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Audio Operations Creating and Playing MP3/WMA Files I Downloading from MP3/WMA music sites on the Internet Creating MP3/WMA files by recording them from sources such as broadcasts, records, recordings, videos and live performances without permission from the copyright holder for uses other than personal enjoyment is prohibited. You can find various types of MP3/WMA music distribution sites on the Internet, including online shopping, trial listening, and free download sites. You can download music files from these sites by following their payment and other downloading rules. CAUTION • To ensure stable sound quality during playback, we recommend fixing the bit rate to 128 kbps and the sampling frequency to 44.1 kHz. • Note that it may not be possible to read some CD-R or CDRW discs, depending on their characteristics. • There are many types of MP3/WMA encoding software available, including commercial and freeware programs. Depending on the encoder and the file format, the audio quality may deteriorate, noise may be generated when playing starts, or some recordings may not play. • When files other than MP3/WMA files are recorded on a disc, the system may take some time to recognize the disc and it may not play. 238 Audio and Visual I Converting a music CD into MP3/WMA files Prepare a computer and a commercially available MP3/WMA encoder (conversion) software (some can be found for free on the Internet). Load a music CD into the computer's CD-ROM drive and compress the music CD by following the procedure of the MP3/WMA encoder software. MP3/WMA-format music data files are created. A 12 cm music CD (with a maximum of 74 minutes of recording/650 MB of data) can be compressed to 65 MB (about 1/10 of the original size). I Writing MP3/WMA files on a CD-R/RW disc MP3/WMA files can be recorded on a CD-R/RW disc by using a CD-R/ RW drive connected to a computer. Record by setting the recording format of the recording software to ISO9660 level 1 or level 2 (not including the extension format). Select CD-ROM (mode 1) or CD-ROM XA (mode 2) as the disc format.