Which discs can you play on this CD player?

Audio CDs:

CD-DA format CDs

CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) is a recording standard used for Audio CDs.

ATRAC CDs:

CD-R/CD-RW on which audio data compressed in the ATRAC format has been recorded*

ATRAC is the general term used to refer to Sony Corporation audio codec technologies ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless**. ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus, with their high quality compression ratio, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless**, with its

no-data-loss compression, combine to provide a vast array of possibilities.

** This player is not compatible with ATRAC Advanced Lossless.

Bit rates and sampling frequencies this CD player can play are:

 

Bit ratesSampling frequencies
ATRAC3

66/105/132 kbps

44.1 kHz

ATRAC3plus

48/64/256 kbps

44.1 kHz

 

 

 

Information (track name, album name, artist name, etc.) of up to 62-characters can be displayed on this CD player.

MP3 CDs:

CD-R/CD-RW on which audio data compressed in the MP3 format has been recorded*

Bit rates and sampling frequencies this CD player can play are shown below. Variable Bit Rate (VBR) files can also be played.

 

Bit rates

Sampling frequencies

MPEG-1 Layer3

32 - 320 kbps

32/44.1/48 kHz

 

 

 

MPEG-2 Layer3

8 - 160 kbps

16/22.05/24 kHz

 

 

 

MPEG-2.5 Layer3

8 - 160 kbps

8/11.025/12 kHz

 

 

 

This CD player conforms to Version 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 of the ID3 tag format. ID3 tag is a format for adding certain information (track name, album name, artist name, etc.) to MP3 files. Up to 64 characters of ID3 tag information can be displayed on this CD player.

CD-Extra and Mix-Mode CDs:

CD-R/CD-RW on which CD-DA format data and CD-ROM format data are recorded together.*

If you cannot play your CD, change the “CD-EXTRA” setting (page 28). Then you may play your CD.

An ATRAC CD on which audio data compressed in the MP3 format has been recorded using software other than SonicStage can also be played.

With SonicStage, you cannot create a CD on which mixed format audio data is recorded.

* Only ISO 9660 Level 1/2 and Joliet extension format discs can be played.

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