Sony MC-P10/B Parts and controls Overview, Copyright protection, System requirements

SECTION 1

GENERAL

This section is extracted from in- struction manual (4-645-934-11).

Parts and controls Overview

Refer to the page numbers indicated in parentheses for details.

1	2 3	6	7	8
	4
5			qs qa	q; 9
1 VOL (volume) +/– (page 19)		7 Strap holder (page 14)
2 Display (page 20)		8 HOLD switch (page 23)
3 SHIFT button (pages 21, 22)		9 Headphones jack (page 19)
4 N/xbutton (page 19)		0 AVLS switch (page 23)
5 ./>(EQ/MODE) buttons		qa USB connector (page 15)
(pages 19, 21, 22)		qs Clip

6Battery compartment (page 13)

What you can do with your Music Clip Personal

Network Player

The Music Clip Player is a portable audio player that allows you to easily transfer digital sound data from your computer to the Music Clip Player.

The OpenMG technology* allows you to enjoy digital music, while maintaining the copyrights of its holders.

The OpenMG-compliant application software that is supplied with your Music Clip Player enables you to store digital music data on your computer’s hard disk and transfer it to the Music Clip Player.

EMD services		Audio CDs	WAV, MP3
			files
Music Clip	USB		Hard disk of your
	connection
Player
			computer (OpenMG
			Jukebox)

The supplied OpenMG Jukebox software enables you to import digital sound data by:

–downloading sound data from Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) services over digital networks such as the Internet,

–recording audio CDs onto the hard disk of your computer (the recorded songs are encoded in ATRAC3 format),

–converting existing MP3 and WAV format audio files into OpenMG format. (WAV format audio files are converted into ATRAC3 format, and MP3 format audio files are converted into ATRAC3 format or encoded without changing the format.)

The OpenMG Jukebox encrypts sound data in OpenMG format and stores it on the hard disk of your computer to prevent unauthorized distribution.

*Music Clip Player’s copyright protection technology conforms to the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) specifications.

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Copyright protection

The Music Clip Player has some restrictions on recording and playback to protect copyrights.

For details, see “Restrictions on copyright protection by OpenMG” on page 30.

What is OpenMG?

OpenMG is a copyright protection technology used when recording and playing back audio data on computers. OpenMG encrypts and saves digital audio data on a computer’s hard disk, and allows the audio data to be played back on that computer only, protecting it from being distributed over a network without permission.

Transfer of sound data from your computer to the Music

Clip Player (Check in/Check out)

The supplied OpenMG Jukebox software enables you to transfer the sound data stored on your computer’s hard disk to the Music Clip Player (Check out) and transfer it from the Music Clip Player to your computer (Check in).

Check in/Check out restrictions:

–You cannot check out the same song more than three times. (Certain songs are excluded from this restriction.) However, if you transfer a checked out song back to your computer (Check in), you can then check out the song again.

–You cannot check in songs checked out to the Music Clip Player to any computer other than the computer used for Check out.

For details, see “Glossary” on page 32.

Restrictions on sound data

Some sound data is distributed with restrictions on recording or playback of the data to maintain copyright of its holders.

If the audio data has a limited playing period or playing count, you cannot check it out to the Music Clip Player. You can play back the data only with the supplied OpenMG Jukebox software.

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System requirements

•IBM PC/AT and compatibles

CPU: MMX Pentium 233 MHz and above (Pentium II 400 MHz and above recommended)

Hard disk drive space: 20 MB and above (Free space is required, depending on the version of Windows 98 and the size of the audio data you are using.)

RAM: 64 MB and above CD-ROM drive

Sound Board: Creative SoundBlaster 16 compatible Default built-in USB port

•Operating system: The default installation of Windows 98 English version (The product does not work on Windows 95/3.1 or Windows NT. Not assured trouble-free if you use an upgrade version from Windows 95/3.1 to Windows 98.)

•Display: SVGA (800 ⋅ 600 pixel) (supports High Color (16 bit) and above)

•Internet access

Notes

•We do not assure trouble-free operation for all computers satisfying the system requirements.

•If your computer has optical output, the music played back on OpenMG Jukebox will not send digital data through that optical output.

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