Philips AZ2537/17B warranty MP3-CD/CD Player

MP3-CD/CD PLAYER

MP3-CD/CD PLAYER

About MP3

The music compression technology MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) reduces the digital data of an audio CD significantly while maintaining CD-like sound quality.

How to get music files

Either download legal music files from the internet to your computer hard disc or create them from your own audio CDs. For this, insert an audio CD into your computer´s CD-ROM drive and convert the music using an appropriate encoder software. To achieve a good sound quality, a bit rate of 128 kbps or higher is recommended for MP3 music files.

How to make a CD-ROM with MP3 files

Use your computer´s CD burner to record (“burn”) the music files from your hard disc on a CD-ROM.

Helpful Hints:

–For details on using MP3 encoder and writing soft- ware, please refer to the operating instructions of the software.

–Make sure that the file names of the MP3 files end with .mp3.

–Total number of music files and albums: around 350 (with a typical file name length of 20 characters)

–The number of music files that can be played depends on the length of the file names. With short file names more files will be supported.

IMPORTANT !

This set does not play/support the following file formats:

–Word documents .doc or MP3 files with extension

.dlf.

–Playlist files (e.g. .m3u, .pls of WMA, AAC, Winamp, Sonic, RealJunkbox, Ms Mediaplayer 7.0, MusicMatch).

–Recordings created on PacketWriting and

Package Writing.

Playing a CD

This CD player plays Audio Discs including CD-R(W)s and MP3 CD-ROMs. Do not try to play a CD-I, CDV, VCD, DVD or computer CD.

1.Press STANDBY ON y once or more to on,

2.Select CD SOURCE.

3.Press OPEN•CLOSE to open the CD door.

= is displayed when the CD door is open.

5.Press 2; to start playback.

=Display shows : current track/album number and elapsed playing time

Helpful Hints:

–Depending on the track type, CD or MP3 will appear on the display during playback.

–Album number is only shown for MP3 files.

To pause playback

•Press 2;.

=the elapsed playing time flashes.

•Press 2; again to resume play.

To stop playback

•Press 9.

=Display shows :the total track/album number and total playback time

Helpful Hints:

The MP3-CD/audio CD playback will also stop when:

–the CD door is opened

–the CD has reached the end

–you select an other sound source.

Selecting a different track

During playback

•Press SEARCH ∞ or § (¡ or ™ on the remote control) once or repeatedly until the desired track number appears in the display.

During stop or pause

•Press 2; to start playback after your desired track is selected.

Helpful Hints:

–To find a MP3 track, you can first press ALBUM/PRESET -/+to select the desired album.

Searching for a passage within a track

1.During playback, press and hold SEARCH ∞ or §.(5 or 6 on the remote control).

2.When you recognize the passage you want, release ∞ or § (5 or 6 on the remote control).

=Normal playback continues from this position.

Different playing modes: SHUFFLE and REPEAT (See 4 - 7)

You can select and change the various play modes before or during playback. The play modes can also be combined with PROGRAM.

shuffle - tracks of the entire CD/ program are played in random order

repeat all shuffle - repeats the entire CD/ program continuously in random order

repeat all - repeats the entire CD/ program repeat - plays the current track continuously

To select a playing mode

•Press MODE once or more.(SHUFFLE / REPEAT on the remote control).

•Press 2; to start playback if in the stop position.

To return to normal playback

•press MODE repeatedly until the various modes are no longer displayed.

Helpful Hints:

–When you press 9, the selected playing mode is also cancelled.

Programming track numbers

You can store up to 20 tracks to play in a program. A single track may be stored more than once in the pro- gram.

1.Press 9 to stop playback

2.Press SEARCH ∞ or § on the set to select your desired track number (¡ , ™ on the remote control)

Helpful Hints:

–To find a MP3 track, you can press ALBUM/PRESET -/+to select the desired album.

3.Press PROG

=Display shows: program and the selected track

number. and the number of tracks stored appear briefly.

4.Repeat steps 2-3to select and store all desired tracks.

5.To start playback of your disc program, press 2; .

Helpful Hints:

–During normal playback, you can press PROG to add a current track to your program list.

–	appears if you press PROG and
	there is no track selected.
–	appears if you try to store more than 20
	tracks.

Reviewing the program

•In the stop position, press and hold down PROG for a while until the display shows all your stored track numbers in sequence.

Helpful Hints:

–Display shows : NO PROG if there is no track programmed.

Clearing a program

You can erase the contents of the memory by:

•Press 9 :

–Once, if in the stop position;

–Twice, during playback.

•Press STANDBY ON;

•Select another sound source;

•open the CD door

= displayed briefly, and program disappears.

4.Insert a CD with the printed side facing up and press down on OPEN•CLOSE to close the CD door.

=Display shows and later, the total track/album number and total playback time.