Panasonic SL-CT800 operating instructions Other Play Methods, Playing WMA/MP3

Other Play Methods

Program Play

1

Select the tracks while stopped.

You can skip albums when programming WMA/MP3 tracks (➪ below).

2

Press [$MEMO/%DISP] to register.

3 – – 01 M

Track Sequence number number

3

Repeat steps 1 and 2 to register up to 20 tracks.

When playing WMA/MP3

– – 01 M

Sequence number

ALBUM 3 1 M

Album number Track number

∫To confirm the contents of the program

∫Press [$MEMO/%DISP] while the disc is playing.

∫To delete the entire program

Press [1/∫].

Play modes

Each time you press [MODE]

				No display
One track	All track	Random	Random	(canceled)
repeat	repeat		repeat

∫You cannot select “RND” while playing WMA/MP3.

∫You cannot skip back to other track during random play.

Anti-Skip System

This system reduces the skipping caused by vibration to a minimum.

4

Start play.

Changing the sound quality

Each time you press [EQ]

S-XBS

TRAIN

LIVE

Boosts the bass	Softens and reduces the		Concert hall-
	audible level of sound		like sound
		No display (canceled)

∫The effect may differ between different kinds of music.

You can change the anti-skip memory time for CD-DA to improve sound quality.

Each time you press and hold [MODE]

Better sound quality,	Normal sound quality,
10-second anti-skip memory	45-second anti-skip memory

∫You cannot change the memory time for WMA/MP3. It is a maximum of 130 seconds for WMA recorded at 96 kbps and 100 seconds for MP3 recorded at 128 kbps.

Other remote control functions

∫Turning the operation tone off

Press and hold [EQ] until “BP OFF” appears. (“BP ON”, tone on)

∫Adjusting the contrast of the display

1.Set the main unit to HOLD while stopped.

2.While pressing and holding [1/;], press [i] (darker) or [j] (lighter)

on the unit.

Adjust if unlit parts of the display are too dark or if the display is too light to read.

Playing WMA/MP3

Starting play from an album (Album skip)

This unit can play WMA and MP3, two methods of compressing audio, without overtly hurting audio quality.

Press and hold until theMain unit album you want appears.

∫When creating WMA/MP3 files to play on this unit

≥Disc formats: ISO9660 level 1 and level 2 (except for extended formats) ≥It is better not to create folders (album) within folders (004album below).

ALBUM 3 – 10

Album number Number of tracks

Playing only the tracks in a selected album (Album mode)

Each time you press and hold [MODE]

ALBUM MODE

CD-ROM drive

001album

1001track.wma

002track.wma

003track.WMA

002album

2004track.mp3

005track.mp3

004album

3008track.MP3

009track.MP3

003album

4006track.wma

007track.WMA

Naming tracks and albums

Prefix with 3-digit numbers in the order you want to play

	Extension	The extension for MP3
		is “.mp3” (or “.MP3”)
001track	.wma	(or.WMA)

Up to 27 characters for tracks and 30 for albums

If you created an album such as 004album at left, the files may not play in name order. The albums would play in the order 1, 2, 3, 4.

	No display
Album mode	(canceled)

∫You can select another album with album skip.

∫You cannot turn album mode on during program play.

Changing the display

Each time you press and hold [$MEMO/%DISP]

∫Limitations on WMA/MP3

≥This unit is compatible with multi-session but if there are a lot of sessions it takes more time for play to start. Keep the number of sessions to a minimum to avoid this.

≥This unit cannot play files recorded using packet write.

≥If the disc includes both WMA/MP3 and normal audio data (CD-DA), the unit plays the type recorded in the inner part of the disc.

≥If the disc includes both WMA/MP3 and other types of audio data, the unit plays only the WMA/MP3.

≥Depending on how you create WMA/MP3 files, they may not play in the order you numbered them or may not play at all.

≥MP3 :This unit is only compatible with version

1.0and 1.1 ID3 tags.

Album	Track	MP3	MP3	Track number and
		ID3	ID3 track
title	title			elapsed play time
		album title	title

∫The unit displays up to 27 characters for track title and 30 for album title. ∫“_” is displayed in place of characters this unit cannot display.

∫ MP3 :“Id3” appears before ID3 titles. “	” appears instead if ID3 titles
haven’t been entered.	6

Windows Media, and the Windows logo are trademarks, or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. WMA is a compression format developed by Microsoft Corporation. It achieves the same sound quality as MP3 with a file size that is smaller than that of MP3.

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