Glossary
ASPI driver | (= Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) A driver which is used to control the CD ROM |
| drive (also for ATAPI drives). |
Bit rate | The data transmission rate which is necessary for a continual music playback. This is defi- |
| ned when the music files are converted into MP3 format. The higher the bit rate, the |
| better the quality – and the larger the file. |
Encoder | Software which converts music into the MP3 format. |
ID3 tag | Information about the title, the artist, the year the song was released and the type of |
| music. The tag can be edited and is saved with the MP3 file. |
MP3 | The file format for music which has been compressed according to the MPEG Layer 3 |
| standard (or an earlier version of the MPEG standard). |
MPEG | Motion Picture Experts Group |
MultiMediaCard | Memory card with a flash memory which can be rewritten more than 100,000 times. |
| You can obtain further information in the Internet at the website of the MultiMediaCard |
| association: http://www.mmca.org |
Parallel port | A standard PC port which is often used for the printer. |
Ripper | Software which reads music files from an audio CD and copies them on the hard disk of |
| a computer. |
Record On Silicon | Record On Silicon is a ROM (Read Only Memory) card. Its contents cannot be overwrit- |
| ten or deleted and it is sold prerecorded. |
Sampling rate | The sampling rate is defined in kHz. The higher the sampling rate, the better the recor- |
| ding quality of the music file. |
Serial port (RS 232) | A standard PC port . |
USB | (Universal Serial Bus) interface for data transmission, available in most recent PCs or |
| Macs. Older models can be updated with a |
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