GLOSSARY OF TERMS
AS
Autostore
CD
Compact Disc
CDC
Compact Disc
Changer
CDDB
A technology com-
pany founded in
1995 as CDDB, Inc.
The company has
been renamed to the
Gracenote , Inc. The
technology has been
renamed to the
Gracenote media
recognition 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
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HDD
Hard-Disk Drive
MFB
Multifunction soft-key
MFS
Multi-Functional
Steering Wheel
MP3 MPEG-1 Audio
Compression scheme
Layer-3.
used to transfer au-
dio files via the Inter-
net and store in por-
table 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 pur-
chased from Apple's
Music Store (iTunes)
and is protected by a
Digital Rights Man-
agement scheme.
POS
Position
PTY
Program type (radio)
RDS
Radio Data System
UTC
Universal Coordi-
nated Time
VES™
Video Entertainment
System™
WMA
Windows Media Au-
dio Format
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