Glossary

Album

A collection of songs / pictures.

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

A technology that provides a persistent level of protection to digital content by encrypting it with a cryptographic key. Authorized recipients (or end users) must acquire a license in order to unlock and consume the content.

Genres

A particular style or type of music.

Main menu

The menu that sits on top of the user interface structure tree.

MP3

An audio compression format known as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.

MPEG4

A standardized video compression format used to encode video streams. Different profiles are defined (simple, advanced simple, etc...) indicating the quality of the encoded video file.

NTSC

The analog television system in use in Korea, Japan, United States, Canada and certain other places, mostly in the Americas. It is named for the National Television System(s) Committee, the industry-wide standardization body that created it.

PAL

The analog television system in use in Europe, and most Asian and African countries. It is named after its technology used; phase-alternating line.

Picture

Picture in JPEG file format.

Playlist

A list of digital audio contents.

Portable Playlist

A playlist that can be created on the player by adding favorite songs, albums, artists and genres during music playback.

Rip

To copy digital media contents from an audio CD. Contents may be converted to a different format during a ripping process.

Songs

An individual track or a discrete piece of audio content.

Synchronization

The process of maintaining digital media files on a portable device based on the rules specified by the users. This may require copying digital media files from a computer to a device, updating information on the device or deleting files from the device.

Thumbnail

A small version of the main image, used for indexing and browsing.

Title

The largest unit of a digital media content. For a CD, it may be the name of the CD.

Video conversion

Modification (transcoding) of the video file to the capabilities of the Portable Device.

WAV

A digital media file format for storing sound.

Windows Media Audio (WMA)

An audio file in Windows Media Format. The audio content of the file is encoded with one of the Windows Media Audio codecs.

Windows Media Video (WMV)

A video file in Windows Media Format. The video content of the file is encoded with one of the Windows Media Video codecs. Different profiles are defined (simple, main and advanced) indicating the quality of the encoded video file.

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