Pioneer VSX-43 Owner's Manual - Page 48

6 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 WAV, 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. - Gapless playback is not possible when the format is being converted (transcoded) by the server. - Gapless playback is not possible in the DMR mode. Music files Extension Stream MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3) .mp3a Sampling frequency Quantization bitrate Channel Bitrate VBR/CBR WAV (LPCM) 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz 16 bit 2 ch 8 kbps to 320 kbps Supported/Supported .wav Sampling frequency Quantization bitrate Channel WMA (WMA2/7/8/9) 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz 16 bit, 24 bit 2 ch .wmab Sampling frequency Quantization bitrate Channel Bitrate VBR/CBR 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz 16 bit 2 ch 5 kbps to 320 kbps Supported/Supported AAC (MPEG-4 AAC LC, MPEG-4 HE AAC (aacPlus v1/2)) .m4a .aac .3gp .3g2 Sampling frequency Quantization bitrate Channel Bitrate VBR/CBR 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz 16 bit 2 ch 16 kbps to 320 kbps Supported/Supported FLAC .flacc Sampling frequency Quantization bitrate Channel 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz 16 bit, 24 bit 2 ch AIFF .aif Sampling frequency 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, .aiff 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz Quantization bitrate 16 bit, 24 bit Channel 2 ch Apple Lossless .m4a .mp4 Sampling frequency Quantization bitrate Channel 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz 16 bit, 24 bit 2 ch a. MPEG Layer-3 audio decoding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson multimedia. b. Files encoded using Windows Media Codec 9 may be playable but some parts of the specification are not supported; specifically, Pro, Lossless, Voice. c. Uncompressed FLAC files are not supported. Pioneer does not guarantee playback. 48 Playback with NETWORK features 4 7 62