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Everything you need to know to get the most from your MegaVoice Envoy 2 S Series audio player. 

 

Summary of Contents for Envoy 2 S Series

Page 1: ...Envoy 2 S Series User Guide 20191217 21 docx 2019 MegaVoice Ltd Page 1 of 51 Everything you need to know to get the most from your MegaVoice Envoy 2 S Series audio player ...

Page 2: ...ual 9 The Envoy 2 ST 10 Playback looping within the structures 10 The Keypad 11 The keypad layout 11 Navigation button specifics 12 Setting up the folder layout 14 The Audio Project Folder 14 The Channel Folders 17 The Section Folders 18 The Book Folders and Chapter Files 20 The Second Channel Folder 25 Verifying the Intermediate Folder Structure 26 Renaming the Folders 27 Loading audio files to t...

Page 3: ...ting the bookmark to the beginning 42 Charging and communication modes 43 Warnings and advisories 44 MegaVoice limited warranty 45 Technical 47 Contact for Support 47 Specifications 47 Charging 48 Battery Care 48 Resetting the player 49 Troubleshooting 50 Troubleshooting continued 51 ...

Page 4: ...t for Envoy 2 ST 10 Figure 6 Envoy 2 S Dual Navigation and Function Buttons 11 Figure 7 Channel and Section control buttons Envoy S and S Dual only 12 Figure 8 Book control buttons 12 Figure 9 Chapter control buttons 13 Figure 10 Buttons for navigating the Current Chapter the Pause button 13 Figure 11 Folder layout before after renaming 34 Figure 12 USB connection diagram 35 Figure 13 Power and Vo...

Page 5: ...f a family of rechargeable battery types in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to the positive electrode during discharge and back when charging Long press Press hold for 2 seconds and release MP3 MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group Layer 3 Audio file format N A Not applicable Onboard memory Internal memory in the player Accessible when player is connected with an SLS cable Player ...

Page 6: ...berCopy software making it simple and secure for you to update content USB hubs allow for multiple players to be loaded at the same time The Envoy 2 S Dual may be ordered from MegaVoice with a special version of firmware that provides easy Cross navigation between Bibles or similar content in 2 different languages Audio Programming Requirements Hardware Requirements A Windows PC or Mac Intel only ...

Page 7: ...now the exterior of the 2 S Series Figure 1 The Envoy 2 S Dual Figure 2 The Envoy 2 S and ST Section Navigation Envoy 2 S only Power Button Volume control 3 5 mm audio jack Micro USB connector LED indicator Pause and Bookmark Channel 2 and Section Navigation Channel 1 and Section Navigation ...

Page 8: ...ithin each Section folder must be at least 1 and up to 999 Bookfolder s Within each Book folder must be at least 1 and up to 999 MP3 WAV WMA audiofile s The Channel Section and Book folders must be named with a 3 digit number The first folder in each level must be 001 The remaining folders must be sequential i e 002 003 004 etc The MP3 WAV WMA audio files may be named with free text as long as the...

Page 9: ... projectfolder Within the second Channel folder there must be at least one Section folder named001 Within every Section folder there must be at least one Book folder named001 Within every Book folder must be at least a single MP3 WAV WMA file This file may have any name may be silent and as small as one second of play time Figure 4 Folder layout for Envoy 2 S Dual If your Envoy 2 S Dual came with ...

Page 10: ...MA audio files may be named with free text as long as they sort in the order they should be played There may be no empty folders Figure 5 Folder layout for Envoy 2 ST Playback looping within the structures Audio playback automatically loops when left to play uninterrupted Once the last file in a structure has been played playback will continue with the first file For the Envoy 2 S Dual structure l...

Page 11: ...tons that are not included in that particular model The keypad layout The actual time may vary slightly Figure 6 Envoy 2 S Dual Navigation and Function Buttons Channel 2 button Scroll forward through the Sections in Channel 2 Channel 1 button Scroll forward through the Sections in Channel 1 Scroll backwards through the Books in each Section Scroll backwards through the Chapters in each Book Rewind...

Page 12: ... Dual only Each Section may contain one or more Books The and buttons control reverse forward navigation through the Books A click on the Green Channel button Envoy 2 S and S Dual only will scroll to the next Section within the first Channel From the last Section it will scroll back to the first within the first Channel There may be up to 8 Sections within a Channel folder A click on one of these ...

Page 13: ...ast first Chapter in the previous next Book A 2 second press will skip up to 5 Chapters at a time Figure 9 Chapter control buttons A click on one of these buttons will rewind or fast forward through the current audio file Chapter in 10 second intervals Press and hold will continue to rewind fast forward until the button is released or the beginning end of the file is reached The actual time may va...

Page 14: ...hat is the extent of the organization Your audio messages may be organized differently We have a folder named Audio Bibles Within that folder we have 3 Bibles each in a folder of its own a Dutch New Testament Dutch NT an English New Testament of the KJV translation English NT KJV and a Spanish New Testament Spanish NT Within each Bible folder are all the relevant audio files WAV MP3 WMA which are ...

Page 15: ...py the contents of the English NT KJV and Spanish NT folders into it and make our changes here In order to load the Envoy 2 S Dual with an audio project it may be necessary to rename and or reorganize the folders Before you begin making changes to your Audio Project Folder MegaVoice recommends that you make a copy of your project folder and make changes to the copy to keep your original folder int...

Page 16: ...amed 001 Section Folder 1 named 001 Book Folder 1 named 001 Book Folder 2 named 002 And so on Section Folder 2 named 002 Book Folder 1 named 001 Book Folder 2 named 002 And so on And so on Channel Folder 2 named 002 Section Folder 1 named 001 Book Folder 1 named 001 Book Folder 2 named 002 And so on Section Folder 2 named 002 Book Folder 1 named 001 Book Folder 2 named 002 And so on And so on ...

Page 17: ...ed file renaming utility we will remove the meaningful part of the folder names but only after the folders are organized properly Now let s move all the English KJV MP3 files into the new folder 001 Language English And we ll also move all the Spanish NT MP3 files to the new folder 002 Language Spanish There are several ways to do this Use the method you are most comfortable with Highlight the rel...

Page 18: ...tains Jude and Revelation In Channel folder 001 Language English let s create the following Section folders 001 Section Matthew Mark 002 Section 1 and 2 Cor and 003 Section Jude Rev If you ordered your Envoy 2 S Dual with the special Cross Navigation feature requires special firmware to be installed then you must make sure that the two Channel folders are structured identically for Cross Navigatio...

Page 19: ...te and manually create them when working on the second Channel folder If you are not using Cross Navigation you may want to complete the first Channel folder before building the second Channel folder When done with this step we should have the following folder structure in the MegaVoice audio folder Once our Section folders are created let s move corresponding audio files to their respective Secti...

Page 20: ... of the three Section folders We ll begin with the first Channel folder 001 Language English This entire process will be repeated for the 002 Language Spanish folder later Open the first Section folder 001 Section Matthew Mark Since Matthew is the first Book create a folder named 001 Matthew Mark being the second Book will need a folder named 002 Mark ...

Page 21: ...ge 21 of 51 Now we will move the Chapter files to their respective Book folders Highlight the Chapter files for Matthew 3 of them in our example and move them to the 001 Matthew folder Highlight the Chapter files for Mark 3 of them and move them to the 002 Mark folder ...

Page 22: ... 2019 MegaVoice Ltd Page 22 of 51 Let s repeat the above process for the next Section 002 Section 1 and 2 Cor Because 1 Corinthians is the first Book in this Section create folder 001 1 Corinthians And create 002 2 Corinthians for the second Book ...

Page 23: ...n we will move the Chapter files to their respective Book folders Highlight the Chapter files for 1 Corinthians 3 of them in our example and move them to the 001 1 Corinthians folder Highlight the Chapter files for 2 Corinthians 3 of them and move them to the 002 2 Corinthians folder ...

Page 24: ...pen the folder and create a Book folder for Jude 001 Jude and create a folder for Revelation 002 Revelation Let s move the Chapter files to their respective Book folders for Section 3 Highlight the only Chapter file for Jude and move it to the 001 Jude folder Highlight the Chapter files for Revelation 3 of them and move them to the 002 Revelation folder ...

Page 25: ...e structure for the second Channel folder must be identical to the first Channel folder If however you are not using the Cross Navigation feature you may arrange your Sections and Books however you like as long as the layouts in both Channel folders adhere to the defined structuring rules Although it is possible to program an Envoy 2 S Dual with Cross Navigation using two differently structured Ch...

Page 26: ...der and click on each folder to verify the contents Within our Audio Project Folder MegaVoice we should only have two folders which are our Channel folders Within each Channel folder we should only have our three Section folders Within each Section folder we should only have two Book folders and they should be the Books relevant to that particular Section Within each Book folder we should have the...

Page 27: ... to error MegaVoice recommends a free file renaming utility that you can install on your PC or Mac It can be used to rename either files or folders If you need it download and install the software http sourceforge net projects freefilerenamer We ll demonstrate how to use this utility to rename our folders Because the audio files MP3 were already named so that they sorted correctly they can be left...

Page 28: ...thin a single folder at a time On the main screen make sure you are on the Home tab Click the Select folder icon The Open dialog appears We can rename our folders in any order desired Let s start with the Book folders in each Section folder followed by the Section folders and finally the Channel folders Navigate to Audio Bibles MegaVoice 001 Language English folder Highlight the first Section fold...

Page 29: ...9 MegaVoice Ltd Page 29 of 51 In the selected Section folder we should see the 2 Book folders 001 Matthew and 002 Mark Now let s define the rules for how we want to rename all the relevant folders Go to the Add Operation tab and click the Remove icon ...

Page 30: ...n Remove dialog appears Make sure Remove all is checked and click the Add button Making sure we are still on the Add Operation tab click the Add counter icon The Add Operation Add sequence dialog appears Change the Start field to 1 Leave the rest of the fields to default and click the Add button ...

Page 31: ...how many leading zeroes to add Note that this must be a per folder determination If there are fewer than 10 folders to rename in the currently selected folder type 00 2 zeroes in the first field But if there are 10 or more type a 0 single zero in it Once you set that value and click anywhere else on the dialog the Before After display at the bottom of the dialog will show you the results Click the...

Page 32: ... see the 3 operations we added listed in order We can also verify that our operations are correct by comparing the Original file name column against the New file name column in the list at the bottom of the screen In this case the 001 Matthew folder will be renamed to 001 and 002 Mark will be renamed to 002 exactly what we want Click on the Home tab and then click the Rename icon ...

Page 33: ...tility remembers the renaming operations all we need to do now is to select the next Section folder 002 Section 1 and 2 Cor and simply click the Rename icon Repeat this process for the remaining Section 003 Section Jude Rev and for the 001 Language English folder to rename the 3 Section folders Repeat for all the folders in the 002 Language Spanish folder Finally in the Audio folder MegaVoice rena...

Page 34: ...019 MegaVoice Ltd Page 34 of 51 Once we have renamed all the folders in the MegaVoice audio project folder This Should look like this We are ready to load our audio project folder to the Envoy 2 S Dual Figure 11 Folder layout before after renaming ...

Page 35: ...powered HUBs each directly connected to the computer not daisy chained The optimal number of hubs and or players per hub that can be processed simultaneously with maximum throughput will vary per your specific hardware SLS USB cables must be used to connect the players to the PC Mac Standard USB to micro USB cables will not work When connecting players using a USB HUB each player must have its own...

Page 36: ... section will briefly describe the steps necessary to perform a typical audio load using SaberCopy It is intentionally non specific to a player model Recommended settings are displayed with no explanation and no functional details will be discussed here They are all described in detail in the full SaberCopy user guide 1 Open SaberCopy and connect your player s with an SLS USB cable 2 Click on the ...

Page 37: ...ted to Set as Master 4 SaberCopy will automatically create a project for you named after your audio folder Click on the Edit button to adjust the settings 5 The Project Details dialog will open The Files in Project tab should already be correctly set with your audio folder in the Source File Spec field Just make sure that the Destination Folder field is blank ...

Page 38: ...ct the correct family of MegaVoice devices for your player s Make sure the remaining fields are set exactly as in the image below 7 Click on the Copy and Check tab and make sure it is set exactly as in the image below Optionally you can name your player s by entering text in the Write Drive Volume field Then click OK ...

Page 39: ...17 21 docx 2019 MegaVoice Ltd Page 39 of 51 8 Take a moment and make sure your audio will fit on the target player Then click Attach All in the project window 9 Now click Copy All in the project window 10 Reply Yes to the delete warning ...

Page 40: ...tion 9 File verification in the SaberCopy User Guide c If you are still not sure what the problem is click here to contact MegaVoice for assistance 14 If the load was successful but the player beeps and turns off or does not work or navigate correctly please click here and review the structuring rules for for the Envoy 2 S Series 15 Before you close SaberCopy If you need to repeat the above steps ...

Page 41: ...inning If it does not see the section on Troubleshooting at the end of this document The Power button Press and hold this button for 2 seconds to turn the player on or off A click on this button will increase the volume 1 level Press and hold will increase the volume until the button is released or the maximum level is reached A click on this button will decrease the volume 1 level Press and hold ...

Page 42: ...gin to play from this bookmark This bookmark will persist until It is removed by the user see below Or it is reset to a different place in the audio Resetting the bookmark to the beginning To reset the bookmark to the beginning of the audio message follow these steps 1 During audio playback press the pause button 2 Once the player is paused press the volume up button on the keypad for 2 seconds Th...

Page 43: ... computer for charging purposes Connect the player to a computer using a micro USB SLS cable a Standard micro USB Data cable or a Charge Only micro USB cable If connected via SLS Data cable and you want to disconnect from computer communication mode and continue charging your player press briefly on the Power button at the top of the keypad or eject the player s volume via the operating system If ...

Page 44: ... exposed battery out of reach of children DO NOT burn puncture disassemble or modify the battery If the battery leaks dispose of it carefully in accordance with all local laws Wash any skin or clothing exposed to battery liquid and avoid swallowing or contact with eyes In the case of swallowing or contactwith eyes seek medical care immediately This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules Ope...

Page 45: ...date as determined by PROOF OF PURCHASE WARRANTY PERIOD The WARRANTY PERIOD will be extended by each whole day that the PRODUCT is out of YOUR possession for repair under this WARRANTY b MEGAVOICE will pay for the labor charges incurred by MEGAVOICE in repairing or replacing the defective parts during the WARRANTY PERIOD c YOU will not have to pay for any such replacement parts d MEGAVOICE also wa...

Page 46: ...ve remedies for breach of WARRANTY Any action or lawsuit for breach of WARRANTY must be commenced within eighteen 18 months following the purchase of the PRODUCT 9 The foregoing WARRANTY is YOUR sole and exclusive remedy and is in lieu of all other warranties expressed or implied To the extent permitted by applicable law MEGAVOICE hereby disclaims the applicability of any implied warranty of merch...

Page 47: ...equest support for loading audio content on audio bibles Recommended free utilities by MegaVoice http megavoice com audio tools tools and utilities for loading audio content on audio bibles Specifications Battery Lithium Ion 3 7V 400 mAh 1 48Wh Input DC 5 0V 500mA Weight 2 2 ounces 63 grams Dimensions 4 2 x 2 3 x 0 4 10 6cm x 5 9cm x 1 1cm Onboard Memory Envoy 2 ST 512MB Envoy 2 S and S Dual 4GB ...

Page 48: ...arging Actual charge time will vary according to the current battery capacity and method of charging used Battery Care Avoid completely depleting the battery as this will shorten its overall lifetime and takes much longer to fully charge afterwards If sunlight is the only means available for charging it is recommended to leave the player in direct light often to keep the battery at least partially...

Page 49: ... 10 seconds If still unsuccessful use the reset switch per the instructions below To perform a physical reset of the player insert a small paper clip or similar item with a blunt end through the reset hole on the rear panel of the player just above the left most panel screw Press gently on the reset switch and hold for a few seconds The player should turn on automatically This is the same as disco...

Page 50: ...ED flashes quickly when first connected to the computer witha USB cable Low Battery Make sure the battery is charged per the instructions Unit does not respond or register when connected to the computer with the SLS cable Player may be locked up Try resetting the player see Resetting the player USB port has not been initialized Switch to a different USBport SLS cable might be faulty Replace with a...

Page 51: ... files are stored we recommend always having your source audio on the local computer s hard drive when loading players We also recommend using powered Hubs with each Hub directly connected to the computer not daisy chained together The optimal number of hubs and or players per hub that can be processed simultaneously with maximum throughput will vary per your specific hardware Allocation unit size...

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