GLOSSARY OF TERMS
AAC Advance Audio Coding
CD Compact Disc
CDC Compact Disc Changer
CDDB A technology company
founded in 1995 as CDDB, Inc.
The company has been re-
named to Gracenote®, Inc. The
technology has been renamed
to the Gracenote® media recog-
nition service.
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
DVDC Digital Versatile Disc Changer
GMD Gracenote® Media Database,
Gracenote® Media Recognition
Service (www.gracenote.com)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
HDD Hard-Disk Drive
MFB Multifunction soft-key
MFS
Multi-Functional Steering Wheel
MP3 MPEG-1 Audio
Layer-3.
Compression scheme used to
transfer audio files via the Inter-
net and store in portable players
and digital audio servers.
M4A The .M4A format is actually the
audio layer of (non-video)
MPEG 4 movies.
M4P The .M4P format is an audio file
purchased from Apple’s Music
Store (iTunes) and is protected
by a Digital Rights Manage-
ment scheme.
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