•Before playing, clean the discs with a commercially available cleaning cloth. Wipe each disc
from the centre out. Do not use solvents such as benzine, thinner, commercially available cleaners, or antistatic spray intended for analogue discs.
Notes on CD-R/CD-RW discs
•Some
•You cannot play a
Music discs encoded with copyright protection technologies
This product is designed to play back discs that conform to the Compact Disc (CD) standard. Recently, various music discs encoded with copyright protection technologies are marketed by some record companies. Please be aware that among those discs, there are some that do not conform to the CD standard and may not be playable by this product.
Note on DualDiscs
A DualDisc is a two sided disc product which mates DVD recorded material on one side with digital audio material on the other side. However, since the audio material side does not conform to the Compact Disc (CD) standard, playback on this product is not guaranteed.
About MP3/WMA files
MP3, which stands for
WMA, which stands for Windows Media Audio, is another music file compression format standard. It compresses audio CD data to approximately 1/22* of its original size.
*only for 64 kbps
•The unit is compatible with the ISO 9660 level 1/ level 2 format, Joliet/Romeo in the expansion format and Multi Session.
•The maximum number of:
–folders (albums): 150 (including root and empty folders).
–MP3/WMA files (tracks) and folders contained in a disc: 300 (if a folder/file names contain many characters, this number may become less than 300).
–displayable characters for a folder/file name is 32 (Joliet), or 64 (Romeo).
•ID3 tag versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 apply to MP3 only. ID tag is 15/30 characters (1.0 and 1.1),
or 63/126 characters (2.2, 2.3 and 2.4). WMA tag
10 is 63 characters.
Playback order of MP3/WMA files
MP3/WMAFolder (album)
MP3/WMA file (track)
Notes
•When naming an MP3/WMA file, be sure to add the file expansion “.mp3” / “.wma” to the file name.
•During playback of a VBR (variable bit rate) MP3/ WMA file or
•When the disc is recorded in Multi Session, only the first track of the first session format is recognized and played (any other format is skipped). The priority of the format is
–When the first track is a
–When the first track is not a
Notes on MP3
•Be sure to finalize the disc before using on the unit.
•If you play a
Notes on WMA
•Files made with lossless compression are not playable.
•Files protected by copyright are not playable.
About ATRAC CD
ATRAC3plus format
ATRAC3, which stands for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding3, is audio compression technology. It compresses audio CD data to approximately 1/10 of its original size. ATRAC3plus, which is an extended format of ATRAC3, compresses the audio CD data to approximately 1/20 of its original size. The unit accepts both ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus format.
ATRAC CD
ATRAC CD is recorded audio CD data which is compressed to ATRAC3 or ATRAC3plus format using authorized software, such as SonicStage 2.0 or later, or SonicStage Simple Burner.
•The maximum number of:
–folders (groups): 255
–files (tracks): 999
•The characters for a folder/file name and text information written by SonicStage is displayed.