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INTRODUCTION
FUNCTIONS AND
ADJUSTMENTS
RADIO
CD PLAYER
CD MP3
PLAYER QUICK
GUIDE
TRACK SELECTION
(forward/backward)
Briefly press the ¯button to play the pre-
vious CD track and the ˙ button to play
the next track. The tracks are selected
cyclically: the first track is selected after
the last track and vice versa.
If the track has been played for more than
3 seconds, pressing the button ˙will
cause the track to be started again from
the beginning. In this case, if you want to
play the previous track, press the button
twice consecutively.TRACK FAST
FORWARD/REWIND
Keep the ˙button pressed down to fast
forward the selected track and keep the
button ¯pressed down to fast rewind the
track. The fast forward/back will stop once
the button is released.PAUSE FUNCTION
To pause the CD player, press the MUTE
button. The words “CD Pause” will ap-
pear on the display.
To resume listening to the track, press the
MUTE button again.
If another audio source is selected, the
pause function is turned off.
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INTRODUCTION
FUNCTIONS AND
ADJUSTMENTS
RADIO
CD PLAYER
CD MP3
PLAYER
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QUICK
GUIDE
INTRODUCTION
This chapter only describes the variants
regarding the operation of the CD MP3
player: as far as the operation of the radio
is concerned, refer to the description in
chapters “4” and “6”.
NOTE MPEG Layer-3 audio decoding
technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS
and Thomson multimedia.MP3 MODE
In addition to playing normal audio CDs,
the radio is also capable of playing CD-
ROMs on which MP3 format compressed
audio files are recorded. The radio works
according to the modes described in chap-
ter “5” when an ordinary audio CD is in-
serted.
The use of good quality media burnt at the
slowest possible speeds is recommended
for optimum quality.
The files on the MP3 CD are in folders,
with sequential lists of all the folders con-
taining MP3 tracks (folders and sub-fold-
ers are all on the same level) and folders
that do not contain MP3 tracks cannot be
selected.The operating conditions and specifica-
tions for playing MP3 files are as follows:
❒the CD-ROMs used must be burned in
compliance with the Specification
ISO9660;
❒the music files must have an “.mp3” ex-
tension: files with a different extension
cannot be played;
❒the following sampling frequencies can
be played: 44.1 kHz, stereo (96 to 320
kbit/s) - 22.05 kHz, mono or stereo (32
to 80 kbit/s);
❒tracks with variable bit-rates can be
played.
IMPORTANT The names of tracks should
not contain the following characters:
spaces, ‘ (apostrophes), ( e ) (open and
close brackets). When a CD MP3 is be-
ing burned, make sure that the file names
do not contain these characters; other-
wise, the car radio will not be able to play
those tracks.
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D D
M M
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P P
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INTRODUCTION
FUNCTIONS AND
ADJUSTMENTS
RADIO
CD PLAYER
CD MP3
PLAYER
QUICK
GUIDE
SELECTING MP3 SESSIONS
WITH HYBRID DISCS
If a hybrid disc is inserted (Mixed Mode,
Enhanced, CD-Extra) also containing MP3
files, the radio automatically starts play-
ing the audio session. It is possible to move
to the MP3 session whilst playing by keep-
ing the MEDIA button pressed for more
than 2 seconds.
IMPORTANT When the function is acti-
vated the radio may take a few seconds to
start playing. Whilst checking the disc the
display will show “CD Reading”. If no MP3
files are detected, the radio will resume
playing the audio session from the point
where it was interrupted.
DISPLAY INFORMATION
Id3-tag information
display
In addition to the information relating to
the time elapsed, the name of the folder
and the name of the file, the radio is also
capable of display ID3-TAG information
relating to the Title track, Artist and Au-
thor.The name of the MP3 folder shown on the
display corresponds to the name with
which the folder was stored on the CD,
followed by an asterisk.
Example of a complete MP3 folder name:
BEST OF *.
If you wish to display one of the ID3-TAG
pieces of information (Title, Artist, Album)
and this information has not been record-
ed for the track played, the information
will be replaced by information relating to
the name of the file.
SELECTION OF
NEXT/PREVIOUS FOLDER
Press the ▲button to select the next fold-
er or the ▼button to select the previ-
ous folder. The display will show the num-
ber and the name of the folder (e.g. “DIR
2 XXXXXX”).
XXXXXX: name of the folder (the display
will only show the first 8 characters).
The folders are selected cyclically: the first
folder is selected after the last folder and
vice versa. If no other folder/track is selected during
the next 2 seconds, the first track con-
tained in the new folder will be played.
If the last track on the folder currently se-
lected is being played, the next folder will
be played.
STRUCTURE OF THE FOLDERS
The radio with MP3 player:
❒only recognizes the folders that effec-
tively contain MP3 format files
❒if the MP3 files on a CD-ROM are
structured in “sub-folders”, their struc-
ture is compressed to a single level
structure where the “sub-folders” are
taken to the level of the main folders.
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