Advanced Mp3/Wma/Jpeg And Audio Cd Features; Screen Layout; Player Mode; Browsing The Disc (Browse Mode) - Arcam DV27A Handbook

Advanced MP3/WMA/JPEG and audio CD features

The DV27A DVD player has the ability to handle MP3,WMA and JPEG
files, when these are burned onto a CD-R or CD-RW disc. Picture/
Photo CDs are also playable. These file types may be mixed together,
if desired.
This section explains the more sophisticated features of the DV27A
relating to audio-CDs and for CD-ROMs that contain MP3,WMA and
JPEG files. Operation of both types of discs on the player is similar,
except that CD-ROMs can have directories and sub-directories, while
audio-CDs do not have a directory structure.
In this section of the document, we use the term 'CD-ROM' to refer
to a CD-R or CD-RW disc containing MP3, WMA or JPEG files, and
including Picture/Photo CDs.
All of these advanced features use on-screen menus, so a TV monitor
is required.

SCREEN LAYOUT

When an audio-CD or CD-ROM disc is detected by the DVD player,
the disc navigator screen is displayed.
STOP Browse Disc
/MP3–44100–320kbp
1 2People
2 Chillin
3 FeelingGood
TheWord
4
5 YourLove
Mp3 Info:
2People.mp3
Artist: Jean-Jaques Smoothie
Album:
Song: 2 People
Comment: 320kbps/44100H
Genre: Disco
Browse. press 'OK' to play.
The screen shown above is the disc navigator screen, in this example
showing a CD-R containing MP3 files. The following items can be
identified:
The user command indicator.
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The mode of the player.This is described in more detail below.
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The current track number and the total number of tracks in this
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directory (for CD-ROM discs), or on the whole disc (for audio-
CDs).
The playback time of the current track, and the total playback
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time.
For CD-ROMs, this area shows the current directory.
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'Up' – for CD-ROMs, selecting this button changes directory to
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one level above the current one. This button is not shown for
audio-CDs, or if the current directory is at the top level.
7 'PAF' – Play All Files on the disc. Starting from the first valid
file/track, all valid files/tracks on the disc are played, in the order
found.
'PD' – Play Directory. (CD-ROMs only). Starting from the first
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valid file in the current directory, all the (valid) files in the current
directory are played.
The names of the tracks in this directory. For audio-CDs, the text
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'Track 1', etc., is shown here. For CD-ROMs, the text shown here
is based on the file name of the track.
Track 86:28:15 00:03:27
Up PAF PD
Year: ----
When playing CD-ROMs, the full name of the file being played is
bk
displayed here (subject to screen space).
When playing CD-ROMs, tag information from MP3 and WMA
bl
files is displayed here, if present on the disc.
Helpful messages to the user are displayed here. When the disc
bm
is loaded, the PAF button (
loading the disc and pressing
playing.

PLAYER MODE

When playing audio-CDs or CD-ROMs, the player can be in one of
three modes:
Browse mode: the user is free to navigate around the disc directory
structure (while playback is stopped).Valid files in each directory (files
that can be played) are displayed on the screen. Pressing PLAY while
the cursor is on a valid file will start playback from that point, continuing
to the end of the disc.Alternatively, the PD or PAF buttons can be used
to start playback.
Programme mode: the user is free to navigate around the disc
directory structure (while playback is stopped). Valid files in each
directory are displayed on the screen. Pressing
on a valid file will cause the file to be added to the programmed list, (or
removed from the list if it had been added previously).
Playlist mode: no navigation of the disc may be performed; the player
starts at the beginning of the programmed playlist, and plays through
to the end.

BROWSING THE DISC (BROWSE MODE)

By default, the disc navigator is in 'Browse' mode. In this mode, the user
can navigate around the disc (using the cursor pad for direction and
'OK' to select an option). Use the 'Up' button to move to a higher-level
directory; to enter a lower-level directory, press
name is highlighted.
At any time, press
PLAY
highlighted currently. Navigation around the current directory is
possible during playback, but playback stops automatically if you
attempt to navigate out of the current directory.
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) is highlighted. This means that
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or is enough to set the disc
PLAY OK
while the cursor is
OK
when the directory
OK
or to begin playback from the file/track
OK