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The device.
Setup and connection Carefully remove the device from its packaging and place in a dry spot on a level surfacepreferably on a HiFi rack. Connect one end of the cinch cable to the LINE OUT sockets of the C.A.R. 4000 and the other end to a free input on your HiFi amplifier. Use the CD or the AUX input. Never use the phono input (if you have one), because this has a different input voltage! Pay attention to the color codes on the plugs and sockets: red generally indicates the right side, white (or black) indicates the left side. If you want to connect the C.A.R. 4000 to the digital input of an amplifier, you will need an optical cable. Use the output on the device labeled DIGITAL OUT OPTICAL. If necessary, see the manual for your amplifier for alternative connection options. Finally, connect the C.A.R. 4000 to a standard power socket with the power cord included in the package.
Your Compressed Audio Recorder 4000 looks like this.
On/Off switch CD drawer Memory card slot Rotary selector Up button
Headphone output and microphone input Standard control panel Display Soft key Down button
The following pages have more information on the audio inputs and outputs and how they can be connected.

Analog in and out.

The line output.
Line Out (Cinch) The line output is on the back of the device. As previously noted, this output is generally connected to a line input on a HiFi amplifier. If you don't use a cassette tape deck and you have a tape deck connector on your amplifier (generally labeled TAPE IN), it makes sense to use this input. A matching connection to the line output of your amplifier will allow you to use the C.A.R. 4000 to record all devices (radio, etc.) connected to the amplifier with a line input to the C.A.R. 4000. We will tell you more about this later Your C.A.R. 4000 can also be directly connected to active speakers (with integrated preamplifier). It could also be connected to the line-in input of a computer sound card, even though this is not really advisable (we have designed our device for a relaxed living room environment rather than a computer workstation). The output is designed for a voltage level of 1 VRMS. The headphone output.
phones (6.3 mm jack) You can connect headphones to this 6.3 mm jack. You will need an adapter to use headphones with the smaller jack (3.5 mm), such as those from a walkman or diskman. Any good electrical components supplier will have adapters. Please ensure that you use a stereo adapter. The headphone amplifier has an output of 60 milliwatts.

The line inputs.

Line In 1 / Line In 2 (cinch) There are two separate line inputs that can be used on the back of the C.A.R. 4000. Analog devices with a line output, such as the audio output of a radio or a video recorder, can be connected here. If you do not use a tape deck, the best connection for such devices would be the TAPE OUT connector of your amplifier. The advantage of this arrangement is that it makes it easy to use the amplifier to determine which of the connected devices will send a signal to this output. The rotary selector on the amplifier generally has a selection for TAPE RECORD SELECT or similar. See page 38 for information on recording from one of these inputs. The input is designed for a voltage level of 2 VRMS.

The function.

An introduction.
Less is more. As the name 'Compressed Audio Recorder' indicates, one of the advantages of the C.A.R. 4000 is that it can process compressed audio data. As we all know now, compressing audio data can be very advantageous. A 40 GB hard disk can hold as much as 680 hours of music of virtually CD quality. This means a compression ratio of 1 to 10, thus 1 minute of music compressed requires around 1 MB of memory, while the same piece uncompressed will take up 10 MB. You can't have everythingbut almost. Near-CD quality indicates that the compression process does not operate entirely without loss. Although complex mathematical methods make it virtually impossible for the average ear to distinguish near-CD quality from genuine CD quality, there are ways to adapt the compression to the material at hand. The quality levels are referred to as the bit rate (kbps). Thus MP3s with a bit rate of 128 kbps offer this near-CD quality with a small file size, while at 192 kbps the quality is significantly higher but the files are much larger. The trick is to change the bit rate as required when creating a compressed audio file. For example, voice recordings and radio plays can be enjoyed at a bit rate of 56 kbpsbut classics and other demanding types of music only sound good at 192 kbps or better. Fact: the higher the bit rate, the higher the quality but also the higher the memory requirement. As a beginner, you really don't have to deal with these numbers; you only need to remember three words instead of lots of numbers: low is 64 kbps, standard is 128 kbps and high is 192 kbps. As you like it. In any case you are in the right place with the C.A.R. 4000, because it supports any bit rate during playback, including variable rates, and fixed bit rates from 48 to 320 kbps during recording. If you don't need to save space, you can record and playback without compression and thus without loss of quality. See More Input. on page 35 for more exciting details. Tree. Forest. Jungle. As you can well imagine from the impressive figure of 680 hours of sound, depending on your tastes this can be a wide variety of different musicians, albums and titles. We have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to manage such a huge amount of data by basing the entire user interface on a powerful database. This means that when you view your sound collection, you don't see directories, folders or file namesonly database entries. In addition to the unified and easily understandable treatment of the data, this allows more complex database actions. We deal with them in more detail in The Filters. on page 49. But be careful, this is not easy for beginners. It is intended more for advanced users and pros.

Switch on. Playback. Record CDthis summarizes our instructions for the next few pages. However, please note that we deal with playback, recording, and import and export functions in detail in later chapters.

Switch on.

The first time.Press the switch ( ) to switch on your C.A.R. 4000. After all the devices have been initialized, you will first be asked what language you want in the menus Press the button above the wheel up and down until the desired language has been highlighted.
Now confirm your selection by pressing the wheel.
Your C.A.R. 4000 comes from the factory with no music on the hard disk. You now have a huge amount of space for your own personal sound material.
This message is shown on the display and shows that there is no music on the hard disk.

Getting started.

Before you start recording, think of the C.A.R. 4000 for a moment as a standard CD player, because the standard control panel not only looks very similar but also has the same functions.
These are the buttons in detail. Icon Meaning The PLAY button starts playback / / Press to skip to the previous or next track These buttons are for rewind and fast-forward PAUSE stops playback STOP interrupts recording and playback THE button for starting recording This buttona real sensationopens and closes the CD drawer To insert an audio-CD: press EJECT, insert the CD, press EJECT again to close the drawer you can also press the front of the drawer lightly on occasion.
Automatic recognition of an audio-CD.
Do we know each other? Magic! You may have been surprised to see that the C.A.R. 4000 displays the musician, the album and the track names immediately after you have inserted the CD. This does not mean that the information was read from the CD, as is done with detection via CD-Text or similar processes. In contrast, the C.A.R. 4000 uses a technology developed by gracenote : a special process uses data such as the number of tracks, their length and sequence to generate a number. Then this number is used to check more than half a million CD entries in a CDDB database. The entries in this database include information such as the names of the artists, the album and the tracks. CDDB as you have certainly guessed stands for Compact Disc Database. You will be pleased to learn that the internal hard disk of the C.A.R. 4000 contains a copy of this database. This method of recognition has the advantage that even older CDs, which did not include such information on the CD itself because of the state of the art at the time, can be identified. Of course, CDs that are yet to be released are not included in the database, so we have made it possible for you to update it. See page 59 in Updating the CDDB database. for how to do this.

see also http://www.gracenote.com/ Sometimes a CD may not be recognized in spite of the comprehensive database, even after it has been updated. In this case you can also enter the relevant information into the database manually (see The Track Info. on page 27).

The playback modes.

The C.A.R. 4000, like other stereo devices, offers various types of playback. In its factory setting the C.A.R. 4000 operates exactly the same as any other CD, record or tape player. This means that you can insert your (virtual) CD, play it and that's it.
This icon, Repeat, shows whether another playback mode is activein Normal mode no icon is shown.
When you press the MENU button, then select Playmode with the wheel and then open the submenu by pressing the wheel, you can select the following modes: Repeat. This selection repeats the current collection in a loop until you press STOP. Repeat 1 / A B.
In this playmode you can repeat exactly one track, and you can also use an AB Repeat function. This means that you can select a range within an item and repeat this in a loop.
Now we see the soft key for the first time. This button is referred to as the soft key because it can have different functions depending on what the C.A.R. 4000 is doing. The bottom right corner of the display always shows the current function of the button. You use the soft key for instance to select the marks for AB Repeat: press once to set the starting point (A), press again to select the end point (B). If you press again, both marks will be deleted. The current function can also be read by the change of the soft key label.

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Random. If this mode is active, the compilation is randomly sorted, played back and then stopped. Repeat Random. In this setting the compilation is played back repeatedly and resorted after every playback cycle. If you accidentally change the language settings, see page 64 for instructions on resetting the language to the desired setting.

The first recording.

Now back to the matter at hand. we will now record an audio-CD as MP3 to save the first data to the internal hard disk. This is done as followsto summarize again: Open the drawer with EJECT ( Insert the CD Close the drawer with EJECT ( ) )
Wait until the contents of the CD are displayed Press Recording ( )
Wait while the CD is recorded (it will also be played back) Finish
We invite you to repeat this process with other CDs in your collection. During recording all buttons except STOP ( ) are disabled to prevent any interference with the recording process but to allow it to be stopped if absolutely necessary. The selected recording format in the default settings is MP3 in near-CD quality (i.e. 128 kbps or Normal quality for beginners). If you want to find out more about the numerous options for settings, see page 35 in More Input.

The browser: your navigation system.
Once you have completed your first recording, you are automatically returned to the functional center of the device: the database browser. This browser helps you find exactly what you need quickly and easily.
The actual information on the stored data is shown here. Top line ARTIST (Moloko), then COMPILATION (I am Not A Doctor), then TRACK (The Flipside). Artist means the singer or instrumentalists, Compilation means any combination of tracks, such as albums, and also samplers and your own playlists, and finally Track denotes the title of the current track.
This marker shows the current level.
Use the wheel or the up and down buttons to move through your data base. Rotating the selection wheel to the left and right changes selection to the next or previous entry on that level (Artist or Compilation or Track). Use the up and down button to move through the three selection levels (Artist, Compilation, Track). On the Artist and Compilation levels the entries are sorted alphabetically and by title numbers on the Track level. Note: On the Artist level, if you press and hold the wheel while rotating it, you will skip to the next or previous letter of the alphabet and on the Track level you will skip five titles forward or back. This makes navigation through the data much faster.
In this section of the display you can read what medium is currently active. as follows: HDD the internal hard drive CD-ROM the inserted data-CD CD-A the inserted audio-CD MMC the inserted memory card. When you wish to switch to a different medium, you can do this in the browser with the soft key labeled SOURCE. Note: the initialization may sometimes take a moment; in this case a small arrow is displayed for the medium instead of the abbreviation for the medium (HDD, CD-ROM etc.). To start playback of the displayed title'The Flipside' in our examplepress the PLAY ( ) button on the control panel of the C.A.R. 4000.
After starting playback your display will look like this or similar. In the factory setting this compilation will be played once and then playback will stop.
The time of the current playback or recording is shown here, left time played, right remaining time. The time refers to the current title.
The icon shown here represents the current status of your C.A.R. 4000. Playback is being prepared Playback is running The device is recording The playback is in pause mode The title is being rewound or or fast-forwarded, or being played back at a different speed No active recording or playback The EJECT button was pressed

If you have changed the album entry for a title and you want to extend the change to the remaining titles of the compilation or your selection, press the soft key marked ALL. The transfer of course only refers to the currently selected lineto import a track name for all relevant titles makes so little sense that we have disabled the soft key in this case. In addition to the information shown in the browser (artist, compilation, track), you can also change or add other attributes to a title. Navigate to where you want to go with the up and down buttons, press the wheel, edit, press the wheel again. Finished.
This arrow represents your personal evaluation of the title, the ranking. You have a total of five evaluation stages, from top ( ) to average ( ) to flop ( mation, the title is automatically ranked as average. ). If there is no ranking infor-
In the genre or mood range you can classify the title into a specific genre or mood from a list. If this information has not been set (in the case of a recording or import), it is set to other or neutral. The Release year on the right (2001 in this case) is set to the year of recording or import if there is no other information. The range can be set from 1920 to today.
If you want to change the genre or mood, the following selection dialog is opened. The title is at the top and the list with the various styles is shown below. Press the soft key labeled ADD to add your own terms. The procedure for inserting characters has been described in detail on page 33. If you have marked the year of release and press the down button again, you will get to even more specialized details.
You can find detailed information on the technical format of the title in the line below the track name: first, the compression process, MP3 in this case. WMA (Windows Media File) or WAV (uncompressed WAV file) may also appear in this position. Then you will see the sample rate (44.1 kHz), bit rate (128 kbps) and finally the file size (4.1 MB). The next line down shows the Entry Date, which is the date on which this title was saved on the hard disk.
In the bottom left corner the figure for the Beats Per Minute (BPM) is shown. In case of doubt this figure is set to 0 (zero)i.e. if this information was not entered into the database when the data was imported from CD-ROM. Note: The C.A.R. 4000 cannot analyze a title for the BPM itself. This information is also unfortunately not provided by the CDDB database, i.e. when recording an audio-CD with title detection. The information must be entered manually in almost all cases. For the sake of completeness we would also like to note that the top line, beside INFO, shows the track number in the list or compilation, followed by the total number of tracks. To the right of this you will find the current medium. And to the right again the total time of the current active track is shown.

As with the mobile phone, you only need to confirm a character when it is on the same button.
If you want to switch a character between upper and lower-case, use the MENU button, which also has aA below it. If you want to delete a character, press the soft key, i.e. the button on the remote control and then the OK button.

Volume control.

As mentioned briefly above, the remote control can be used to regulate the volume. However, you can also change the volume on the device with Volume in the main menu using the selection wheel. When you regulate the volume on the C.A.R. 4000, this only attenuates the signal. If a value of 100 is shown on the display, the signal is no longer attenuated and 0 dB is sent at the output with the material fully controlled. Headphone volume. To set the headphone volume select Settings in the main menu and then C.A.R. and there Headphone Volume. As you can see, this is a percentage figureit describes the proportion of the headphone volume in the total sound level. So when you regulate the volume with the remote control the headphone output is also regulated correspondingly. The related amplifier has an output of 60 milliwatts.

More Input.

Another foreword.
In this section of the manual, we would like to show you the various ways of feeding data into the C.A.R. 4000. First of all, we explain two terms a little more clearly. The term recording will be used at some points and the term import at others. Both terms ultimately mean an increased amount of data on your hard disk. The difference is that we use import when we refer to file-based operations, such as when you transfer MP3s from CD to hard disk, and recording when digitizing data from the line input. As soon as we transfer files to the hard disk, we talk of importing, while saving an external audio signal or an audio-CD on disk in real time is recording. But only one thing is important: data is saved on the disk. So let's get on with it.

The Audio CD.

There's nothing better. When you record or playback an audio-CD in the C.A.R. 4000, this is done completely digitally. This means that the data are not converted during recording but they are read directly from the CD. For example, if you connect another CD player with one of the line inputs, the signal would be converted twice during the recording. Once during output from the CD player (digital > analog, or DA) and again during recording in the C.A.R. 4000 (analog > digital, or AD). Unfortunately interference may occasionally become unpleasantly obvious during an analog recording and can even be heardthink of the noise in a mobile phone near a speaker. Interference can adversely affect a recording. You should pay attention to the original material if you want a perfect recording. If this is distorted, the C.A.R. 4000 can only make a perfect recording of the distortion. Perfect playback: if you want use the C.A.R. 4000 in connection with a high-end end device including digital input, only the high-end converter of the end device will be used for standard playback, because the C.A.R. 4000 is completely digital. Let us continue. we have already reached the basic principles of CD recording on the first pages (The first recording. page 18) of the introduction. We will examine the subject a little more closely and technically at this point.

played back. To import the audio files from the data section to the C.A.R. 4000 proceed as with a standard CD-ROMsee above.

The CD-ROM menu.

To open this menu select CD-ROM in the main menu; if there is no CD-ROM in the drive, this menu item is not shown. CD-ROM CD-ROM Info Sorting Order Import as sorted Import as Compilation Rescan CD-ROM. back CD-ROM Info. This shows information on the number of titles and compilations and the space they require. Sorting Order. See below. Import as sorted. As noted above, you start the import process here. Import as Compilation. Here you can import your selection or the entire CD as a compilation into the database. For example, if you have a CD labeled with the title Our Graduation Trip, you can save the entire CD under this name. Rescan CD-ROM. You must have noticed that a CD is scanned much faster the second time it is inserted than the first time. This is because the C.A.R. 4000 remembers the CDs that you have previously inserted. This identification is generally unique, but if you have the feeling: Just a moment, I know quite well that I have already burnt this and this title!, we recommend deleting this function temporarily so the CD will be completely re-indexed. back Return to the main menu here. User level.
Sorting Order. As previously noted, you can modify the sorting order so the folder or file structure only are not interpreted. You have various other optionsselect this menu item and a menu with the following entries will open: Sort by Filesystem. This is the default setting, i.e. sorted by folder and files structure as described above
Sort by ID3 Tags. Here an attempt is made to read and use the ID-tag information from all MP3 files. ID-tags are a small range within the MP3 file in which various information on the title can be stored (among other information track number, genre, year of issue etc.). ID-tags in version 1 and 2 are supported. See http://www.id3.org/ (English) for more comprehensive information on ID-tags. If you would like to find a good program for editing these tags on the PC, we can recommend http://odin.mutschler.de/mp3ext/ (English). by folders/ID3. This is a combination of the previously mentioned options. On one hand all information in the ID-tags is read but only the compilation name is derived from the folder. Why? You may have created your own collection of titles in which the complete information in the ID-tags still refers to the original albums from which the titles were taken. When you use this type of sorting order you will have all ID-tag information (genre etc.) but your own compilation.Sort by Playlists. Caution: this option can only be selected in the Professional user level. Sort by Playlists is based on play lists (file ending *.M3U or *.PLS)if you have selected this type of sorting, the sequence or combination will be imported from the play list. Note: the title information from WAV and WMA files is currently not supported. The browser treats them independently from the sorting order setting, i.e. always as an MP3 file without an ID-tag: the sorting order is similar to Sort by Filesystem. If you want to check the format, you can use the Track Info to view it; see also page 27. WYSIWYG. Because the data is always imported as you see it, you can easily monitor how it is sorted in the database. If you change the sorting order, it will be applied to every CD that you insert. This of course will extend the CD-reading process. A memory card (MMC) with audio files. The slot for memory cards (MMC) is to the right of the CD drawer. You can use memory cards to supply data from the C.A.R. 4000 to your mobile MP3 player, or to add titles from a card to the C.A.R. 4000. As you have probably noticed, the boot process takes longer when an MMC card is inserted, so we recommend removing the card before switching the device on or just unlock it by pressing it once. Ultimately the MMC behaves very similarly to the other removable medium, CD-ROM. For this reason we refer you at this point to the previous chapter The CD-ROM Menu and now we go directly to the MMC menu.

The Introscan mode.

You probably know this function on a normal CD player. If the Introscan is activated, it starts playback and plays all the titles of the current list or compilation for 15 seconds and then switches to the next title. If you want to listen to the current title fully, press PLAY and playback will not be interrupted.
The automatic playback (Autoplay).
If you select Settings in the main menu, then select Playback and then Autoplay, you can have playback start automatically after switching the device on. Whatever was playing last time you switched the device off will be played. If a title is interrupted by a power failure, it will be continued from this point. This does not apply to removable media (CD-ROM, CD-A or MMC).

The DJ Mode.

Party Alarm: the DJ Mode. One of the most common uses for the C.A.R. 4000 is to provide sound at a function such as a party or celebration. One of the important questions during any sort of party is what to play next to keep everyone in the right party mood. This means that the DJ always needs to know what title is next in line to be played. To keep the playback list as clear and accessible as possible, in DJ Mode all titles that have been played disappear from the list and the current title is always at the top.
When DJ Mode is not active, the standard list icon is always shown on the display ( active list in the memory.

) when there is an

However, when DJ Mode is active, this icon (
) is shown. We call this special type of list the DJ stack.
If you switch to the browser during playback, you can always returnas in other casesto the currently played title and to the PLAYBACK window by pressing the ESC button. Pressing ESC is acknowledged by the reversed icon ( ).
Careful with fast fingers: Play always wins. To ensure the required speed of reaction, particularly in critical situations where the party mood could be spoilt, pressing the PLAY button ( ) starts the selected title playing immediately but it can also completely delete the DJ stack. So here is the sequence: 1. Select the titles to be played one by one, press ESC and then PLAY. 2. To attach new titles, search with the wheel and select. 3. ONLY to play one title directly, select and PLAYbut then the DJ stack is gone. An explanation of the DJ Mode. Now you only need to know how to activate the DJ Mode, i.e.: Open the main menu with the MENU button and select Settings and then DJ Mode. The following submenu allows to enable and disable it.

A filter always acts on the contents of the hard disk, never on the removable media. You can enable the filter by selecting Filter in the main menu.
The various criteria can be accessed by the tabs. The first filter view shows the dialog for setting the ranking range. If you only want to see the absolute top titles with this filter, set the ranking range to from to. Press the down button once. Now the arrow beside from: is selected. Rotate the
wheel to the right until this arrow also points completely up. Now press the soft key labeled APPLY to enable the filter.
Press the up button once and now you will see that the title of the tab is reversed again. Rotate the wheel to the right to set the other options on the remaining tabs. In this example you are setting the style to Folk. Now take the settings for ranking and genre together and apply them to the database. The browser will now only show the titles that match the criteria folk and have the top ranking i.e. for RANK from to and for GENRE FOLK. You can also refine the filter even more precisely with the other settings (mood, year of release etc.).
INCLUDE, EXCLUDE, ALWAYS? Er. OK, thank you. But that's not all. To make this as flexible as possible, you can also link the various filter criteria together. The icon to the right in every filter setting shows what effect the current entry will have.
INCLUDE. The plus in a circle, the default setting for the filter, means that what is selected will be included. In the above example, folk is included in the filtered view of the database.
EXCLUDE. The minus means the opposite. I want to see everything in the list except what I have selectedin this example everything except Folk. In effect, the selection is reversed.
ALWAYS. The exclamation mark indicates that regardless of the meaning of the other criteria I always want to see all titles from the folk genre. Thus folk titles that would normally be excluded because of the ranking will be visible because of the ALWAYS setting. Multiple filters are managed with the filter menu. More below.
The menu: Filter. If you press the menu button inside the Filter settings, a menu with the following entries opens Filter Menu Reset Page Reset all Load Filter Save Filter Delete Filter. back User Level.
Reset Page. This function resets the tab that you are currently processing to the factory settings or to a state in which this filter setting will not restrict the view of the database. Reset all. These options apply the reset described above to all filters, so the filter function is completely deactivated. Load Filter. Here you can load a previously saved filter set. You can close the dialog for selecting the set with the BACK soft key and return to the filter settings. Save Filter. Select this menu item and you will see the range where Default Filter Set was set begin to flash. You can now enter a character string as a title for your set. All of the filter settings will be saved. Delete Filter. This item opens the same dialog as for load filter but you can now delete any filter sets that you no longer need. As with Load Filter, you can close the dialog for selecting the set with the BACK soft key and return to the filter settings. back Return to the main menu here.

Now select an entry with the mouse on the computer or C.A.R. 4000 side (artist, compilation or track). You can open a window with the right mouse button (Track Info) in which you can edit the information on the various titles as in the Track Info on the C.A.R. 4000.
For example, the titles that you know from our other examples were selected here. If you wish to use an artist, a compilation, a track name or a mood that is not yet in the selection menu, click the corresponding selection bar with the right mouse button, select Add and input the name with the keyboard. See page 62 for information on updating the operating system with the computer application.
System maintenance (the System menu).
Most of this chapter refers to the System menu, which you can open from the main menu by selecting System.

The System Info

The contents of the System Info are a very important source of information for system maintenance. The System Info is opened from the main menu by selecting System and System Info. The top line contains the current OS version to the right of the name of the product. OS stands for Operating System. The next line shows details of the version of the CDDB database and the previously installed updates. Next, below the manufacturer's information, are details of the total size of the hard disk and the amount of free space. The bottom line shows the number of tracks available on the C.A.R. 4000, followed by information on the fragmentation of the database. More on this below.
see also http://www.gracenote.com/
Updating the CDDB database.
As noted above, the database on the internal hard disk of the C.A.R. 4000 for automatic recognition of audio-CDs can be updated to recognize newly released CDs. See below for how easy it is to update the database:
download the update file from our web page (http://www.terratec.com/) from the C.A.R. 4000 section, carefully read the attached documentation (release notes) the update data must be burnt onto a CD as directed in the release notes (important: always place the data in the root directory of the CD, never in a subdirectory) Insert the CD into the C.A.R. 4000 CD-drive Open the main menu with MENU Select System with the wheel Press the wheel to open the submenu Select Gracenote CDDB Update The update process will start.

The update may take a relatively long time, because the new datasets must be imported into a very large structure. The base database is approximately 500 MB in size. The following messages appear in succession during the process: Starting CDDB Update, then Installing CDDB Update, and finally CDDB Update Finished.

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Load Default Settings.
If you select this item from the System menu, the complete device will be reset to the factory settings. After selecting this item you will be prompted for the preferred language of the menu entries. The Default Settings in detail are:
The User Level is Beginner The output is switched to Analog
The CD audio recording quality is 128 kbps The recording quality for external sources is 128 kbps The sample rate for recording external sources is 44.1 kHz The Auto Split is disabled
The Playmode is Normal The Volume is 100 (no attenuation) The Headphone volume is 100% The DJ Mode is disabled The Sorting Order for CD-ROM and MMC is folder/file system The VA artists are not sorted Automatic Playback is disabled The List Info info mode is set to Index
Reset Genre/Mood Lists. You can use this function of the system menu to detach the genre and mood list from the entries that were placed in the database by import, i.e. by ID-tag information or your own input so they will now no longer be related. For example, if you mistyped when entering a genre and did not assign it to a title, you can delete this erroneous entry. Unfortunately MP3 files of obscure origin include ID-tags with corrupt or simply nonsensical content. In the earlier part of the MP3 age there was often only a number referring to an entry in a list instead of a character string for the genre. However, because conflicting versions of this list circulated around the Internet, people chose the safe way and used actual names instead of the numbers. Unfortunately, a small number of programs still use this number-oriented naming convention. To remove the cryptic numbers from the genre list assign the desired genre via Track Info, then activate Reset Genre/Mood List and it's done.
For your information: our standard lists (default setting in bold). Genre Alternative Big Band Blues Chanson Classical Comedy Country Dance Disco Electronic Folk Funk Hard Rock Heavy Metal Hip-Hop Jazz Literature Musical Oldies Other Pop Punk Radio play Rap Rock Rock & Roll Soul Soundtrack Techno World Mood Chill out Dancing Depressive Dinner Emotional Erotic Festive Good Night Happy Melancholy Neutral Other Party Quiet Relaxed Romantic Sentimental Sad Stoned Wild
Defragmenting the database
The database becomes fragmented over time as various entries are deleted from it leaving empty datasets or when title information has been changed with Track Info. This means that this possibly very large database gradually acquires more and more holes, with the result that the total size of the database becomes excessive compared to the still usable data. The defragmentation function is provided to eliminate the holes and to make the database more efficient. As you can imagine, with a large database this process can take some time. System Info shows information on the status of the database and its fragmentation, as described above. It may seem a little surprising at first that a database that formerly had ten entries, five of which were deleted, shows a fragmentation level of 50%however this is of course because it shows the level as a percentagethus also 50% with originally 1000 entries and now 500. In general, you should note that fragmentation is best when it's under 20%. The ideal status is of course 0%. The database is basically limited to entries; this is necessary to ensure that the device can still be operated easily.

Watch the display. First the flash memory is deleted.
Then the new operating system is written into the memory.
Note: It would be disastrous if this process was interrupted for any reason. Your device could even be permanently damaged by any interruption, so avoid any power failure during this period. And the USB connection must not be interrupted under any circumstances before the device has switched itself off. After completion of the update the C.A.R. 4000 automatically switches off. Finished.
Help! The C.A.R. 4000 shows a foreign language.
If you have accidentally set the C.A.R. 4000 to a different language, this is how to reset it to the desired language.

Service at TerraTec.

Rien ne va plusnothing works can happen to the best systems. In such a case, the TerraTec-Team is always ready to provide service and support. Hotline, Mailbox, Internet. In case of a serious problem where you can neither solve the problem on your own nor with the guided help found in this manual, nor with the help of your dealer please contact us directly. The first way should be the Internet: under http://www.terratec.com/ you will always find current answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) and the latest drivers. All of that is also accessible via our mailbox system. To call us: +49-(0)2157-8179-24 (analog) and +49-(0)21578179-42 (ISDN). If these options do not provide the necessary help, please contact our phone hotline. You can also reach us online. To do so, visit us under http://www.terratec.net/support.htm. In both cases, please have the following information handy: Your registration number, this documentation,
In addition, it would be helpful to our technicians if you are at your computer during the phone call to directly carry out tips and tricks. Please do not forget to write down the name of the respective support technician if you contact our Support Team. You will need this name if of a defect is present and your card needs to be mailed to us.
Broken?! Before you send the device back, be sure to contact us! Make a note of the name of your support contact and follow these simple instructions: Please fill out the service request form provided with your card clearly and completely. The more clearly and detailed you describe the problem, the faster we will be able to help. Cards sent in without a description of the problem cannot be processed and will be returned to you at your expense. Be sure to include a copy of your purchase receipt (not the original) with the package. If we do not receive a copy of a receipt, we will assume that the warranty for the product has expired and will bill you for the repair. Please use a sufficiently strong and padded mailing package. We recommend using the original package. Remember that the card is a sensitive electronic component. Be sure to include enough postagewe will cover for the postage for the return to you.