MP3-CD/ CD Playback, Important Speciﬁcations

MP3-CD/ CD Playback

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Important Speciﬁcations

Supported formats:

•Disc format ISO9660, Joliet and multi- session CDs. Use ISO9660 disc format when burning CD-ROM.

•MP3 music formats.

•MP3 bit rate (data rate): 32-320 Kbps and variable bit rate.

•650Mb and 700Mb CD-R and CD-RWs.

•Directory nesting up to a maximum of 8 levels (max. 64 characters).

General information

The music compression technology MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) reduces the original digital audio data by a factor up to

10 without losing signiﬁcant sound quality. This allows you to record up to 10 hours of CD-like quality music on a single CD-ROM.

How to get MP3 music

Either download legal MP3 music from the internet or convert your audio CD into MP3 format with any MP3 encoder software, and then record onto a CD-R(W).

•To achieve a good sound quality a bit rate of 128kbps is recommended for MP3 ﬁles.

Some encoder software offers an option to protect music ﬁles, i.e. the ﬁles can only be played on the computer which created them. If you burn such ﬁles on a CD-ROM, you cannot play them on this set. Make sure to deactivate the protection option in the encoder software before creating the music ﬁles. In this case you are responsible for the adherence to all local or international copyrights.

When burning the MP3-CD

•To avoid problems with playback or missing ﬁles, make sure the ﬁle names are typed in English text characters and that the

MP3 ﬁles end with .mp3

•Use a writing software capable of recording MP3 track titles (ﬁles) in numerical and alphabetical order. For details on using the software, refer to the operating instructions of the software.

•When recording on a CD-RW, make sure that you close (ﬁnalize) all sessions in order for the set to read and play your tracks.

How to organize MP3 ﬁles

You can store up to a maximum number of 35 albums and 350 titles on one MP3-CD.

Albums and titles are alphabetically sorted.

•There may be an album 00 which will be played before all other albums. Album 00 contains all the tracks which you did not put into an album.

•MP3-CD/ CD albums and titles are shown as numbers in the display.

IMPORTANT

This set does not play/support the following:

•UDF disc format.

•Mixed format CD recordings e.g. CD audio and MP3 tracks combined within a disc, as you will only be able to playback the CD audio tracks.

•Empty albums: an empty album is an album that does not contain MP3 ﬁles, and will not be shown in the display.