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Glossary
Album
A collection of songs / pictures.
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
A technology that provides a persistent level of protection to
digital content by encrypting it with a cryptographic key.
Authorized recipients (or end users) must acquire a license in
order to unlock and consume the content.
Genres
A particular style or type of music.
Main menu
The menu that sits on top of the user interface structure tree.
MP3
An audio compression format known as MPEG-1 Audio
Layer 3.
MPEG4
A standardized video compression format used to encode
video streams. Different profiles are defined (simple, advanced
simple, etc...) indicating the quality of the encoded video file.
NTSC
The analog television system in use in Korea, Japan, United
States, Canada and certain other places, mostly in the
Americas. It is named for the National Television System(s)
Committee, the industry-wide standardization body that
created it.
PAL
The analog television system in use in Europe, and most Asian
and African countries. It is named after its technology used;
phase-alternating line.
Picture
Picture in JPEG file format.
Playlist
A list of digital audio contents.
Portable Playlist
A playlist that can be created on the player by adding favorite
songs, albums, artists and genres during music playback.
Rip
To copy digital media contents from an audio CD. Contents
may be converted to a different format during a ripping
process.
Songs
An individual track or a discrete piece of audio content.
Synchronization
The process of maintaining digital media files on a portable
device based on the rules specified by the users. This may
require copying digital media files from a computer to a device,
updating information on the device or deleting files from the
device.
Thumbnail
A small version of the main image, used for indexing and
browsing.
Title
The largest unit of a digital media content. For a CD, it may be
the name of the CD.
Video conversion
Modification (transcoding) of the video file to the capabilities of
the Portable Device.
WAV
A digital media file format for storing sound.
Windows Media Audio (WMA)
An audio file in Windows Media Format. The audio content of
the file is encoded with one of the Windows Media Audio
codecs.
Windows Media Video (WMV)
A video file in Windows Media Format. The video content of
the file is encoded with one of the Windows Media Video
codecs. Different profiles are defined (simple, main and
advanced) indicating the quality of the encoded video file.
