TASCAM CD-A550MKII
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5 – Playing Back CDs
Selecting a track
There are two ways to select a track. You can move (skip)
to the previous or next track, or you can select a track
directly by its track number. In addition, you can skip
to the next or previous folder of a data CD.
Skipping to the next or previous track
Press the
Ô
/
Â
or
¯
/
key on the main unit
or the
SKIP
Â
/
¯
key on the remote control. In
addition, if you press and hold a
SKIP
Â
/
¯
key
on the remote control, the unit skips through multiple
tracks successively.
NOTE
• If you skip to a track during playback, the selected
track begins playing immediately.
• If you skip to a track while playback is paused or
stopped, playback pauses at the beginning of the
selected track.
Selecting by track number
You can use the numeric keys (0–9) on the remote
control to directly set a track for playback by number.
Track numbers can have up to two digits for audio CDs
and up to three digits for data CDs.
1 Use the remote control numeric keys (0–9) to input
the track number. Input the track number starting
with the first digit as in the example below.
• To select track 1:
Press the “
1
” key one time.
• To select track 12:
Press the “
1
” key followed by the “
2
” key.
2 Press the CD
PLAY
key on the main unit or the
remote control. The selected track begins to play.
NOTE
• If you press the READY key instead of the CD PLAY
key, playback is paused at the beginning of the
selected track.
• If you press the ENTER key instead of the CD PLAY
key, the following occurs depending on whether the
unit was playing before the track number was input
in step 1 above.
Playing: the selected track starts to play.
Paused or stopped: the unit pauses at the begin-
ning of the selected track.
• The numeric keys cannot be used to select a track
when in program or random mode.
Selecting a folder (data CDs only)
When using a data CD, you can skip to the previous
or next folder by pressing the
FOLDER SEARCH
–
/
+
keys while pressing and holding the
SHIFT
key on the
main unit or by pressing the
FOLDER
Ó
/
Á
keys on the
remote control. This will skip to the beginning of the
first track in the previous or next folder. If you hold
down one of these keys, you can skip through folders
continually.
