Yamaha MCX-2000 setup guide About Digital Recording with MusicCAST, Rules of Digital Recording

About Digital Recording with MusicCAST

Rules of Digital Recording

SCMS-Serial Copy Management System

As a digital audio component, this unit conforms with the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) standards. The Serial Copy Management System restricts copies made by recording digital signals to first-generation copies only. The digital program sources that have been recorded cannot be digitally recorded again.

There are two rules as follows:

Rule 1

Digital sources such as commercially available CDs can be copied digitally onto other recordable digital media with this unit (a first-generation digital copy). However, the first generation digital copy cannot be copied digitally any further.

Rule 2

The source that was recorded via the ANALOG IN jacks can be copied digitally onto other recordable digital media (a first- generation digital copy). However, the first generation digital copy cannot be copied digitally any further.

The server automatically detects whether it is able to store a CD digitally on its hard disk drive (the default setting is to store digitally).

Source sampling rate conversion

•Digital input of this unit supports sampling frequencies of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, and 96 kHz. This unit converts these inputs to 44.1 kHz, 16-bit digital signals and records them onto the HDD, or a CD-R or CD-RW disc.

•Analog input is also converted to the same digital signal to be recorded.

•This unit outputs the signals at the sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz, 16-bit from its digital output.

Recording of non-audio signals

•This unit is designed exclusively for recording audio signals. Recording is only possible for audio signals.

•When a CD with CD-TEXT is recorded from an external CD player, CD-TEXT cannot be copied even if it is not copy protected. To copy CD-TEXT, select the CD-TEXT option when you store a CD on the hard disk drive of the server.

•If the digital signals contain graphic data such as CD graphics, the non-audio signals will not be recorded.

•It is not possible to record from non-audio sources such as CD-ROM or DVD.

•For the above reasons you may encounter difficulty storing CD-TEXT. We recommend using the internal Gracenote CDDB Music Recognition Service as a source of information when storing CDs.

Notes on the MusicCast system

Number of recordable discs and tracks and their length

•The server can record up to 99 songs to a CD-R or CD- RW.

•The server can store up to 1000 songs in an album.

•Once the maximum number of tracks has been recorded to a disc or album, no further recording is possible, even if space for recording is available.

•The minimum length of one track is 4 seconds. The maximum length of one track is 99 minutes 59 seconds for the HDD.

•The MusicCAST can store up to 10000 albums and 65,000 songs. However the number of albums you can create is also limited by the availability of space on the hard disk drive.

•When recording on a CD-R or CD-RW disc, a 2-second silence is automatically added to the beginning of the first track. Therefore the actual total recordable time will be 2 seconds shorter than the total recordable time of a CD-R or CD-RW disc.

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