Function of KDC-MP342U

Function of iPod

Music Search for iPod

Search for the song (in iPod) you want to play.

1Enter Music Search mode Press the Search button. “SEARCH” is displayed.

2Search for music

Operation type

 

Operation

Movement between items

 

Turn the [AUD] knob.

Skip Search *1

 

Press the [4] or [¢] button.

Selection of item

 

Press the [AUD] knob.

Return to previous item

 

Press the [FM+] button.

Return to Top menu

 

Press the [FM+] button for at least 1

 

 

second.

Search by initial

 

Press the Search button for at least 1

 

 

second.

The position of the currently displayed item is indicated by the icon bar in eight steps.



Cancelling the Music Search mode

Press the Search button.

Searching for Music by Initial

You can select an alphabetic character from the list in the browse item (artist, album, etc.) selected now.

1Enter alphabet search mode

Press the Search button for at least 1 second. “A B C …” is displayed.

If you can not search for a song by an alphabetic character in the browse item selected now, the data on the screen does not change.

2Select the initial to be searched for

Operation type

 

Operation

Move to the next character.

 

Turn the [AUD] knob, or press the

 

 

[4]/ [¢] button.

Move to the next row.

 

Press the [FM+] or [AM–] button.

Cancelling the alphabet

 

Press the Search button.

search mode

 

 

3Determine the selected initial Press the [AUD] knob.

Start search. When search is completed, the music search mode is selected again at the selected character position.

*1 Skip Search: The number of songs to be skipped is determined by the ratio of the total number of songs

in the list which is selected now. Set the ratio with “SKIP” in <Menu System> (page 6). Keep pressing this button for 3 seconds or longer skips songs at 10% irrespective of the setting.

The time of search by alphabet may become long depending on the number of songs in iPod or the folder structure.

When selecting an initial in the alphabet search mode, entering “*” searches symbols and entering “1” searches digits.

If the first character string begins with an article “a”, “an”, or “the” in the alphabet search mode, it is searched for in defiance of the article.

Characters that are included in a song name but cannot be displayed are left blank. If no character included in a song name cannot be displayed, the browse item name and digits are displayed.

Items

 

Display

 

Items

 

Display

Playlists

 

“PLIST***”

 

Podcast

 

“PDCT***”

Artists

 

“ART***”

 

Genre

 

“GEN***”

Albums

 

“ALB***”

 

Composer

 

“COM***”

Music title or file name

 

“PRGM***”

 

 

 

 

Function of KDC-MP342U

Function of iPod

All Random

All songs in iPod are played at random.

Press the [3] button for at least 3 seconds.

Pressing the button toggles the setting between All random play on (“ALL RDM”) and off (“RDM OFF”).

The time required to turn on the all random function may become longer depending on the number of songs in iPod or the folder structure.

Turning on the all random function changes the iPod browse item to “songs”. This browse item will not change even if the all random function is turned off.

If the browse item is changed to search for music while the all random function is on, the all random function is turned off and the songs in the browse item are played at random.

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