MCX-2000 Owner’s Manual
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SCMS-Serial Copy Management System
As a digital audio component, this unit conforms with the
Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) standards. The
Serial Copy Management System restricts copies made by
recording digital signals to first-generation copies only. The
digital program sources that have been recorded cannot be
digitally recorded again.
There are two rules as follows:
Rule 1
Digital sources such as commercially available CDs can be
copied digitally onto other recordable digital media with this
unit (a first-generation digital copy). However, the first
generation digital copy cannot be copied digitally any further.
Rule 2
The source that was recorded via the
ANALOG IN
jacks can
be copied digitally onto other recordable digital media (a first-
generation digital copy). However, the first generation digital
copy cannot be copied digitally any further.
The server automatically detects whether it is able to store a
CD digitally on its hard disk drive (the default setting is to
store digitally).
Number of recordable discs and tracks and
their length
• The server can record up to 99 songs to a CD-R or CD-
RW.
• The server can store up to 1000 songs in an album.
• Once the maximum number of tracks has been recorded
to a disc or album, no further recording is possible, even if
space for recording is available.
• The minimum length of one track is 4 seconds. The
maximum length of one track is 99 minutes 59 seconds for
the HDD.
• The MusicCAST can store up to 10000 albums and
65,000 songs. However the number of albums you can
create is also limited by the availability of space on the hard
disk drive.
• When recording on a CD-R or CD-RW disc, a 2-second
silence is automatically added to the beginning of the first
track. Therefore the actual total recordable time will be 2
seconds shorter than the total recordable time of a CD-R
or CD-RW disc.
Source sampling rate conversion
• Digital input of this unit supports sampling frequencies of
32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, and 96 kHz. This unit converts
these inputs to 44.1 kHz, 16-bit digital signals and records
them onto the HDD, or a CD-R or CD-RW disc.
• Analog input is also converted to the same digital signal to
be recorded.
• This unit outputs the signals at the sampling frequency of
44.1 kHz, 16-bit from its digital output.
Recording of non-audio signals
• This unit is designed exclusively for recording audio
signals. Recording is only possible for audio signals.
• When a CD with CD-TEXT is recorded from an external CD
player, CD-TEXT cannot be copied even if it is not copy
protected. To copy CD-TEXT, select the CD-TEXT option
when you store a CD on the hard disk drive of the server.
• If the digital signals contain graphic data such as CD
graphics, the non-audio signals will not be recorded.
• It is not possible to record from non-audio sources such as
CD-ROM or DVD.
• For the above reasons you may encounter difficulty storing
CD-TEXT. We recommend using the internal Gracenote
CDDB Music Recognition Service as a source of
information when storing CDs.
About Digital Recording with MusicCAST
Rules of Digital Recording
Notes on the MusicCast system
