Creative NOMAN Jukebox 3, User Manual

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Glossary A-6
For information on how to check your firmware version number, see "Checking Jukebox information" on
page 2-10. To upgrade your firmware, see "Using Your Player" on page 3-2
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Genre
A general category of music, for example, Soundtrack, Acid Rock or Classical.
Gigabyte (GB)
About a thousand million bytes. A 1 GB device can store 1000 MB worth of MP3 files. If your MP3 files
are encoded at 128 kbps and each file is about 4 minutes long, a 10 GB device can store about 2500 MP3
files.
GraceNote
See “CDDB”.
Hard disk
The hard disk on your player is where all of your audio is stored. The hard disk is also known as a Hard
Disk Drive.
ID3 tag
ID3 tags are digitally embedded in MP3 files, providing you with information such as the title, album,
artist and genre of a song. This information is displayed when the MP3 audio track is played back. ID3
tags can be edited.
InfraRed (IR)
A technology standard for transmitting data without cables, using infrared light waves. Many devices like
wireless remote controls use IR.
kbps
Kilobits-per-second. A measure of how good the bitrate is. 128 kbps is the standard bitrate for MP3 files.
128 kbps MP3s are near-CD quality. However, you can encode MP3s at 160 or 192 Kbps.
kHz
This stands for kiloHertz, literally a thousand cycles per second, a measure of audio frequency.
Line-In Recording
A WAV or MP3 file made by recording audio through the Line-In connector of your player. In general,
recordings made via the Line-In connector are of better quality than a recording made using the Wired
Remote. You would normally use the Line-In connector to record music from CD players or other audio
playing devices. If you select a high sampling rate for a WAV recording, the audio quality can easily
match that of a MiniDisc recording or a DAT.