A CD which cannot be read will not be ejected until these
functions are over. At the end, with the CD mode
activated, the display will show the wording “CD Disc
error” for a few seconds and then the CD will be ejected.
Display Information
When the CD player is operating, on the display appear
information with the following meaning:
•
“Track 5”: indicates the CD track number;
•
“03:42”: indicates the time elapsed since the start of the
track (if the relevant Menu function is activated).
Track Selection
Briefly press the
button to play the previous CD
track and the
button to play the next track. The
tracks are selected cyclically: the first track is selected
after the last track and vice versa.
If the track has been played for more than 3 seconds,
pressing the
button the track starts again from the
beginning. In this case, if you want to play the previous
track, press the
button twice consecutively.
Track Fast Forward/Rewind
Keep the
button pressed down to fast forward the
selected track and keep the
button pressed down to
fast rewind the track. The fast forward/rewind will stop
once the button is released.
Pause Function
To pause the CD player, press the
button. The
wording “CD Pause” appears on the display.
To resume listening to the track, press the
button
again.
CD MP3 Player
Introduction
This chapter describes the variants regarding the opera-
tion of the CD MP3 player.
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NOTE:
Layer-3 audio decoding technology licensed
from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson multimedia.
MP3 Mode
In addition to playing regular audio CDs, the radio is also
enabled to play CDROMs on which compressed audio
files have been recorded in an MP3 format.
To guarantee optimal reproduction it is advisable to use
good quality CDs burned at the lowest speed possible.
The files on an MP3 CD are structured in folders that
create lists of all the folders containing MP3 tracks
(folders or subfolders are all on the same level); the
folders that do not contain MP3 tracks cannot be selected.
The specifications and operating conditions for playing
MP3 files are the following:
•
the CD-ROMs used should be burned in accordance
with ISO standard 9660;
•
the music files should have extension “.mp3” or
“.wma”: files with a different extension will not be
reproduced;
•
The sampling frequencies that can be reproduced are:
44.1 kHz, stereo (from 96 to 320 kbit/s) – 22.05 kHz,
mono or stereo (from 32 to 80 kbit/s);
•
tracks with a variable bit-rate can be reproduced.
NOTE:
The track names must not include the following
characters: spaces, ‘ (apostrophes), ( and ) (open and close
brackets). During the burning of a MP3 CD, make sure that
the names of the files do not contain these characters; if not,
the radio will not be able to play the tracks involved.
Selecting MP3 Sessions With Hybrid Discs
If a hybrid disc is inserted (Mixed Mode, Enhanced,
CD-Extra) also containing MP3 files, the radio automati-
cally starts playing the audio session. It is possible to
move to the MP3 session while playing by keeping the
CD button pressed for more than 2 seconds.
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