A U D I O a n d T E L E M AT I C S
General notes on MP3/WMA CDs
Playing an MP3/WMA CD
What is the MP3/WMA file format?
Acceptance of the files
When the MP3/WMA CD is MP3 is the abbreviation of MPEG-1 Some blank CDs may not be played
inserted in the player, play- Audio Layer 3 and MPG is the abbrevia- by your equipment (quality, recording
ing of the tracks is automatic. tion of Motion Pictures Experts Group, a speed...).
digital video data compression standard
The tracks cannot be recorded
onto the music server.
When you burn a CD-R or CD-RW,
used on media such as video CDs.
The MP3 compression reduces the burning standard.
number of bytes in a song by eliminating
the long sound waves in the range of fre-
quencies which are imperceptible to the
human ear, so producing high quality au-
dio files with a low volume of data.
This compression divides the size of
the content of a conventional audio CD
by approximately 10, which means that
the content of 10 audio CDs can be
recorded onto a single CD-R or CD-RW.
select the ISO 9660 level 1.2 or Joliet
You can play CDs with up to 8 levels,
255 folders and 400 files maximum.
To obtain the best acoustic quality pos-
sible, select the lowest burning speed.
The MPEG1 and MPEG2 standards
are accepted.
Transmission speeds between 32 and
320 kbits/s and scans between 16 kHz
and 48 kHz are accepted.
To display the title information (the name
of the artist, the title of the album, etc...),
the information contained in the ID3 Tags
or the WMA Tags must be included in the
MP3/WMA files burned onto the disc.
WMA is the abbreviation of Windows
Media Audio, another audio data com-
pression standard offered by Microsoft.
It can be used to create and save audio
files at a compression rate higher than
that of the MP3 format.
Windows Media and Microsoft Corpo-
ration are trademarks registered in the
United States and/or other countries.
Copyright
Your Audio equipment may allow you
to listen to music which is usually pro-
tected by copyright in accordance with
current national and international stan-
dards. Please consult these standards
and comply with them.
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