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 Gracenote,
Inc. The technology has been re-
named to the Gracenote media rec-
ognition service.
DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
DVDC
Digital Versatile Disc Changer
FIX
A position determined from terres-
trial, electronic, or astronomical
data.
GMD
Gracenote Media Database,
Gracenote Media Recognition Ser-
vice (www.gracenote.com)
GPS
Global Positioning System
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
HDD
Hard-Disk Drive
HFM
Hands-Free Module
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
digital audio servers.
M4A
The.M4A format is actually the
audio layer of (non-video) MPEG
4 movies.
M4P
The.M4P format is an audio file
purchased from Apple’s Music
Store (iTunes) and is protected by
a Digital Rights Management
scheme.
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