Philips DVD953 owner manual Program, Playing MP3 Recordings, Tips on recording MP3, Glossary

Program

¶Program allows you to store your favorite tracks for a particular disc in the player memory.

¶A Program can contain 20 tracks.

Program FTS
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Total Time
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Clear All

–Storing a Program

1Load a disc and stop playback.

2Press FTS.

➜The program menu appears on the screen

3Enter the track number using the numerical keys (0-9).

4Press 2 to move to the next slot, then repeat step 3 to enter other tracks.

➜The number of tracks and the playing time of the program will be shown on the screen.

5Press PLAY or OK to exit the screen. Playback will begin immediately.

–Erasing a track from a Program

1Press FTS to display the program menu.

2Use 1 2 3 4 to select the track number you wish to erase.

3Press CLEAR.

➜ The track number will be erased from the track list.

– Erasing the complete Program

1Use 1 2 3 4 to select Clear All, then press OK.

➜ The complete Program for the disc will be erased.

Playing MP3 Recordings

The DVD Player can play MP3 format recordings on CD- ROM, CD-R or CD-RW discs.

Before playing MP3 recordings, read the following notes.

Notes on MP3 recordings

– About MP3

¶An MP3 file is audio data compressed by using MPEG1, the audio layer-3 file-coding scheme. We call files that have the “.mp3” file extension “MP3 files.”

¶The player can not read an MP3 file that has a file extension other than “.mp3.”

¶Noises may be heard if you play a non-MP3 file that has the “.mp3” extension.

–The restriction of playing MP3

¶This unit can play up to 200 files per disc. A disc having more than 200 files cannot be played.

¶The unit may not play MP3 files in the order that you recorded them on the disc.

¶With a multi-session disc, the player plays only the last session.

¶It may take over 30 seconds to read the MP3 files, depending on the contents of the disc.

–The limitation of indications

¶Up to 8 characters are displayed for the name of a track.

¶Characters other than uppercase letters (“A” to “Z”), numericals (“0” to “9”) and underscore (“_”) may not be displayed, or may be displayed in different characters

The elapsed playing time on the display may not be correc when playing MP3 files

Tips on recording MP3

To enjoy high quality sound, convert to MP3 files with a sampling frequency of 44.1kHz and a fixed bit rate of 128 kbps.

To play MP3 files in the order that you recorded them

1Writing software that is capable of recording MP3 files in numerical and alphabetical order is required.

2Include a two or three digit number at the beginning of each file name. (e.g. “01,” “02,” ... or “001,” “002,” ...)

3It’s recommended that you use only the root folder (do not create a child folder under the root folder).

Glossary

Extension:

An extension is the last three characters that divide a file name by a period.The extension shows the attribution of the file or the software in which the file was created.

Session:

A session is one section on a disc between the beginning of data and the end of written data.

A multi-session disc has more than two sessions.

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