57D-Link DSM-510 User Manual
Section 4 - Operation
Music Quality
Your music listening experience on the media player depends upon the quality of your digital music files on your PC. Avoid quality
settings below 48kbps as they create low quality audio. For CD quality music, rip your MP3s at 128kbps or higher, with a sample
rate of 44.1kHz.
Supported Music Formats
The following music file formats are supported:
• MP3 (up to 320 kbps)
MPEG-1, Layer 3 Audio file -The standard Internet music file
format. This is the most commonly used audio format.
• WMA (Does not support WMA lossless)
Windows Media Audio file - Supported by the Microsoft Windows
Media player and some music jukebox programs. Also supports
WMDRM protected WMA files downloaded from online services
and WMA Pro.
• WAV
WAV was developed by Microsoft and IBM. WAV sound files end
in .wav and are compatible with Windows applications supporting
audio.
• AIFF (AIFF files must be encoded in PCM format only.)
AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) was developed by Apple
Computers and is the standard audio format for Macintosh
computers. File extensions are .AIF or .IEF.
• MPEG 1 and MPEG 2
Moving Pictures Experts Group created standards for compressing audio and video. Audio uses the file extension .mp3.
• OGG Vorbis
Open source audio format. Uses the file extension .ogg.
Music