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Notes on MP3/WMA
Notes on MP3/WMA
Folder selection order/fi le playback order
Copyright
It is prohibited by copyright laws to copy, distribute and
deliver copyrighted materials such as music without the
approval of copyright holder except enjoying yourself
personally.
No warranty
Above description complies with our investigations as of
September 2006. It has no warranty for reproducibility and
displayability of MP3/WMA.
Caution
• Never assign the “.mp3”, or “.wma” fi le name
extension to a fi le that is not in the MP3/WMA format.
This may not only produce noise from the speaker
damage, but also damage your hearing.
Points to remember when making MP3/WMA fi les
Common
• High bit rate and high sampling frequency are
recommended for high quality sounds.
• Selecting VBR (Variable Bit Rate) is not recommended
because playing time is not displayed properly and sound
may be skipped.
• The playback sound quality differs depending on the
encoding circumstances. For details, refer to the user
manual of your own encoding software and writing
software.
MP3*
• It is recommended to set the bit rate to “128 kbps or
more” and “fi xed”.
* MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology licensed from
Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson.
WMA
• It is recommended to set the bit rate to “64 kbps or more”
and “fi xed”.
• Do not set the copy protect attribute on the WMA fi le to
enable this unit to play back.
Display Information
Displayed items
• CD-TEXT • MP3 (ID3 tag)
Disc title Album name
Track title Title name/Artist name
• MP3/WMA • WMA (WMA tag)
Folder name Album name
File name Title name/Artist name
Displayable characters
• Displayable length of file name/folder name: within
32 characters. (Unicoded file and folder names are
reduced by half in the number of displayable characters.)
• Name fi les and folders in accordance with the standard
of each fi le system. Refer to the instructions of writing
software for details.
• ASCII character set and special characters in each
language can be displayed.
Maximum number of fi les/folders
• Maximum number of fi les: 999
• Maximum number of fi les in one folder: 255
• Maximum depth of trees: 8
•
Maximum number of folders: 255 (Root folder is included.)
Notes:
• This unit counts the number of folders irrespective of the
presence or absence of MP3/WMA fi le.
•
If the selected folder does not contain any MP3/WMA fi les, the
nearest MP3/WMA fi les in the order of playback will be played.
• Playback order may be different from other MP3/WMA
players even if the same disc is used.
• “ROOT” appears when displaying the root folder name.
1
1
4
5
6
2
3
8
7
8
Root folder (Root Directory)
Folder Selection
In the order
Tree 1 Tree 2 Tree 3 Tree 4 ......................... Tree 8
(Max.)
File Selection
In the order
Note: MP3/WMA encoding and writing software is not supplied with this unit.
Notes:
• With some software in which MP3/WMA format files
have been encoded, the character information may not be
displayed properly.
• Undisplayable characters and symbols will be converted
into an asterisk (
).
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