CDC 3.4 - Basic Playback

Turning on the CDC 3.4 

Before connecting the power cord and turning on the CDC-3.4, connect all your AV components first.
Don’t forget to turn on your amp, and select the audio input to which the CDC-3.4 is connected.

Note:
• You can turn on the CDC-3.4 and simultaneously open the disc tray or start playback simply by pressing the Open/Close [ ] button or the Play [] button respectively. The CDC-3.4 will take a little longer to come on.

Basic Playback

Notes:

• The CDC-3.4 supports 8 cm and 12 cm discs. To avoid damaging your discs or CDC-3.4, be sure to put discs in the centers of the disc bays.
• Only load discs that are supported by the CDC-3.4.
• To avoid personal injury, keep your hands away from the disc tray as it closes.
• Always use the Open/Close button to open and close the disc tray. Never push the disc tray, and don’t touch or obstruct it while it’s opening or closing. Don’t press down on the disc tray while it’s open. Doing so may damage your discs or CDC-3.4.

Starting Playback

Notes:

• When you close the disc tray, the current disc will be the one in the front-right disc bay. When you open the disc tray, the last disc you selected (i.e., the current disc), will be in the front-right disc bay.
• When the disc tray is closed, all of the disc indicators appear until the CDC-3.4 has checked each bay for the presence of a disc. If a bay is found to have no disc, the corresponding indicator disappears.

Selecting Discs

Loading Discs During Playback

Note:

• The CDC-3.4 cannot play the next disc while the disc tray is open. Be sure to close the disc tray as soon as you’ve finish loading discs.

Adjusting the Display Brightness

Basic Operation

■ Stopping Playback

■ Pausing Playback

■ Fast Forward & Fast Reverse

Notes:

• If you fast forward all the way to the end of a disc, fast forward will be cancelled and the next disc will be played, unless it’s last disc, in which case playback will stop.
• If you fast reverse all the way to the beginning of a disc, fast reverse will be cancelled.
• For MP3 discs, fast reverse only works within the MP3 track that’s currently playing.

■ Selecting the Next or Previous Track

Notes:

• For MP3 discs, you can also select tracks in other folders.
• The [] and [] buttons only select tracks on the current disc. So when the last track is being played, the [] button has no effect, and when the first track is being played, the [] button will select the beginning of that track.
• During random playback, the [] button can be used to select the next random track.
• During memory playback, the [] and [] buttons can be used to select the next or previous track in memory.

Selecting MP3s

There are two modes for selecting MP3 tracks: Navigation mode and All Folder mode.

■ Selecting MP3 Tracks in Navigation Mode
With Navigation mode you can select MP3 tracks by navigating through the folder hierarchy. This mode can only be used while playback is stopped.

■ Selecting MP3 Tracks in All Folder Mode
With All Folder mode you don’t have to navigate the folder hierarchy to find an MP3 track because all folders that contain MP3 tracks appear at the same level. This mode can only be used while playback is stopped.

■ Playing the Selected Track
To play the selected track, press the Play [] button.
Tip: If you press the Play [] button while a folder is selected, playback start with the first track in that folder.
■ Cancelling Navigation or All Folder mode
To cancel Navigation mode or All Folder mode while selecting MP3 tracks, press the Stop [■] button.

Selecting Tracks by Number

Note:

• For MP3 discs, tracks in the current folder can be selected.

Selecting MP3 Folders & Tracks by Number

This section explains how to select MP3 folders and tracks by number.

Displaying Information

This section explains how to display various information, including the remaining track time, remaining disc time, disc name, track name, and various ID3 tags for MP3 tracks, including title name, artist name, and so on.

Audio CD

Elapsed track time: The length of time that the current track has been playing (default display).

Remaining track time: The amount of time remaining for the current track (REMAIN indicator appears).

Remaining disc time: The amount of time remaining for the entire disc (REMAIN and TOTAL indicators
appear).

MP3 Disc

Elapsed track time: The length of time that the current track has been playing (default display).

Track name: Name of the current track.

Folder name: Name of the current folder.

Title name: Title of the current track (if ID3 tag present).

Artist name: Name of the artist (if ID3 tag present).

Album name: Name of the album (if ID3 tag present).

Sampling rate and bit rate: Sampling rate and bit rate of the current track.

Notes:

• To display the disc name, while playback is stopped, press the [Display] button.
• If a track or folder name contains a character that cannot be displayed, it will be displayed as “TRACK n” or “FOLDER n,” “n” being the track or folder number.
  You can set the CDC-3.4 so that it displays underscores in place of any undisplayable characters.