Look at a cassette before you When they are not in use, store Operating the CD Player insert it. If the tape is loose, cassettes in their cases to protect tighten it by turning one of the them from dust and moisture. The ignition switch must be in hubs with a pencil or your finger. Never place cassettes where they ACCESSORY or ON. Insert the If the label is peeling off, remove will be exposed to direct sunlight, disc into the CD slot. Push it in it from the cassette or it could high heat, or high humidity. If a half way, the drive will pull it in cause the cassette to jam in the cassette is exposed to extreme the rest of the way. If the audio player. Never try to insert a heat or cold, let it reach a system is on, it will automatically warped or damaged cassette in the moderate temperature before switch to the CD player and begin player. inserting it in the player. playing the CD. If the system is off, the player will stay in pause The player automatically ejects Never try to insert foreign objects mode until you turn on the cassettes that do not play into the cassette player. system. properly. If it ejects a cassette before it begins to play, it is To switch to the radio or tape probably defective and should not player while a CD is playing, be inserted again. You may have a press the FM/AM or TAPE button cassette suddenly stop playing, on the front of the audio unit. To reverse directions once or twice, switch back to playing the CD, and then eject. This is normally press the CD button on the front an indication the tape is wound of the CD player. The CD will unevenly. It should play after the continue playing where it left off. tape is manually rewound.

Comfort and Convenience Features the next track, press and release CD BUTTON CD SLOT EJECT BUTTON the side of the bar. To return to the beginning of the current track, press and release the side. Press it twice to return to the beginning of the previous track.

To move rapidly within a track, press and hold the TRACK bar. Press the side to move forward, or the side to move

TRACK BAR RANDOM PLAY SCAN backward. Release the bar when BUTTON BUTTON the system reaches the point you REPEAT want. BUTTON REPEAT — To activate the Repeat feature, press and release the RPT button on the front of the The track number and time are eject button on the front of the CD player. You will see RPT in displayed on the front of the CD CD player. You can eject the disc the CD player display. The player. When the system reaches even with the ignition switch off. system continuously replays the the end of the disc, it returns to current track. Press the Repeat the beginning and plays the disc Use the TRACK bar to change button again to turn it off. again. To eject the disc, press the tracks or to move rapidly within a track. To skip to the beginning of

Comfort and Convenience Features RANDOM PLAY — This feature, SCAN — The Scan feature helps Operating the Optional CD when activated, plays the tracks you find a particular track on the Changer on the CD in random order, rather disc. To activate it, press the than the order they are recorded SCAN button. You will see A Compact Disc changer is on the CD. To activate Random SCAN in the CD player display. available through your dealer. It Play, press the RAND button on The system will play the holds up to six discs, providing the front of the CD player. You beginning of the first track for ten several hours of continuous will see RAND in the CD player seconds. If you do nothing, it will entertainment. You operate the display. The system will then then skip to the second track and CD changer with the same select and play tracks randomly. play that for ten seconds. When it controls used for the radio and This continues until you cancel gets to a track you want to listen cassette player. random play by pressing the to all the way through, press the RAND button again. SCAN button again. Using the instructions that came with the changer, load the desired REPEAT takes priority over CDs in the magazine, and load RANDOM PLAY. the magazine in the changer. To operate the CD changer, the ignition must be in ACCESSORY or ON and the audio system must be on.

Comfort and Convenience Features until the desired disc number is CD CH BUTTON FM/AM BUTTON TRACK BUTTONS displayed. The system will load TAPS BUTTON that disc and begin playing it from the first track.

You can use the Track buttons to select tracks within a disc. If you press and release the button, the system will move to the beginning of the next track. Press the button to move to the beginning of the current track. TUNE BAR SCAN BUTTON RPT BUTTON RANDOM BUTTON To move across several tracks, press and hold the appropriate Track button. Release the button when you think the system has reached the desired track on the Press the CD CH button. The disc finishes, the system returns disc. system will start to play the first to disc 1. track of the first disc in the Repeat — When you activate the magazine. When that disc ends, To select a different disc than the Repeat feature, the system the next disc in the magazine is one that is playing, press the continuously replays the current loaded and played. After the last TUNE bar. Press and release the track or disc. appropriate side of the bar or

Comfort and Convenience Features If you press and release the RPT Random Play — This feature, randomly from all the discs in the button, the system will continue when activated, plays tracks in changer. To cancel random disc to repeat the current track. You random order. You can select playback, press the RANDOM will see RPT in the display as a whether tracks are played button again. reminder. To cancel, press RPT randomly across a single disc or again. across all the discs in the changer. If you select a REPEAT feature during random playback, the Pressing and holding the RPT To select random playing of the REPEAT feature will override button until you hear a beep tracks on a single disc, press and random selection. The current activates the disc repeat feature. release the RANDOM button. track or disc will be repeated until You will see DISC RPT in the ALL RAND will be displayed as you cancel REPEAT. The system display as a reminder. Instead of a reminder. Tracks are then will then return to random loading the next disc in the selected and played in random selection. changer when the current disc order, so any track could be completes, the system will repeated several times. To cancel SCAN Functions — The SCAN continue repeating the current random track playback, press the functions allow you to hear parts disc. Cancel disc repeat by RANDOM button again. of tracks or discs and select the pressing the RPT button again. one you want to listen to. To select random play of all the discs, press and hold the To sample tracks on the disc RANDOM button until you hear currently playing, press and a beep. DISC RAND will be release the SCAN button. SCAN displayed as a reminder. Tracks will be displayed. The system will then be selected and played will select the next track and play

Comfort and Convenience Features it back for approximately ten To take the system out of CD Protecting Compact Discs seconds. If you do nothing, the mode, press the FM/AM button system will then select the next or TAPE button (if there is a Handle a CD by its edges; never track and play it for ten seconds. cassette in the player), or insert a touch either surface. When the system selects a track cassette in the player. When you Contamination from fingerprints, you want to listen to all the way return to CD mode, play will liquids, felt-tip pens, and labels through, press the SCAN button continue at the same disc and can cause the CD to not play again. track. properly, or possibly jam in the drive. To sample all the discs in the If you turn the system off while a changer, press and hold the CD is playing, play will continue SCAN button until you hear a at the same disc and track when beep. DISC SCAN will be you turn it back on. displayed. The system will load a CD and play the first track for approximately ten seconds. If you do nothing, it will then load the next disc and play the first ten seconds of the first track on that disc. When the system plays a disc that you want to listen to all the way through, press SCAN again.

Comfort and Convenience Features When a CD is not being played, A new CD may be rough on the Never try to insert foreign objects store it in its case to protect it inner and outer edges. The small in the CD player or the magazine. from dust and other plastic pieces causing this contamination. To prevent roughness can flake off and fall warpage, keep CDs out of direct on the recording surface of the sunlight and extreme heat. disc, causing skipping or other problems. Remove these pieces To clean a disc, use a clean soft by rubbing the inner and outer cloth. Wipe across the disc from edges with the side of a pencil or the center to the outside edge. pen.

Comfort and Convenience Features CD Error Indications The following specific indications blink to indicate the automatic If you see an error indication in changer's status. the display while in CD mode, find the cause in the chart to the When no CD is loaded right. If you cannot clear the error indication, take the vehicle to your Acura dealer. When a CD is loaded upside down or has any scratches or stains

When the automatic changer lid is open

When the automatic changer is searching for a desired CD

The defective disc No. is displayed.

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