GLOSSARY OF TERMS
AAC
Advance Audio Coding
CD
Compact Disc
CDC
Compact Disc Changer
CDDB
A technology company founded in
1995 as CDDB, Inc. The company has
been renamed to Gracenote
威
, Inc. The
technology has been renamed to the
Gracenote
威
media recognition service.
DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
DVDC
Digital Versatile Disc Changer
GMD
Gracenote
威
Media Database,
Gracenote
威
Media Recognition Service
(www.gracenote.com)
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
HDD
Hard-Disk Drive
MFB
Multifunction soft-key
MFS
Multi-Functional Steering Wheel
MP3
MPEG-1 Au-
dio Layer-3.
Compression scheme used to transfer
audio files via the Internet and store in
portable players and digital audio serv-
ers.
M4A
The.M4A format is actually the audio
layer of (non-video) MPEG 4 movies.
M4P
The.M4P format is an audio file pur-
chased from Apple’s Music Store
(iTunes) and is protected by a Digital
Rights Management scheme.
POS
Position
PTY
Program type (radio)
RBDS
Radio Broadcast Data System
SAT
Satellite Radio
TV
Satellite Video
UTC
Universal Coordinated Time
VES™
Video Entertainment System™
WMA
Windows Media Audio Format
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