Playing mp3 Discs

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Chapter 4: Playing Discs (MP3s)

MP3 (MPEG-3, which stands for Motion Picture Experts Group-Layer 3, meaning the third layer of information) is a format used to compress digital audio. Since the audio is compressed, it takes up less space.

Note: You can only play true MP3 files in the Digital Media Recorder — some products use software to compress MP3 files and convert them to other formats such as MPX. Your Digital Media Recorder won’t recognize or play MPX files or other types of converted MP3 files.

Creating an MP3 Disc on Your Computer

Your Digital Media Recorder handles MPEG-1, layer III audio. If you encode your own MP3 files from an audio CD, avoid using the features of MPEG-2, such as the 22kHz sampling frequency.

Be sure to make a data CD rather than an audio CD. If you make an audio CD, you will lose the extra features and compression of the MP3 format.

When you burn a CD, select ISO-9660 for the file system in your CD burning software.

Notes:

Help — For more information regarding MP3 encoding software and MP3 sites, visit www.lyrazone.com. The Joliet file system is not recommended. Using the Joliet file system may result in shortened file names. Some transport modes (reverse and fast forward) are not available for MP3 CDs.

For more help and recommendations about MP3 files, go to page 52.

Note: There isn’t an Info Display when playing MP3 files.

The mp3 Display

MP3 discs contain individual songs that can be organized into folders — similar to how you use your computer to put documents (files) into different folders when you burn them onto the CD. The contents of a folder can either be songs or more folders (subdirectories).

Selecting Folders and Songs

Use the arrow buttons on the remote control to highlight various files and folders. Press OK to select a file and/or folder.

1.Insert the disc.

2.From the main menu, highlight Disc and press OK (the mp3 files and/or folders that are on the disc appear).

3.Use the arrow buttons to highlight songs and/or folders.

4.To play a song (or the songs in a folder) that is highlighted, press PLAY.

5.To return to the main menu, press STOP twice or the left arrow button.

Saving mp3 files to the hard disk drive

1.Press MENU (the main menu appears).

2.Highlight Disc, and press OK.

3.Highlight Copy, and press OK.

4.When you copy mp3 files to the Digital Media Recorder’s hard disk drive, they are saved in the Music menu. For information about the Music menu, go to page 44. For information about renaming and deleting mp3 files, go to pages 26, 27, and/or 28.

Note: If you choose to copy the mp3 files to the hard drive, be aware that all MP3 files will be saved to the hard disk drive — you can’t select particular files and/or folders. Also, you won’t be able to use your Digital Media Recorder while MP3 (or JPEG) files are being saved to the hard disk drive.