The latest model "CD Reco 6" is born in the CD Reco series of I-O Data.Write music data to a USB memory or SD card and enjoy it with good sound even with car audio

IO DATA DEVICE INC. Announced the latest model "CD Reco 6" (CD-6W series) of CD recorders and CD reco for smartphones. The estimated market price is 14,960 yen (tax included).

The CD-Reco series appeared in 2014 as an item that allows you to import a CD sound source to your smartphone without using a personal computer, and has continued to evolve, such as expanding the supported OS and making it wireless.

Recently, music playback on smartphones is centered on streaming, and the number of sales of CD media itself is on the decline, but sales of CD reco itself are strong, and it is said that it continues to grow steadily. Cumulative shipments have exceeded about 620,000 units, and cumulative downloads of apps have exceeded about 1.7 million.

And in addition to the original function of importing music to a smartphone, this CD Reco 6 incorporates new proposals that will please car audio enthusiasts.

Before that, the basic performance of the CD Reco 6 follows that of the previous model "CD Reco 5". It is possible to import a CD sound source to a smartphone without a PC (also supports wireless transmission), and a CD of about 60 minutes can be saved in about 4 minutes. The sound quality can be selected from 5 levels, and the title, artist name, and song name can be automatically obtained from the Gracenote database, which is the same as before.

If you use the dedicated app "CD Reco Music", you can play automatically (select from 4 themes such as artist and genre) and check the billboard chart.

In addition to this, the CD Reco 6 is equipped with a USB port and SD card slot on the main unit, and music data saved on the smartphone can be copied to a USB memory or SD card. The media capacity is 128GB and the format is compatible with FAT16 / FAT32 / exFAT. USB HDD cannot be used.

Copy work is done from the CD Reco Music app. First, set the media on the CD record 6, and then connect the CD record 6 and the smartphone wirelessly. After that, select "Copy" from the CD Reco Music menu and specify the album or song you want to dubb.

The songs that can be copied to the media are the songs saved on the smartphone, and the data that can be handled by CD record music such as FLAC (CD quality), m4a (AAC), and mp3 are targeted. Music data with DRM (copyright protection) cannot be copied.

By copying the music data to a USB memory or SD card in this way, the sound source can be freely carried around, so the new CD Reco 6 will be enjoyed by players other than smartphones such as car audio and Walkman. It will be a suggestion.

According to the company, 70% of the users who drive a car place importance on playing music, where they listen to the most CDs next to the radio. In other words, there is still a lot of demand for listening to the songs of one's favorite artist with good sound while driving.

However, in the recent car audio market, the number of models without a CD drive is increasing. Even in such a case, the company proposes that you can easily enjoy the CD sound source by using CD Reco 6.

The first is to connect your smartphone to your car audio via Bluetooth. This is possible with conventional CD recorders, but since it is Bluetooth transmission, the impact on connectivity and compression will inevitably be affected.

Therefore, the above-mentioned playback using a USB memory or SD card comes into play. In this case, it is lossless compression (although it is necessary to support the car audio side), so you can easily enjoy your favorite sound source with CD quality. The music data is recorded in the folder structure of the artist / album / music, and the jacket image is also recorded. Also, in case the song order is sorted differently depending on the navigation model, consideration is given to prevent the track number from collapsing in various ways.

Also, as a new proposal, it will be possible to operate DA (display audio) devices. This will be provided free of charge to CD Reco 6 users as a function of CD Reco Music (will be supported in an update at a later date. It will be provided to existing model users before CD Reco 6 for a fee). As a result, you can enjoy music with CD quality in combination with DA.

As for device interlocking, it also inherits the function of directly capturing the sound source of a CD by connecting it to a Sony Walkman. If you are a Walkman equipped with Android OS, including the latest models "NW-WM1ZM2" and "NW-WM1AM2" announced the other day, you can import the sound source directly from CD Reco 6 by installing CD Reco Music for Andoroid. .. For Walkmans without Android OS, you can import sound source data via a micro SD card.

Also, if you connect a USB audio device to the USB port of CD Reco 6, you can use it as a CD player just by operating the main unit (CD player mode). Operations such as play and stop are possible with the newly installed power button, and compatible USB speakers will be released sequentially on the company's site.

Of course, you can also listen to music CDs with Bluetooth speakers or headphones by connecting a Bluetooth audio transmitter to the USB port of the CD Reco 6. Nowadays, the number of easy-to-use CD players is decreasing, and many people may be pleased with this usage.

The app's CD Reco Music is compatible with the subscription service Apple Music in the previous update. It seems that 70% of the users of the CD Reco series use iOS, and in that sense, it seems that the user benefit is high.

As a result, CD Reco Music has become widely recognized as an easy entrance to music, as it has become possible to enjoy music comprehensively with a single app, from CD sound sources to subscription services.

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