Sony CDP-CA70ES Compact Disc Player

Operating Instructions for Sony CDP-CA70ES

Table of contents

• Getting Started
• Unpacking
• Hooking Up the System
• Playing a CD
• Playing CDs
• Using the Display
• Replacing Other Discs While Playing a Disc
• Locating a Specific Disc
• Locating a Specific Track
• Locating a Particular Point in a Track
• Playing Repeatedly
• Playing in Random Order (Shuffle Play)
• Creating Your Own Program (Program Play)
• Recording From CDs
• Recording Your Own Program
• Fading In or Out
• Storing Information About CDs (Custom Files)
• What You Can Do With the Custom Files
• Labeling Discs (Disc Memo)
• Storing Specific Tracks (Delete Bank)
• Additional Information
• Precautions
• Notes on CDs
• Troubleshooting
• Specifications
• Index

Basic Operations

Playing a CD

1. Turn on the amplifier and select the CD player position so that you can listen to the sound from this player.
2. Press 1/u to turn on the player.
3. Press § OPEN/CLOSE, and place a disc on the disc tray.
4. To place other discs, press DISC SKIP and place the discs in the order you want to play. Each time you press the button, the disc tray turns and you can place the discs in the empty disc compartments. The player plays the disc in the loading position first.
5. Press CONTINUE to select ALL DISCS or 1 DISC Continuous Play mode. Each time you press the CONTINUE button, “ALL DISCS” or "DISC” appears in the display.

6. Press ( (the indicator lights up green). The disc tray closes and the player plays all the tracks once Continuous Play). Adjust the volume on the amplifier.

To stop play

Press Stop

Using the Display

You can check information about the disc using the display.

Checking the total number and playing time of the tracks

Press TIME/TEXT before you start playing. The display shows the current disc number, the total number of tracks, total playing time, and music calendar.

The information also appears when you press the OPEN/CLOSE button to close the disc tray. The tracks numbered over 20 cannot be displayed in the music calendar.

Notes on the disc number indications

• The red circle around a disc number indicates the disc is ready to be played.
• When all the tracks on a disc have been played, the semi- circle around the disc number disappears.
• When a disc compartment is recognized as empty, the semi- circled disc number disappears.

Display information while playing a disc

While playing a disc, the display shows the current disc number, current track number, playing time of the track, and the music calendar. The track numbers in the music calendar disappear after they are played.

Checking the remaining time

Each time you press the TIME/TEXT button while playing a disc, the display changes as shown in the chart below.

Checking the information of CD TEXT discs

CD TEXT discs have information, such as the disc titles or artist names, memorized 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 CD TEXT discs, the “CD-TEXT” indication lights up in the display. Each time you press the TIME/TEXT button, the display changes as shown in the charts below.

The display shows the current disc number, total number of tracks. and total playing time of the disc for a few seconds before returning to the disc title indication.

If each CD TEXT information has more than 12 characters, the first 12 characters light up after all the characters are first scrolled by in the display.

Note

This player can only display the disc titles, track titles and artist names from CD TEXT discs. The other CD TEXT information cannot be displayed.

To play disc highlights

Some CD TEXT discs have a feature which plays only the highlights of the discs. When you select such a disc, “HIGH LIGHT” appears in the display. Press HIGH-LIGHT on the remote to start playing disc highlights in the stop mode. "HIGH LIGHT” flashes in the display while playing disc highlights.

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, the display shows other lang>.”

1. Press INPUT in stop mode. SELECT LANG.” appears momentarily, then ENGLISH” appears in the display.
2. Press =/+ until the language you want appears in the display.
3. Press ENTER to select the language. Reading Text” appears momentarily, then the display shows the information in the selected language.

To check the current language

1. Press INPUT while playing a CD TEXT disc. " SHOW LANG.” appears in the display.
2. Press ENTER. 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.

Replacing Other Discs While Playing a Disc

You can open the disc tray while playing a disc so that you can check what discs are to be played next and replace discs without interrupting play of the current disc.

1. Press EX-CHANGE. The disc tray opens and two disc compartments appear. Even if the player is playing a disc, it doesn’t stop playing.
2. Replace discs in the compartments with new ones. The player plays the disc on the left side compartment after the current disc, and then the one on the right side compartment.
3. Press DISC SKIP. The disc tray turns and another two disc compartments appear.
4. Replace discs in the compartments with new ones.
5. Press EX-CHANGE. The disc tray closes.

While the disc tray is open by pressing the EX-CHANGE button

• If the play of the current disc ends, the player stops playing. If the disc is played in 1 DISC Repeat Play mode
(see page 12), the current disc starts playing again.

• In ALL DISCS Shuffle Play mode (see page 13), tracks are reshuffled on the current disc.

• In Program Play mode (see page 13), only the tracks on the current disc are played.

• Do not push the disc tray to close it in Step 5, as you may damage the player.

Playing in Random Order (Shuffle Play)

You can have the player “shuffle” tracks and play in random order. The player shuffles all the tracks on all discs or on the disc you’ve specified.

Shuffle Play on all discs

You can play all tracks on all discs in a random order.

1. Press SHUFFLE repeatedly until “ALL DISCS” appears in the display.
2. Press ( (the indicator lights up green) to start ALL DISCS Shuffle Play. The indication appears while the player is shuffling” the tracks.

To cancel Shuffle Play

Press CONTINUE.

You can start Shuffle Play while playing Press SHUFFLE, and Shuffle Play starts from the current track. You can specify discs during Shuffle Play (Select Shuffle Play)

You can specify discs during ALL DISCS Shuffle Play mode, and the tracks on the specified discs are played in a random order. Press DISC 1 – 5 to specify the discs after Step 1. Semi-circles appear around the specified disc numbers in the display. To cancel the selected discs, press DISC 1 – 5 again. The semi-circles disappear. To return to ALL DISCS Shuffle Play, press SHUFFLE twice.

Shuffle Play on one disc

You can play all tracks on the specific disc in a random order.

1. Press SHUFFLE repeatedly until “1 DISC” appears in the display.
2. Press DISC 1 – 5 to start 1 DISC Shuffle Play on the selected disc. The indicator lights up green. The indication appears while the player is “shuffling” the tracks.

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