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10. Press OK to confirm and begin to play the first track of the selected
album.
Refer to Using the media settings in your media menu earlier in this
chapter for further information on making adjustments to your music
(i.e., Seek, Shuffle, Autoplay and Repeat).
Selecting and playing specific albums
SYNC allows you view and play indexed media by ALBUMS. If you have
fewer than 255 indexed albums, SYNC will list them alphabetically in flat
file mode. If there are more than 255 indexed albums, SYNC will organize
them into quick select alphabetical categories (i.e., AAAAA-MMMMM and
MMMMN-ZZZZZ). The number of categories will depend on the number
of indexed albums.
To access:
Note: To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Ensure that your playing device is plugged into the USB port and is
ON.
2. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNC USB appears.
3. Press MENU. MEDIA MENU will momentarily appear in the display.
4. Press OK to access the PLAY MENU.
5. Press OK.
6. Scroll repeatedly until PLAY ALL appears in the display. Press OK.
7. Scroll repeatedly to until ALBUMS appears in the radio display.
8. Press OK to enter the album menu and select from playing ALL
ALBUMS or from any individual indexed album.
9. Scroll repeatedly to cycle through all indexed albums.
10. Press OK when the desired album appears in the display.
11. Press OK to confirm and begin to play the first track of the selected
album.
Refer to Using the media settings in your media menu earlier in this
chapter for further information on making adjustments to your music
(i.e., Seek, Shuffle, Autoplay and Repeat).
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Selecting from different genres
SYNC allows you to sort indexed music by genre (category) type. SYNC
will automatically categorize your indexed music according to the
available genres. If you have fewer than 255 indexed genres, SYNC will
list them alphabetically in flat file mode. If there are more than
255 indexed genres, SYNC will organize them into quick select
alphabetical categories (i.e., AAAAA-MMMMM and MMMMN-ZZZZZ). The
number of categories will depend on the number of indexed genres.
To access:
Note: To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Ensure that your playing device is plugged into the USB port and is
ON.
2. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNC USB appears.
3. Press MENU. MEDIA MENU will momentarily appear in the display.
4. Press OK to access PLAY MENU.
5. Press OK.
6. Once PLAY ALL appears in the radio display, scroll repeatedly until
GENRES appears in the radio display.
7. Press OK to enter the list of indexed genres.
8. Press OK when the desired genre appears in the radio display. SYNC
will then take you to the ALBUMS menu.
9. Scroll repeatedly to cycle through all indexed albums.
10. Press OK to confirm and begin to play the first track.
Refer to Using the media settings in your media menu earlier in this
chapter for further information on making adjustments to your music
(i.e., Seek, Shuffle, Autoplay and Repeat).
Accessing your playlists
SYNC supports playing many playlist formats (such as .ASX, .M3U, .WPL,
.MTP). Please refer to www.SyncMyRide.com for more information.
If you have fewer than 255 indexed playlists, SYNC will list them
alphabetically in flat file mode. If there are more than 255 indexed
playlists, SYNC will organize them into quick select alphabetical
categories (i.e., AAAAA-MMMMM and MMMMN-ZZZZZ). The number of
categories will depend on the number of indexed playlists.
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To access:
Note: To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Ensure that your playing device is plugged into the USB port and is ON.
2. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNC USB appears.
3. Press MENU. MEDIA MENU will momentarily appear in the display.
4. Press OK to access PLAY MENU.
5. Press OK.
6. Once PLAY ALL appears in the radio display, scroll repeatedly until
PLAYLISTS appears in the radio display.
7. Press OK to enter the PLAYLISTS menu.
8. Scroll repeatedly to cycle through all indexed playlists.
9. Press OK when the desired playlist appears in the radio display.
Refer to Using the media settings in your media menu earlier in this
chapter for further information on making adjustments to your playing
music (i.e., Seek, Shuffle, Autoplay and Repeat).
Playing a specific track
SYNC will allows you to search for and play a specific track which has
been indexed. If you have fewer than 255 indexed tracks, SYNC will list
them alphabetically in flat file mode. If there are more than 255 indexed
tracks, SYNC will organize them into quick select alphabetical categories
(i.e., AAAAA-MMMMM and MMMMN-ZZZZZ). The number of categories
will depend on the number of indexed tracks.
To access:
Note: To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Ensure that your playing device is plugged into the USB port and is ON.
2. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNC USB appears.
3. Press MENU. MEDIA MENU will momentarily appear in the radio
display.
4. Press OK to access the PLAY MENU.
5. Press OK.
6. Once PLAY ALL appears in the radio display, scroll repeatedly until
TRACKS appears in the radio display.
7. Press OK to enter the TRACKS menu.
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8. Scroll repeatedly to cycle through all indexed tracks.
9. Press OK when the desired track appears in the radio display. The
track will begin to play and appear in the radio display.
Refer to Using the media settings in your media menu earlier in this
chapter for further information on making adjustments to your music
(i.e., Seek, Shuffle, Autoplay and Repeat).
Exploring the USB device
SYNC allows you to explore through all supported digital media on your
media device which is connected through the USB port.
Note: When searching through various folders, you will only be able to
view media content which is compatible with SYNC. You may have other
files saved with various extensions, power point presentations for
example, but they will not be visible.
To access:
Note: To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Ensure that your playing device is plugged into the USB port and is ON.
2. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNC USB appears.
3. Press MENU. MEDIA MENU will momentarily appear in the display.
4. Press OK to access the PLAY MENU.
5. Press OK.
6. Once PLAY ALL appears in the display, scroll repeatedly until
EXPLORE USB appears in the radio display.
7. Press OK.
8. Scroll repeatedly to cycle through all available folders on your media
device. An “F” will preceed folders and “T” will preceed tracks in the
radio display.
9. Press OK when the desired folder or track appears in the radio
display.
10. Scroll repeatedly to cycle through all subfolders and/or tracks in the
selected folder.
Note: When you are playing USB SYNC MEDIA using the EXPLORE
USB feature, and you folders saved on your playing device, you are in
folder mode. In folder mode, you can say “Play next folder” or “Play
previous folder” to advance within your saved folders. You may also
press
FOLDER(if available on your audio system) to advance to
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the previous/next folder. Press OK to select a folder and scroll repeatedly
through all subfolders and/or tracks in the selected folder.
Note: PLAY ALL will appear in every subfolder, giving you quick access
to play all tracks in the particular folder.
Refer to Using the media settings in your media menu earlier in this
chapter for further information on making adjustments to your music
(i.e., Seek, Shuffle, Autoplay and Repeat).
Playing similar music
SYNC allows you to play music similar to what is currently playing from
the USB port. The system will use the metadata information of each song
to compile a playlist for you. To access:
Note: To scroll, press
SEEKor/.
1. Ensure that your playing device is plugged into the USB port and is
ON.
2. Ensure that you are listening to an indexed track.
3. Press AUX repeatedly until SYNC USB appears.
4. Press MENU. MEDIA MENU will momentarily appear in the display.
5. Press OK to access the PLAY MENU.
6. Press OK.
7. Once PLAY ALL appears in the radio display, scroll repeatedly until
SIMILAR appears in the radio display.
8. Press OK. The system will create a new list of similar songs and begin
playing.
Note: Your metadata tags must be populated in order for the SIMILAR
MUSIC feature to include each TRACKS.
Note: With certain playing devices, if your metadata tags (Artist, Album,
Track, Genre) are not populated, the tracks won’t be available in voice
recognition, the PLAY MENU or SIMILAR MUSIC. However, if you place
these tracks with unpopulated metadata tags onto your playing device in
“Mass Storage Device mode”, these tracks will be available in voice
recognition, PLAY MENU browsing or SIMILAR MUSIC. UNKNOWN will
be placed into any unpopulated metadata tag.
Refer to Using the media settings in your media menu earlier in this
chapter for further information on making adjustments to your music
(i.e., Seek, Shuffle, Autoplay and Repeat).
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You can use the following remote
controls to help make SYNC menu
selections:
• Use the cursor controls
(
///) to make
menu selections.
Note: For some menus,
/
cursor controls are active and for
others,
/cursor controls
are active
• Press ENTER to confirm a
selection.
• Press
/to
reverse/advance to the next track.
Note: Once SYNC USB is chosen, SYNC will begin indexing your media
information. Depending on how much supported media content there is,
this process may take a few minutes. You can, however, choose to
activate the Autoplay feature which will begin playing the first song as
soon as possible so that you will not have to wait until all of the music is
indexed prior to playing.
Media menu
Once you have chosen a SYNC media source from which to play, a media
screen similar to the one shown below will be displayed. From this
screen, you can then make selections through the Media Menu.
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•From the main screen, select
‘Menu’.
• Then select ‘Media Menu’ to
choose from:
Play Menu: Choose how to play your SYNC USB media. Access menu
selections such as: Play All, Artists, Albums, Tracks, Genres, Playlists and
Explore USB.
Select Source: Choose another SYNC media source (USB, BT AUDIO,
LINE IN).
Media Settings: Choose to activate/deactivate Shuffle, Repeat or
Autoplay.
Play menu
The Play Menu gives the choice of how to play music from your SYNC
media source. To access:
• From the main screen, select
‘Menu’.
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Select ‘Play Menu’.
Select from:
Play All: Choose to play all supported media content on your portable
media player alphabetically.
Artists: In the Artists screen, you
can select to play All Artists, or you
can select any available artist. Press
the cursor controls
(
///) to highlight
the desired choice and press
ENTER.
Albums: The Albums screen lists all loaded albums alphabetically. Press
the cursor controls (
///) to highlight the desired choice
and press ENTER.
Genres: The Genre screen lists all available genres. Press the cursor
controls (
///) to highlight the desired choice and press
ENTER.
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