Remote control display

During playback, the remote control display shows the number and elapsed time of the current track.

Track number

Elapsed time

When listening to music files (MP3, WAV)

When you start playback the title of the song appears briefly (if there is no title information, the file name appears), followed by the elapsed time. If the title of the song is long, it scrolls across the display.

Remote control display backlight

The backlight of the remote control display comes on when you use the remote control and automatically goes off a few seconds after you finish using it.

Compatible discs and files

You can play back the following discs and files with the drive.

•Commercially sold music CDs

•Original music CDs (discs in CD-DA format written to CD-R/RW discs)

•Music files written to CD-R/RW (MP3, WAV files)

•Music files written to DVD-R/RW (MP3, WAV files)

•Music files stored on “Memory Stick” (MP3, WAV files)

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•Depending on the device used for recording, the settings of the writing software, and the media type, you may not be able to play back some recordings with the drive.

•For details about the types of music files that you can play back with the drive, see “Music Files” (page 52).

MP3

MP3 stands for MPEG Audio Layer 3 and is audio compression technology. An audio file compressed in the MP3 format is called an MP3 file. Because the compression ratio of MP3 files is very high, you can write more than 100 five-minute tracks to a CD-R disc.

WAV

Default Windows file format in which sounds are saved as waveforms. Unlike MP3 files, WAV files are uncompressed, so their sound quality is better. However, they are also 10 times larger than MP3 files.

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