CDC500 can play all your MP3's;

Support for various hard drive & flash-based music players such as Apple iPod> and External CD/DVD Rom Drives
Connect iPod or USB memory flash drive, plug it in, and play it right away without having to reboot the unit. 

Due to Apple limitations, the iPod> iTouch, iPhone & Mac formatted Classics are not compatible with Cortex products.

Intelligent Music Database Management
The HDC-500 uses a database management system that allows the user to search through a massive library of music within seconds, by artist, title, genre, album or even by string.

Search by Artist, Song, Title, Album, BPM and Genre. This system allows users to search the same way they would using an iPod> or similar portable music player. Users can search by a certain word or phrase to find tracks on their storage device, even if they're unsure of the name. When the user inputs a keyword, it will search all Artists, Titles, Albums, and Genres, and show all matches to that keyword. For instance, searching for the word 'LOVE' might bring up (3) artists. It might also find (60) titles, (10) albums and (1) genre. The user can then select the artists, titles, albums, or genres from that list.

Playlist creation with iTunes Playlist

4 line 80-charcter LCD display for playback information, The brightly illuminated LCD main playback screen displays info on any track in the catalog, showing everything from the essentials such as artist, track title, pitch, time elapsed/remaining to detailed information including file format (MP3 or WAV), genre, and track length and Waveform Display.

Jog Wheel with Jog Mode Select
The HDC-500's multifunction Jog Wheel let you change modes on the fly, in the default mode the wheel acts as a pitch controller and in Jog Mode the wheel allows you to use it for fast forwarding and rewinding, as well when in any of the other modes of the HDC-500 like Search, Edit and/or CUEING the Jog wheel can be used as a navigation tool.

Seamless Loop
The HDC-500 now allows you to create seamless loops during playback. Once the Seamless Loop feature is engaged The HDC-500 can loop any part of a track, loop features include IN, OUT and RELOOP.

Savable User-configurable setup menu
All the settings of the HDC-500 can be adjusted and saved and will be recalled every time you use that particular media device. As well The HDC's internal software can be upgraded simply by downloading new software from the Cortex website.

Single/Continuous play modes
Just as in most CD players the HDC-500 lets you choose between playing on song at a time (Single Mode) and continuing on to the next song on the playlist (Continuous Mode).

Shuffle Mode for unattended playback
Once you have created a playlist with the Cortex software or even if you just have a group of songs on a media storage device in no particular order, Shuffle Mode will randomly play all the music on that particular device and automatically fade from one song to another unattended.

Two time display modes
The HDC-500 will let you see time displayed in two modes, time remaining represents how much time is left on a track/song or Time Elapsed which will display how far into a track you are.

Frame accurate search
Accuracy is the most important feature in any digital player, The HDC-500 has frame accurate searching which translates to pin-point accurate searching, cueing and of course playback.

Pitch Control Fader and Bend Button with range of +/- 24%
Pitch adjust on the HDC-500 comes via  The Pitch fader which glides up and down to adjust pitch smoothly at percentages of pitch 8%, 16% and 24% giving you a wide range Pitch adjustment.

Performance protection
Every Cortex HDC unit features exclusive protection from accidental shutdown while playing, securing your precious digital files from sudden corruption and preserving your performance. To turn the unit off, simply press and hold the power button for more than 2 seconds.

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