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Glossary
Terms
Equalizer
— A device or function that allows the user to control
sound quality by increasing or decreasing the scale values for
different frequency ranges using slide bars, and so on.
MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3)
— An international standard
established by the MPEG, which is a working group under the ISO
(International Standardization Organization). Files are compressed
to one-tenth to one-twelfth under this compression method.
Media Transfer Protocol
— A data transfer method developed by
Microsoft Corporation. Data protected by Windows Media
®
DRM10 is transferred using MTP.
Portable Media Center
— An operating system developed by
Microsoft Corporation and incorporated into the gigabeat
®
. Also
called “Windows Mobile Software for Portable Media Centers.”
Portable Media Center allows the user to transfer music, images,
video and recorded TV programs to the gigabeat
®
from a computer
and play the transferred data. Windows Mobile is provided as a
platform for mobile devices installed with Portable Media Center.
WAV
— A Microsoft
®
Windows
®
standard non-compressed audio file.