Sony LBT ZX9 Instruction Manual - Page 5

About this manual This manual mainly explains operations using the buttons on the system, but the same operations can also be performed using the buttons on the remote having the same or similar names. The LBT-ZX9 consists of the following components: - Tuner/CD/MP3 player/Stereo cassette deck/Amplifier (main unit) HCD-ZX9 - Speaker System • Front/Surround speakers SS-ZX9 Playable discs You can playback the following discs on this system. The other discs cannot be played back. List of playable discs Format of discs Audio CDs Disc logo Contents Audio CD-R/CD-RW (Audio CDs) CD-R/CD-RW (Discs with MP3 audio tracks) Audio Audio Discs that this system cannot play • A disc that has a non-standard shape (e.g., card, heart). • A disc that has the adhesive, cellophone tape, or a sticker still left on it. • Discs other than the following: - Audio CDs. - CD-Rs/CD-RWs that recorded in the Audio CD format. - CD-Rs/CD-RWs and CD-ROMs that has MP3 audio tracks those format that conforms to ISO 9660*1 Level 1, Level 2, Joliet in expansion format or Multi Session*2. MP3 audio tracks must be in MPEG 1, 2, 2.5 Audio Layer 3 format. • Data part of CD-Extras*3. • Data part of Mixed CDs*4. • Audio side of a DualDisc. *1 ISO 9660 Format The most common international standard for the logical format of files and folders on a CD-ROM. There are several specification levels. In Level 1, file names must be in the 8.3 format (no more than eight characters in the name, no more than three characters in the extension ".MP3") and in capital letters. Folder names can be no longer than eight characters. There can be no more than eight nested folder levels. Level 2 specifications allow file names and folder names up to 31 characters long. Each folder can have up to 8 trees. For Joliet or Romeo in the expansion format, make sure of the contents of the writting software, etc. *2 Multi Session This is a recording method that enables adding of data using the Track-At-Once method. Conventional discs begin at a disc control area called the Lead-in and end at an area called Lead-out. A Multi Sessions disc is a disc having multiple sessions, with each segment from Lead-in to Leadout regarded as a single session. *3 CD-Extra This format records audio (audio CD data) on the tracks in session 1 and data on the tracks in session 2. *4 Mixed CD This format records data on the first track and audio (audio CD data) on the second and subsequent tracks of a session. continued 5US