2008 HONDA CR-V Owners Manual

Depending on where you drive, you
may experience reception problems.
Interf erence can be caused by any of
these conditions:Driving on the north side of a
large commercial truck on an
east/west road.
Driving in tunnels.
Driving on a road beside a vertical
wall, steep clif f , or hill to the south
of you.
Driving on the lower level of a
multi-tiered road.
Driving on a single lane road
alongside dense trees taller than
50 ft. (15 m) to the south of you. After you’ve registered with XM
Radio, keep your audio system in the
satellite radio mode while you wait
f or activation. This should take about
30 minutes.
Driving on the north side of an
east/west mountain road.
If you decide to purchase XM
Satellite Radio service, contact XM
Radio at , or at
1-800-852-9696. You will need to give
them your radio I.D. number and
your credit card number. To get your
radio I.D. number, press the TUNE bar until ‘‘0’’ appears in the display.
Your I.D. will appear in the display.
Large items carried on a roof rack.
There may be other geographic
situations that could af f ect XM radio
reception. While waiting f or activation, make
sure your vehicle remains in an open
area with good reception. Once your
audio system is activated, you’ll be
able to listen to XM radio broadcasts.
XM Radio will continue to send an
activation signal to your vehicle f or
at least 12 hours from the activation
request. If the service has not been
activated after 36 hours, contact XM
Radio.
If your XM Satellite Radio service
has expired or you purchased your
vehicle f rom a previous owner, you
can listen to a sampling of the
broadcasts available on XM Satellite
Radio. With the ignition switch in the
ACCESSORY (I) or ON (II) position,
push the power/volume knob to turn
on the audio system and press the
XM button. A variety of music types
and styles will play.As required by the FCC:
Changes or modif ications not expresslyapproved by the party responsible f orcompliance could void the user’sauthority to operate the equipment.
www.xmradio.com
Receiving Satellite Radio Service
Playing the XMSatellite Radio (U.S. EX-L model with navigation system)
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Playing a disc (EX-L model with navigation system)
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SCAN BUTTON JOYSTICK
AUDIO BUTTON
POWER/VOLUME
KNOB
OPEN BUTTON
CD BUTTON
RANDOM
BUTTON
REPEAT BUTTON REWIND BUTTON FAST FORWARD
BUTTON
SKIP BUTTONSKIP BUTTON
CD ICON
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The specif ications f or compatible
WMA f iles are:
Your vehicle also has the CD
changer and operate at with the
same in-dash disc player. (see page ) The specif ications f or compatible
MP3 f iles are:
Video CDs and DVD discs do not
work in this unit.
You operate the in-dash disc player
with the same controls used for the
radio. To load or play discs, the
ignition switch must be in the
ACCESSORY (I) or ON (II) position. Sampling f requency:
32/44.1/48 kHz
Sampling f requency:
32/44.1/48 kHz (MPEG1)
24/22.05/16 kHz (MPEG2)
Bit rate:
32/40/48/56/64/80/96/112/128/
160/192/224/256/320 kbps
(MPEG1)
8/16/24/32/40/48/56/64/80/96/
112/128/160 kbps (MPEG2)
Compatible with variable bit rate
and multi-session
Maximum layers
(including ROOT): 8 layers
This audio system can also play CD-
RsandCD-RWscompressedinMP3
or WMA f ormats. When playing a
disc in MP3, you will see ‘‘MP3’’ on
the screen. In WMA f ormat, ‘‘WMA’’
will appear on the screen. You can
select up to 255 f olders and play up to 999 tracks. If the disc has a
complex structure, it takes a while to
readthediscbeforethesystem
begins to play it.
Bit rate:
32/40/48/64/80/96/128/160/192
kbps
NOTE:
If a f ile on an MP3 or WMA disc is
protected by digital rights
management (DRM), the audio unit
displays CD FORMAT, and then
skips to the next f ile. Maximum layers
(including ROOT): 8 layers
Compatible with variable bit rate
and multi-session
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To Play a Disc
(In-dash single player)
Playing a disc (EX-L model with navigation system)
Features
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Do not use discs with adhesive labels.
The label can curl up and cause the
disc to jam in the unit.
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Insert a disc about half way into the
disc slot. The drive will pull the disc
in the rest of the way and begin to
play it.
You cannot load and play 3-inch
(8-cm)discsinthissystem.To return the screen to the upright
position, press the CLOSE button on
the edge of the screen panel. Do not
use the f olded screen as a tray. If
you put a cup, f or example, on the
screen, the liquid inside the cup may
spill on the screen when you go over
a bump.
The in-dash disc player is behind the
navigation screen. To use the disc
player, press the OPEN button
beside the screen. The screen f olds
back, and the disc slot appears.
To Load a Disc
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OPEN BUTTON DISC SLOT
CLOSE BUTTON
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Push the AUDIO button beside the
screen to show the audio display and
operate the disc player.
You can also operate the audio
system without using the control
icons on the audio screen. Press the
CD button. The status bar appears
on the bottom of the screen. On the
navigation screen, you can see the
audio inf ormation whenever you
touch the AUDIO INFO icon on the
lower portion of the screen.
When playing a CD recorded with
text data, the track, album, and artist
name are shown on the audio display.
When playing a disc in MP3 or WMA,
the f older number and name, the f ile
number and name, the artist name,
and the elapsed time are shown. The
system will continuously play a disc
until you change modes. If the disc
was not recorded with text data, it
will not be displayed. You can also select an icon with the
joystick. Move it to left, right, up, or
down to change the highlighting and
scroll through lists. Then press the
ENT on the top of the joystick to
select the icon.
Each time you press and
release (preset 6), the player
skips forward to the beginning of the
next track (f ile in MP3 or WMA
mode). Press and release (preset 5), to skip backward to
the beginning of the current track.
Press it again to skip to the
beginning of the previous track.
You can use the preset buttons while
a disc is playing to select passages
and change tracks (files in MP3 or
WMA mode). Each preset button’s
f unction is shown on the bottom of
the screen. To move rapidly within
a track/f ile, press and hold (preset 4) or (preset 3).
CONT INUED
T o Change or Select T racks/Files
SK IP
FF/REW
Playing a disc (EX-L model with navigation system)
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PRESET BUTTON’S FUNCTION
PRESET BUTTONS
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To
select a dif f erent f older, press either
side of the TUNE bar to move to the
beginning of the next f older. Press
the side of the TUNE bar to skip
to the next folder, and the side to
move to the beginning of the current
folder.Pressitagaintoskiptothe
beginning of the previous f older.
This
f eature plays the tracks/f iles within
a disc in random order. To activate
track random, press and release the
RDM button (preset 2). You will see
TRACK RANDOM in the display.
Press the RDM button again to
return to normal play. This
feature, when activated, plays all
f iles in the selected f older in random
order, rather than in the order they
are compressed. To activate folder
random, press and hold the RDM
button. You will see FOLDER
RANDOM in the display. The
system then selects and plays f iles
randomly. This continues until you
deactivate f older random by pressing
the RDM button again, or if you
select a dif f erent f older with the
TUNE bar.
To continuously replay
a track (f ile in MP3 or WMA mode),
press and release the RPT button
(preset 1). You will see TRACK
REPEAT in the display. Press the
RPT button again to turn it off. This feature,
when activated, replays all f iles on
the selected f older in the order they
are compressed. To activate folder
repeat, press and hold the RPT
button (preset 1) f or 2 seconds. You
will see FOLDER REPEAT in the
display. The system continuously
replays the current f older. Press the
RPT button again to turn it off.
Selecting a dif f erent f older with the
TUNE bar also turns of f f older
repeat.
In MP3 or WMA mode
In MP3 or WMA mode In MP3 or WMA mode
FOLDER SELECTION
TRACK RANDOM (Random
within a disc/f older)FOLDER RANDOM
T RA CK REPEA T (FIL E
REPEAT) FOLDER REPEAT
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You can also select a track/f ile
directly f rom a track list on the audio
display. Press the AUDIO button to
show the audio display, then touch
the Track List icon. The track list
menu appears on the display.
The scan f unction samples all tracks
(f iles in MP3 or WMA) in the order
they were recorded. To activate scan,
press and release the SCAN button.
You will see TRACK SCAN in the
display. You will get a 10 second
sampling of each track/f ile on the
disc. Press the SCAN button to get
out of scan mode and play the last
track/f ile sampled.
Pressing either SKIP button (preset
5 or 6) also turns of f scan.
This feature,
when activated, samples all the first
f iles in each f older on the disc in
order. To activate f older scan, press
andholdtheSCANbuttonfor2
seconds. You will see FOLDER
SCAN in the display.
The system plays the f irst f ile in
each f older f or about 10 seconds. If
you do nothing, the system then
plays the f irst f ile in each f older f or
10 seconds each. Af ter playing the
first file of the last folder, the system
goes to normal playing.
Pressing either SKIP button (preset
5 or 6), or selecting a dif f erent f older
with the TUNE bar, or pressing the
SCAN button, also turns of f f older
scan.In MP3 or WMA mode
CONT INUED
Using a T rack L istSCA N (T RA CK /FIL E SCA N) FOLDER SCAN
Playing a disc (EX-L model with navigation system)
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FOLDER ICON TRACK/FILE ICON
FOLDER NUMBER RETURN ICON
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When playing a CD recorded with
text data, each track name is shown
on the audio display. With a disc
recorded in MP3 or WMA, the f older
number and the location are also
displayed.
If the disc was not recorded with text
data, only the track number is shown.
To scroll through the display, touch
the or icononthesideof the
screen.Togobacktotheprevious
display, touch the Return icon on the
screen. To play the radio when a disc is
playing, press the AM/FM button or
touch the FM1, FM2, AM, XM1 , or
XM2 icon.If aPCcardisinthe
audio unit, touch the CARD icon to
play the PC card. If a CD or CDs are
loaded in the CD changer, touch the
CDC icon to play the CD changer.
Press the CD button again or touch
the CD icon to switch back to the
disc player.
If you turn the system of f while a
disc is playing, either with the
power/volume knob or by turning
of f the ignition switch, the disc will
stay in the drive. When you turn the
system back on, the disc will begin
playing where it lef t of f .
Select the desired track/f ile by
touching the icon on the display. The
selected icon will be highlighted in
blue. The system begins to play the
selected track/f ile. With a disc in
MP3 or WMA, touch the f older icon
on the upper lef t of the screen to
move to the parent folder. The
current f older is highlighted in blue.
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To Stop Playing a Disc
Playing a disc (EX-L model with navigation system)
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