Sony MDX-C5970 —Manual Search, Locating a disc by disc number, —Direct Disc Selection, — Auto Scroll, Press (SHIFT), Locating a specific track, Automatic Music Sensor (AMS)

You can label CD and CD TEXT discs with a personalized name using the disc memo function. Refer to “Labeling a CD” (page 16). However, if you use personalized labels, they will always take priority over the original CD TEXT information when such information is displayed.

Tip

If you want to display the original CD TEXT information after labeling the CD TEXT disc with a personalized name, press (SHIFT), then (4) (n).

Tip

To manually scroll the long name of an MD or CD TEXT disc after activating the Auto Scroll function, press (SHIFT), then (1) (N) (manual scroll).

Locating a specific track

—Automatic Music Sensor (AMS)

During playback, push the SEEK/AMS control up or down and release for each track you want to skip.

After you select the desired items, the display will automatically change to the Motion Display mode after a few seconds. In the Motion Display mode, all the above items are scrolled in the display one by one in order.

To locate succeeding tracks

To locate preceding tracks

SEEK/AMS

Tip

The Motion Display mode can be turned off. (See “Changing the sound and display settings” on page 13.)

Automatically scrolling a disc name

— Auto Scroll

If the disc name, artist name, or track name on a CD TEXT disc or MD exceeds 10 characters and the Auto Scroll function is on, information automatically scrolls across the display as follows:

•The disc name appears when the disc has changed (if the disc name is selected).

•The track name appears when the track has changed (if the track name is selected).

•The disc or track name appears depending on the setting when you press (SOURCE) to select an MD.

If you press (DSPL) to change the display item, the disc or track name of the MD or CD TEXT disc is scrolled automatically whether you set the function on or off.

1 During playback, Press (SHIFT).

Locating a specific point in a track

—Manual Search

During playback, push the SEEK/AMS control up or down and hold. Release when you have found the desired point.

SEEK/AMS

To search forward

To search backward

Locating a disc by disc number

—Direct Disc Selection

Press the number button that corresponds with the desired disc number.

The desired disc in the current unit begins playback.

2 Press (2) (SET UP) repeatedly until “A.Scrl” appears.

Press (4) (n) to select “A.Scrl on”.

Press (SHIFT).

To cancel Auto Scroll, select “A.Scrl off” in step 3 above.

Note

For some CD TEXT discs with very many characters, the following cases may happen:

— Some of the characters are not displayed.

— Auto Scroll does not work.