Philips MCM204 user manual USB Connection, Using USB connectivity, Supported formats

USB Connection

Using USB connectivity Playing a USB mass storage device

●MCM204 is fitted with a USB port in the front panel, offering a plug and play feature which allows you to play, from your MCM204, 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 MCM204 which are explained and instructed in the sections of disc operation.

Compatible USB mass storage devices With the MCM204, 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 MCM204 device).

Supported formats:

–USB or memory file format FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 (sector size: 512 - 4096 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 800

–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

1Make sure that your MCM204 is being powered on.

2Press SOURCE repeatedly (or USB on the remote) to enter USB mode.

➜ Display shows - - - with USB DIRECT.

USB

DIRECT

3Plug a compatible USB mass storage device to

MCM204’s USB port marked . If needed, use a suitable USB cable to connect between the device and MCM204’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.

➜MCM204’s display shows USB DIRECT and the total number of playable audio files (Max. displayed track number is 800) stored on the device.

4Press 2; on your MCM204 to start play.

➜ MCM204’s display will show USB DIRECT and share the display information illustrated in the disc operation.

Helpful hints:

–Up to 800 playable audio files stored on a USB mass storage device can be played on MCM204.

–Up to 99 playable albums stored on a USB mass storage device can be selected and displayed on MCM204.

–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 electrically overloading MCM204.You need to change a USB device.

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