Audio

The external environment (hill, building, tunnel, car park, underground...) may block reception, including in RDS tracking mode. This is normal in the propagation of radio waves and in no way indicates a fault with the car radio.

RADIO

SELECTING A STATION

1. Press the SOURCE button repeatedly and select radio.

2. Press the BAND AST button to select a waveband from: FM1, FM2, FMast, AM.

3. Briefly press one of the buttons to start an automatic search for radio stations.

4. Press one of the buttons to start a manual search for radio stations.

Press the LIST REFRESH button to display the list of locally received stations (30 stations maximum). To update this list, press and hold for more than two seconds.

RDS

1. Press the MENU key.

2. Select AUDIO FUNCTIONS, then press OK.

3. Select the FM BAND PREFERENCES function, then press OK.

4. Select ACTIVATE FREQUENCY TRACKING (RDS), then press OK. RDS appears on the screen.

! If RDS is displayed, it allows you to keep listening to the same station through frequency tracking. However, under certain conditions, tracking of this RDS station is not guaranteed across the whole country, as radio stations do not cover 100% of the territory.

This explains the loss of station reception during a journey.

LISTENING TO TA MESSAGES

! The TA (Traffic Announcement) function gives priority to listening to TA alert messages. To be active, this function requires correct reception of a radio station broadcasting this type of message. As soon as a traffic message is broadcast, the current source (Radio, CD, ...) is automatically interrupted to play the TA message. Normal listening to the source resumes at the end of the message.

1. Press the TA button to activate or deactivate traffic announcements.

CD LISTENING TO A CD

Only insert round compact discs.

Some anti-piracy systems, on original discs or CDs copied with a personal burner, may cause malfunctions unrelated to the quality of the original player.

Without pressing the EJECT button, insert a CD into the player; playback starts automatically.

1. To listen to a disc already inserted, press the SOURCE button repeatedly and select CD.

2. Press one of the buttons to select a track on the CD.

! Press the LIST REFRESH button to display the list of tracks on the CD.

3. Press and hold one of the buttons for fast forward or fast rewind.

CD MP3 LISTENING TO AN MP3 COMPILATION

Insert an MP3 compilation into the player.

The audio system scans all the music tracks, which may take from a few seconds to several dozen seconds before playback starts.

! On a single disc, the CD player can play up to 255 MP3 files spread over 8 folder levels. However, it is recommended to limit this to two levels in order to reduce the access time when playing the CD.

During playback, the folder structure is not respected.

All files are displayed on the same level.

1. To listen to a disc already inserted, press the SOURCE button repeatedly and select CD.

2. Press one of the buttons to select a track on the CD.

! Press the LIST REFRESH button to display the list of folders on the MP3 compilation.

3. Press and hold one of the buttons for fast forward or rewind.

CD MP3

INFORMATION AND ADVICE

! The MP3 format, short for MPEG 1,2 & 2.5 Audio Layer 3, is an audio compression standard that allows dozens of music files to be stored on a single disc.

To be able to play a burned CDR or CDRW, select the ISO 9660 level 1, 2 or Joliet standard when burning, preferably.

If the disc is burned in another format, playback may not work correctly.

On the same disc, it is recommended to always use the same burning standard, at the lowest possible speed (4x maximum) for optimum sound quality.

For a multi-session CD, the Joliet standard is recommended.

The car radio only plays files with the extension “.mp3” with a sampling rate of 22.05 kHz or 44.1 kHz. Any other file type (.wma, .mp4, .m3u...) cannot be played.

It is recommended to name files with fewer than 20 characters, excluding special characters (e.g. “? ; ù”), to avoid any playback or display problems.

! Blank CDs are not recognised and may damage the system.