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Notes on MP3/WMA

English

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What is MP3/WMA?

MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer-3) and WMA (Windows MediaTM Audio) are the compression formats of digital audio. The former is developed by MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group), and the latter is developed by Microsoft Corporation. Using these compression formats, you can record the contents of about 10 music CDs on a single CD (This figure refers to data recorded on a 650 MB CD-R or CD-RW at a fixed bit rate of 128 kbps and a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz).

Note:

¡MP3/WMA encoding and CD writing software programs are not supplied with this unit.

Points to remember when making MP3/WMA files

Common

¡High bit rate and high sampling frequency are recommend- ed for high quality sound.

¡Selecting VBR (Variable Bit Rate) is not recommended because playing time is not displayed properly and sound may be skipped.

¡The playback sound quality differs depending on the encod- ing circumstances. For details, refer to the instructions of your own encoding software and writing software.

Display Information

Displayed items

¡ CD-TEXT	¡ MP3 (ID3 tag)
Disc title	Album name
Track title	Title and artist name
¡ MP3/WMA	¡ WMA (WMA tag)
Folder name	Album name
File name	Title and artist name

Displayable characters

¡Displayable length of file name/folder name: within 128 characters. (Unicoded file and folder names are reduced by half in the number of displayable characters.)

¡Name files and folders in accordance with the standard of each file system. Refer to the instructions of writing soft- ware for details.

¡ASCII character set and special characters in each language can be displayed.

¡Some Cyrillic characters in the Unicode can be displayed.

ASCII character set

A to Z, a to z, digits 0 to 9, and the following symbols: (space) ! ” # $ % & ’ ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ˆ _ ` { } ~

MP3

¡It is recommended to set the bit rate to “128 kbps or more” and “fixed”.

WMA

¡It is recommended to set the bit rate to “64 kbps or more” and “fixed”.

¡Do not set the copy protection on the WMA file to enable this unit to play back.

Note:

¡With some software in which MP3/WMA format files have been encoded, the character information may not be dis- played properly.

¡Undisplayable characters and symbols will be converted into an asterisk (*).

¡It is recommended that the length of the file name is less than 8 (excluding the file extension).

Caution

¡Never assign the “.mp3”, or “.wma” file name extension to a file that is not in the MP3/WMA format. This may not only produce noise from the speaker damage, but also damage your hearing.

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