Which Discs Can You Play On This System - Sony CMT HPZ7 Operating Instructions Manual

Which discs can you play on this system?

Audio CDs:
CD-DA format CDs
CD-DA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) is a recording standard used for audio CDs.
ATRAC CDs:
CD-R/CD-RW on which audio data compressed in the ATRAC3plus format has
been recorded by using SonicStage*
ATRAC3plus (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding3plus) is audio compression technology
that satisfies the demand for high sound quality and high compression rates. ATRAC3plus can
compress audio files to about 1/20 of their original size at 64 kbps.
Bit rates and sampling frequencies this system can play are:
ATRAC3
ATRAC3plus
Up to 62 characters can be displayed on this system.
MP3 CDs:
CD-R/CD-RW on which audio data compressed in the MP3 format has been
recorded by using a software other than SonicStage*
Bit rates and sampling frequencies this system can play are shown below. Variable Bit Rate
(VBR) files can also be played.
MPEG-1 Layer3
MPEG-2 Layer3
MPEG-2.5 Layer3
This system conforms to Version 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 of the ID3 tag format. ID3 tag is a format
for adding certain information (track title, album name, artist name, etc.) to MP3 files. Up to
124 characters of ID3 tag information can be displayed on this system.
An ATRAC CD on which audio data compressed in the MP3 format has been recorded using software
other than SonicStage can also be played.
With SonicStage, you cannot create a CD on which mixed format audio data is recorded.
* Only ISO9660 Level 1/2 and Joliet extension format discs can be played.
6 GB
Bit rates
66/105/132 kbps
8 – 352 kbps
Bit rates
32 – 320 kbps
8 – 160 kbps
8 – 160 kbps
Sampling frequencies
44.1 kHz
44.1 kHz
Sampling frequencies
32/44.1/48 kHz
16/22.05/23 kHz
8/11.025/12 kHz