Sony Ericsson P900 User Manual

PowerMP3 Audio Player

for Sony Ericsson P800/P900/P910

Version 3.0

USER MANUAL

1. Quick start

PowerMP3 is a revolutionary audio/music player for your Sony Ericsson P Series of mobile

phones. It is designed using pluggable architecture for the possibility of extending the player

with new audio file formats when the need arises. The current version of PowerMP3 supports

MP3, OGG, AAC and M4A formats.

PowerMP3 is designed to work in both Flip Opened and Flip Closed modes. After

installation, PowerMP3 will be available in the Application List of both modes as shown

below:

2. Registration

The trial version of the PowerMP3 only allows THREE songs in the playlist. In order to have

full functionality of PowerMP3, you will need to purchase the full version. For your

convenience, PowerMP3 is easily available at either Handango or My-Symbian. Their

respective web sites are as follows:

www.handango.com

www.my-symbian.com

When purchasing for the full version, you will be asked to produce the IMEI number of your

mobile phone before a registration code can be generated. IMEI is the unique ID of your

mobile phone and it can be obtained by typing *#06# using the Phone application (both Flip

Opened and Flip Closed modes). Please be very careful with IMEI because if you specify a

wrong IMEI you will receive a wrong key! Hence, do take note to truncate the LAST TWO

DIGITS. Typically, your IMEI should be in this format:

xxxxxx-xx-xxxxxx-x

To activate the generated key code you should start PowerMP3 program, Go to File Æ

figures. Tap on “OK” button when you are done and PowerMP3 should now be fully

registered and from now onward, you should be able to load as many songs in a playlist as

you wish. .

3. Control

This section outlines the Controls of PowerMP3 in the both Flip Opened and Flip Closed

modes of the phone.

The following works in both modes:

1. Radomize is turned OFF

a. When playback is stopped or paused, roll the jog dial wheel up or down to select

previous or next song from the playlist. Press the jog dial wheel to play a song.

b. During playback, roll the jog dial wheel up or down to increase or decrease volume

level. Press the jog dial wheel to pause playback.

2. Radomize is turned ON

a. When playback is stopped or paused, roll the jog dial wheel up or down to jump to

the next Radomized song from the playlist. Press the jog dial wheel to play a song.

b. During playback, roll the jog dial wheel up or down to increase or decrease volume

level. Press the jog dial wheel to pause playback.

In Flip Opened mode:

Tap on a corresponding button to:

a. FAST REWIND or FAST FORWARD (1^stRow). You can even drag on the slider bar

to your desired position.

b. PREVIOUS SONG, PLAY, PAUSE, STOP, NEXT SONG, GO TO PLAYLIST, GO

TO EQUALISER (2^ndRow).

OR you can tap on the Controls and select a command from the drop down menu to control

the playback as shown in the figure below.

In Flip Closed mode:

You can control playback either by selecting a command from the popup menu (see figure

below) or by pressing the various numerical keys on the keypad for respective functions as

follows:

Numerical 1 = Play

Numerical 2 = Pause

Numerical 3 = Stop

Numerical 4 = Previous song

Numerical 5 = Loop song

Numerical 6 = Next song

Numerical 7 = Fast rewind

Numerical 8 = Mute

Numerical 9 = Fast forward

Tap Here for

Menu to Pop

Up.

NEW in version 2.0, is the possibility to use the stereo Hands Free to control the playback.

PowerMP3 is Proud to be the first in P series platform to incorporate this extremely useful

feature. The Hands Free control works as follows:

1. Radomize is turned OFF

a. When playback is interrupted, eg, by a Reminder alarm tone, just press Hands

Free button to start playing again.

b. During playback, press Hands Free button to automatically switch to the next

song in the playlist.

2. Radomize is turned ON

a. When playback is interrupted, eg, by a Reminder alarm tone, just press Hands

Free button to start playing again.

b. During playback, a press on the Hands Free button will jump to the next

Random song.

3. New in version 3 is the ability to set 3 Performance levels: Low, Medium and High

Performance (drains battery life the most). Also, in the same Performance menu, there is an

option to turn OFF Spectrum Analyzer to save precious battery life even more!

4. New in Version 3.0 is the ability to turn ON/OFF Handsfree button control.

4. Playlists

The Playlist allows you to organize the favorite songs into the groups. To create playlists,

you need to be in Flip Opened mode and follow the instructions below:

1. Using any File Manager (P900 and P910i has built in File Manager) or a card reader

connected to your PC, create any sub folder name of your choice in MSD (or MSD

Pro)\Media Files\Audio folder.

2. Make sure all your MP3/AAC/M4A/OGG files are placed into the respective subfolders

created by you in step 1 above.

3. Start PowerMP3 and tap on File Æ Open Song(s).

4. Tap on the “Folder” pull down menu and tap on any of the sub folder name that you had

created.

5. Tap on the check boxes for as many songs as you wish or you can tap on “Select All” to

quickly mark out all the songs within this sub folder.

6. When you have completed choosing your songs, tap on “Done”.

7. Now to save the newly created playlist, just tap on File Æ Playlist Æ Save, and you will

be given an option to save all your selected songs as a new playlist.

In short, there are four ways of managing the playlist (see figures below for examples), and

they are:

1. Open a saved playlist by selecting File Æ Playlists Æ Open.

2. Save the current playlist by selecting File Æ Playlists Æ Save.

3. Clear the current playlist by selecting File Æ Playlists ÆClear.

4. Delete a saved playlists by selecting File Æ Playlists Æ Delete.

Remember, the audio files and playlists could be placed both on internal and external

memory (MSD or MSD Pro). But they must be located in:

1. C:\Documents\Media files\Audio folder for Internal Memory

2. D:\Media files\Audio folder for Internal Memory for External Memory (MSD or

MSD Pro)

New in version 3 is the ability to rescan the current playlist to remove the absent file links:

File Æ Playlists Æ Rescan.

5. Equalizers

PowerMP3 is PROUD to be the first MP3 player for the P Series of mobile phones that

incorporates 10-band Equalizer for all kind of music. The Equalizer allows you to customize

the sound quality of your music to your likings.

Auto Mode for File-Specific Presets

New Improved Equalizer in PowerMP3 Version 3!

1. 10 Band Equalizer now fully support not only MP3, but also AAC/M4A as well as OGG

audio formats!

2. Enhancements have been made that greatly improves the 10 Band Graphic Equalizer’s

resulting audio output quality on Px00/P910i series of smartphones!

3. Two Modes of Equalizer Presets –

a. Genre Presets - You can fine tune the Equalizer either manually by yourself (the

settings will be remembered by PowerMP3 even after it has been closed), or you can

choose from the list of Equalizer Genre Presets namely: Techno, Soft, Soft Rock,

Rock, Reggae, Pop, Party, Live, Large Hall, Headphones, Full Treble, Full Bass, Full

Bass and Treble, Dance, Club, Classical.

b. File-specific – Customise your EQ preset to a setting that suits your favorite song,

the tap on EQÆPresetÆFile-Specific PresetÆsave the preset. When this is done and

the “Auto” mode has been turned ON, then the next time PowerMP3 reaches this

song it will automatically set the EQ to your saved preset.

4. PowerMP3 can automatically load presets while selecting song if the "Auto" mode is

switched on. The player will try to find saved pressed fist by file name (File-specified

presets) and then by genre (genre presets), and load it.

6. Skins

PowerMP3 has Skins. In the current version there are three skins available for you to choose:

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