Philips AZ1846 user manual USB Connection, Using USB connectivity, Supported formats

USB Connection

Using USB connectivity

•AZ1846 is fitted with a USB port in the front panel, offering a plug and play feature which allows you to play, from your AZ1846, digital music and spoken contents stored on a USB mass storage device.

•Using a USB mass storage device, you can also enjoy all the features offered by AZ1846 which are explained and instructed in the sec- tions of disc operation.

Compatible USB mass storage devices With the AZ1846, you can use

–USB flash memory (USB 2.0 or USB 1.1)

–USB flash player (USB 2.0 or USB 1.1)

•USB device which requires driver installation under Windows XP is not supported.

Note:

In some USB flash players (or memory devices), the stored contents are recorded using copyright protection technology. Such protected contents will be unplayable on any other devices (such as AZ1846 device).

Supported formats:

–USB or memory file format FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 (sector size: 512 - 65,536 bytes)

–MP3 bit rate (data rate): 32-320 kbps and variable bit rate

–WMA v9 or earlier

–Directory nesting up to a maximum of 8 levels

–Number of albums: maximum 99

–Number of tracks: maximum 999

–ID3 tag v2.0 or later

–File name in Uicode UTF8 (maximum length: 128 bytes

The system will not play or support the following:

•Empty albums: an empty album is an album that does not contain MP3/WMA files, and will not be shown in the display.

•Non-supported file formats are skipped. This means that e.g.: Word documents .doc or MP3 files with extension. dlf are ignored and will not be played.

•AAC, WAV, PCM. NTFS audio files

•DRM protected WMA files

•WMA files in Lossless format

Playing a USB mass storage device

1Make sure that your AZ1846 is being pow- ered by AC mains or specified batteries.

2Press SOURCE on the system repeatedly or press USB on the remote control to select the USB source.

➜Display shows .

3Plug a compatible USB mass storage device

to AZ1846’s USB port marked . If need- ed, use a suitable USB cable to connect between the device and AZ1846’s USB port.

➜The device will automatically power on.

•If the device is not powered on, turn on the power manually, then re-connnect it.

➜AZ1846’s display shows and then the total number of playable audio files (Max. displayed track number is 511) stored on the device.

4Press 2; on your AZ1846 to start play.

•To select album, press ALB -/+(or ALBUM/PRESET 3/4 on the remote control).

Helpful hints:

–Up to 999 playable audio files stored on a USB mass storage device can be played on AZ1846.

–Up to 99 playable albums stored on a USB mass storage device can be selected and dis- played on AZ1846.

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

–For DRM protected WMA files, use Windows Media Player 10 (or later) for conversion. Visit www.microsoft.com for details about Windows Media Player and WM DRM (Windows Media Digital Rights Management).

–For USB device playing, if the display shows "OL", it means that the USB device is electri- cally overloading AZ1846.You need to change a USB device.