Sony HZ-WS2000 MP3 Player User Manual


 
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Protecting the hard
disk drive during
exercise (Music Charger)
You can use the player during jogging or
other physical activities. Music Charger
function can effectively be used to prevent
sound skipping as well as unexpected
damage to the internal hard disk drive during
such activities.
How the Music Charger works
In Music Charger mode, the player retrieves
about four tracks* from the hard disk, stores
them in the temporary memory space called
cache, and plays only those tracks in the
cache repeatedly without accessing the hard
disk any more.
* For MP3 files encoded with 128 kbps, each
having an average playing time of about four
minutes
To enter Music Charger mode
1 Press and hold MENU/BACK until
the Setup menu appears.
2 Rotate the jog dial to select “M.
CHARGER OFF,” and then push
the jog dial.
It takes a while for the player to store as
many tracks as possible in the cache.
Tracks are stored beginning with the
track currently being played.
Then, the Music Charger indication
and “ ” appear in the display,
and the player starts playing the tracks
stored in the cache repeatedly.
Playing tracks in a
Playlist
You can create your own Playlist in which
you can arrange tracks of your choice in any
desired order by using Music Transfer Hard
Disk Player Edition.
To create a Playlist
See the separate manual “Music Transfer
Hard Disk Player Edition” for the procedure
of creating a Playlist.
To play tracks in a Playlist
1 Press FAVORITE.
2 Rotate the jog dial to select
PLAYLIST,” and then push the
jog dial.
3 Select the Playlist you want, and
then push the jog dial.
4 Rotate the jog dial to select the
track you want, and then push the
jog dial.
Playback starts, and “ ” appears in the
display during playback.
Tip
•To play all the tracks in the Playlist, press NX
on the player or push and hold the jog dial for
more than one second after selecting the Playlist
in step 3.
•You can edit (delete, change the name of, etc.)
your Playlist using the supplied software Music
Transfer Hard Disk Player Edition. For details,
see the separate manual “Music Transfer Hard
Disk Player Edition.”