Playing CDs

Checking the information of CD TEXT discs

CD TEXT discs have information, such as the disc titles or artist names, memorised in a blank space on the discs where, on normal discs, there is no information. The display shows the CD TEXT information of the disc so that you can check the current disc title, artist name and track title. When the player detects a CD TEXT disc, “CD TEXT” appears in the display. If your CD TEXT disc has multi-language capacity, “MULTI CD TEXT” appears in the display. If you want to check the information in another language, refer to “Selecting the language of the CD TEXT information” on page 15.

Display information in stop mode

The display shows the disc title. When you press TIME/TEXT, the artist name scrolls in the display. If you press TIME/TEXT again, the display shows the current disc number, total number of tracks, and total playing time of the disc momentarily. Then the display shows the disc title again.

ALL DISCS

CD TEXT

CD1

DISC

S O N Y H I T S

Display information while playing a disc

Each time you press TIME/TEXT, the display shows the information as shown below.

The current disc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALL DISCS

 

 

NEXT

number, track

 

 

CD TEXT

CD1

 

1 3DISC

number and

 

 

DISC

TRACK

MIN

SEC

playing time

 

 

1 2

1

1 . 5 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

appear.

Press TIME/TEXT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALL DISCS

 

 

NEXT

The current track

 

CD TEXT

CD1

 

1 3DISC

title appears.

 

 

 

TRACK

 

 

 

 

H i t e c h B l u e s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This information also appears when

 

 

the player locates the track.

 

 

Press TIME/TEXT.

 

 

Note

If the disc title and track title have more than 13 characters, only the first 13 characters appear in the display.

To play disc highlights Z

Some CD TEXT discs have a feature to play only the highlights of the discs.

During stop mode, press HIGH-LIGHT on the remote to start playing disc highlights.

“Hi LIGHT” flashes while playing disc highlights.

If you press HIGH-LIGHT while selecting discs without this feature, “NO HIGHLIGHT” appears in the display.

Selecting the language of the CD TEXT information

You can select the language used to display the CD TEXT information when you select a CD TEXT disc with multi-language information.

Once you select the language, the display shows the information in the selected language until you turn off the player. If the player cannot read the language memorised in a CD TEXT disc, “(other lang.)” appears.

1Press INPUT in stop mode. “Select lang.” flashes.

ALL DISCS

 

1 2

MULTI CD TEXT

CD1

 

S e l e c t l a n g .

2Push the JOG dial.The current operating language flashes.

ALL DISCS

 

1 2

MULTI CD TEXT

CD1

 

E n g l i s h

3Turn the JOG dial until the language you want appears in the display.

4Push the JOG dial to select the language. “Reading Text” appears momentarily, then the display shows the information in the selected language.

To check the current language

1Press INPUT while playing a CD TEXT disc. “Show lang.” flashes.

2Push the JOG dial.

The current language appears momentarily.

You can also check the current language while selecting a CD TEXT disc without multi-language information.

Note

If you select a CD TEXT disc which does not contain the information of the selected language, the display shows the information in another language according to the disc’s priority.

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