Music

Music Quality

Your music listening experience on the media player depends upon the quality of your digital music files on your PC. Avoid quality settings below 48kbps as they are unsupported. For CD quality music, rip your MP3s at 128kbps or higher, with a sample rate of 44.1kHz.

Supported Music Formats

The following music file formats are supported:

￿MP3 (up to 192 kbps)

MPEG-1, Layer 3 Audio file -The standard Internet music file format. This is the most commonly used audio format.

￿WMA (Does not support WMA lossless, WMA Pro)

Windows Media Audio file - Supported by the Microsoft Windows Media player and some music jukebox programs.

￿WAV

WAV was developed by Microsoft and IBM. WAV sound files end in

.wav and are compatible with Windows applications supporting audio.

￿AIFF (AIFF files must be encoded in PCM format only.)

AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) was developed by Apple Computers and is the standard audio format for Macintosh computers. File extensions are .AIF or .IEF.

￿MPEG 1 and MPEG 2

Moving Pictures Experts Group created standards for compressing audio and video. Audio uses the file extension .mp3.

￿OGG Vorbis

Open source audio format. Uses the file extension .ogg.

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D-Link DSM-320 manual Music Quality, Supported Music Formats