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3-260-906-12 (1)
FM/AM
Portable
CD Player
Operating Instructions
Owner’s Record
The model number and the serial number are located at the rear of the CD
player. Record the serial number in the space provided below. Refer to these
numbers whenever you call upon your Sony dealer regarding this product.
Model No. ___________________________
Serial No. ___________________________
“WALKMAN” is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation to represent Headphone
Stereo products. is a trademark of Sony C
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For customers who purchased this WARNING product in the USA To prevent fire or shock Product registration hazard, do not expose the unit Please register this product on line at www.sony.com/ to rain or moisture. walkmanreg Proper registration will enable us to send you periodic Do not install the appliance in a confined mailings about software upgrades, new products, space, such as a bookcase or built-in services and other important announcements. Thank cabinet.
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Table of Contents Playing tracks in your favorite order Enjoy your ATRAC CD (PGM play) ............................................ 19 Walkman! Searching for groups or tracks/files ........... 20 Music sources playable on this CD player .. 6 Available features ATRAC3plus and ATRAC3 ......................... 7 MP3 ............................................................. 7 Adjusting sound quality (Parametric equalizer) ............................................... 21 The structure of ATRAC3
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Enjoy your ATRAC CD Walkman! Thank you for purchasing the D-NF400/NF401. This CD Walkman is called an “ATRAC CD Walkman,” because you can enjoy “ATRAC CDs” on it. You can make your own ATRAC CD easily. Step 1 Step 2 Install Burn Install the supplied Create a disc image and burn it on “SonicStage Simple Burner” a CD-R/RW using your PC. software. Audio CDs MP3 files or , Audio data is converted to the ATRAC3plus/ ATRAC3 format by the SonicStage Simple Burner. How to use the SonicStage Simple Burne
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Enjoy your ATRAC CD Walkman! What is an ATRAC CD? An ATRAC CD is a CD-R/RW on which audio data compressed in the ATRAC3plus/ATRAC3 format has been recorded. About 30 audio CDs can be recorded on a CD-R/RW.* You can also record MP3 files by converting the files to the ATRAC3plus/ATRAC3 format. * When total playing time of one CD (album) is estimated at 60 minutes and you are recording on a 700 MB CD-R/RW at 48 kbps in ATRAC3plus format. Step 3 Listen You can enjoy listening to your own ATRAC CDs
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Music sources playable on this CD player You can play the following 3 music sources on this CD player: • Audio CDs (CDDA format) • CDs with ATRAC3plus/ATRAC3 format files (ATRAC CD) • CDs with MP3 format files (MP3 CD) Usable disc formats You can use ISO 9660 Level 1/2 and Joliet extension format discs only. About CD-Rs/RWs This CD player can play CD-Rs/RWs recorded in the ATRAC3plus/ATRAC3, MP3 or CDDA* format, but playback capability may vary depending on the quality of the disc and the condit
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Enjoy your ATRAC CD Walkman! ATRAC3plus and ATRAC3 “ATRAC3plus,” which stands for “Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding3plus” is audio compression technology, developed from the ATRAC3 format. Though the ATRAC3plus format can compress music content to about 1/20 of its original size at 64 kbps, you can still enjoy high quality sound. The available transfer bit rates are 256 kbps, 64 kbps and 48 kbps. “ATRAC3,” which stands for “Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding3” is audio compression technology t
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The usable number of groups and files • Maximum number of groups: 255 • Maximum number of files: 999 Settings for compression and writing software • This CD player is able to play MP3 files with the following specifications: Bit rate: 16 - 320 kbps, and sampling frequencies: 32/44.1/ 48 kHz. Variable Bit Rate (VBR) file can also be played. To compress a source for an MP3 file, we recommend setting the compression software to “44.1 kHz,” “128 kbps,” and “Constant Bit Rate.” •To record up to the
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Enjoy your ATRAC CD Walkman! ATRAC3plus/ATRAC3/MP3 file structure and playing order •ATRAC3plus/ATRAC3 •MP3 Group Group MP3 file ATRAC3plus/ ATRAC3 file Notes •A group that does not include an MP3 file is skipped. • If ATRAC3plus/ATRAC3 files and MP3 files are recorded on the same CD, this CD player plays the ATRAC3plus/ATRAC3 files first. • Depending on the method used to record MP3 files on the disc, the playing order may be different from the one shown above. 9
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Getting started Checking the supplied accessories AC power adaptor (1) CD-ROM* (SonicStage Simple Burner) (1) (not supplied with USA/Canadian models) *Do not play a CD-ROM on an audio CD player. User’s guide for SonicStage Simple Burner (1) Headphones (1) (for USA model) Earphones (1) (for other models) 10
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Getting started Locating the controls CD player For details, see the pages in parentheses. 1 Operation button (13, 14, 16 - 26, 28, 29, 7 RADIO ON/BAND•MEMORY button 32) (25 - 28) *1 RADIO ON: Press to turn on the radio. u /ENTER: play/pause/ enter BAND: Press to change the band. *2 .: AMS /rewind/tune MEMORY: Press and hold to preset in a preset station stations. >: AMS/fast forward/ 8 Display (12, 15 - 17, 19 - 21, 25 - 27, 32) tune in a preset station 9 DC IN 4.5 V (external power input) jack
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Display For details, see the pages in parentheses. 1 Character information display (15) 5 Play list indication While playing an audio CD, disc name, For MP3 CD only track name, etc. appear in the 2 lines, if 6 Group indication (19, 20) recorded on the CD. For ATRAC CD/MP3 CD only While playing an ATRAC CD/MP3 CD, 7 Play mode indication group name, file name, etc. appear in the Shows various playmodes such as shuffle 2 lines, if recorded on the CD. play and program play. “ ” shows Menu items also
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Playing a CD Playing a CD 1. Insert a CD. 1 Slide OPEN to open the CD 2 Place the CD on the tray and close player lid. the lid. OPEN switch Label side up 2. Connect your CD player. to an AC outlet You can use the following power sources: • LR6 (size AA) alkaline batteries (page 30) AC power •AC power adaptor adaptor We explain how to use your CD player u/ ENTER on house current on this page. Connect the plugs securely. 1 Connect the AC power adaptor. 2 Connect the headphones/earphones to the CD
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Basic operations To Do this Play (from a point where you stopped previously) Press u/ ENTER. Playback starts from the point where you stopped. While the CD player is stopped, press and hold Play (from the first track) u/ ENTER until the play of the first track starts. Pause/resume play after pause Press u/ ENTER. 2 Stop* Press x. 1 2 Press .. Find the beginning of the current track (AMS* )* 3 Find the beginning of previous tracks (AMS)* Press . repeatedly. 2, 3 Find the beginning of the next tra
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Playing a CD Checking CD information on the display You can check CD information by pressing DISPLAY/MENU repeatedly. When you are playing a CD containing text information such as CD-TEXT, “track name,” “album name,” “artist name,” etc. are displayed as shown in parentheses in the following table. When you are playing an ATRAC CD, information you input using the SonicStage Simple Burner software is displayed. When you are playing an MP3 CD containing MP3 files with an 1 ID3 tag* , ID3 tag inform
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B Playback options You can enjoy the following playback 3 Press V or v to select the playback options using the menu function. option you want. The default setting is “ALL” (normal • Playing tracks repeatedly (Repeat play). play) • Playing all files in a selected group PLAY MODE (Group play) >GROUP • Playing a single track (Single play) • Playing tracks in random order Playback options appear. (Shuffle play) • Playing all files in a selected group in random order (Group shuffle play) Playi
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Playback options Playing a single track Playing your favorite (Single play) play lists (m3u play list play) (MP3 CD only) Perform steps 1 and 2 of “Selecting You can play your favorite m3u play lists.* playback options” (page 16), press * An “m3u play list” is a file for which an MP3 file playing order has been encoded. To use the play V or v to select “1,” then press u/ list function, record MP3 files on a CD-R/RW ENTER to enter the selection. using encoding software that supports the m3u form
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To check the tracks with Bookmarks* Playing your favorite During playback of the tracks with Bookmarks, “ ” lights up in the display. tracks by adding * Perform these operations only when Screen 1 is Bookmarks disaplyed (page 15). (Bookmark track play) Notes • During play of tracks with Bookmarks, tracks are While the CD player is playing, you can add played in order of track number, and not in the bookmarks to the tracks you want and play order you added the Bookmarks. them only. • If you try
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Playback options Playing tracks you Playing tracks in your have played most favorite order (PGM play) frequently in random You can program the CD player to play up to order (Auto ranking shuffle play) 64 tracks in your favorite order. The CD player plays up to 32 tracks which While play is stopped, perform 1 the player has automatically memorized as steps 1 and 2 of “Selecting the most frequently played ones. In Auto playback options” (page 16), press ranking shuffle play, these tracks are play
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Playing tracks in your favorite Searching for groups order or tracks/files While the CD player is playing, you can Repeat step 2 to select the tracks 3 search for and play the group (ATRAC CD in your favorite order. only) or track/file you want quickly using V or v on the CD player. Press u/ENTER to start PGM 4 play. During play, press V or v until the 1 search screen appears. Checking the program Mysterious In Your Hou While programming: Press DISPLAY/MENU repeatedly before step 4. Press +
