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.
1
1
4
5
6
2
3
8
7
8
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.
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 fi les 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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Microsoft Corporation
in the United States
and/or other
countries/regions.
