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| Digitalway MPIO FL100 MP3/FM/Voice Recorder |
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| Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov | |
| Wednesday, 13 June 2007 | |
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Enabling folder mode allows you to play music in a specified folder only as opposed to playing all the music stored on the player. Then there's this wonder called Study Mode. It allows for two things. First is speed control: MP3s at 22.05Khz or lower can be played at various speeds (50-200%). This is good for learning a different language. The second feature is Easy Finder which allows you to go to different parts of a file being played using the joystick's FF/REW in 5 or 10 second intervals. A navigation option allows you to select the next song (useful for choosing music out of chronological order) while the current one is being played. Here you can also delete files as well as change languages. And finally we have the system option which controls the duration of the backlight (none, or between 3-30 seconds; keep in mind the backlight sucks up juice too). It also controls auto play (which allows for automatic playing of music after the FL100 is turned on) and play position (where you want a file to start playing, as in always from the begging or from a previously stopped point). And a bunch of other options like power settings, sleep mode, what's displayed on the screen (ID3 tag or filename), scroll speed, and firmware/memory information.
The third line shows the name of a preset station that you create using the station editor software. Holding down the mode key (on the joystick) takes you into the menu for the FM mode. Here you can save the current channel as a station, change sound modes, select FM frequency ranges, run auto preset, modify the seek step (either 50 or 100Khz), change backlight status, enable/alter sleep mode (3-60 minutes, useful for when you want to fall asleep to music and have the player automatically shut off), and display firmware/memory information. If you want to record the music simply hit the red/silver record button once to begin (an icon with a lip will appear in the upper left corner) and hit it again to stop.
Actually a file is created even if you record for under five seconds (as I found out using the MPIO Manager program), but it's automatically overwritten with the first file that's over five seconds. The files are stored on internal memory in the MPIO RECORD folder and named VOICE001.wav, -002.wav (for voice recording) and FM001.wav, -002.wav (for FM recording). During playback the display is very similar to that of MP3 mode. However, you'll notice the pretty low 33kbps sampling rate. A firmware upgrade allows for a higher option. Moving out of the folder is achieved by hitting the round mode button.
The blue screen above shows the file currently being played and even has a small visualization. The bottom right window shows the files/folders on the MPIO. You can select to view what's stored on the internal, external memory or both. It also tells you how much used/free memory you have and where. Unfortunately the FL100 has digital media protection (not sure if that's the technical term) which basically means you can copy music to the FL100 but not from it. Actually you can copy music but only if it's a WAV file. Otherwise you'll get a nasty popup saying International Copyright Law prohibits blah blah blah.
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| Last Updated ( Friday, 15 June 2007 ) |
