Issue 1: March 2005
A3.5 CD
Instructions for use
Page 10
of
16
BASIC
OPERATION
LOADING AND PLAYING COMPACT
DISCS
To load a disc, press the
OPEN/CLOSE
button
to open the transport drawer.
When the drawer is fully extended, insert the
disc with the label facing upwards and then press
either the
OPEN/CLOSE
or
PLAY/PAUSE
button to close the transport drawer again.
If
OPEN/CLOSE
has been pressed, the disc
drawer closes and the CD player scans the
contents of the disc. After a short delay, the
display window then shows the total number of
tracks available on the CD, and total playing
time.
In the following example there are 7 tracks,
lasting a total of 41 minutes 2 seconds :
If mains power to the A3
.
5 CD player is
switched on with a disc already loaded, it will
automatically search for the disc.
The display then indicates
STOP
, and shows the
number of tracks available on the CD and total
playing time, as in the above example.
DISC PLAY
If
PLAY/PAUSE
is pressed, the CD player will
begin playing from track 1, confirmed by the
word
PLAY
appearing on the left of the display,
with
1
in the centre and elapsed time on the
right.
When all tracks on the CD have been played, the
display shows
STOP
and total number of tracks
on the disc.
PAUSE
Pressing the
PLAY/PAUSE
button on the
front panel whilst a disc is playing pauses
playback of the disc.
PAUSE
appears in the
display window instead of
PLAY
. The disc
will continue spinning, but the track does not
advance and the A3
.
5 CD's output is muted.
Pressing
PLAY/PAUSE
again resumes
playback from the same place.
PAUSE (Remote control)
On the remote control,
PLAY
and
PAUSE
buttons have separate functions at each end of
the same button. Pressing
PLAY
will only
control disc play, and pressing
PAUSE
will
not resume play. Note that if the disc is
already playing, pressing the
PLAY
button
reverts play to the beginning of the current
track.
STOP
Playback can be stopped at any time by
pressing the
STOP
button once. On the
remote control, press either end of the button,
not the middle part.
Pressing the
STOP
button a second time
opens the transport drawer.
If a disc is loaded but not playing, pressing
STOP
once will also eject the drawer.
