Philips AZ4000 manual MP3-CD/ CD Playback, Important Specifications, Supported formats, English

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MP3-CD/ CD Playback

XP AZ 4000/00-1 19-11-2001 12:10 Pagina 12

MP3-CD/ CD Playback

English

Important Specifications

Supported formats:

Disc format ISO9660, Joliet and multi- session CDs. Use ISO9660 disc format when burning CD-ROM.

MP3 music formats.

MP3 bit rate (data rate): 32-320 Kbps and variable bit rate.

650Mb and 700Mb CD-R and CD-RWs.

Directory nesting up to a maximum of 8 levels (max. 64 characters).

General information

The music compression technology MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) reduces the original digital audio data by a factor up to

10 without losing significant sound quality. This allows you to record up to 10 hours of CD-like quality music on a single CD-ROM.

How to get MP3 music

Either download legal MP3 music from the internet or convert your audio CD into MP3 format with any MP3 encoder software, and then record onto a CD-R(W).

To achieve a good sound quality a bit rate of 128 kbps is recommended for MP3 files.

Some encoder software offers an option to protect music files, i.e. the files can only be played on the computer which created them. If you burn such files on a CD-ROM, you cannot play them on this set. Make sure to deactivate the protection option in the encoder software before creating the music files. In this case you are responsible for the adherence to all local or international copyrights.

When burning the MP3-CD

To avoid problems with playback or missing files, make sure the file names are typed in English text characters and that the

MP3 files end with .mp3

Use a writing software capable of recording MP3 track titles (files) in numerical and alphabetical order. For details on using the software, refer to the operating instructions of the software.

When recording on a CD-RW, make sure that you close (finalize) all sessions in order for the set to read and play your tracks.

How to organize MP3 files

You can store up to a maximum number of 35 albums and 350 titles on one MP3-CD.

Albums and titles are alphabetically sorted.

There may be an album 00 which will be played before all other albums. Album 00 contains all the tracks which you did not put into an album.

MP3-CD/ CD albums and titles are shown as numbers in the display.

IMPORTANT

This set does not play/support the following:

UDF disc format

Mixed format CD recordings e.g. CD audio and MP3 tracks combined within a disc, as you will only be able to playback the CD audio tracks.

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

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