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## Making voice recordings

You can record voice using the player’s built-in microphone and play back the recorded voice files. Files are recorded in MP3 format.

1. Microphone

Note

- If the [Set Date-Time] setting is not accurate, the date folder may not be named correctly. Set the current date and time before recording [Details].

- During recording, you cannot listen to sound from the headphones.

1. From the Home menu, select [Voice Recording].

The [Voice Recording] screen appears and the player goes into record standby.

1. Press the button.

Recording starts.

1. Press the button once more to stop recording.

- The recording is saved as a file “VR- nnn-hhmm” (*1) in the [RECORD] – [VOICE] – [yyyy-mm-dd] (*2) folder.

(*1) File names are automatically assigned to “VR -nnn-hhmm” (VR – serial number – hour and minutes).
(*2) Folder names are automatically assigned to “yyyy-mm-dd” (year – month – day). In the case of subsequent folders created on the same day, an attached folder number (2 to 999) is added after “dd” of the folder name.

#### [Voice Recording] screen

1. (during recording), (during record pause)

1. Folder name

1. File name

1. Codec/bit rate

1. Elapsed time

1. Available remained time

The available remained time does not appear if it is more than 1,000 hours.
Hint

- You can select the recording quality (bit rate) [Details].

- To record to a new folder, press the OPTION/PWR OFF button on the [Voice Recording] screen while recording is stopped, and then select [New Folder] from the option menu. The next recording is sent to the new folder.

Note

- If you rename files in the [RECORD] and [VOICE] folders on your computer, or put files which have been imported to your computer back into the [RECORD] and [VOICE] folders, they may become unplayable on the player.

- Up to 4,000 files of recorded voice can be recorded.

- For the maximum recordable number of voice recording files and folders, see[Details].

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