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Music Quality
Your music listening experience on the media player depends upon the quality
of your digital music files on your PC. Avoid quality settings below 48kbps as
they are unsupported. For CD quality music, rip your MP3s at 128kbps or
higher, with a sample rate of 44.1kHz.
Supported Music Formats
The following music file formats are supported:
MP3
(up to 192 kbps)
MPEG-1, Layer 3 Audio file -The standard Internet music file format.
This is the most commonly used audio format.
WMA
(Does not support WMA lossless, WMA Pro)
Windows Media Audio file - Supported by the Microsoft Windows Media
player and some music jukebox programs.
WAV
WAV was developed by Microsoft and IBM. WAV sound files end in
.wav and are compatible with Windows applications supporting audio.
AIFF
(AIFF files must be encoded in PCM format only.)
AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) was developed by Apple
Computers and is the standard audio format for Macintosh computers.
File extensions are .AIF or .IEF.
MPEG 1
and
MPEG 2
Moving Pictures Experts Group created standards for compressing audio
and video. Audio uses the file extension .mp3.
OGG Vorbis
Open source audio format. Uses the file extension .ogg.
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