Sony D-NE336CK Manual

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Which discs can you play on this CD player?
 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 ATRAC format has 
been recorded*
ATRAC is the general term used to refer to Sony Corporation audio codec technologies 
ATRAC3,
 ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless**. ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus
with their high quality compression ratio, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless**, with its 
no-data-loss compression, combine to provide a vast array of possibilities.
** This player is not compatible with ATRAC Advanced Lossless.
Bit rates and sampling frequencies this CD player can play are:
Bit rates
Sampling frequencies
ATRAC3
66/105/132 kbps
44.1 kHz
ATRAC3plus
48/64/256 kbps
44.1 kHz
Information (track name, album name, artist name, etc.) of up to 62-characters can be 
displayed on this CD player.
 MP3 CDs:
CD-R/CD-RW on which audio data compressed in the MP3 format has 
been recorded*
Bit rates and sampling frequencies this CD player can play are shown below. Variable 
Bit Rate (VBR) files can also be played.
Bit rates
Sampling frequencies
MPEG-1 Layer3
32 - 320 kbps
32/44.1/48 kHz
MPEG-2 Layer3
8 - 160 kbps
16/22.05/24 kHz
MPEG-2.5 Layer3
8 - 160 kbps
8/11.025/12 kHz
This CD player 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 name, album name, artist name, etc.) to MP3 
files. Up to 64 characters of ID3 tag information can be displayed on this CD player.
 CD-Extra and Mix-Mode CDs:
CD-R/CD-RW on which CD-DA format data and CD-ROM format data are 
recorded together.*
If you cannot play your CD, change the “CD-EXTRA” setting ( page 28). Then 
you may play your CD.
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 ISO 9660 Level 1/2 and Joliet extension format discs can be played.
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