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Playing Back the Entire Disc—Normal Play
1
Press
)
OPEN on top of the unit.
The disc cover opens.
• You can insert a disc while listening to another source.
2
Place a disc correctly with its label side up.
3
Close the disc cover gently.
4
Press CD
6
.
The unit automatically turns on and the source
changes to the CD player.
When playing audio CD:
After loading the disc, the first track of the disc starts
playing.
When playing MP3 disc:
After loading the disc, total number of group and track on
the disc appear for a few seconds.
• The disc automatically stops when the last track has
finished playing.
While “Reading Disc Please Wait...” appears on the
display
You cannot make any operation until the unit finishes reading the
disc.
While playing back an MP3 disc
• ID3 Tag information (the name of the title, artist, and album up to
30 characters) will be shown on the display. When the name is too
long to be displayed at once, it is scrolled.
• When a file does not belong in any folder, “ROOT” appears.
To stop playing,
press
7
.
“CD Stop” appears on the display.
The total track (or group) number and total
playing time appear on the display.
Playing Back Discs
This unit has been designed to play back the following
discs—CD, CD-R, and CD-RW.
You can play back the discs containing the tracks in music
CD format or MP3 files in ISO 9660 format.
• In this instruction, we call a disc recorded MP3 files “MP3
disc,” a folder contains MP3 files “group,” and an MP3 file
“track.”
When playing CD-Rs or CD-RWs
• Before playing CD-Rs or CD-RWs, read their instructions
or cautions carefully.
• User-edited CD-Rs (CD-Recordable) and CD-RWs (CD-
ReWritable) can be played only if they are already
“
finalized
.”
• This unit does not support “multi-session” discs.
• This unit cannot play “packet write” discs.
• Some CD-Rs or CD-RWs may not be played back on this
unit because of their disc characteristics, damage or stain
on them, or if the player’s lens is dirty.
• CD-RWs may require a longer readout time. This is
because the reflectance of CD-RWs is lower than for
regular discs.
Notes for MP3 files
• The player can only recognize files with “.MP3” or “.mp3”
as the extensions, which can be in any combination of
upper and lower case. The file name needs to be up to 32
characters.
• This unit recognizes files and folders on a disc in the
following conditions:
– up to 640 MP3 files.
– up to 99 folders (including the root folder).
– up to 8th layers (including the root folder).
• It is recommended that you record your material at a
44.1 kHz sampling rate, using the 128 kbps data transfer
rate.
• Some MP3 files or discs may not be played back because
of their characteristics or recording conditions.
• MP3 discs requires a longer readout time than normal discs
because of the complexity of the folder/file configuration.
• MP3i and MP3 Pro are not available.
General notes
In general, you will have the best performance by keeping
your discs and the mechanism clean.
• Store discs in their cases, and keep them in cabinets or on
shelves.
• Keep the unit’s disc cover closed when not in use.
• Continued use of irregular shape discs (heart-shape,
octagonal, etc.) can damage the unit.
Good
Not good
Elapsed playing time
CD
3
/
8
PRESET
GROUP
PRESET
GROUP
UP
DOWN
SEARCH/
SCROLL
DOWN
SEARCH/
SCROLL
UP
/
SELECT
Current track number
MP3
indicator
Elapsed
playing time
Current track number
in the selected group
Current group name
Current track name
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