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About the User Guide

Rio 800 User Guide

About the User Guide

The Rio 800 User Guide includes the following information:

Introduction

Using your Rio

Using Rio menu options and settings

Using the music management software

Understanding digital audio terms

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting

Warranty

 and 

Regulatory

Customer care

Index

To learn more:

Refer to the Getting Started Guide for the basics on how to set up and start using your 
Rio.

Click the RealJukebox, iTunes or AudibleManager software Help menus for step-by-step 
instructions on how to use the software to convert CD tracks into compressed digital 
audio formats, get audio from the Internet or transfer tracks to your Rio.

Visit the 

Rio Web site

Navigating and printing the User Guide

The User Guide is in Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) file format. 

Important: We strongly recommend that you use Adobe Acrobat Reader version 
4.0—available on the Rio software CD—to view and print the Rio User Guide.

Click 

links

 (blue underlined text) to jump to another location in the document or to a location 

on the World Wide Web.

Click the Index icon at the top of any page (by the page number) to go to the index. You 
can also click the Index bookmark. Click page numbers in the Index to jump to a topic.

Using Acrobat toolbar icons

Click the Show/Hide Navigation Pane icon in the Acrobat toolbar to show a list of book-
marks. Bookmarks are links to the contents of the User Guide. Click any bookmark in 

the list to jump to the page in the User Guide that contains the topic.

Click the Print icon in the Acrobat toolbar to print the User Guide. The size of the User 
Guide is optimized for printing.

Summary of Contents for 800 64MB

Page 1: ...b site Navigating and printing the User Guide The User Guide is in Adobe Acrobat PDF file format Important We strongly recommend that you use Adobe Acrobat Reader version 4 0 available on the Rio software CD to view and print the Rio User Guide Click links blue underlined text to jump to another location in the document or to a location on the World Wide Web Click the Index icon at the top of any ...

Page 2: ... reserved iTunes is a trade mark of Apple Computer Inc Mac and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc registered in the United States and other countries ACELP is either registered trademark or trademark of VoiceAge Corporation in the United States and or other countries and used under license from VoiceAge Corporation The ACELP net codec in this product is used under license from Voice...

Page 3: ...digital audio player The Rio interfaces with your computer through the USB port Use the software included on the CD ROM to Organize digital audio tracks on your computer Organize tracks on your Rio Record encode your audio CDs Search for tracks on your computer or on the Internet Create a custom CD ROM if you have CD burning hardware and your computer sup ports it In addition there are many cool a...

Page 4: ...CD If your Rio is left in Pause mode for an extended period of time it goes into sleep mode to conserve battery life Press 4 to wake your Rio from sleep mode In menu mode press 4 to navigate up through menu options Stop the bottom navigation button In play mode press to stop playing the current track Press and hold for about two seconds to put your Rio into sleep mode to con serve battery life In ...

Page 5: ...ngle or a Pause icon two vertical bars to show the current action of the Rio Divider line Graphically organizes the display Current song position Displays the play location in the current track in minutes seconds mm ss form For Audible content the display includes hours hh mm or hh mm ss Volume level Displays the volume setting in both digital and graphic form The bar graph disappears as volume is...

Page 6: ... the Rio 800 User Guide For subsequent chargings you can charge the backpack until the charge lamp goes off for a quick charge after about 1 5 hours or leave the backpack charger AC adapter attached for about 2 5 hours for a full charge You can leave the backpack plugged into the backpack charger AC adapter after charging is complete to maintain the charge In addition you can use your Rio to play ...

Page 7: ...rious player status information including firmware version internal and external memory used battery level calendar and codec information Record Voice recording and playback options Using Audio functions Audio functions include built in and custom equalizer EQ settings Custom EQ lets you set the Treble and Bass values on a range from 1 low to 9 high Selecting built in EQ settings 1 Press Menu 2 Pr...

Page 8: ...he EQ settings display 5 Press the 4 7 or 8 buttons to navigate to Custom 6 Press Select 7 Press the 4 or buttons to navigate between Bass and Treble 8 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to increase or decrease the Bass or Treble value from 1 low to 9 high To save the settings press Select To return to play mode without saving any changes press Menu ...

Page 9: ... Random play options 1 Press Menu 2 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to navigate to Player 3 Press Select 4 Navigate to Play Options 5 Press Select 6 Press the 4 or buttons to navigate between Repeat or Random 7 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to change the Repeat or Random setting Repeat settings include All All tracks repeat Track Current track repeats Off Turns off repeat function Random settings include On A...

Page 10: ...e the track Highlight No on the Delete dialog then press Select to return to the track list without deleting the track To return to play mode without saving any changes press Menu Picking a track to play In play mode you can press and hold Select for about two seconds to jump to the Pick a track list 1 Press Menu 2 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to navigate to Player 3 Press Select 4 Press the navigatio...

Page 11: ...Bookmarks 5 Press the 4 or buttons to highlight Play Bookmark or Delete Bookmark 6 Press Select If Play Bookmark is selected a list of bookmarks displays Press the 4 or buttons to highlight a bookmark Press Select to play the bookmark If Delete Bookmark is selected a list of bookmarks displays Press the 4 or buttons to highlight a bookmark Press Select to choose the bookmark to be deleted Press th...

Page 12: ...laylist option Any existing playlists display 2 Press the 4 or buttons to highlight the desired playlist 3 Press Select Building a playlist 1 Select the New playlist option New playlists are numbered in sequential order starting at 01 2 After a few moments the playlist editor displays all tracks on the Rio 3 Press the 4 or buttons to highlight a track Press Select to assign a playlist order number...

Page 13: ...in the playlist To change the track order number in the playlist highlight a track and press the 7 or 8 buttons 5 When you are finished highlight done editing at the bottom of the playlist editor and press Select to save the new playlist and exit to the playlist options menu Removing a playlist 1 Select the Remove playlist option 2 Press the 4 or buttons to highlight the playlist you want to delet...

Page 14: ... highlight Power Saving 5 Press Select 6 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to adjust the power saving setting To save the setting press Select To return to play mode without saving any changes press Menu Setting time and date 1 Press Menu 2 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to navigate to Prefs 3 Press Select 4 Press the navigation buttons to highlight Time Date 5 Press Select 6 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to highligh...

Page 15: ...ress the navigation buttons to highlight Display 5 Press Select 6 Press the 4 or buttons to navigate between Backlight and Contrast 7 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to adjust the Backlight or Contrast settings Backlight settings include timed 1 2 5 or 10 seconds always on always off Contrast settings range from 1 minimum to 9 maximum 8 Press Select to save the settings ...

Page 16: ... charge until the calibration timer expires You do not need to charge the battery before you calibrate it Note You do not have to calibrate the battery each time you charge it only the first time 1 Connect the backpack charger AC adapter into your Rio s backpack port at the bottom of the backpack 2 Connect the backpack charger AC adapter power cord into an electrical outlet The charge lamp on the ...

Page 17: ... of voice recordings 1 Press Menu 2 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to navigate to Prefs 3 Press Select 4 Press the navigation buttons to highlight Recorder 5 Press Select 6 Press the 4 or buttons to navigate between Record Rate and Analog Gain 7 Press the 7 or 8 buttons to adjust the Record Rate or Analog Gain setting Record Rate settings include 8 kHz and 11 khz Analog Gain settings range from 1 minimu...

Page 18: ...ar graph display of the amount used Total external memory installed and a bar graph display of the amount used 4 Press to display battery information including Battery type Rechargeable Battery charge level The battery s charge state percentage Run time estimation The battery s remaining play time Battery level graphic A bar graph inside a battery icon displays the approximate remaining charge 5 P...

Page 19: ...ing to Record Recording Recording Done and so on Recording time elapsed Displays duration of the present recording in hours minutes seconds hh mm ss Memory used graph Displays how much memory is used and free for recording Percentage of memory remaining Displays how much free flash memory is left Record level meter Displays relative volume sensed at the microphone Playing a recording 1 To play a r...

Page 20: ...o CDs Search for tracks on your computer or on the Internet Create a custom CD if you have CD burning hardware and your computer supports it To learn more about using RealJukebox from within the software Click the Help menu or Click the Home button scroll down to Real Jukebox Help and select Using Real Juke box and or Frequently Asked Questions Highlight tracks and play on your computer organize i...

Page 21: ... drive 2 Click the CD button 3 The software prompts you and fills in track titles and other information via the Gracenote CDDB Web site 4 Check the desired track s click the check box to the left of the song title or click Check All in the right column on the window 5 Recording begins use the convenient playback controls at the top of the window to record play pause and so on Using AudibleManager ...

Page 22: ...y insert a CD to import music to MP3s searching and browsing your entire collection managing playlists downloading songs to your Rio 800 and listening to Internet radio stations To learn more about using iTunes From within the software click the Help menu and choose iTunes Help or Visit the iTunes Web site Create playlists of your favorite songs Copy to your Rio Drag files from your iTunes library...

Page 23: ...ally thought of as CD quality and takes up about 1 megabyte MB per minute of music At a 64kbps bitrate the sound quality is similar to that of an FM radio signal but you can get around two minutes of music in that same 1MB of storage space CD audio has a bitrate of 1 4Mbits per second 1 400 000 bits second Codec Depending on the context and kind of technology involved codec can be defined as a com...

Page 24: ...e Fraunhofer Institut fur Integrierte Schaltungen and Thomson Multimedia MP3 uses perceptual audio coding and psychoacoustic compression to remove the redundant and irrelevant parts of a sound signal that the human ear doesn t hear It also adds a Modified Discrete Cosine Trans form MDCT that implements a filter bank increasing the frequency resolution 18 times higher than that of layer 2 The MP3 e...

Page 25: ...ards USB also supports Plug and Play installation and hot plugging USB may eventually replace serial and parallel ports VBR Variable Bitrate VBR encoding converts tracks at a variable rate using higher bitrate encod ing for complex portions and lower bitrate encoding for pauses in songs WMA Windows Media Audio WMA is the compressed audio format created by Microsoft as an alternative to MP3 WMA off...

Page 26: ...e is the serial number located on the Rio The serial number is on the back of the Rio under the backpack Remove the backpack from the Rio to see the serial number S N The Rio is connected to the USB why doesn t the computer recog nize it First make sure the Rio software is running and check to make sure the USB cable is fully connected to both the Rio and to the computer Then turn the Rio off and ...

Page 27: ...128kbps 80kbps and so on The higher quality the MP3 the larger its size causing it to take up more room in your Rio s memory The following bitrates are supported 256 kbps CD Quality 5 6 1 reduction 192 kbps CD Quality 7 5 1 reduction 160 kbps CD Quality 9 1 reduction 128 kbps CD Quality 11 25 1 reduction 96 kbps Near CD 15 1 reduction 80 kbps Near CD 18 1 reduction 64 kbps FM Radio 22 5 1 reductio...

Page 28: ...rmware upgrade While running the firmware upgrade do not close the program turn off the Rio or unplug the USB cable 1 Connect the Rio to the computer with the USB cable 2 Slide the Rio power switch to On 3 Double click the Rio 800 xxxx exe firmware upgrade file 4 Click the Upgrade Now button on the RioFlasher window 5 Click Yes 6 When the upgrade is complete a check of the firmware version display...

Page 29: ...ew it may require a firmware update from the manufacturer to correct audio extraction errors 4 Overclocking Overclocking the system running it faster than it is rated to run can have adverse effects on the peripheral components If your system is overclocked bring it back to its normal operating speed How can I get the best sound quality when encoding from a CD If you use a significant amount of yo...

Page 30: ...u return the product to us you must pay for shipping to SONICblue Incorpo rated Product failures not covered by this warranty This warranty covers defects in manufacture that arise from correct use of the device It does not cover damage caused by abuse misuse improper modification or repair moisture extreme heat or cold corrosive environments shipping or high voltage surges from external sources s...

Page 31: ...other equipment lost data lost prof its or any consequential incidental or punitive damages In no event will SONICblue Incor porated be liable for any amount greater than the currently suggested retail price of this product This written warranty represents the entire warranty agreement between SONICblue Incorpo rated and you This warranty is given in lieu of all other warranties express or implied...

Page 32: ...e problems stop when the equipment is switched off then the equipment is probably causing the interference You may be able to correct the problem by doing one or more of the following Adjust the position of the radio or TV antenna Move the device away from the radio or TV If necessary consult your dealer or an experienced radio or television technician You may find this booklet helpful How to Iden...

Page 33: ...cation for limits and methods of measurement of radio interference characteristics of Information Technology IT equipment EN 50082 1 1998 Electromagnetic Compatibility Generic Immunity Standard Part 1 Resi dential Commercial and Light Industry EN 50332 1 1999 Maximum sound pressure level measurement methodology and limit con siderations Part 1 General method for one package equipment CEI IEC 60065...

Page 34: ... com Telephone 1 800 468 5846 or 541 967 2450 Fax 541 967 2485 Rio Product Support With every Rio product you receive the following support services Unlimited access to the Rio web based technical information resources available 24 hours a day every day at www riohome com Here you will find FAQ files a knowledge base search engine product updates and other useful tools Unlimited e mail support for...

Page 35: ... for the first 90 days of ownership To extend support after the expiration of New Product Support we offer an affordable fee based Extended Service Option Please see the Web site for details Extended Service Option To extend support after the expiration of New Product Support we offer an affordable fee based Extended Service Option Please see the Web site for details ...

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Page 37: ...contrast 15 firmware version 18 memory information 18 DRM 23 E encode defined 24 equalizer built in 7 custom 8 EU declaration of conformity 32 F Federal Communications Commission FCC 32 file compression 23 firmware checking 28 defined 24 downloading from Web site 28 upgrading 28 forward button 4 frequently asked questions 26 I Industry Canada 32 iTunes software 22 L LCD backlight 15 LCD contrast 1...

Page 38: ...ce 19 regulatory information 32 repeat tracks 9 reverse button 5 ripping 24 S sampling rate 17 select button 4 skin 24 stop button 4 streaming 24 T technical support 34 time and date display 18 set 14 time to sleep setting 14 troubleshooting 26 U universal serial bus 25 USB 25 V variable bitrate 25 VBR 25 voice recording 19 W warranty 30 WMA 25 ...

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