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IGH
-R
ESOLUTION
M
USIC
F
ILES
Although there are no industry standards yet for managing high-resolution music files (above 96kHz),
your Black Box™ provides support for files up to 24-bit/192kHz resolution. The only playback
exceptions are as follows:
1.
There will be no position indicator (the visual display of elapsed track time) for playback of
176kHz or 192kHz files.
2.
Metadata (album art, track names, track numbers, etc.) is not readily available for these files
and will have to be input individually by the user.
At this time, Blue Smoke Entertainment Systems recommends FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) as
the best format for all of your high-res audio files. While these files come in a variety of formats, all
can be converted, losslessly, to the FLAC format for playback on The Black Box™ by using a free utility
called Xrecode which is readily available at (http://www.xrecode.com/).
Please check our website (
www.bluesmokesystems.com
) for additional information and updates.
As a courtesy to our customers, Blue Smoke Entertainment Systems and Reference Recordings have
teamed up to provide a sample of some of their HRx 176.4 kHz/24 bit music files. These have already
been installed in your music library.
You may purchase additional high-resolution music through other vendors, including:
Reference Recordings www.referencerecordings.com
Chesky Records
www.chesky.com
Hi-Res Music
www.hiresmusic.com
2L
www.2l.no
A
DDITIONAL
M
EDIA
F
ORMATS
S
UPPORTED BY
M
EDIA
C
ENTER
Windows Media Center natively supports multiple media formats including television, movies, photos,
videos, online media, etc. While the full version of Media Center is installed on your Black Box™, it
should be noted that The Black Box™ is designed
only
for playback of music; playback of additional
media is not directly supported by Blue Smoke Entertainment Systems.
