2012 HONDA PILOT Owners Manual

Select the disc player by pressing the
CD button. The system will begin
playing the last selected track in the
disc. You will see the current track
position highlighted.Each time you press the TITLE
button, the center display changes
f rom artist name to album name, to
track name and then to normal
display that shows the track number
and the elapsed time. When playing
a disc in MP3/WMA/AAC, the
displaymodechangesfromfolder
name,tofilename,toartisttag,to
album tag, to track tag, and then to
normal display.
Title inf ormation will be displayed in
a list when the inf ormation is f ound
in the Gracenote
Album Inf o
(Gracenote
Media Database) on the
built-inharddiskdrive.Whenyou
play a CD recorded with text data,
you will see the genre, artist name,
album and track name on the screen.
When you play MP3/WMA/AAC
discs, you will see the f older name,
artist name, album name and track
name on the screen. If the disc was
not recorded with this inf ormation, it
will not be displayed.
To Play a Disc
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To replay the current track
continuously, push the interf ace
selector down while playing a disc.
Turn the interf ace dial to select
Repeat on the AUDIO MENU, and
press ENTER on the interf ace
selector. Turn the interf ace dial to
select Repeat icon, and press
ENTER on the interf ace selector.
You can also choose a track directly
from a track list. If there are no track
names, you will see ‘‘No Title

Turn the interface dial to select the
track random icon, and press
ENTER on the interf ace selector.
This f eature plays the tracks within a
disc in random order. When playing
MP3, WMA or AAC f ormat discs, all
the tracks within the disc are played
in random order, regardless of the
conf iguration of the f older.
Push the interf ace selector down
while playing a disc. Turn the
interf ace dial to select Random on
the AUDIO MENU, and press
ENTER on the interf ace selector.
To turn this feature off, turn the
interf ace dial to select the OFF icon,
andpressENTERontheinterface
selector.
To turn this feature off, turn the
interf ace dial to select the OFF icon,
andpressENTERontheinterface
selector.
Random Play
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The scan f unction samples all tracks
on the disc in the order they are
recordedonthedisc.
To activate scan, press the SCAN
button, or push the interf ace selector
down while playing a disc. Turn the
interf ace dial to select Scan on the
AUDIO MENU, and press ENTER
on the interf ace selector.Turn the interface dial to select the
Scan icon, and press ENTER on the
interf ace selector. You will hear a 10-
second sampling of each track on the
disc. When you return to disc mode,
the disc will begin playing f rom
where it lef t of f .
To turn this feature off, press the
SCAN button again, or turn the
interf ace dial to select the OFF icon,
andpressENTERontheinterface
selector. The system begins to play
the last track sampled.
To take the system out of the disc
mode, press one of the other source
buttons than the CD button.
You can also press the MODE
buttononthesteeringwheelto
change modes.
If you turn the system of f while a
disc is playing, either with the
power/volume knob or the ignition
switch, play will continue at the same
point when you turn it back on.
Track Scan
To Stop Playing a Disc
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The CD player can play CD-Rs and
CD-RWs compressed in MP3, WMA
or AAC f ormats. When playing a disc
in MP3, WMA or AAC, you will see
‘‘MP3,

Changing and Selecting the Folders/Files
Using the interf ace selector, you can
see the list of all the f olders within a
disc. While playing an MP3/WMA/
AAC disc, push the interf ace selector
up. The f older list in the currently
playing disc will appear on the screen.
If the root f older has some additional
f olders in the lower layer, they will
belistedonthescreen. Select a desired f older by turning the
interf ace dial, then press ENTER.
The screen will change to the f ile list.
Select a desired f ile and press
ENTER. The selected f ile begins to
play.
To change a f ile, turn the interf ace
dial to select a desired f ile, then
press ENTER. This f eature, when activated, replays
all f iles on the selected f older in the
order they are compressed. To
activate f older repeat play, push the
interf ace selector down while playing
a disc. Turn the interf ace dial to
select Repeat on the AUDIO MENU,
andpressENTERontheinterface
selector. Turn the interf ace dial to
select the f older repeat icon, and
press ENTER on the interf ace
selector.
CONT INUED
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To turn this feature off, turn the
interf ace dial to select the OFF icon,
andpressENTERontheinterface
selector.This f eature, when activated, plays
all f iles in the current f older in
random order. To activate f older
random play, push the interf ace
selector down while playing a disc.
Turn the interf ace dial to select
Random on the AUDIO MENU, and
press ENTER on the interf ace
selector. Turn the interf ace dial to
select the f older random icon, and
press ENTER on the interf ace
selector. To turn this feature off, turn the
interf ace dial to select OFF icon, and
press ENTER on the interf ace
selector.
Folder Random
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This feature samples all files in the
selectedfolderintheordertheyare
stored. To activate this f eature, press
the SCAN button. You can also
select the SCAN icon with the
interf ace dial. Push the selector
down, turn the dial to select Scan on
the AUDIO MENU, then press
ENTER. Turn the dial to select the
scan icon, then press ENTER. The
system begins to play a f ile f or about
10 seconds, and continues to samplethe remaining f iles.
To turn this feature off, press and
hold the SCAN button for more than
2 seconds, or turn the interf ace dial
to select the OFF icon, and press
ENTER on the interf ace selector.
This feature, when activated,
samples the f irst f ile of each f older
f or 10 seconds. To scan a f older,
press the SCAN button repeatedly.
Or, push the interf ace selector down
while playing a disc. Turn the
interf ace dial to select Scan on the
AUDIO MENU, and press ENTER
on the interf ace selector. Turn the
interf ace dial to select the f older
scan icon, and press ENTER on the
interf ace selector.
CONT INUED
Folder Scan
File Scan
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