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Checking CD information on the display
You can check CD information by repeatedly pressing DISPLAY/MENU on the CD player.
When you are playing a CD containing text information such as CD-TEXT, “track name,”
“album name,” “artist name,” etc. are displayed as shown in parentheses in the following table.
When you are playing an ATRAC CD, information you input using the SonicStage software is
displayed. When you are playing an MP3 CD containing MP3 files with an ID3 tag*
1
, ID3 tag
information is displayed.
Each time you press DISPLAY/MENU, the display changes as follows:
Screen
Audio CD
ATRAC CD/MP3 CD
1
Track number, elapsed playing time
File name, artist name*
3
, group name,
(Track name, artist name, album name)
file number, elapsed playing time
2
Track number, remaining time of
File name, CODEC information*
4
,
the current track
file number, remaining time of the current file
(Track name, artist name)
3
The total number of tracks on the CD,
Total number of files, total number of groups,
the total playing time of the CD,
file number, elapsed playing time
the number of tracks left*
2
, the time
remaining on the CD*
2
4
List of track names
List of group names/file names
*1 An ID3 tag is a format for adding certain information (track name, album name, artist name, etc.) to MP3
files. This CD player conforms to Version 1.1/2.2/2.3 of the ID3 tag format (for MP3 files only).
*2 Not displayed during Single play, Shuffle play, Bookmark track play, Auto ranking play, Auto ranking
shuffle play, or PGM play.
*3 During play, “artist name” is not displayed if the disc does not have ID3 tag information.
*4 Bit rate and sampling frequencies. While an MP3 file made at VBR (variable bit rate) is being played,
“VBR” appears on the display instead of a bit rate. In some cases, “VBR” appears halfway through
playback, not from the beginning.
