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Maintenance

If a disc becomes dirty, wipe its surface radially from the center hole outward towards the outer edge with a soft, dry cloth.

Never clean discs using chemicals such as record sprays, antistatic sprays and fluids and thinners. Such chemicals will do irreparable damage to the disc’s plastic surface.

If you are in any doubt as to the care and handling of a CD-R or CD-RW disc, read the precautions supplied with the disc or contact the disc manufacturer.

USB Storage Devices

CAUTION

Never turn the unit off or disconnect a USB storage device when it is being accessed, for example, during writing, playback, recording or the erasure of files.

Doing so could damage the AD-800 and the connected USB storage device.

Compatibility

Only USB flash memory can be used.

Some flash memory players that charge from a USB terminal cannot be used for playback.

Hard disk drives, CD/DVD drives, and other devices connected via USB cannot be used.

This unit cannot copy or move files.

Playable formats: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32

NTFS, HFS and HFS+ formats cannot be used.

Max. number of playable folders: 255

Max. number of playable/recordable files: 999

Depending on the conditions of a USB storage device, this unit might not be able to play the files on it or skipping might occur.

Recording

This unit can record sound from CDs, cassette tapes and connected external devices, including tuners, to USB storage devices in MP3 format. See page 28 for details.

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MP3 Files

This unit can play MP3 files that are on CD-R/CD-RW discs and external USB storage devices.

This unit can play back mono and stereo MP3 files that are in the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 format with a sampling rate of 16-48 kHz and a bit rate of 320 kbps or less.

This unit is not compatible with discs that have been recorded using multiple sessions. Only the first session can be played back.

See page 28 for information about the file format recorded with this unit.

File information display

The display of this unit can only show single-byte letters and numbers.

If the file information uses Japanese, Chinese or other double-byte characters, playback is possible but the name will not be shown

correctly. In such cases, “ ” is displayed.

Precautions when preparing MP3 files using a computer or other device

Always include the extension in the file name. This unit recognizes MP3 files by their “.mp3” file extensions.

Always close the session (complete disc creation). This unit cannot play discs if the session has not been closed.

Carefully read the manual for the software that you are using when you create an MP3 disc.

Files that are unplayable or only partially playable

Files without extensions cannot be played. Files that are not in the MP3 format cannot be played even if they have “.mp3” file extensions.

Variable bit rate files might not play back correctly.

If a disc or USB storage device has more than 999 files or 255 folders, this unit can only play the first 999 files and files in the first 255 folders.

Depending on disc conditions, this unit might not be able to play a disc or skipping might occur.