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FireBall™
A
VX & MX Series User
’s Manual
SELECTING THE AUDIO ENCODER TYPE
You can specify which audio encoder (MP3 or FLAC) you want to use for recording audio in
to your FireBall. The MP3 format allows the most flexibility and compatibility for efficiently
storing many audio files while the FLAC format uses considerably more space than MP3 files, but
preserves an exact bit-for-bit recording of the original, using half the space of the original CD.
Follow these steps to select an audio encoder:
1. Press the SETUP key on the remote to display the Setup menu.
2. Select the AUDIO menu.
3. Select the RECORDING PREFERENCES menu.
4. Select MP3 or CD Quality (FLAC) as your preferred encoder
5. If you selected MP3 as your preferred encoder, select a bitrate.
The MP3 bitrate is used to determine the relative quality and compression level. The higher the
bitrate, the better quality and more space each song will occupy on the hard drive. Selecting a lower
bitrate will provide lesser quality audio and will use less space for each song, allowing you to store
more songs on your FireBall.
FLAC audio will always take up approximately 50% of the original WAV/AIFF file size. The FLAC
compression level has been optimized to FireBall’s processor speed and is not user adjustable.
Creating a mix CD from FLAC audio files creates a CD which is identical to the original, thus it is
referred to as “CD Quality”.
