07USB playback

Chapter 7:

USB playback

Using the USB interface

It is possible to listen to two-channel audio1 using the USB interface on the front of this

receiver. Connect a USB mass storage device2 as shown below.

Basic playback controls

The following table shows the basic controls on the remote for USB playback.

Button What it does

Starts normal playback.

1Press USB (SHIFT+AM).

2Connect your USB device.

The USB terminal is located on the front panel.

3 Press (play) to start playback.

Files/folders play in sequential order based on the filename (according to the Unicode standard). Within a given directory, all files are played before continuing to folders/subfolders.

In the diagram below, playback proceeds from folder 0 to folder 5, playing files 1 to 8 in order.

Pauses/unpauses playback.

Press to start fast reverse scanning (press twice for high-speed scanning).

Press to start fast forward scanning.

(press twice for high-speed scanning).

Skips to the start of the current track, then previous tracks.

Skips to the next track.

Folder 0

(Root)

file 1

file 2

file 3

Folder 1 (Artisit)

file 4

Folder 5 (Artisit)

Folder 2

Folder 3

(Album)

 

file 5

file 6

Folder 4 (Album)

Important

If a USB ERR message lights in the display, try following the points below:

USB ERR What it means

USB ERR1 The power requirements of the USB device are too high for this receiver.

USB ERR2 The USB device is incompatible

file 8

file 7

USB ERR3

See Troubleshooting on page 66 for

more on this error message.

Make sure the receiver is in standby when disconnecting the USB device.

Switch the receiver off, then on again.

Reconnect the USB device with the receiver switched off.

Note

1This includes playback of WMA/MP3/MPEG-4 AAC files (except files with copy-protection or restricted playback).

2• Compatible USB devices include external magnetic hard drives, portable flash memory (particularly keydrives) and digital audio players (MP3 players) of format FAT16/32. It is not possible to connect this unit to a personal computer for USB playback.

Pioneer cannot guarantee compatibility (operation and/or bus power) with all USB mass storage devices and assumes no responsibility for any loss of data that may occur when connected to this receiver.

With large amounts of data, it may take longer for the receiver to read the contents of a USB device.

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Pioneer VSX-916-S, VSX-916-K USB playback Chapter, Using the USB interface, Basic playback controls

VSX-916-K, VSX-916-S specifications

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