Sony MEX-1HD operating instructions Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Location of controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Getting Started

Resetting the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Detaching the front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Initial settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Deactivating the Demonstration display . . . . 9

Basic operations

Listening to a track on a CD . . . . . . . 10 Listening to the radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Recording audio CDs onto

the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Listening to tracks on the HDD . . . . . 13 Listening to audio files. . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Menu display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 List display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Function menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Checking the information on the contents

selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

CD/HDD/“MG Memory Stick”

Playing a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Display items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Playing the tracks on CD automatically. . . . 20 Playing tracks repeatedly

— Repeat Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Playing tracks in random order

— Shuffle Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Locating a folder/album/track by name

— List-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Searching a track you want to listen to . . . . 22 Collecting favorite tracks

— Play List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Radio

Storing stations automatically

— Best Tuning Memory (BTM) . . . . . . . 24 Receiving the stored stations . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Storing only desired stations

— Manual Preset Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Labeling a radio station

— Station Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Locating a station by name

— List-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Recording and Editing HDD

Recording an album/track onto the HDD

— Track recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Labeling a folder/album/track

— Name In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Creating a folder/album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Moving recorded folder/album/track

— Move function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Erasing a folder/album/track

— Erase function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using “MG Memory Stick”

Transferring a track to an “MG Memory Stick”

— Check-Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Returning a track to the HDD from an “MG

Memory Stick”

— Check-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Moving a track to an “MG Memory Stick”

— Move-Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Returning audio files to the HDD

— Move-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Importing audio files into the HDD

— Import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Storing data onto the HDD

— Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Restoring data into a “Memory Stick”

— Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Labeling an album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Changing the order of audio files in an “MG

Memory Stick”

— Move function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Erasing audio files in an “MG Memory Stick”

— Erase function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Formatting an “MG Memory Stick” . . . . . . 41

Using Network Walkman

Connecting a Network Walkman . . . . . . . . 41 Transferring a track to a Network Walkman

— Check-Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Returning a track to the HDD from a Network

Walkman

— Check-In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Changing order of audio files in a Network

Walkman

— Move function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Erasing audio files in Network Walkman

— Erase function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Formatting a Network Walkman . . . . . . . . . 45

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