Pioneer VSX-824-K Owner's Manual

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Glossary
FLAC
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio format allows 
lossless codec. Audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss 
in quality. For more details about FLAC, visit the following 
website: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
vTuner
vTuner is a paid online database service that allows you to 
listen to radio and TV broadcasts on the Internet. vTuner lists 
thousands of stations from over 100 different countries 
around the globe. For more detail about vTuner, visit the 
following website:
http://www.radio-pioneer.com
“This product is protected by certain intellectual property rights 
of NEMS and BridgeCo. Use or distribution of such technology 
outside of this product is prohibited without a license from 
NEMS and BridgeCo or an authorized subsidiary.”
Windows Media
Windows Media is a multimedia framework for media 
creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. Windows 
Media is either a registered trademark or trademark of 
Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Use 
an application licensed by Microsoft Corporation to author, 
distribute, or play Windows Media formatted content. Using 
an application unauthorized by Microsoft Corporation is 
subject to malfunction.
Windows Media Player 11/Windows Media Player 12
Windows Media Player is software to deliver music, photos 
and movies from a Microsoft Windows computer to home 
stereo systems and TVs.
With this software, you can play back files stored on the PC 
through various devices wherever you like in your home.
This software can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website.
Windows Media Player 11 (for Windows XP or Windows 
Vista)
Windows Media Player 12 (for Windows 7 or 8)
For more information check the official Microsoft website.
About playable file formats
The NETWORK feature of this receiver supports the following 
file formats. Note that some file formats are not available for 
playback although they are listed as playable file formats. 
Also, the compatibility of file formats varies depending on the 
type of server. Check with your server to ensure the 
compatibility of file formats supported by your server.
Internet radio playback may be affected by the Internet 
communications environment, and in this case playback 
may not be possible even with the file formats listed here.
With MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, AIFF and Apple Lossless files, 
when music files with the same format, sampling 
frequency, quantization bit number and number of 
channels are played successively, they are played with no 
gap.
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Make sure the gap is at the minimum when using MP3 or 
AAC. If you are concerned about the gap, please use 
WAV or FLAC files.
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Gapless playback is not possible when the format is 
being converted (transcoded) by the server.
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Gapless playback is not possible in the DMR mode.