
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
AS
Autostore
CD
Compact Disc
CDC
Compact Disc Changer
CDDB
A technology company
founded in 1995 as
CDDB, Inc. The company
has been renamed to the
Gracenote, Inc. The tech-
nology has been renamed
to the Gracenote media
recognition service.
DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
DVDC
Digital Versatile Disc
Changer
GMD
Gracenote Media Data-
base, Gracenote Media
Recognition Service (ww-
w.gracenote.com)
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
HDD
Hard-Disk Drive
MFB
Multifunction soft-key
MFS
Multi Functional Steering
Wheel
MP3 MPEG-1 Audio
Layer-3.
Compression scheme used
to transfer audio files via
the Internet and store in
portable players and digi-
tal audio servers.
M4A
The.M4A format is actu-
ally the audio layer of
(non-video) MPEG 4
movies.
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