with 128MB memory 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB USB 1 1 Up to 6Mbps 87 5 MHz 108 0 MHz 1 xAAA Up to 15 hours of conti...

Page 15: ...ameofParts Left Side Top Line in Jack Earphone jack PLAY STOP FF REW MODE button REC A B button HOLD switch MENU VOL VOL buttons LCD display Battery cover Battery cover Front Side Right Side Back Side...

Page 16: ...iAUDIO LCD window before disconnecting the cable We recommend running Safely Remove Hardware wizard before disconnecting the cable Inserting Battery 1 Push down the battery cover on the back of iAUDI...

Page 17: ...gment of the icon indicates about 21MByte 128Mbyte 6 This icon becomes animated while playback When tag ID3V1 ID3V2 is available this icon is changed to Disk and the Artist Album information is displa...

Page 18: ...enu press FF or REW to change the frequency band or color bar In Navigator press REW to go to upper folder and press FF to play selected file In Settings menu press REW to go to previous menu F Press...

Page 19: ...the files in the selected folder are added to the Dynamic Playlist Press REW to move to the upper folder Press FF to expand the folder Using Navigator 1 Opening Navigatior In the Play or Stop status p...

Page 20: ...is ON 2 Power Off Stop Press and hold PLAY to turn off Press PLAY briefly to stop playback When you set Auto Off or Sleep functions the power automatically goes off after the specified time If iAUDIO...

Page 21: ...g files at the beginning position of the section you want to repeat A icon is displayed at the bottom middle of the LCD Press the button again at the ending position of the repeat section and the icon...

Page 22: ...FM folder To pause resume recording press PLAY For details on how to set the recording quality see page 32 in this User Guide When you press PLAY while listening the mode changes to Preset mode in whi...

Page 23: ...quality see page 32 in this User Guide Press and hold down MENU to open Navigator Press MENU again after selecting a recorded file to open pop up menu Play Now The file is played Add to List The file...

Page 24: ...der mode Connect the headphone jack of the CD player or any other audio device with headphone output to the Line in jack of iAUDIO with a two way stereo cable Press REC to set iAUDIO to standby status...

Page 25: ...s and hold down MENU to open Navigator Press MENU again after selecting a recorded file to open pop up menu Play Now The file is played Add to List The file is added to the Dynamic Playlist Intro Only...

Page 26: ...Select any EQ and press FF to turn into the editing mode and adjust the values with or Press FF or REW to change the frequency band to adjust 2 BBE BBE is the sound effect which improves brilliance an...

Page 27: ...d authentic and exciting 3D sound effect Select 3D Surround then change the depth with or 6 Left Right Balance Pan Pan is the feature to adjust the balance between left and right channels Select Pan t...

Page 28: ...ess of the folder However the recorded files in the RECORDS folder are excluded In the RECORDS folder only the F or 1 value is available PL Playlist Only the files added in the Dynamic Playlist are pl...

Page 29: ...Blue appear To adjust the color of current color bar press or To change to another color bar press FF or REW 2 Theme Theme function is visualization effect by changing backlight color dynamically whi...

Page 30: ...tion of current track ID3V2 Title information in ID3 Tag version 2 is displayed ID3V1 Title information in ID3 Tag version 1 is displayed FileName File name is displayed 3 Scroll Speed Adjust the scro...

Page 31: ...nese Simp Chinese Trad English Hangul Korean Japanese or Russian 6 Contrast Adjust the contrast of the LCD display Timer 1 Auto Off When there is no button operation during a preset time while iAUDIO...

Page 32: ...once 2 Scan Speed Adjust the scan speed when FF or REW is pressed and held down 3 Resume When Resume is ON iAUDIO starts playback from the last played position when PLAY is pressed 4 Auto Play WhenAu...

Page 33: ...iAUDIO 4 33 5 Battery Type Choose the battery type you are using Please choose correct type since the measurement of the Remaining Battery Charge depends on the battery type AdvancedOperations...

Page 34: ...s smallest file size Recorded file is always mono regardless of quality 3 FM Radio bps FM Radio Recorder Choose the quality of the MP3 files recorded by FM Radio Recorder 128Kbps provides best quality...

Page 35: ...ording Standby status Therefore be sure to set this value to 0 OFF when recording for an important occasion 6 Line Volume Adjust the input volume level recording level of the Line in input This level...

Page 36: ...4 36 FM Radio 1 Stereo Choose stereo or mono for FM radio listening 2 FM Region Choose appropriate country where you are listening FM frequency range is adjusted for the selected country AdvancedOper...

Page 37: ...flash memory in iAUDIO is used for system area essential for normal operation of iAUDIO Therefore the actual available capacity of the flash memory is somewhat reduced after excluding the system area...

Page 38: ...e to hear FM radio clearly depending on where you are such as inside a building or a moving car In addition listening to the radio may become impossible in some areas Please try to listening at differ...

Page 39: ...during file transfer iAUDIO may not work normally iAUDIO works abnormally or does not play when hundreds of files are saved in Root folder Create subfolders under the Root folder and save files to sub...

Page 40: ...p to the previous file Skip to the previous track or move backward by specified time Skip Length setting Rewind Rewind MENU Settings menu Settings menu Navigator Navigator MODE Mode Change menu Mode C...

Page 41: ...M station Next preset REW Decrease frequency Previous preset Search the previous FM station Previous preset MENU Settings menu Settings menu FM Presets menu FM Presets menu MODE Mode Change menu Mode...

Page 42: ...Pause Play the recorded file Pause Resume recording Power OFF Power OFF FF REW MENU Setttings menu Navigator MODE Mode Change menu Vol Increase volume Vol Decrease volume REC A B Start recording Stop...

Page 43: ...ose Navigator Expand folder FF Play the selected file Expand folder REW Move to the upper folder Move to the upper folder MENU Open pop up menu Open pop up menu MODE Vol Move the focus down Move the f...

Page 44: ...adio bps Mic Volume Voice Active Line Volume Auto Sync FM Stereo Region Information MenuList JetEffect Equalizer BBE Mach3Bass MP Enhance 3D Surround Pan Play Mode Boundary Repeat Shuffle Backlight Co...

Page 45: ...iAUDIO 4 45 MEMO...

Page 46: ...iles fromAudio CD Converting between WAV MP3 WMA Changing bitrate of MP3 files Convenient file transfer using Download List Awide selection of spectrums equalizers and sound effects Editing ID3 tags D...

Page 47: ...allation finishes Start Programs COWON iAUDIO4 program group is created Connecting iAUDIO For Windows Me 2000 XP 1 Insert a new battery in iAUDIO correctly DON T RUN JetShell at this time 2 Connect th...

Page 48: ...as shown in the following picture or in Control Panel System Hardware Device Manager When you open My Computer window iAUDIO should appear as a Removable disc icon The actual drive letter assigned to...

Page 49: ...t may be different from the actual drive name used by your PC It was given for your reference only 1 Connect the USB ports of iAUDIO to your PC using the provided USB cable As soon as the cable is con...

Page 50: ...ectingiAUDIOandInstallingJetShell 3 Check Specify a location and click Browse From the Browse window select the Win98 folder on the iAUDIO Installation CD and click OK 4 USB driver file for iAUDIO is...

Page 51: ...CD When the installation finishes a message notifying you of completion appears as shown in the picture Click Finish 6 Finally make sure that installation of iAUDIO was completed normally by checking...

Page 52: ...l before performing the following tasks Installing iAUDIO s USB driver Formatting iAUDIO in Windows Explorer Upgrading iAUDIO s firmware IntroducingJetShell Play and MP3 Management Section File Manage...

Page 53: ...nt file is displayed and two types of spectrum screens appear You can start and stop playing the file with the buttons at the right and adjust the volume with the and buttons To skip instantly to a sp...

Page 54: ...total flash memory of iAUDIO If this bar is almost full it means that there is almost no free space available in iAUDIO Button Function Explanation Up Move to the upper folder Properties Display the...

Page 55: ...isplays visually cool spectrums When you click on the spectrum display area the screen changes as follows You can also enjoy various equalizers and sound effects Various Equalizers Various Sound Effec...

Page 56: ...Flash Memory Management Window 3 The following window shows the file downloading process The backlight of iAUDIO turns on during file transfer Never disconnect the USB cable while the backlight is tur...

Page 57: ...d List Window first and transfer them later This is useful when you wish to download files in different folders DownloadingMusicfilestoiAUDIO 5 You can also download the files existing outside of JetS...

Page 58: ...Player 2 Add your secure WMAfiles to Media Library 3 Press Copy to CD or Device button What is secure music and digital rights management DRM Secure music refers to digital music files that are protec...

Page 59: ...iAUDIO 4 59 DownloadingsecureWMAfilestoiAUDIO 5 Choose iAUDIO 4 for target device 6 Press Copy button to start transfer...

Page 60: ...e manner as in Windows Explorer Select the files to delete and click button When confirmation window Delete from flash memory appears click Yes to delete them You can also delete files from the pop up...

Page 61: ...the memory will be deleted 1 From the JetShell menu click File Format Device Memory InitializingFlashMemory Format 2 When the Format window appears select FAT for file system option If you select FAT...

Page 62: ...O With JetShell you can easily convert yourAudio CD into MP3 files and download them to iAUDIO 1 Before getting started you must choose the quality of the MP3 files to create Click Setup MP3 Encoder O...

Page 63: ...io CD is inserted Select the audio tracks from the right window and click or File Convert CD to MP3 from the menu ConvertingAudioCDTrackstoMP3FilesandDownloadingThemtoiAUDIO 3 Specify the path to save...

Page 64: ...iAUDIO 4 64 ConvertingAudioCDTrackstoMP3FilesandDownloadingThemtoiAUDIO 4 The converting process is displayed as shown below...

Page 65: ...contains video or data for a PC 2 Accessing Internet CD Database When you press the button the information on the CD such as the singer and song title can be acquired through the Internet To use CD d...

Page 66: ...iAUDIO 4 66 OtherFeatures 3 Editing ID3 Tag You can edit the ID3 tag of a MP3 file by selecting Tools Edit MP3 ID3 Tag from the JetShell menu...

Page 67: ...rsion from the menu OtherFeatures 5 Downloading Logo File You can download a logo file to change the logo screen that appears when iAUDIO powers on Select Download Logo File from the menu When the Ope...

Page 68: ...tAudio is included in the iAUDIO Installation CD To install JetAudio run the file CD ROM JetAudio setup exe For detailed information on using JetAudio refer to the JetAudio Help after installation or...

Page 69: ...hrough firmware upgrades When you upgrade the firmware all the data in the flash memory may be deleted Therefore users should back up important files in iAUDIO before upgrading the firmware All firmwa...

Page 70: ...files Then the following window appears If you have already installed firmware setup program before the following window may appear In this case click OK to remove previous firmware setup program the...

Page 71: ...iAUDIO 4 71 Read the LicenseAgreement To continue installation click Yes GuidetoFirmwareUpgrade Specify the destination folder theck click Next...

Page 72: ...iAUDIO 4 72 The files are copied GuidetoFirmwareUpgrade Specify a group name then click Next...

Page 73: ...UDIO 4 73 The installation is complete Connect the USB ports of iAUDIO to your PC using the provided USB cable We recommend to connect iAUDIO to the PC directly not using USB hub GuidetoFirmwareUpgrad...

Page 74: ...ure that iAUDIO is properly connected to the PC If the program cannot find iAUDIO for a long time click Cancel disconnect iAUDIO from PC and try again from step 7 Run the firmware upgrade program by s...

Page 75: ...be sure to back up important files in iAUDIO before upgrading Furthermore NEVER remove the USB cable during firmware upgrade since it may cause malfunctions After upgrading firmware make sure that th...

Page 76: ...Note 1 After purchasing iAUDIO be sure to perform customer registration at iAUDIO com 2 This serial number is required for customer registration at iAUDIO com 3 It is also required for installing the...