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Appendix
136
Rules of digital recording
■ SCMS-Serial Copy Management System
As a digital audio component, this unit conforms with the
Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) standards. The
Serial Copy Management System restricts copies made by
recording digital signals to first-generation copies only.
The digital program sources that have been recorded cannot
be digitally recorded again.
There are two rules as follows:
Rule 1
Digital sources such as commercially available CDs can be
copied digitally onto other recordable digital media with this
unit (a first-generation digital copy). However, the first-
generation digital copy cannot be copied digitally any
further.
Rule 2
The source that was recorded via the ANALOG IN jacks
can be copied digitally onto other recordable digital media
(a first-generation digital copy). However, the first-
generation digital copy cannot be copied digitally any
further.
The MusicCAST server automatically detects whether it is
able to store a CD digitally on its hard disk drive (the default
setting is to store digitally). It can copy song from its hard
disk drive in both analog and digital moves, but songs
copied digitally are copied using the Digital move method.
■ Digital Move
This unit has a built-in HDD with a large capacity that
makes a long recording possible. You can create your own
CD by editing the various program sources that have been
recorded onto the HDD of this unit and copying them onto a
CD-R or CD-RW disc.
If you want to make a digital copy of the original data that
has been created on the HDD to a CD-R or CD-RW disc, the
“Digital Move” method is convenient. You can make a
digital copy from the HDD onto a CD-R or CD-RW disc
even if the track is protected from making a second-
generation copy by the SCMS standard.
However, since the concept of “Digital Move” is that the
data is moved from the HDD onto a CD-R or CD-RW disc,
the original data on the HDD is erased when moving is
complete. See page 80 for details.
Notes on system
■ Number of recordable discs and tracks and
their length
• The MusicCAST server can record up to 99 songs to a
CD-R or CD-RW.
• The MusicCAST server can store up to 999 songs in an
album.
• Once the maximum number of tracks has been recorded to
a disc or album, no further recording is possible, even if
space for recording is available.
• The minimum length of one track is 4 seconds. The
maximum length of one track is 99 minutes 59 seconds for
the HDD.
• The MusicCAST can store up to 10,048 albums and
65,000 songs. However the number of albums you can
create is also limited by the availability of space on the
hard disk drive.
• When recording on a CD-R or CD-RW disc, a 2-second
silence is automatically added to the beginning of the first
track. Therefore the actual total recordable time will be 2
seconds shorter than the total recordable time of a CD-R
or CD-RW disc.
■ Source sampling rate conversion
• Digital input of this unit supports sampling frequencies of
32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz, and 96kHz. This unit converts
these inputs to 44.1kHz,16-bit digital signals and records
them onto the HDD, or a CD-R or CD-RW disc.
• Analog input is also converted to the same digital signal to
be recorded.
• This unit outputs the signals at the sampling frequency of
44.1kHz, 16-bit from its digital output.
■ Recording of non-audio signals
• This unit is designed exclusively for recording audio
signals. Recording is only possible for audio signals.
• When a CD with CD-TEXT is recorded from an external
CD player, CD-TEXT cannot be copied even if it is not
copy protected. To copy CD-TEXT, select the CD-TEXT
option when you store a CD on the hard disk drive of the
MusicCAST server.
• If the digital signals contain graphic data such as CD
graphics, the non-audio signals will not be recorded.
• It is not possible to record from non-audio sources such as
CD-ROM or DVD.
• For the above reasons you may encounter difficulty
storing CD-TEXT. We recommend using the internal
Gracenote CDDB Music Recognition Service as a source
of information when storing CDs.
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Rules of digital recording and notes on system