• Do not pinch your fi nger or hand in the face plate. • Do not insert foreign matter into the disc slots. • Refer to the section on “Notes on CD/CD Media (CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW)” (. page 28). • A disc which has both CD-DA data and MP3/WMA/AAC data on it may not be reproduced normally. • Refer to the section on “Notes on MP3/WMA/AAC” (. page 20). Press [DISP]. File type Notes: • For folder selection, enter a number after pressing [#] twice. • To suspend direct selection, press [DISP]. • Random, Folder Random, Scan, Folder Scan, Repeat and Folder Repeat plays are canceled once [#] is pressed. [.] (Eject) Printed side MP3/WMA/AAC Player What is MP3/WMA/AAC? Display Information Recording MP3/WMA/AAC fi les on a CD-media Notes on MP3/WMA/AAC MP3* (MPEG Audio Layer-3) and WMA (Windows MediaTM Displayed items Notes on MP3/WMA/AAC (continued) • You are recommended to minimize the chances of • You may encounter trouble in playing MP3/WMA/AAC Audio) are the compression formats of digital audio. • CD-TEXT • MP3 (ID3 tag) making a disc that contains both CD-DA fi les and fi les or displaying the information of MP3/WMA/AAC The former is developed by MPEG (Motion Picture Disc title Album name MP3/WMA/AAC fi les. fi les recorded with certain writing software or CD Experts Group), and the latter is developed by Microsoft Track title Title name/artist name • If CD-DA fi les are on the same disc as MP3, WMA recorders. Corporation. Using these compression formats, you • MP3/WMA/AAC • WMA (WMA tag) or AAC fi les, the songs may not play in the intended • This unit does not have a play list function. can record the contents of about 10 music CDs on a Folder name Album name order, or some songs may not play at all. • Although Multi-session recording is supported, the use single CD media (This fi gures refer to data recorded on File name Title name/artist name • When storing MP3 data, WMA data and AAC data on of Disc-at-Once is recommended. a 650 MB CD-R or CD-RW at a fi xed bit rate of 128 kbps • AAC (Song information) the same disc, use different folders for each data. and a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz). Album name • Do not record fi les other than MP3/WMA/AAC fi les and Supported fi le systems Title name/artist name unnecessary folder on a disc. ISO 9660 Level 1/Level 2, Apple Extension to ISO 9660, * MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology licensed from • The name of an MP3/WMA/AAC fi le should be added Joliet, Romeo Displayable characters Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson. by rules as shown in the following descriptions and • Displayable length of fi le name/folder name: within also comply with the rules of each fi le system. Note: Apple HFS, UDF 1.50, Mix CD and CD Extra are 32 characters. (Unicoded fi le and folder names are reduced AAC is an abbreviation for “Advanced Audio Coding”. • The fi le extension “.mp3”, “.wma” or “.m4a” should be not supported. by half in the number of displayable characters.) It has been defi ned as a standard for audio compression assigned to each fi le depending on the fi le format. • Name fi les and folders in accordance with the standard technology using MPEG 2 and MPEG 4. Compression formats of each fi le system. Refer to the instructions of writing ( Recommendation: “Points to remember when making MP3/WMA/AAC fi les” on the previous page) software for details. Note: MP3/WMA/AAC encoding and writing software is • ASCII character set and special characters in each Compression method Bit rate VBR Sampling frequency MPEG 1 audio layer 3 (MP3) 32 k – 320 kbps Yes 32, 44.1, 48 kHz MPEG 2 audio layer 3 (MP3) 8 k – 160 kbps Yes 16, 22.05, 24 kHz MPEG 2.5 audio layer 3 (MP3) 8 k – 160 kbps Yes 8, 11.205, 12 kHz Windows Media Audio Ver. 2, 8, 9* 32 k – 192 kbps Yes 32, 44.1, 48 kHz MPEG 4 Advanced Audio Coding Low Complexity (AAC LC) 24 k – 320 kbps Yes 11.025, 12, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 kHz not supplied with this unit. language can be displayed. • Some Cyrillic characters in the Unicode can be displayed. ASCII character set Points to remember when making MP3/WMA/AAC fi les Common A to Z, a to z, digits 0 to 9, and the following symbols: • High bit rate and high sampling frequency are (space) ! ” # $ % & ’ ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] . _ recommended for high quality sounds. ` { | } ~ • Selecting Variable Bit Rate (VBR) is not recommended Special Characters because playing time is not displayed properly and A A A A A a a a a a sound may be skipped. A a * WMA 9 Professional/LossLess/Voice are not supported. O O O O O o o o o o • Selecting Variable Bit Rate (VBR) is not recommended U U U U u u u u because Re-master function may have little effect in Folder selection order/fi le playback order some cases. Notes: • The playback sound quality differs depending on • With some software in which MP3/WMA/AAC format • Do not set the copy protect attribute on the WMA fi le to enable this unit to play back. AAC • It is recommended to set the bit rate to “128 kbps more” and “fi xed”. • Maximum depth of trees:...