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TerraTec C.A.R. 4000 Manual

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Compressed Audio Recording System
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Version 09.07.02

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  • Page 1 MP3 & HiFi Compressed Audio Recording System English Manual Version 09.07.02...
  • Page 2 Meticulous care has been exercised in the preparation of all text passages and illustrations in this User Guide. TerraTec Electronic GmbH and its authors, however, accept no liability, legal or otherwise, for any errors or the consequences of such errors. We reserve the right to technical modifications.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    A personal collection of titles..................... 21 The details..........................23 The User Level........................23 The List Info........................23 The Track Info........................27 The remote control......................31 Character input........................33 Volume control........................34 More Input..........................35 Another foreword.......................35 The Audio CD........................35 C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 4 The System Info ......................... 59 Updating the CDDB® database..................59 Load Default Settings......................60 Defragmenting the database ....................61 Updating the operating system..................62 Help! The C.A.R. 4000 shows a foreign language..............64 Service at TerraTec........................ 65 C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 5: Package Contents

    Note: The C.A.R. 4000 uses a CD drive, which operates with invisible class 1 laser beams. · Use a dry or slightly moistened, lint-free cloth to clean the C.A.R. 4000. Do not use clean- ing products as they may damage the finish of the unit.

  • Page 6: The Battery

    The battery. A button cell of the following type is used on the motherboard inside the C.A.R. 4000: Designation: CR2032 Type: Lithium Primary: Number: Weight: Please replace the battery only after consultation with one of our technicians (see page 65) and always make sure that you insert it correctly ('+' upwards).

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Introduction. We congratulate on your purchase of a TerraTec device. We are proud to present the C.A.R. 4000, a HiFi component that combines the functions of an audio recorder, a CD player, a fill- ing station for memory cards, and a digital music box in an attractive 19" case. We have placed great emphasis on ease of operation, even with the many different functions.

  • Page 8: The Device

    HiFi rack. Connect one end of the cinch cable to the LINE OUT sockets of the C.A.R. 4000 and the other end to a free input on your HiFi amplifier. Use the CD or the AUX input. Never use the phono input (if you have one), because this has a dif- ferent input voltage! Pay attention to the color codes on the plugs and sockets: red generally indicates the right side, white (or black) indicates the left side.

  • Page 9: Analog In And Out

    A matching connection to the line output of your amplifier will allow you to use the C.A.R. 4000 to record all devices (radio, etc.) connected to the amplifier with a line input to the C.A.R. 4000. We will tell you more about this later …...

  • Page 10: The Line Inputs

    Line In 1 / Line In 2 (cinch) There are two separate line inputs that can be used on the back of the C.A.R. 4000. Analog devices with a line output, such as the audio output of a radio or a video recorder, can be connected here.

  • Page 11: Digital In And Out

    Optical Out (TOS Link) The digital output is on the back of the C.A.R. 4000. You can connect an optical cable (also known as a fiber optic cable) for a device such as a digital amplifier. One of the advantages of digital transmission of the audio signal from the C.A.R.
  • Page 12 Optical In (TOS Link) The digital input is also on the back of your C.A.R. 4000. You can connect the output of a digi- tal amplifier to this input with an optical cable (also known as a fiber optic cable) to record the playback of devices connected to the amplifier with the C.A.R.

  • Page 13: The Function

    64 kbps, standard is 128 kbps and high is 192 kbps. As you like it. In any case you are in the right place with the C.A.R. 4000, because it supports any bit rate during playback, including variable rates, and fixed bit rates from 48 to 320 kbps during recording.

  • Page 14: Switch On

    Now confirm your selection by pressing the wheel. Your C.A.R. 4000 comes from the factory with no music on the hard disk. You now have a huge amount of space for your own personal sound material. This message is shown on the display and shows that there is no music on the hard disk.

  • Page 15: Getting Started

    Getting started. Before you start recording, think of the C.A.R. 4000 for a moment as a standard CD player, because the standard control panel not only looks very similar but also has the same func- tions. These are the buttons in detail ...

  • Page 16: Automatic Recognition Of An Audio-Cd

    Automatic recognition of an audio-CD. Do we know each other? Magic! You may have been surprised to see that the C.A.R. 4000 displays the musician, the album and the track names immediately after you have inserted the CD. This does not mean that the information was read from the CD, as is done with detec- tion via CD-Text or similar processes.

  • Page 17: The Playback Modes

    The C.A.R. 4000, like other stereo devices, offers various types of playback. In its factory set- ting the C.A.R. 4000 operates exactly the same as any other CD, record or tape player. This means that you can insert your (virtual) CD, play it and that's it.

  • Page 18: The First Recording

    MP3 in near-CD quality (i.e. 128 kbps or Normal qual- ity for beginners). If you want to find out more about the numerous options for settings, see page 35 in “More Input.”. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 19: The Browser: Your Navigation System

    Note: On the Artist level, if you press and hold the wheel while rotating it, you will skip to the next or previous letter of the alphabet and on the Track level you will skip five titles forward or back. This makes navigation through the data much faster. C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 20 To start playback of the displayed title—'The Flipside' in our example—press the PLAY ( ) button on the control panel of the C.A.R. 4000. After starting playback your display will look like this or similar. In the factory setting this compilation will be played once and then playback will stop.

  • Page 21: A Personal Collection Of Titles

    In contrast to most other HiFi devices, other titles can be preselected during playback with the C.A.R. 4000. If you have started playback and then you want to return to selection mode, you only need to press the wheel or the up and down buttons. The PLAYBACK displayed in the upper left corner disappears and the current selection level is shown again.
  • Page 22 The following pages deal with the advanced options of the C.A.R. 4000 in detail and we hope that we can show you the many exciting possibilities of this device. Have fun with it.

  • Page 23: The Details

    The List Info. Another component in the C.A.R. 4000 world is the individual collection of titles mentioned above. This is not only important in playback but also, for example, if you want to transfer specific titles from CD to the hard disk or delete others from the database. The first thing to do is to create a list with the titles that you want to use.
  • Page 24 The playback switches immediately to the title to which the cursor is pointing when you press the Play button ( ). When you press the buttons labeled MENU, the options menu of this list opens. Here you can decide what should be done with this specific list. C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 25 Erase selected Tracks. Use this function to remove the current or all selected titles from the compilation from which they were selected. In every case a security prompt is shown—but be C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 26 C.A.R. 4000 with no further warning. IMPORTANT: Deleting titles with the menu thus has a different function than the DELETE soft key within the list.

  • Page 27: The Track Info

    Press ESC to cancel the operation. When you have finished processing the entry, confirm this by pressing the wheel, as noted above. See page 33 for more information (such as how you can enter characters with the remote control). C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 28 If this information has not been set (in the case of a recording or import), it is set to other or neutral. The Release year on the right (2001 in this case) is set to the year of recording or import if there is no other information. The range can be set from 1920 to today. C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 29 0 (zero)—i.e. if this information was not entered into the database when the data was imported from CD-ROM. Note: The C.A.R. 4000 cannot analyze a title for the BPM itself. This information is also unfor- tunately not provided by the CDDB database, i.e. when recording an audio-CD with title detec- tion.
  • Page 30 Erase Track everywhere. Here you remove this title from the entire database. Wherever this title appears it will be removed, never to be seen again. As you can imagine, this function should used with great caution. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 31: The Remote Control

    Note: infrared remote controls like that supplied with the C.A.R. 4000 function better if the room in which the remote control and the C.A.R. 4000 are set up is not exactly flooded with daylight, because natural light includes spectral components that in excess can interfere with the transmission of the remote control signals.
  • Page 32 (ARTIST, COMPILATION or TRACK) is shown virtually filling the display. The button has the magnifying glass icon C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 33: Character Input

    An example: if you want to enter the character string PRINCE, this would require the following sequence on the remote control ... As with the mobile phone, you only need to confirm a character when it is on the same button. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 34: Volume Control

    “Volume” in the main menu using the selection wheel. When you regulate the volume on the C.A.R. 4000, this only attenuates the signal. If a value of 100 is shown on the display, the signal is no longer attenuated and 0 dB is sent at the output with the material fully controlled.

  • Page 35: More Input

    Once during output from the CD player (digital > analog, or DA) and again during recording in the C.A.R. 4000 (ana- log > digital, or AD). Unfortunately interference may occasionally become unpleasantly obvi- ous during an analog recording and can even be heard—think of the noise in a mobile phone...
  • Page 36 Because we use a computer CD-ROM drive with the C.A.R. 4000, such CDs can gen- erally not be played with the C.A.R. 4000. But because computer drives are being used more and more often in consumer electronics (in CD and DVD players, car radios etc.), it is an open question whether the record industry will retain the copy-protection concept.
  • Page 37 The C.A.R. 4000 allows you to make separate quality settings for recording from au- dio-CD and external sources. You may always want to record CDs at high quality, but only re- cord the tuner at the line input at low quality.

  • Page 38: Recording From An External Source

    You also have the option of recording from external sources to be able to use the C.A.R. 4000 as a universal recording device. The following inputs are available for this ·...
  • Page 39 After you have set the controls as required, press the record button again and recording starts or the ASD is switched on. Press the STOP button to interrupt recording. You enter the name of your recording with the corresponding settings menu; more on that now. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 40: The Menu For External Recording

    16 bits. If you want to record from the digital input, it is important that the sampler rates match so both devices (C.A.R. 4000 and the source) can be synchronized to each other. For example, if you play a tape with a DAT recorder at 48 kHz, you must also set exactly this sampler rate here.
  • Page 41 Explorer, and the right side shows how this classification of directories is transferred exactly to the C.A.R. 4000 browser. If you transferred all this (Dean Martin, Godsmack, U2 ...) into a directory called Compressed Audio, in this case the C.A.R. 4000 would encrypt it somewhat differently: in the artist level all folders would be listed separated by a backslash ( \ ), i.e.

  • Page 42: The Cd-Rom Menu

    To import the audio files from the data section to the C.A.R. 4000 proceed as with a standard CD-ROM—see above. The CD-ROM menu. To open this menu select CD-ROM in the main menu; if there is no CD-ROM in the drive, this menu item is not shown.
  • Page 43 The slot for memory cards (MMC) is to the right of the CD drawer. You can use memory cards to supply data from the C.A.R. 4000 to your mobile MP3 player, or to add titles from a card to the C.A.R. 4000. As you have probably noticed, the boot process takes longer when an MMC card is inserted, so we recommend removing the card before switching the device on or just unlock it by pressing it once.

  • Page 44: The Mmc Menu

    Format MMC. This function allows you to delete all data from the MMC and thus to fill it with audio material. Caution: if any other data is still on the MMC (non-audio data invisible to the browser), it will also be deleted. .. back Return to the main menu here. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 45: The Special Functions

    The Backlight function in the main menu allows to switch the background LED lighting of the display on and off. This allows you to switch off the backlight on the C.A.R. 4000 when you want a dark environment. The setting is not saved.

  • Page 46: The Automatic Playback (Autoplay)

    Party Alarm: the DJ Mode. One of the most common uses for the C.A.R. 4000 is to provide sound at a function such as a party or celebration. One of the important questions during any sort of party is what to play next to keep everyone in the right party mood.

  • Page 47: The Timer

    The Timer function allows you to start playback automatically at a specified time. In contrast to many other devices, the C.A.R. 4000 is completely cut off from the power supply when it is switched off, i.e. it is really switched off. The integrated Timer is powered by a battery and switches the device on and off as required.
  • Page 48 Press the down button to change the time. Turn the wheel to change the minutes and press and turn the wheel to change the hours. You can also make the same settings in the same way (six positions each) with the keypad on the remote control. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 49: The Filters

    If you only want to see the absolute top titles with this filter, set the ranking range to “from ”. Press the down button once. Now the arrow beside “from:” is selected. Rotate the C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 50 I always want to see all titles from the folk genre. Thus folk titles that would normally be excluded because of the ranking will be visible because of the ALWAYS setting. Multiple filters are managed with the filter menu. More below ... C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 51 As with Load Filter, you can close the dialog for selecting the set with the BACK soft key and return to the filter settings. .. back Return to the main menu here. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 52: The C.a.r. 4000 Various Artists

    The C.A.R. 4000 Various Artists The following functions can only be selected at a higher user level. See page 23 for infor- level mation on this and how to set a different level. If you make a new compilation with various titles from different artists, you will find it in the browser under Various Artists sorted by the artists.

  • Page 53: The Connection To The Computer

    The connection to the computer. First. You have certainly seen from the technical specifications that the C.A.R. 4000 can be connected to the computer with a USB cable. Two conditions must be met before connecting the two devices: 1. You must install the software on the computer BEFORE the initial connection 2.

  • Page 54: The C.a.r. 4000 Media Manager

    Double-click on the Media Manager icon on your desktop to open the application for compar- ing data with the computer, for remote control of the C.A.R. 4000, for managing the C.A.R. 4000 database on the computer and for updating the C.A.R. 4000 operating system.
  • Page 55 After you have completed the selection process, the application starts the dialog with the C.A.R. 4000. The database on the C.A.R. 4000 is first compressed and then transferred to the computer. Then it is decoded on the computer. The speed of this process depends on how powerful your computer is.
  • Page 56 Now you will see the database on your computer on the left side, and that of the C.A.R. on the right. As you are familiar with from the C.A.R. 4000 itself, the view first displays the entries of individual artists and then the various artists compilations. But let's take a closer look at the various buttons and components of the manager.
  • Page 57 The center bar that separates the computer and the C.A.R. 4000 from each other can be used to initiate a copy process in either direction. You can use the X DEL to delete the currently selected title from the da- tabase.
  • Page 58 Now select an entry with the mouse on the computer or C.A.R. 4000 side (artist, compilation or track). You can open a window with the right mouse button (Track Info) in which you can edit the information on the various titles as in the Track Info on the C.A.R.

  • Page 59: System Maintenance (The System Menu)

    Updating the CDDB database. As noted above, the database on the internal hard disk of the C.A.R. 4000 for automatic rec- ognition of audio-CDs can be updated to recognize newly released CDs. See below for how easy it is to update the database: ·...

  • Page 60: Load Default Settings

    Unfortunately, a small number of programs still use this num- ber-oriented naming convention. To remove the cryptic numbers from the genre list assign the desired genre via Track Info, then activate Reset Genre/Mood List and it's done. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 61: Defragmenting The Database

    In general, you should note that fragmentation is best when it's under 20%. The ideal status is of course 0%. The database is basically limited to 10 000 entries; this is necessary to ensure that the device can still be operated easily. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 62: Updating The Operating System

    You can get it by going to our web page (http://www.terratec.com/) and then to the support pages of the C.A.R. 4000. The current version number should be obvious there. If a new version is available, please download it. The files are usually provided as self- extracting EXE archives.
  • Page 63 And the USB connection must not be interrupted under any circumstances before the device has switched itself off. · After completion of the update the C.A.R. 4000 automatically switches off. · Finished. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 64: Help! The C.a.r. 4000 Shows A Foreign Language

    Help! The C.A.R. 4000 shows a foreign language. If you have accidentally set the C.A.R. 4000 to a different language, this is how to reset it to the desired language. C.A.R. 4000 (English)

  • Page 65: Service At Terratec

    – please contact us directly. The first way should be the Internet: under http://www.terratec.com/ you will always find current answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) and the latest drivers. All of that is also accessible via our mailbox system.
  • Page 66 Please use a sufficiently strong and padded mailing package. We recommend using the original package. Remember that the card is a sensitive electronic component. · Be sure to include enough postage—we will cover for the postage for the return to you. C.A.R. 4000 (English)
  • Page 67 The despatcher pays all costs associated with shipping and insurance for the goods for repair to TerraTec Electronic GmbH. If the goods are covered by warranty, TerraTec Electronic GmbH will pay the shipping costs for returning repaired goods. COD ship- ments will not be accepted for organizational reasons.

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