Philips GoGear SA1ARA02 SA1ARA04 SA1ARA08 SA1ARA16 Owners Manual

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Philips GoGear Manual Important safety information 2 2 3 General maintenance Recycling the product 2 Your new GoGear Aria What s in the box 5 5 3 Getting started 6 Overview of the controls and connections Overview of the main menu Install software Connect and charge Connect GoGear Aria to a computer Battery level indication Disconnect GoGear Aria safely Turn GoGear Aria on and off Automatic standby and shut down 4 Use GoGear Aria to carry files 5 Rhapsody Add Rhapsody music channels to GoGear Aria Add pictures to GoGear Aria 6 Music Listen to music Add music from your Rhapsody music channels Find your music Delete music tracks 7 Audiobooks Add audiobooks to GoGear Aria

Audiobook controls Select audiobook by book title 6 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 14 Download convert and transfer videos 4 1 Play videos 14 Delete videos 14 9 Pictures 15 15 15 15 15 10 Radio 16 16 16 16 16 View pictures View slideshow Add pictures to GoGear Aria Delete pictures Listen to FM radio Manually tune a radio station Auto tune preset radio station Play a preset radio station 11 Recordings 17 Record audio voices 17 Listen to voice audio recordings 17 Upload your recordings to a computer 7 1 Delete recordings 17 12 Settings 18 10 13 Update GoGear Aria 20 20 10 11 14 Troubleshooting 21 15 Technical data Glossary A Album art Album art is a feature that displays the artwork cover picture of a music album This display enables the user to quickly identify a music album The artwork files for music albums can be downloaded from the Internet C Compression In audio terms this is a process of temporarily or permanently reducing audio data for more efficient storage or transmission A temporary reduction in file size is called non lossy compression and no information is lost A permanent reduction in file size such as with MP3 files is called lossy compression and involves discarding unnecessary information which is irretrievably lost D Decibel dB A unit of measure used to express relative difference in power or intensity of sound Digital Audio Digital Audio is a sound signal that has been converted into numerical values Digital sound can be transmitted through multiple channels Analog sound can only be transmitted through two channels F FM Frequency Modulation In radio broadcasting a method of modulation in which the frequency of the carrier voltage is varied with the frequency of the modulation voltage 24 EN FullSound FullSound is an innovative technology designed by Philips FullSound faithfully restores sonic details to compressed music enhancing it to provide a full sound experience without any distortion J JPEG A very common digital still picture format A still picture data compression system proposed by the Joint Photographic Expert Group which features small decrease in image quality in spite of its high compression ratio Files are recognized by their file extension jpg or jpeg K Kbps Kilobits per second A digital data rate measurement system which is often used with highly compressed formats such as AAC DAB MP3 etc The higher the amount the better the quality generally is L LCD Liquid Crystal Display Probably the most common way to show visual information on non computer electronic equipment M MHz Mega Hertz One million cycles per second MP3 A file format with a sound data compression system MP3 is the abbreviation of Motion Picture Experts Group 1 or MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3 With the MP3 format one CD R or CD RW can contain about 10 times more data than a regular CD PCM Pulse Code Modulation Pioneering form of digital recording scrolling through large libraries to swiftly find items within large libraries Longer press of the button results in faster scroll speed PlaysForSure PlaysForSure is a Philips GoGear feature that ensures compatibility with Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP The PlaysForSure logo assures the consumer that the music purchased at an online shop with this logo is compatible with the Philips GoGear player T R V Rhapsody Rhapsody is an on line music service that offers streaming on demand access to its library of digital music Volume Volume is the most common word used to specify the control of relative loudness of sounds It also pertains to the function on many electronic devices that is used to control the loudness S Shuffle A feature that plays audio files tracks in random order SMV SigmaTel Motion Video Format A partially compressed video format by SigmaTel that allows conversion of common PC motion video files for play on a portable multimedia player Stereo Literally means solid Usually taken to refer to two channel stereo though developments in digital audio facilitate multichannel stereo SuperPlay SuperPlay is a special feature of the product which enables the listener to play all the music under a top level library category such as artists or albums without having to select playlist items SuperScroll SuperScroll is a navigation feature of the double action search keys of the product SuperScroll allows easy speed control when Thumbnail A thumbnail is reduced size versions of a picture that is used to make it easier to recognize an them Thumbnails serve the same role for images as a normal text index does for words W WAV A format for sound files developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM Built into Windows 95 to XP which made it the de facto standard for sound on PCs WAV sound files end with a wav extension and works with nearly all Windows applications that support sound WMA Windows Media Audio An audio format owned by Microsoft is a part of Microsoft Windows Media technology Includes Microsoft Digital Rights Management tools Windows Media Video encoding technology and Windows Media Audio encoding technology WMV Windows Media Video Refers to a video compression technology developed by Microsoft Corporation WMV content can be encoded by using Windows Media Encoder 9 series Files are recognised by their file extension wmv EN 25 English P 2009 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V All rights reserved SA1ARA 17 UM V2 0 wk9324

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Title: SA1ARA English user manual

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