A U D I O E Q U I P M E N T a n d T E L E M A T I C S
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General notes on MP3/WMA CDs
Playing an MP3/WMA CD When the MP3/WMA CD is
inserted in the player, play-
ing of the tracks is automat-
ic.
The tracks cannot be recorded
onto the music server.
You can play up to 8 levels,
2 5 5 f o l d e r s a n d 4 0 0 fi l e s
m a x i m u m .
Copyright
Your Audio equipment may allow you to
listen to music which is usually protected
by copyright in accordance with current
national and international standards.
Please consult these standards and
comply with them.
A c c e p t a n c e o f t h e fi l e s
Some burned CDs may not be played
by your equipment (quality, recording
speed ...).
When you burn a CD-R or CD-RW,
select the ISO 9660 level 1.2 or Joliet
burning standard.
To obtain the best acoustic quality
possible, select the lowest burning
speed.
The MPEG1 and MPEG2 standards
are accepted.
Transmission speeds between 32 and
320 kbits/s and scans between 16 kHz
and 48 kHz are accepted.
To display the title information (the
name of the artist, the title of the album,
etc...), the information contained in the
ID3 Tags or the WMA Tags must be
i n c l u d e d i n t h e M P 3 / W M A fi l e s b u r n e d
onto the disc.
W h a t i s t h e M P 3 / W M A fi l e f o r m a t ?
MP3 is the abbreviation of MPEG-1
Audio Layer 3 and MPG is the
a b b r e v i a t i o n o f M o t i o n P i c t u r e s E x p e r t s
Group, a digital video data compression
standard used on media such as video
CDs.
The MP3 compression reduces the
number of bytes in a song by eliminating
the long sound waves in the range of
frequencies which are imperceptible
to the human ear, so producing high
q u a l i t y a u d i o fi l e s w i t h a l o w v o l u m e o f
data.
This compression divides the size of
the content of a conventional audio
C D b y a p p r o x i m a t e l y 1 0 , w h i c h m e a n s
that the content of 10 audio CDs can
be recorded onto a single CD-R or
CD-RW.
WMA is the abbreviation of Windows
Media Audio, another audio data
compression standard offered by
Microsoft.
It can be used to create and save audio
fi l e s a t a c o m p r e s s i o n r a t e h i g h e r t h a n
that of the MP3 format.
Windows Media and Microsoft
Corporation are trademarks registered
in the United States and/or other
countries.