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Glossary
Terms
Equalizer — A device or function that allows the user to control
sound quality by increasing or decreasing the scale values for
different frequency ranges using slide bars, and so on.
MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3) — An international standard
established by the MPEG, which is a working group under the ISO
(International Standardization Organization). Files are compressed
to one-tenth to one-twelfth under this compression method.
Portable Media Center — An operating system developed by
Microsoft Corporation and incorporated into the gigabeat
®
. Also
called “Windows Mobile Software for Portable Media Centers.”
Portable Media Center allows the user to transfer music, images,
video and recorded TV programs to the gigabeat
®
from a computer
and play the transferred data. Windows Mobile is provided as a
platform for mobile devices installed with Portable Media Center.
WAV — A Microsoft
®
Windows
®
standard non-compressed audio file.
Windows Media
®
Audio (WMA) — An audio compression coding
system developed by Microsoft Corporation, or an audio file created
in the WMA format.