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Page 2: ...S 64 SoundSystem DMX phono PreAMp XLerate Base2PCI TerraTec 128iPCI TerraTV m3po WaveSystem MIDI Smart and MIDI Master Pro are trademarks of TerraTec Electronic GmbH Nettetal Any soft and hardware referred to in this manual is generally also registered trademarks of their respec tive owners They are governed by the usual laws TerraTec Electronic GmbH 1994 2000 All rights reserved 18 05 00 All text...

Page 3: ... do 13 Using the m3po 16 The LC Display 16 The SELECT wheel enter button 18 The UP button 18 The display button Soft button 18 The MENU button 18 The STOP button 19 The EJECT button 19 POWER 19 The menu functions 20 Play mode 20 Repeat Shuffle 22 Wheel mode 22 Playlists 23 HD Functions 26 Search file 27 Sound 27 The More Menu 28 Mute 30 Volume Phones 30 The remote control 31 ...

Page 4: ... a hard disk 34 Step by step 35 What happens next 38 Copying files 39 Software Updates 40 Installing updates 40 Playlists 44 What are ID Tags 45 Useful information on MP3 46 What is MP3 46 Internet Links 50 Index 51 ...

Page 5: ... of your box In doing so you should come across the following items The Player a remote control unit with batteries a power chord a cinch chord one MP3 demo CD screws for installing the optional hard disk this manual a menu overview and finally a registration card ...

Page 6: ...tead You should also disconnect the m3po during thunderstorms If you open the case to install a hard disk you must disconnect it first In addition please follow the instructions in this manual to the letter If the player is exposed to strong temperature fluctuations leave it for about one hour without without without without connecting it as condensation could have built up inside the case which c...

Page 7: ...y to fire or high temperature It could leak or even explode When dis posing of the battery please do so in an appropriate manner The power supply The power supply runs on 40W with a voltage of 110 to 230 Volt at 50 to 60 Hertz The unit is fused internally at 250 V 3 15A Do not attempt to change the fuse yourself instead consult our technicians Summary Summary Summary Summary Simply apply common se...

Page 8: ... familiar to you The in depth concept of the m3po and its true capabilities however will be described by us in this manual In addition you will hear about some of the Internet s possibilities as well as tips and tricks of how to archive your music in the MP3 format We hope you enjoy this manual Your TerraTec Team Quick guide to the manual In order to make this manual as efficient as possible we ha...

Page 9: ...splay The machine takes a few seconds to search for internal drives more on this later The message No CD in drive will appear Press EJECT and insert a CD for the purpose of this tour please use the supplied demo CD in the usual way with the label facing upwards Close the drawer by pressing EJECT for the second time At this point it should be mentioned that if your m3po has already a hard disk inst...

Page 10: ...t Now you will see a number of titles in the display unless of course you have accidentally cho sen the Intro file there you will find only one title Play any one of the songs by pressing SELECT Welcome m3po will stop and the new song commences Pretty quick no Bottom right of the display will show NXT This abbreviation stands for next and indicates the next title Now press the display button soft ...

Page 11: ...ent input sensitivity You also need to consider the color coding of the plugs Red goes to the right input white or black to the left If necessary consult your amplifiers manual on alternative connecting options What else can I connect the m3po to Your m3po can also be connected to a pair of active speakers with integrated pre amps Even the connection to the line in of a compatible computer soundca...

Page 12: ...Your m3po is now ready Following is a description of the various functions and how to access them You could follow the tour at the beginning of this manual page 9 if you have not done this already and if you are already familiar with the basic functions of the player The m3po can be integrated into a 19 rack module the optional rackit You can order it over the Internet ...

Page 13: ...s as described in the following example If you record a standard audio CD on your home PC then this will use about 650 Megabyte MB of hard disk space Converting this into MP3 files you are presented with only 1 11 of its original size roughly 60MB If the files contain nothing but speech i e language courses the size of the file can be reduced to 1 25 of its original size without losing too much of...

Page 14: ...ard disk Programs are located in files documents like letters etc in other places So it makes sense to apply the same approach to filing your MP3 files classical Hard core Gabba or Zappa Files which are located on a CD ROM will be displayed as such a small arrow in the display indicates these files And here we have the main difference between the m3po and a CD player You move through the directory...

Page 15: ...l unit Following is a description of all the buttons and functions hidden behind the display You could follow the tour at the beginning of this manual page 9 if you have not done this al ready For the ones too young to remember A record is a spinning disc made from black vinyl which by the end of the 20th century were only used by DJs If you would like to find out more about this cultural heritage...

Page 16: ...en titles ID Tags The display shows file names and folders which are located on the CD you can find more information on folders in What is the m3po and what can it do on page 13 While navigating around the CD or hard disk or while a title is being played The display will indicate the current playback mode The Play mode and Repeat Shuffle mode can be combined freely The abbreviations stand for the ...

Page 17: ...e the small table horizontal lines represents the playlist The playlist to program a sequence of titles you want the m3po to play More on this on page 44 Arrow the arrow pointing downwards indicates a file or index in which you can find ti tles playlists or more files Finally the display window opens up the functions of the menu which can be called up by pressing MENU All menu functions are descri...

Page 18: ...d on the settings on the m3po Usually the display will present you with whatever function the button is currently offering This could be choosing the next title NXT the escape function ESC Abbreviation Abbreviation Abbreviation Abbreviation Function Function Function Function ADD Add title to your playlist My Playlist BCK Back to Edit Playlist DEL Delete pre selected songs in the DJ mode Enter Ent...

Page 19: ... dust or to double up as a can holder By the way the unauthorized opening of the drawer can be prevented using the Party Lock function page 29 Emergency Exit If the CD is damaged and the m3po hangs switch the player off Hold down the EJECT button and switch the player back on The drawer opens and you can take out the CD Tip This function is also available in Party Lock page 29 POWER Switches the m...

Page 20: ...ut you can select one or more titles which are to be played at the end of the current song using the wheel More informa tion on this is coming up Pressing back takes you back to the main menu DJ Mode The DJ Mode is as you may have guessed one of THE party tools of the m3po In DJ mode you can pre select titles which will then be played in the sequence you selected them basi cally it is a mini playl...

Page 21: ...r title to the list reveals another function DEL delete where all following titles will be deleted and the current one will not be interrupted Tip To go straight to the playback display press MENU twice Mixing playback modes As you have seen in the chapter Using the m3po the play mode and the repeat shuffle mode can be combined freely This makes it possible to repeat songs from only one folder or ...

Page 22: ...ECT wheel cannot only be used for navigational purposes While a song is playing you can operate the following functions just by using the wheel Skip Turn right The next song starts playing Turn left The previous song starts playing Press Switches to select mode Note When changing titles during playback a short click or pop may be audible This is normal Search Turn right Fast Forward Turn left Rewi...

Page 23: ...he currently selected playlist Save my Playlist Saves the current playlist as M3U playlist to the hard disk This message will only appear if there is a hard disk installed Add to my Playlist Switches to the playback window and adds to the playlist Playlists on CD Lists all playlists found on CD and HD Options menu even if no tracks are present Options menu even if no tracks are present Options men...

Page 24: ... into its new position New Playlist Deletes all titles from the playlist without asking for your confirma tion Load Playlist Switches to select mode but only displays playlists Pressing the wheel loads the contents of the current playlist into the Edit Play list menu Save Playlist Allows naming your playlist and saves the edited playlist Options Menu more than one title marked Options Menu more th...

Page 25: ...UP works like the SHIFT button on your computer keyboard It lets you switch to capital letters When you are finished you can enter the name by pressing the soft button Enter Pressing the wheel saves the playlist in the M3U format see page 44 to the folder which you have chosen in the Select Destination menu function in the HDD Functions menu If you have not chosen a specific folder the playlist wi...

Page 26: ...rs on the hard disk yourself in order to copy songs into it Turning the wheel changes the symbols pressing it enters the symbol and switches to the next symbol If you have made a mistake you can always delete the previous symbol by pressing the STOP button UP works like the SHIFT button on your computer keyboard It lets you switch to capital letters When you have finished you can enter the name by...

Page 27: ...d disk and the CD Please note that only MP3 file names can be found searching for ID tags or playlists would simply take too long Searching using exclusively the remote control is also possible You can read all about it on page 32 Note You can use this function during playback of another title How ever this may take a little longer This is perfectly normal Sound This menu allows simple adjustments...

Page 28: ...er Sort HD Directories Organizes songs playlists and folders in alphabetical order Depending on the number of entries this may take a little while Create HD index Creates an index of all titles for faster access IDE Speed Determines the speed of your IDE Interface for CD and HDD and as such the speed of copy and read operations You can choose between the following Slow Slow data transfer Most secu...

Page 29: ... Once your m3po is locked it stays locked even after turning off the power and switching it back on However if it does happen i e after severe amnesia you will need to contact our technical support team Please have your serial number and the average of your street number ready whenever you contact us INFO The Emergency Exit page 19 is still available when party locked Split mode Sometimes your son...

Page 30: ...of higher than 10 causes distortion in many songs This volume control does not affect the main output stage Pressing back takes you back to the playback window Note All settings except for the settings in the playlist you change in all the menus are kept after switching the player off This means you won t need to re activate the DJ mode if you like to use it regu larly You can reset the m3po compl...

Page 31: ...machine is not obstructed Infrared rays are light rays which according to today s scientific knowledge do not pass through solid bodies The following graphic describes the functions in detail mute switch next Title Pause Faster Play Normal speed 100 Stop Call up menu Scroll right Scroll down Forward wind last Title MPEG info Rewind Slower Scroll up enter Scroll left ...

Page 32: ...his function is only available for creating new folders The search function Search does not require this function Enter enters a symbol and moves cursor to the next position The arrow down deletes a symbol and goes back to the previous one Once you have finished confirm the name by pressing Play When creating a new folder you will be required to confirm for a second time by pressing Play again Eve...

Page 33: ...eout CD and MP3 playback 82 Previous symbol Skip to previous track 113 Play symbol Start playback of track s 83 Next symbol Skip to next track 97 Rewind symbol Search in playing track rewind 79 Pause symbol Pause playback 106 Forward symbol Search in playing track forward 80 Speed Speed decreases playback speed of MP3 Playback 86 Speed normal normal resets the speed of MP3 Playback to 100 107 Spee...

Page 34: ...ssible Some hard disks however can cause problems when slaving to a CD drive In this case the hard disk must be set to MASTER and the internal CD ROM to SLAVE You can format it using your PC or the m3po The format is FAT16 32 compatible Have fun Which hard disk should I choose The m3po can accommodate standard 3 5 ATAPI IDE drives There are currently no size re strictions but at the time of writin...

Page 35: ...mary unit and the hard disk should be configured accord ingly The circle shows the jumper section of the hard disk Next to it you should find a little dia gram depicting the SLAVE settings Usually only one jumper needs to be moved That s all Set the hard disk to SLAVE or MASTER mode Note Some hard disks however can cause problem when slaving to a CD drive In this case the hard disk must be set to ...

Page 36: ... plug prevents you from connecting it incorrectly Connect the multicolored cable to the hard disk The yellow end of the cable must face the far end of the hard disk But usually the layout of the plug prevents you from connecting it incorrectly Affix the hard disk to the fixing points using the screws supplied with your m3po Affix the hard disk with two screws ...

Page 37: ...ectly installed hard disk Close the case of your m3po Make sure you do not leave anything inside which doesn t belong there Finally reconnect the m3po to the mains outlet and switch it back on Read the following page ...

Page 38: ... drive and can be accessed using the SELECT wheel and the UP button The HDD Functions menu described above contains several more functions You can for example create or delete folders and most importantly copy from CD to HDD The Free space on HDD feature indicates the available disc space in Megabyte MB A common 128kBit s rate will accommodate about two weeks of non stop music on a 20Gb hard disk ...

Page 39: ...lder on your HDD Use the wheel to navigate as usual until you reach the folder which you want to copy into Do not open the folder see above Find the Select Destination function and confirm this by pressing the SELECT wheel Select the title on the CD and press down the SELECT wheel for about two seconds The track will now be copied to the destination of your choice It is not possible to copy a play...

Page 40: ... for users of other operating systems i e Linux The EXE file should show up in your zip files and can be unpacked manually Depending on which m3po OS version you are updating from just follow the steps Updating from version 1 xx Insert the CD in the m3po After the automatic scanning process press the menu button and Select the MORE menu Select Update with CD The display will now indicate that it h...

Page 41: ...display will now indicate that it has found an update Update was found If you do not wish to update at this point press the soft button ESC Otherwise press down the wheel After a few seconds the message Update finished will appear The m3po will now resume normal operation The update has been installed successfully Note Menu settings will be lost after auto reset see page 28 The More Menu Tip for t...

Page 42: ...e STOP button when switching back on After initialization the new M3PO Advanced Monitor will appear Press the MENU button and select Update from CD The display will now indicate that it has found an update Update was found If you do not wish to update or downgrade at this point press the soft button ESC Otherwise press down the wheel After a few seconds the message Update finished will appear The ...

Page 43: ...Update was found If you do not wish to update at this point press the soft button ESC Otherwise press down the wheel After a few seconds the message Update finished will appear The m3po will now resume normal operation The update has been installed successfully Note Menu settings will be lost after auto reset see page 28 The More Menu Caution A power cut during the software installation process ma...

Page 44: ... M3U compatible which has been made a common stan dard by the Winamp Player This allows you to compile playlists inside your PC and burn these to CD together with your MP3 data When copying playlists When copying playlists from CD to HD please note that it is not possible to copy a complete playlist as the titles on the lists are not necessarily on the disc and more importantly in the same locatio...

Page 45: ...cal to the file name art ist and album In addition you could store information on the year of release and music style This data however is not displayed in the playback mode but is available on pressing the info button on the remote control or when accessing the MPEG Info function in the MORE menu ID Tag in Winamp Player The display of ID Tags can be disabled in the MORE menu See page 28 ...

Page 46: ...pular third layer of the MPEG2 5 audio specification has been developed in the late eighties by the Frauenhofer Insti tut für integrierte Schaltungen Frauenhofer IIS Germany Its main advantage is the small size of its audio files as described in the following example If you record a standard audio CD on your home PC then this will use about 650 Megabyte MB of hard disk space Converting this into M...

Page 47: ...ect is what you are left with we will take a quick look at the actual process The applied data reduction is based on algorithms which cancel out inaudible data For exam ple the brain can hardly hear very quiet sounds which occur immediately after a few milli seconds after a loud signal If the sounds are outside the frequency spectrum of the human hearing it becomes literally impossible Canceling t...

Page 48: ...ave direct access to your vast amount of music on an HD Therefore you need to have pur chased the music legally usually on CD You can save these CDs to HD convert them to MP3 files and use them in your m3po player as you have always done with conventional CDs for private use At this point we would like to draw a comparison with copying to tape for your car stereo or minidisk everything OK However ...

Page 49: ...tical to the original even though minor errors can occur they are usually inaudible Once the data is on HD you can start the encoding process Here you can usually choose the amount of data compression you want to apply to the data This compression next to data reduction is measured in kilobits per second kBit s for example 96kBit s The smaller the value the smaller the size of the MP3 file But als...

Page 50: ... following addresses should offer you a starting point Provider Provider Provider Provider Description Description Description Description http TerraTec Your manufacturer www terratec net TerraTec The m3po Homepage www m3po net Fraunhofer Institut Where it all began www iis fhg de amm techinf layer3 index html ...

Page 51: ...et Links 50 Introscan Playmode 20 Introscan Time determine 28 L LC Display 16 Linux OS 38 M M3PO Advanced Monitor 43 M3PO BIN 40 Macintosh OS 38 Make Directory HDD Functions 26 MENU button 18 Menüfunktionen 20 More Menu 28 40 41 42 43 MP3 Useful information on 46 MPEG Info More Menu 28 Mute function 30 My Playlist Playmode 20 O Output volume 30 P Packungsinhalt 5 Palm OS 33 Party Lock 28 29 Playli...

Page 52: ...heelmode 22 Sleeptimer 28 Soft Button 18 Software Updates 40 Sort HD Directories More Menu 28 Sound Settings 27 Speed Wheelmode 22 Splitmode 28 29 STOP button 19 T Time and Date More Menu 28 U UP button 18 V View Playlist Playlist Mode 23 Volume Phones 30 W Wheelmode 22 Wiedergabe stoppen 19 Windows OS 38 Z Zappa Frank 14 ...

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