Player function
Playing audio files
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What’s MP3?
MP3 is the audio file format allowing you to easily compress music recordings, and was co-
developed by . The main advantage of MP3 is that it enables storage of CD-quality
music tracks on a home computer in manageable, compressed files. Thanks to compression you
now only need about 4 Mb of disc space for a 4 minute music track, compared with some 40 Mb
for conventional file formats, but with almost no reduction in listening quality!
Playing audio files in MP3 format
• Open the disc tray and insert a disc containing music in MP3 format.
• Close the disc tray. The disc contents may or may not appear, depending on the play mode
chosen (automatic or manual.
• If it does not appear, press the
PLAY
button.
• Use the remote control
Navigation
keys to select your album, song and play mode (1).
• Press the
PLAY
key to start playback.
• Use the
pr+
/
pr-
keys to skip from one song to another. Press the
PAUSE
key to interrupt
playback.
• To stop playback, press the
STOP
key. To exit the disc contents, press the
menu
key.
• Adisc may contain several albums (folders) and each album may contain several songs
(files). (Just like the titles and chapters on a DVD.)
•
Resume
: your DMR chooses the order in which the files are played.
Your DMR can play CD-Rs containing audio files in MP3 format.
Play modes:
-
Standard Play
: to hear the selected
song.
-
Random All
: to listen to the songs on the
disc in random order.
-
Random
: to listen to the songs in the
selected folder (album) in random order.
-
Repeat
: to repeat the playback of the
selected songs or folders (albums).
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