What is MP3?
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About MP3
This player is compatible with the following disc formats:
DVD
CD-DA
CD-MP3
CD-WMA
Kodak Picture CD
CD-R / CD-RW*
MP3 (MPEG 1, Audio Layer 3) is a digital audio format for quick
downloading files that sound similar in performance to CDs.
MP3 uses entropy encoding to reduce the number of redundant
sounds in an audio signal to a minimum. It takes music from a
CD and reduces it by a factor of 12, with no noticeable loss of
quality. Whereas a typical CD holds only 74 minutes of music
you can store over 130 songs.
Disc information
Sampling rate should be 44.1 kHz and bit rate is recommended
within the range from 128 Kbps to 256 Kbps, in order to achieve
the best performance. In general, higher quality settings result in
larger file sizes.
Sampling rate
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
Bit rate
56 Kbps
64 Kbps
80 Kbps
96 Kbps
112 Kbps
128 Kbps
160 Kbps
192 Kbps
224 Kbps
256 Kbps
Quality
FM Radio Quality
Near CD Quality
Good CD Quality
Better than
CD Quality
Studio Quality
ATTENTION:
Due to unforeseen software compatibility issues,
certain forms of disc media may not playback
properly. This includes compressed media for-
mats, i.e. MP3,WMA,JPEG files.
* Using a good quality CD-RW disc, CD-R
is recommended. Up to 650 MB (74-minute
CD) or 700 MB (80-minute CD) of MP3 files
can be recorded.
* Select a high quality and stable CD
Recorder (Writer).
* Select an advanced CD burning software.
* MP3 is data and not WAV information as
such Mode 1 must be selected when com-
piling and burning your discs.
* Drag and drop must not be used to com-
pile the disc. The player will not recognize
this format.
* Only single session recordings can be
used. Multi-session recordings are not rec-
ognized and will not be play on this unit.
* Select Data CD Project (software user
inter face), file system should comply with
the standard of ISO 9660 or Joliet. OR
select MP3 CD Project for convenience
operation
* Finalize the CD after it is burned.
Tips for making a good MP3 CD on your
computer:
