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6
Operation
Selecting the Media Playback Mode
To select what kind of media you want to play:
To cycle through the available options, press the
CD
/
USB
/
Aux
button.
•
CD:
audio CD, CD-DA, CD-ROM, or MP3
CD with audio files (
CDR
) (see
Playing Audio CDs
)
•
USB:
USB device (mass storage class). (see
Playing Audio Files on a USB Drive
)
•
Aux:
device connected to
Aux In
.
(see
Playing Audio from an External Device
)
Playing Audio CDs
To play audio CDs:
1.
If the unit is off, press the
Power
button to power it on.
Important:
Do not insert a CD when the power is off. Doing so may damage the unit.
2.
Insert a CD into the
CD slot
. (Hold the edges of the CD without touching the recorded surface. Be careful not to
trap your fingers when the disc is drawn into the unit.)
3.
Select
CD
as the media type (described in
Selecting the Media Playback Mode
).
The CD will start playing automatically when Power-On Play mode is active.
In CD Mode, you can perform any of the following operations:
•
To start, resume, or pause playback,
press the
Play
/
Pause
button.
•
To stop playback,
press the
Stop
button.
•
To rewind or fast-forward through the track,
press and hold one of the
Search
buttons. The track will
rewind/fast-forward at
5
times the normal playback speed. To resume playback, release the button.
•
To skip directly to a track:
1.
Press one of the
Number
buttons
(
0
–
9
) to enter the desired track number. If the track number is two digits,
press the buttons in succession (e.g.,
1
then
2
for Track 12). Alternatively, turn the
Jog Dial
to select a track
and then press the dial to play the track. If a track was playing before selecting a track, the new track will
play once selected. If a track was not previously playing, press the
Play/Pause
button after loading the track
to have it begin playback.
2.
Turn the
Jog Dial
on the unit, and then press it.
•
To select a Repeat Playback mode,
press the
Repeat
button. It will cycle through
Repeat One
(the same track
will repeat indefinitely),
Repeat All
(the list of all tracks will repeat indefinitely),
Repeat FLD
(tracks in the
selected folder will repeat indefinitely), and
Repeat Off
(no tracks will repeat).
•
To select the Play Mode,
press the
Random
button. It will cycle through
Random
(the tracks will play in a
random order [for up to
256
tracks]),
Single
(the current track will play until its end and then stop), and
Normal
(the CD will play from the current track to the end of the CD and then stop).
•
To change the Time Mode in the display,
press the
Time
button. It will cycle through
Elapsed
(
E
) (how much
time has elapsed of the current track),
Remaining
(
R
) (how much time remains of the current track), and
Total
Remaining
(
T
) (how much time remains of all remaining tracks. This applies only to CDs.)
•
To eject a CD,
press the
Eject
button
when the unit is stopped or paused.
Ejecting
will appear in the
display
while ejecting the CD.
No Disc
will appear when there is no disc in the
CD slot
.
Important:
Please see
Other Information
>
CDs
to learn more about the types of CDs the PMD-326C supports and
for more information about CD handling and care. When powering on the unit, hold the Eject button to engage Force
Eject Mode.