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MCX-2000 Owner’s Manual
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From the folder list view, you can press the Play button on
the remote control or select Play from the Submenu to start
playback from the first song in the current folder (album).
Otherwise, you can press the SELECT button on the cursor
controller to open the current folder (album) to see a list of
contained songs.
1 Volume name (MP3 CD)
2 Current folder name
3 Song count (total of songs in the current folder)
4 Song name
5 Audio format (MP3)
Move the selection (highlight) to a song you want, and then
press the SELECT or Play button on the remote control, or
select Play from the Submenu. The Play Information screen
appears, starting playback of the current song.
While the Play Information screen is shown, you can skip to
the next or previous folder (in the folder list view) by pressing
a group selection button (+/–) because each folder is
handled as a separate album (group). You can also switch
the group playback mode (Single for the current folder; All for
all folders). There is one exception: if you start playback from
the Root folder, the MCX-2000 behaves as if you start
playback of archived songs by selecting Top Menu > Library
> All Songs.
n The Play Information screen for CD provides similar information and
Submenu commands for the music archive. See “Play Information
and Controls” (page 50).
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Retrieving Song Data
When you select “CD” for the playback source, the MCX-2000
automatically searches and displays song data such as song
title, artist name and album title. Here we introduce this
mechanism and relevant keywords.
What is Gracenote CDDB?
Gracenote CDDB is a database system you can use to retrieve
information on songs, albums, artists and genres for music CDs.
The MCX-2000 incorporates a part of CDDB licensed from
Gracenote. The unit attempts to retrieve song data for your
music CD from the built-in database. But, since the partial
database is limited, there may be cases you cannot retrieve
correct song data, especially when your CD has just been
released or is one from a private label. If this is the case, you can
attempt retrieving the latest or updated song data for your CD
from the online CDDB database over the Internet (page 93).
Even if it doesn’t work, don’t be disappointed. You can manually
edit any title or name in your music archive (page 75).
n Support for the online CDDB database may be discontinued
without prior notice.
What are ID3 Tags?
ID3 tags are various kinds of meta text data that can be
embedded into MP3 files. The MCX-2000 supports ID3v1.1, 2.2
though 2.4 tag standards and can display song titles in the list
view when you play an MP3 CD. The MCX-2000 supports an
MP3 CD that meets the following specifications:
Supported MP3 CD or Songs
Disc format: ISO 9660 level 1 or 2 multisession Juliet/Romeo
format (The MCX-2000 doesn’t support packet written CDs.)
File hierarchy: Up to eight folder levels; up to 300 files (with an
mp3 or MP3 extension)
File format: MPEG-1 Layer 3 standard; all bit rates between 32
to 320 kbps*
ID3 tag version: 1.1, 2.2 through 2.4
(*) The MCX-2000 also supports MP3 songs recorded using
Variable Bit Rate (VBR), but may not display the data rate or
playback time of such songs correctly.
What is CD-TEXT?
Some music CDs contain text information such as song and
album titles, artist names, and genre names. This information is
called CD-TEXT. The MCX-2000 can read and display CD-TEXT
data, and can import it together with song audio data to the
music archive. But, the MCX-2000 doesn’t import copy-
prohibited CD-TEXT data. In this case, retrieve your CD and
song data from the Gracenote CDDB.