VDO Dayton VDOdayton, CD1537x, CD 1737x manual This unit doesn’t support the following formats

zCD-ROM (in accordance with Yellow Book)

zCD-ROM XA (mode 2, form 1, in accordance with Green Book)

zCD-R/RW (in accordance with Orange Book, part 2/3)

zCD Text with CD Audio (in accordance with Red Book)

zCD Mixed Mode (in accordance with Light Yellow Book);

Only the audio tracks are played.

zCD-Extra; Only the audio tracks are played.

zMulti-session CD (in accordance with multi- session CD specification 1.0)

Notes on MP3 files

The following MP3 files are supported by the CD player:

zFiles conform with MPEG1/2 or 2.5-Layer 3.

zUp to 345 titles in up to 99 directories (each data name with 32 characters).

zBit rate: Maximum of 320 kbit/s, constant or variable. The sound quality of MP3 files gen- erally becomes better with an increased bit rate. This unit can play recordings with bit rates from 8 kbps to 320 kbps, but in order to be able to enjoy sound of a certain quality, we recommend using only discs recorded with a bit rate of at least 128 kbps.

zText display: ID3 tag V1 and ID3 tag V2. MP3 tracks can contain addition information such as artist, track and album names (ID3 tags with maximum not more than 12 characters). Characters other than uppercase/lowercase letters (“Aa to Zz”) and underscore (“_”) may not be displayed.

zThe unit may not play the first track in the order that you wrote them to the disc.

zThe unit plays only the first session if the disc contains both CD audio tracks and MP3 files.

zWhen playing a disc of 8k bps or variable bit rate (VBR), the elapsed playing time in the display window may not be correct.

zMake sure that a MP3 CD-R/CD-RW is burned that is formatted as a data disc and NOT as an audio disc.

zMP3 files are not compatible with packet write data transfer.

zThere is no m3u play list compatibility.

zThere is no compatibility with the MP3i (MP3 interactive) or mp3 PRO formats.

zThe MP3 symbol will be shown in the display if a MP3 is being played.

zFiles are compatible with the ID3 Tag Ver. 1.0, 1.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 formats for display of album (disc title), track (track title), artist (track artist) and comments. Ver. 2.x of ID3 Tag is given priority when both Ver. 1.x and Ver. 2.x exist.

Notes on WMA files

zWMA is short for Windows Media ™ Audio and refers to an audio compression technology that is developed by Microsoft Corporation. WMA data can be encoded by using Windows Media Player version 9 or lower.

zThis unit may not operate correctly depending on the application used to encode WMA files.

zDepending on the version of Windows Media Player used to encode WMA files, album names and other text information

may not be correctly displayed.

zThere may be a slight delay when starting playback of WMA files encoded with image data.

zThe maximum number of characters which can be displayed for a folder name is 64.

zIn case of files recorded according to the Romeo file system, only the first 64 characters can be displayed.

zThis unit plays back WMA files encoded by Windows Media Player version 7, 7.1, 8 and 9.

zYou can only play back WMA files in the frequencies 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz.

zThe sound quality of WMA files generally becomes better with an increased bit rate. This unit can play recordings with bit rates

from 48 kbps to 320 kbps (CBR) or from 48 kbps to 320 kbps (VBR), but in order to be able to enjoy sound of a certain quality, we recommend using discs recorded with a higher bit rate.

This unit doesn’t support the following formats.

zWindows Media Audio 9 Professional (5.1ch)

zWindows Media Audio 9 Lossless

zWindows Media Audio 9 Voice

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