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MCX-1000
Terms used in this manual
T
e
rms used in this man
ual
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■
CD-R
W
An abb
revi
ati
on of
Co
mpact Disc Re-wr
itable.
■
Cont
ro
lle
r
The device on
the front
panel
of t
h
e
Music
CAST s
erver
and
MusicCAST client
used
for
entering data and navigating
through the
menu
s contained in these two components.
■
F
ron
t pan
el
The panel on the
fr
ont of MusicCAST server
and MusicCAST
client
wher
e
the LCD display
,
controller
, and vario
us
con
trol
keys are located.
■
Har
d disk
dr
ive
The co
mponent within
y
our
MusicCAST server that allows
it
to
sto
re the
audio material fro
m your CDs
as data.
Hard disk
dr
ive
capacity is expressed
in
gigabytes, with a lar
ger
number
denoting
more stor
age capacity
.
■
Har
d disk
See "Har
d
disk drive"
■
Har
d
drive
See "Har
d
disk drive"
■
MusicCAST c
lient
The component in the
MusicC
AST
system that allows
you
access to songs stored in
th
e
Mu
sicCAST server fo
r playback
at
a
di
st
anc
e.
Up to 7 Musi
cCAS
T cl
ie
nt
s c
an ac
ce
ss the
Music
C
AST
se
rver
a
t a tim
e.
■
Mus
ic
CAST se
rv
er
The component in the MusicCAST system th
at y
ou use to store
and playback songs from CD
. Other components in th
e
MusicCAST system
obtain song data from the
MusicCAST
server
.
■
o
n
-s
cre
en displa
y
The LC
D display on the MusicC
AST
client or the display
ou
tput to a
TV
or monitor connected to
the MusicCAST server
.
■
Remo
te c
ont
ro
l
A hand
held
device for operating
your
MusicCAST
compo
nents
at a distance.
Software
■
Datab
ase
An or
ganized collection of
d
ata. Th
e data is
arran
ged in a
logical
manner
so that it is easy
to access,
manage, and update.
■
Me
n
u
A displa
y consisti
ng
o
f
a
mult
iple
choice style list of options
that
you can choose
fro
m.
Men
u
s ar
e displayed on the
on-
screen disp
lay
s
of
the MusicCAST client
an
d ser
ver
.
40
T
e
rms used in this man
ual
T
h
is man
u
al use
s a n
u
mber
o
f te
rms th
at, th
ough no
t spe
cific t
o
the
MusicCAST sys
tem, ar
e not
in
g
e
ne
ral e
veryd
a
y
u
s
e
.
In ad
dit
io
n
,
s
o
me terms are used
in a slight
ly
un
us
ual con
te
xt
.
Th
ese
w
o
rd
s
a
re
list
e
d alpha
beticall
y
and in conte
x
t belo
w
, along wit
h
an e
x
plan
atio
n o
f th
eir meaning
.
P
lay
b
a
ck
■
Alb
u
m
A collection of songs
in the
Mu
sicCAST database assigned to a
particular
artist, and given a name.
Each album
is
assigned
to
an
a
rti
st
.
By d
efa
ult
,
ea
ch
CD you
s
tore
i
n
t
h
e
MusicC
AST
is
stored as an Album.
■
Ar
tist
T
h
e item in the
MusicCAST dat
abase
to
whi
ch albums are
assig
n
ed.
The artist of any CD
yo
u
stor
e in the
MusicCAST
is
stored as the artist to the correspo
nding album (see
album
above)
.
■
Bookmark list
A
list of son
gs designated for easy
retrieval u
sing a
MusicCAST client.
■
Ge
nre
T
h
e mu
si
c type to which the
album
s
sto
red in
t
h
e MusicCAST
are assigned. Ex
amp
les include Jazz, Rock, and Classical.
■
Gr
oup
The category which the
MusicCAST componen
t in. For
example, if you play
an
album, then you are operating within
th
e "album" categ
ory
.
If you playback a genre
without
selecting
a
specific song, you ar
e o
p
erating within
the "genre"
category
.
■
Pla
y
list
A
list of songs,
artists, albums,
or gen
res
y
ou
designate using
th
e Mu
sicCAST server fo
r
pl
ayback in
a
given sequence.
■
Song
A single continuous track,
eq
uivalent to a single track from
a
CD, cassette, or
oth
er
sou
rce,
st
ored on
the MusicCAS
T server
.
Recor
ding
■
CDD
B
T
h
e C
D
DB
(Gracenot
e CDDB
Musi
c Recog
niti
on Ser
v
ice) is
a
database which
you
can access
to gain information on the
songs, ar
tists,
genre, and album names for music
CDs.
■
CD TEXT
Data encoded on some CDs wh
ich co
ntains information o
n its
song titles,
album, artis
t, and genr
e names.
■
Enc
oding
The process of conv
erting PCM data stored
fr
om a CD into
MP3 data.
■
MP3 Format
An abbreviatio
n for
"
M
PEG
layer
3".
A data format used to
store
music on the
hard disk
d
rive
in
the MusicCAST server
.
Th
e MPEG Layer
3 aud
io coding
technology
licensed from
Fraunh
ofer IIS and Thomson.
■
PCM f
o
rmat
A
data fo
rmat used to store musi
c on
the har
d
disk drive in the
MusicC
AST
serv
er
. PC
M files provide C
D
-q
uality aud
io
playback but require
a
lot of
space
on the
h
ard disk drive.
■
Storing
Storing music on
the
har
d disk drive
in the
MusicC
AST ser
ver
.
Netw
ork connections
■
Conne
ct
io
ns
Th
e links between the compone
nts in your MusicCAST wh
ich
al
lows
t
h
em
t
o
e
x
ch
ange
i
n
form
ati
on.
Music
C
AS
T
co
mponents
can make both wire
d an
d
wir
eless con
nections.
■
LAN cable
A
cable for connecting two components
o
n
a
Local Area
Network (LAN).
■
Netw
o
rk
A collection
of
electronic
components which
share data and
resou
rces
with
one another
.
■
Wir
e
less
L
A
N
A network
utilizin
g weak
radio signa
ls
to
sha
re data betwee
n
co
mponents.
■
Wir
e
d LAN
A network
utilizin
g LAN
cables to
shar
e
data
between
co
mponents.
Har
d
ware
■
CD
An abbreviatio
n of
Compact
Disc. A
small p
lastic
disc 12
cm
(4.8
in
) in diamet
er en
coded
wi
th pre-sto
red data.
■
CD
-R
An
abbreviatio
n
of Compact Disc Recordab
le.
A small plastic
disc identical
to a CD
in appe
arance, onto which a device such
as the
MusicCAST
server can record data.
T
h
e Musi
cCAST
server
can only u
se Audio type
CD-R
media.