Basic Functions; About Mp3; Radio Reception; Playing A Disc - Philips SOUNDMACHINE AZ1836 User Manual

Basic Function/ Radio

Basic functions

Switching on/off the set
1 To switch on, adjust the source selector
to CD/USB, FM or MW as desired.
2 To switch off, adjust the source selector
to OFF.
Adjusting volume
Adjust the volume with the VOLUME
control.

Radio reception

1 Push the source selector to FM or
MW.
2 Turn TUNING to tune in a radio station.
3 To switch off the radio, adjust the source
selector to OFF.
Helpful hints:
To improve reception
• For FM, extend, incline and turn the
telescopic antenna. Reduce its length if the
signal is too strong.
• For MW, uses a built-in antenna. Direct this
antenna by turning the whole set.
MP3-CD/ CD Player

About MP3

The music compression technology MP3
(MPEG1 Audio Layer 3) significantly reduce
the digital data of an audio CD while
maintaining CD quality sound.
•
Getting MP3 files:
legal music files from the internet to your
computer hard disc, or create such files by
converting audio CD files in your computer
through appropriate encoder software.
(128kbps bit rate or higher is recommended
for MP3 files.)
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Creating a MP3 CD:
from your computer hard disc on a CDR or
CDRW using your CD burner.
Helpful hints:
– Make sure that the file names of the MP3
files end with .mp3 or .wma.
– Number of albums: maximum
– Number of tracks: maximum
– The length of file names affects the number of
tracks for playback. With shorter file names,
more files can be burned on a disc.

Playing a disc

This player plays Audio Discs including CD-
R/ CD-RW, MP3 CD and WMA. Do not try
to play a CD-ROM, CD-I, CDV,VCD, DVD
or computer CD.
IMPORTANT!
CDs encoded with copyright protection
•
technologies by some record companies
may be unplayable by this product.
DRM-protected WMA disc is not supported.
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1 Adjust the source selector to CD/USB.
➜ Display shows - - - (see 2), or - - - with
"USB" (see 3)
you can either download
burn the music files
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