1Basic Information
- It’s a simple USB key, with a 3 lines display on the front to display id3 tags.
- 128Mb storage, quite sufficient for storing music for a walk or a small journey.
- Simple interface:
- 1 play/pause/stop/power button,
- 1 combination slide/push button to control menu and back/forward,
- 2 volume buttons.
- support WMA and MP3.
- voice recorder.
- Delivered with:
- 1 set of headphone integrated to a necklace to support the MP-FUB26 player,
- 1 USB cable (even if you can directly plug the MP-FUB26 in your computer),
- 1 AAA battery (supposed to last for 8h).
2Bad Points
UPDATE: Make sure to read the user comments at the end of the page. There isn’t a lot of positive input about this player.
Even if it’s just an USB flash drive, it does not work on OS X. Sad, but I was warned, the manual only mentions windows. [1]
I had a lot of problems playing mp3 files at the beginning. I was getting the error file error; information shown on the display said 0 kbps. After some tests, I discovered that the MP-FUB26 only supports id3v1 and won’t play files with id3v2 tags. Before putting any file on the player, convert the tags to id3v1!!
The manual is totally useless. You won’t find any information on the menu content, what are the replay modes, how to record, etc...
No directory support. All your mp3 has to be in the root directory, or at least in the same directory (but the behavior of the MP-FUB26 is strange in this case)
UPDATE Directory can be created on the player. The thing is not to copy the directory from your disk, but to create the directories on the player and then copy the mp3 in them. thanks to NONO for this information.
3Good Points
Design is cool. Even if it’s simple and USB key like, I found it cool.
Button are useful and menus well done even if the manual does not explain their use.
Good sound quality, even with the basic headphones.
A function A-B replay to play sequences in loop.
Karaoke mode displaying lyrics of songs while they are playing.
4Menus Explanation
While Playing
- Repeat (All these are obvious)
- Normal
- Repeat One
- Repeat All
- Introduce
- EQ select
- Natural
- Rock
- Pop
- Classic
- soft
- jazz
- DBB (Double Bass, i guess)
- A-B replay:
replay a sequence, when you select this, a little icon at the top left will appear, the blinking A set the start point, push the slider to next to set, then the B blinks, push again the slider to next to set the end point. To stop press the slider.
- Exit
Not playing
- Music (default mode)
- Record
- Fine REC
- Long REC
- Long VOX
- Exit
- Voice (listen to your recorded tracks)
- Sys Function
- Directory
- Music Dir
- Record Dir
- Exit
- Lyric
- On
- Off
- Memory Info
- Rec Filter (?)
- Back Light
- Auto Off
- Font set (this would be where you select the language: 7/11)
- Chinese GB
- Chinese Big5
- English (3/4)
- Exit
- Contrast
- Delete File
- Del Music (use play when it ask you for a confirmation)
- Delete One
- Delete All
- Exit
- Del Music (use play when it ask you for a confirmation)
- Del Record(use play when it ask you for a confirmation)
- Delete One
- Delete All
- Exit
- Exit
- F/W Version
- Exit
- Exit
5Other ressources
Here is an interesting update coming from French forums: The manufacturer of the player has openened an official european site that contains relevant information about the player:
MPMAN, Inventor of the mp3 player
The official forum is a good starting point to find solutions.
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Eventually downloaded firmware from http://www.mpmaneurope.net .. and it seemed to be like original.
Updated $NORFLA$.UGR $NANFLA$.UGR ... Formatted with FAT (not FAT32) with linux fdisk (which seemed to fix it for a while) and in Win XP explorer.
I was able to use it as usb storage for a while, and my pc recognised it, but the mp3 player worked only sometimes and crashed often.
Now it only displays "Starting..." message whether its on batteries or on USB cable and it dont connect to my PC.
I think its the biggest scam Ive ever seen. None of the aforementioned companies answer your emails about this product (some dont even have homepage or address)
Would be interesting to know where these things originate from .. Maybe it would be able to take legal action, cause there are thousands of people who have bought these things and been able to use them only for some weeks.
Does anyone know how i can fix this?
After Formatting it on my PC, my player only showed starting and then turned off. My PC wouldn’t even recognize it.
sing the $nanfla$ / $norflas$ files didn’t do anything, I even couldn’t install them.
ne 1 help me i cant find a place to download the lyrics for mpman fub26.
by the way i have a 1gig mp-ki
windows 98 requires the software that is on the cd you should have got when you got the mp3 player
if yer nned the software ...email me an i will sent it to yer
HI your problem is very easy the mp3 can’t put the number 100 because it does’t have space to 3 numbers , so you must open other directory and put here the other songs
