8GB MP5 & VIDEO PLAYER + FM RADIO + CAMERA
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8GB MP3, MP4, MP5 Player + FM Radio + Camera, retail $79.95 (www.ginnys.com...)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 03-07-14
This is a portable (actually, ***VERY*** portable) multimedia player.
It can play .MP3 & .WMA files {these two are most commonly used for music}, can view photographs & other static images (in .GIF, .JPG, and .BMP formats); it also has an inbuilt FM radio tuner that uses the earphone cord as the antenna and a speech recorder with two quality settings, it can play videos in two formats (.AVM and .AMV), and it even has a built-in digital still & video camera.
It features a 2" diagonal (~1.45" H x ~1.25" V) color LCD; this is the usual 4:3 aspect ratio found on most "boob tube" {CRT} TV sets and outputs its audio (sound) through a standard 1/8" stereo earphone jack.
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The unit came with a rather generous instructional manual.
Putting music on the player appears to be fairly straightforward -- if you're a Windows PC user anyway.
Plug the furnished cable into a USB port on your computer and into the small shielded male receptacle on the bottom of the media player.
Go to your Windows Start Menu, and select, "My Computer" from it.
In the window that comes up, click on the C: drive, and navigate to the subdirectory (folder) that has your music.
To add song(s) to it: Left-click once anywhere blank in the first window {see example screen dump a little farther down this web page}. Highlight the file(s) that you want to add to this player -- if there are more than one, hold down the CTRL key while clicking once on each song. Or just hit CTRL-A and CTRL-C to copy all of the subdirectories in your MP3 player's dierctory (see above).
Move your cursor (mouse pointer) to the media player's window and left-click once anywhere blank in it.
Then, hold down the CTRL key and press the "V" key.
You should now see something lke this (the song I copied to my media player here was, "F-14 Tomcat Pinball Music")
(N.B. This graphic indicates drive H: -- that is because I used the same graphic for this product).
Unplug the Media Player from the USB cable.
Plug the included earphones (or any stereo earphones with an impedance of 8 to 32 with a 1/8" male stereo phone plug) into the receptacle for them on the bottom of the player.
To turn it on, slide the small switch on its upper edge toward the left. A brief "Welcome" animation should be displayed, and then a menu of choises should come up. The first item on this list will be, "Music". Press the "MENU" button on the front surface of the Media Player. The song you uploaded to the player should now be displayed. Press the "Play/Pause" button (the circular pad in the center of the button cluster) to begin playing it.
Use either of the two side buttons (double left-arrow and double right-arrow) to change the song.
To adjust the volume, press the center pad in the button cluster two times until you see a bar at the bottom of the display with loudspeakers at each end of it, and then use either of the buttons to the sides (>>| and <<|) to increase or decrease the volume.
While a song is playing, you may FFW (fast forward) or REW (rewind) it using either of the buttons to the sides (>>| and <<|) by holding the button down for two seconds and then you can observe the song timer on the screen increment or decrement. Release the button when you've fast forwarded or rewinded to the desired portion of the song. FFW and REW act exactly as they would on cassettetapeplayers (remember those things?).
To turn the player off (and preserve the subdirectory {folder} the current song is playing in) {actually, this also stops the song being played so that it can be restarted exactly where you left off}, just press & hold the Play/Pause button for approx. 1 second -- the unit will then display the phrase, "Bye-Bye" momentarily and then it will neutralise itself.
Slide the slide switch at the top of the unit toward the right to complete the shutdown process.
To turn the unit back on if you didn't turn it off with that slide switch on the top, just press & hold the Play/Pause button for approx. 2 seconds.
This product has a lot of other features which will be described here in future updates.
The internal battery is rechargeable, so I don't have to tell you which part to remove, kick under the kitchen sink with all of those hungry cockroaches & silverfish with full bladders, and then rather emphatically tell you not to.
To charge the battery, simply plug the USB cable to the USB port and to the player itself as though you were transferring music.
It is advertised to take approx. 2½ hours to charge -- presumably the battery has pretty much gone to pot at this time for the 2.5 (2½ ) hours value.
This is a small multimedia (audio & video) player with an inbuilt radio, not a flashlight meant to be thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a carport in effort to try and expose the bare Metalmalomyotismon - er - the bare Metalmegaseadramon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalblacktyrannomon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!), let my mother's big dog's ghost, her kitties, my kitty or my sister's kitty cat piddle (uranate) on it, hose it down with my mother's gun, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (now I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. Therefore, this section of the 's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
In fact, the photographs, the spectrographic analyses, and the videos shown directly below will very probably be "it".
Photograph of the unit's display while it was playing a song.
Photograph taken with the product's own camera.
Another photograph taken with the product's own camera.
Yet another photograph taken with the product's own camera.
Spectrographic analysis of the LCD of this product displaying "red".
This audio (sound) file is approximately 19.5777743458 megabytes (19,949,612 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than ninety eight minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
This audio (sound) file is approximately 19.5777743458 megabytes (5,907,500 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than ninety eight minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
Video that shows the product playing the choon "Interview" by Karl Bartos.
O BOY! AN MP3 PLAYER DOING WHAT IT WAS DESIGNED TO DO!
So thrilling!!
So pulse-racing!!!
Actually, it kinda makes you want to kick one of those Penal-Ware® suicide-resistant prison combys over and then proceed to "bete" "thuh" "livengg" "tweadle" "owt" "uv" "itt" "withh" "thuh" "handel" uv" "ahn" "olde" "orr" "yuzde" "toylit" "plunjor" doesn't it?
This video is approximately 29.6744258220 megabytes (30,087,247 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than one hundred forty eight minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
This is a video shot by this unit.
That segment where the video gets all funky (at 0:55) is where I dropped the product but the earphone cord prevented it from striking the driveway.
This video is approximately 14.6888643435 megabytes (14,897,996 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than seventy three minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
This is a video of two jet aircraft going overhead as shot by this unit.
This video is 183.3774255528 megabytes (183,871,782 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than nine hundred seventeen minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on the Ginny's website on 05-21-13, and was received on 05-29-13.
UPDATE: 00-00-00 PROS:
Allows you to take your music with you; not too unlike the Sony Walkman of 1979
No need to format the unit's RAM disk just to add new songs
Bright, clear display
NEUTRAL:
Has a bit of a "chintzy" feel to it
CONS:
Needlessly complex to operate
Audio has a very "tinny" sound to it; almost as though you were listening to it with a pair of desk telephone handsets
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: MP3 (audio) + MP4 (video player) + FM radio + camera
LAMP TYPE: None
No. OF LAMPS: 0
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/off; momentary pushbuttons for ctrl.
CASE MATERIAL: Metal & plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: Unknown type/capacity 3.70 volts internal rechargeable battery
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistant at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡PATATA DE ORINA USANDO UN CEPILLO DE DIENTES QUE CAYÓ EN EL INODORO, NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: Earbud-style earphones, USB charger/media transfer cable
SIZE: 92mm L x 40mm W x 8.50mm D
WEIGHT: 18.40g (0.650 oz.)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: 90 days
PRODUCT RATING:
Product will not be assigned a "star" rating because it is not a light-emitter or R/C vehicle.
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