Okay, so at the meet a few weekends ago, my mom bought me a swimp3 player. I didn't swim all last week (first week off since August) and last night I thought I had loaded some songs onto the player. So I head off to the pool tonight, and find it CROWDED...so I sit in the hot tub for a bit figuring out how to hook it up to my googles...head over to the pool...jump in...turn it on..lights blinking..no music.
Thats a quick way to ruin a mood let me tell you. I was so excited.
It's kinda annoying that you can't tell if the songs are really on there, or if it's working until your in the pool. Just for clarification among those of you who have this...when the unit is turned on...is the green light suppose to blink? or be solid? because mine keeps blinking slowly?
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I am actually using mine plenty. I even managed to use it while practicing with the coach, who didn't see I had the darn thing on. But the practice was 100 meter repeats, at 2:00. I never did them better, just listening to my music. First, connect the device to your computer to chage it! Next you can see what is on it by clicking on the F: or whatever the device is on. To fill it up with songs just drag and drop, pretty easy even for me, a non geek. You must use an ear plug to get better hearing. You can test it outside the water and hear what is playing by pushing the devices close to your bone next to your ears. When you turn it off it always goes back to the begining once you turn it back on. The blinking lights mean it has a low battery. Hope this helps, billy fanstone
great thank you...I actually realize now that it had been working for a lap or two...I had never listened to the songs that were on it, because it was a brand new cd...and after it stopped working when I was messing with the google straps, I figured the music i had heard was coming from the sychronized swimming team that was practicing
--I'll mess around with it a little more
Thansk for the help!
1-Charge it hooked on to the computer.
2- Fill it up with music with drag and drop on the Explorer. It has a lot of space.
3- Use a good ear plug. It is essencial to good listening that your ears are not hearing anything, not even the water! It will work without the ear plug but the more you "plug" your ear (silicone is best) the better the sound will be.
4- Notice there is a volume control. Do this with your ears completely in the water to test it and get the right volume. It could be to high!
5- When swimming the sound varies according to where your ear is, inside or outside the water. You'll get used to it.
6- Last but not least. Take a snorkel to the pool and if it is heated or warmed, just relax in a corner while listening to your music. People will think you are doing some type of breathing drill. Take care, and only listen to good music! (Sinatra, Elvis, Ella, Louis, Oscar, Basie, Ellington, Davis, Gillespie and so forth).
Actually. REALLY REALLY thank you! I went to the site, and figured out the problem...now I have music on the player...I can hear the music, and I have already decided to suck it up and record the show I watch tonight on television, so that I can go swim instead, and use it:-D yay.
oh, and I got a tempo trainer for my birthday as well, and the batteries were dead upon opening it. That was annoying, but finis e-mailed me back immediatly and said they had sent out a bad batch of batteries in the trainer, and they've put a new one in the mail for me already.
YAY new swim TOYS! :-D
I had my swimp3 in my backpack along with another couple of goggles when I went to the pool today. Wednesdays are usually lots of dry land exercises, abs and so forth. But the coach just said, "swim 6X500s". We were about three to each lane. I just jumped in and stealthly put on my swimp3s and took off. The music kept me company while dodging oncoming and even arms on the next lane during those boring 3,000 meters. billy fanstone
The user guide isnt't hat helpful for the SwiMP3, but Finis does have walkthroughs on their website now that are really helpful. Just go to the swimp3 product page. They have walkthroughs for their software and itunes.
