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PLAYBACK BASICS  17

During normal playback of MP3 discs, pressing
the CDP or CDR Display Button

1

ˆ˘

will show the following information, in

order:
Elapsed time of current track ➜ Remaining Time
of current track ➜ Current Track Number ➜ File
name of Current Track (Up to the first six digits)

To read the total time of all tracks recorded on
an MP3 disc, the disc must be stopped.
Then, press the CDP or CDR Display Button
1ˆ˘ (as appropriate) for three sec-
onds, until a TTLTIMEON message appears
in the Time/Message Display F. Then press
the CDP or CDR Display Button again to alter-
nate between a display of the total number of
tracks and the total time of the disc. Press 
and hold the CDP or CDR Display Button again for
three seconds until a TTLTIMEOFFmessage
appears in the Time/ Message Display F to
return to standard display.

While MP3 playback is possible from both the
CDP and CDR decks, only one MP3 disc may be
played at a time. If you load two MP3 discs at
the same time, both MP3 Indicators P will be
lit. Press the Play Button 

9( for 

the deck you wish to play.

If you try to play an MP3 disc in one of the decks
when the other is already playing an MP3 disc, an
MP3 BUSY

message will appear in the

Time/Message Display F where the second
disc has been inserted.

Also when a standard Audio CD is placed in one
deck and an MP3 disc in the other and you want
to play both, first start the MP3 disc and then the
standard disc, otherwise the display will also
show the message MP3 BUSY.

Notes About MP3 Playback:
• When an MP3 disc is played, only the Analog

Audio Outputs ¡™ are available. There is
no signal at the Digital Audio Outputs
¢∞•ª during MP3 playback. To ensure
that the MP3 output is heard, make certain
that the correct analog input is selected on
your receiver, processor or preamp.

• The forward and reverse “fast play” or Search

Controls fy do not operate during 
MP3 playback. However, the standard Play
9(, Pause ÔL and Stop
Ó

K Controls operate as they do for 

normal play. The Next Track wÛ˝
and Previous Track 

8Ù Controls also

work normally during MP3 playback.

• The CDR 30 will play only standard MP3 discs

recorded in the MPEG 1/Layer 3 format. Other
compressed digital audio formats will not be
played back, and any non-MP3 tracks will be
skipped.

• When an MP3 disc is dubbed in the CDR 30,

the copy disc will be recorded in the standard
“Red Book” CD Audio format. It is not possible

to make an MP3 copy of an MP3 disc. More-
over MP3 dub is possible at normal speed only.

HDCD Playback
HDCD, which stands for High Definition Com-
patible Digital, is a special recording process that
enables the CDR 30 to deliver the ultimate in CD
audio playback. The CDR 30’s circuitry takes
advantage of the special HDCD recording process
when HDCD-encoded discs are used, and it is
also completely compatible with non-HDCD
discs, which benefit from the unit’s advanced dig-
ital-to-analog converters.

No special adjustment is needed to play HDCD
encoded discs. Simply use the disc as you would
any other CD. Although these discs also play on
conventional CD players, when played on the
CDR 30 the special HDCD decoding circuitry is
automatically activated, delivering extraordinary
fidelity and the highest possible overall quality.

The CDR 30 will playback and internally decode
HDCD discs from either the CDP or CDR decks
and the appropriate HDCD Indicator N will
light above the deck in use. However when
HDCD discs are played on both decks simul-
tanously (in Dual mode), the internal decoder
works only with the first disc selected and the
appropriate HDCD Indicator N will light.
Nevertheless, when the HDCD decoding is done
in an external receiver or processor using a digi-
tal output connection from the CDR 30, the digi-
tal signal from any deck can be HDCD decoded,
no matter if the appropriate HDCD Indicator
N

lights in the CDR30´s display or not.

CD Text Playback
An increasing number of CD discs are recorded
with CD Text information that may display the
disc’s title, the name of the artists, the title of
specific individual tracks, and the artist for specif-
ic individual tracks, depending on how the disc’s
producers program the information.

When a disc’s Table of Contents (TOC) has been
read, but the disc is stopped, press the CD Text
Button 

B for the deck in use (either the left

side, Play/CDP deck or the right side, Record/
CDR deck) to view the title of the disc followed
by the name of the artist.

When a disc with CD Text information is playing,
press the CD Text Button 

B for the deck in

use (either the left side, Play/CDP deck or the right
side, Record/CDR deck) to view the name of the
track that is playing and the artist for that track.

Notes on CD Text Display:
• If the CD Text buttons are pressed when the

disc playing does not contain CD Text informa-
tion, a NO TEXT message will flash three
times in the Time/Message Display F.

• Only capital letters will be displayed, and lower

case letters will be capitalized.

• Blank spaces may occasionally appear in place

of invalid text characters.

Search
You may quickly scan through the contents of a
disc while listening to the playback at high speed
in forward or reverse. To move forward through a
disc, press the Forward Search button

O on

the remote or press and hold the Next button
Û

 on the front panel that is appropriate for

the deck in use. To move backwards through a
disc, press the Reverse Search button f on
the remote, or press and hold the Previous but-
ton Ù

 on the front panel that is appropriate

for the deck in use. When using the remote,
always remember to make certain that you have
selected the deck you wish to control by pressing
the appropriate selector button 

3P before

entering the desired remote command.

Track Skip
To move from one track on a disc directly to
another, enter the number for the desired track
with the Numeric Keys

E. The disc will pause

briefly to locate the track, and then immediately
play it. When entering a two-digit track number,
the second digit must be entered within three
seconds of the first digit.

To move to the next track on a disc, press the
Next button 

M on the remote, or briefly press

the appropriate front panel Next button Û

for the deck in use. Additional presses of the but-
ton will move forward through the tracks on the
disc.

When a disc is playing, press the Previous but-
ton

8Ù briefly to return to the beginning

of the track being played. Additional presses of
the Previous button will move backwards
through the tracks on the disc.

When a disc is stopped, you may press the Next
or Previous buttons repeatedly to locate a
specific track that you wish to play. When the
desired track number appears at the left side of
the appropriate Time/Message Display F,
press the Play button

9( to hear that

track.

18 PLAYBACK BASICS

Dual-Play Mode
Since the CDR 30 has more than one CD deck,
you may play a disc in either drawer. After the
unit was turned on or the Single Play Select
6 button on the remote or Dual/Single Play
Select ¸ button on the front panel was
pressed, the unit will turn to the Single mode. In
that mode the Single Play Indicator D is lit
and only one disc may play at a time, even when
both decks are loaded with discs. Moreover in
the Single mode, the audio output will be fed to
all digital and analog Output jacks ¢∞•
ª¡™ for both decks. This means you may
select the input on your receiver, preamp or
processor for either deck. For example, if you
have the Play Deck connected to ”CD” and the
Record Deck connected to ”Tape,” when any
deck is playing, either input may be selected.

It is also possible to play two discs at once, using
the Dual mode. To initiate dual-mode playback,
press the Dual Play Select 

N¸ button on

the remote or on the front panel until the Dual-
Play Indicator D is lit. You may play a differ-
ent disc in both decks at the same time and you
even may record on a disc in the CDR deck 

P

and play a disc in the CDP deck 

3 simul-

tanously. The output of each deck will be sent to
its analog and digital output jacks, and you will
need to select the deck you wish to listen to
using the input selectors on your receiver, pre-
amp or processor. You may also use the output of
one deck to feed your main-room system, while
the second deck is used to feed a remote room.

As long as the Dual-Play Indicator D is lit,
each deck functions as a separate CD player, and
will respond to its own set of controls on the
front panel for either the Record Deck (Ó
ÔÚÛÙˆ

or Play Deck ˘

. To control the transports using the
remote, remember to first press the Selector but-
ton for either the Play/CDP Deck

3 or the

P, and then press the

desired command function.

It is possible to view the level for either the out-
put of the CDP/Play deck or the CDR/Record
deck. To select the display to be viewed, press
the desired Level Indicator Select t.

NOTE: When in the Dual mode, you may return
to Single play mode by pressing the Single Play
Select Button

6 on the remote or the

Dual/Single Play Select Button ¸ on the
front panel. However, pressing the Single
Button

6¸ while both decks are playing, will

automatically stop playback of the disc in the
Record Deck % while the disc in the Play
Deck 3 continues to play, and the output of
the play deck will be sent to both sets of output
jacks.

NOTE: When using the dual-play function with a
conventional Audio CD in one deck and an MP3
or HDCD-encoded disc in the other, start with

either of those discs first before playing the con-
ventional CD Audio disc.

NOTE: Remember that only one MP3 disc may
play at a time, even when the Dual Play mode is
in use. If two discs containing MP3 selections are
loaded in the CDR 30, one must be removed and
replaced with a standard CD Audio disc for the
dual play mode to operate.

Two-Disc Changer Operation
Since the CDR 30 has two separate CD decks, it
may be used to function as a two-disc changer,
so that you can play two discs one after the
other

When the CDR 30 is in the Single-Play mode, as
shown by the Single-Play Indicator D being
lit, when the disc in one deck has played through
to the end, the disc in the other deck will auto-
matically begin to play. Each disc will play
through, and when one deck is finished the other
will start. To stop playback, press the Stop but-
ton

KÓ for the deck that is currently

playing.

To have the CDR 30 function as two separate CD
players, where the deck in use stops at the end
of a disc, press the Dual Button ¸

N until

the Dual-Play Indicator D lights. In the Dual
mode, each deck acts independently of the other
and when the disc in one deck finishes, it stops
unless one of the Repeat functions has been acti-
vated (see page 19).

Time Display
The CDR 30’s time display is capable of showing
a wide range of information about the contents
of a CD.

For Standard CD Audio discs, once the disc’s
Table of Contents or TOC data has been read, the
Time/Message Display F will show the num-
ber of tracks on the disc in the two left digits of
the display, and the total running time of the disc
in the remainder of the display. When the disc is
playing, the tracks will count up as each new
track is reached, and time display will show the
elapsed time for the track being played.

To view the time remaining in the track being
played, press the Display button

1

ˆ˘

for the deck in use so that the Track

Remain Time Indicators WTS illuminate.
The Time/Message Display F will count
down the time remaining in the track, and at the
start of the next track the counter will start to
count down the running time of that track.

To view the total time remaining on the disc,
press the Display Button

1ˆ˘ for the

deck in use so that the Total Remain Time
Indicators VTS light. The Time/Message
Display F will show the total time remaining
for all tracks on the disc and count down until
the disc has finished playing. Note that all time
modes listed above are selectable also with pro-
grammed tracks (see page 19) except the total
remaining time.

For MP3 discs, once the disc’s Table of Contents
data has been read, the Time/Message Display
F

will show the total number of tracks on the

disc. During disc playback, press the appropriate
Display Button 

1ˆ˘ for the deck in

use, and with each press the display will cycle
through the following available information:
Elapsed time of current track ➜ Remaining Time
of current track ➜ Current Track Number ➜ File
name of Current Track (Up to the first six digits)

To read the total time of all tracks recorded on
an MP3 disc, the disc must be stopped. Then,
press and hold the CDP or CDR Display
Button

1ˆ˘ (as appropriate) for three

seconds, until a TTL TIME ON message
appears in the Time/Message Display F. Then
press the CDP or CDR Display Button again to
alternate between a display of the total number
of tracks and the total time of the disc. Press and
hold the CDP or CDR Display Button
1ˆ˘ again for three seconds until a
TTL TIME OFF

message appears in the

Time/Message Display F to return to stan-
dard display.

Headphone Listening
You may listen to the output of the CDR 30
through headphones at any time by simply plug-
ging the headphones into the Front-Panel Jack
4

. The volume of the headphone output may be

adjusted with the Headphones Level Control
5

. Note that changes to the headphone level

will not alter the output settings to the analog
outputs. Those levels are fixed, and the volume
should be adjusted using your receiver, preamp
or processor.

Note that when only one deck is playing back a
disc in the single play mode, the output of that
deck will be fed to the headphone jack. When
the unit is in the Dual-Playback mode, only the
output of the Play Deck 3 will be fed to the
headphone jack.

PROGRAM PLAY  19

The CDR 30’s advanced programming system
enables you to program certain tracks for play or
the order in which tracks are played or dubbed,
to repeat one track or all tracks, or to repeat any
segment of a disc without regard to track num-
bers.

Programming Play Lists
To program certain tracks or the order of play-
back for the tracks on a disc, insert the disc, let
the unit read the Table of Contents information,
and wait until the disc has stopped and the num-
ber of tracks and total running time is displayed.
Next, select the deck that will be programmed by
pressing the CDP Select button

3 on the

remote for the Play Deck 3 or the CDR
Select button

P on the remote for the

Record Deck %.

To begin the programming sequence, press the
Program Button 

4Ú and note that the

Prog Indicator C will light and the Time/
Message Display F will show 00 P-01 for
standard CD Audio discs and 000P01 for MP3
discs.

Next, enter the track numbers to be played by
pressing the Numeric Keys

E. For two-digit

track numbers, be certain to enter the second
digit within three seconds after the first number
is entered. As each track is entered, the display
will blink three times, alternating between two
displays (blinking and alternating will not be with
MP3 discs). The first display will show the track
number just entered on the left side of the
Time/Message Display F under the Track
Indicator W, while the right side will flash the
number of steps that have been programmed.
For example, after programming the first step to
be track number 3, the display will flash 03 P-
01

for CDs or 003P01 for MP3 discs.

With standard Audio CDs, alternating with the
track number and program step will be a display
of the track and the total running time of all
tracks that have been programmed so far. For
example, a display of 06 11:25 will indicate
that track number six was the last track pro-
grammed, and that the total time of all tracks so
far is 11 minutes and 25 seconds. The Total
Time Indicators SV will flash with this dis-
play to remind you of the display’s contents.

These displays will alternate three times, and
then show a steady display of the last track and
the number of steps programmed.

Now you can continue to add tracks in the order
you wish to have them played until the program-
ming session is complete. You may add up to 32
tracks, repeating a track if desired, as long as the
total number does not exceed 32. If you exceed
the 32 track limit, the display will read F U L L.

Tracks may also be added using the Next
MÛ and Previous buttons 8Ù to
locate the track, and the Program button

4Ú to enter that track to the programmed
sequence.

When the complete list of tracks has been
entered, press the Play button

9(. The

tracks will then play in the order they have been
entered.
Note that a programmed list of tracks may also
be recorded if the disc being programmed is in
the Play Deck 3. Follow the instructions on
page 21 for complete information on recording
and dubbing.

To escape from the program play mode and
return to normal play follow these steps: While
the program is playing, the Program button
4Ú must be pressed and the unit will
continue to play tracks in normal mode. And
while the player is stopped the Stop button
Ó

K must be pressed. In both cases the

Prog Indicator C will go out.

Checking, Editing and Clearing
Programmed Play Lists
Once you have entered a program list it will
remain in the unit’s memory until the disc is
removed or the unit is turned off. Thus, if you’ve
played through a program list, simply press the
Play button 

9( again to replay the list

while the Prog Indicator C is lit (otherwise
first press Program

4Ú). If you find that

you wish to check the list or make changes, that
is also possible by following a few simple steps:

To scroll through a program list, note that the
Prog Indicator C is lit (otherwise press
Program

4Ú) and press the Program

Check button 

7. Each press of the button will

move through the tracks that have been pro-
grammed. The display will alternate between the
track number plus the program step number
(e.g., 1 2 P - 0 3 for CD Audio discs, or
0 12 P 0 3

for MP3 discs, tells you that Track

12 on the disc is the 3rd program step) and the
track number plus the total running time so far in
the program (e.g., 1 2 16:04 tells you that
at this point you have programmed a total of 16
minutes and 4 seconds of material).
Note that alternating indication of total running
time of all programmed tracks is not available
with MP3 discs, even when the TTL TIME
ON

indication mode is selected (see page 17).

At any point in the list you may overwrite a pro-
grammed track number by simply entering the
new track number using the Numeric Keys
E. Alternatively you can modify the track num-
ber to be changed with the Next

MÛ and

8Ù buttons and enter it by

pressing the Program button 

4Ú. In

both cases the formerly programmed track num-
ber will be overwritten and automatically deleted
from the program list. To add a track number
(possible only to the end of a program list), press
the Program Check button 

7 repeatedly

until the track number 00 (or 000 with MP3

discs) is displayed, then enter the track number
you wish to add with the Numeric buttons 

E

directly or  press the Next or Previous buttons
and then the Program button 

4

Ú

, as described above.

To remove a step in the program, first use the
Program Check button 

7 to locate the track

you wish to delete. Next, press the Clear button
. The information in the display will blink and
the step will be removed from the program list.
Program steps need not be deleted in any order;
as long as you have located a step in the pro-
gram list, it may be erased.

To remove a total program list when the disc is
stopped, press the Clear button 

 repeatedly

(will delete one track after another, starting with
the first track programmed) until the appropriate
Prog Indicator C deletes or simply open and
close the disc drawer. Whenever a disc is re-
moved or the unit is turned off, the program list
is erased.

Repeat Play
The CDR 30’s programming system enables you
to repeat either a single track on a disc, the
entire disc (or all programmed tracks), or a spe-
cially programmed passage that you select.

Repeat One Track
To repeat the track you are currently listening to,
press the Repeat button

G and note that the

Repeat Mode Indicator B will light Repeat
1. If the track is changed by using the Next/
Previous Skip Buttons

8MÛÙ

or the Numeric buttons 

E while the Repeat

1 mode is active, the new track will now be
repeated.

Once Repeat 1 playback has been started, it will
continue until the unit is stopped by pressing the
Stop button

KÓ, or the disc deck is

opened by pressing the appropriate Open/Close
button 6$

2Q. When playback is

stopped, the Repeat mode is turned off automat-
ically.

20 PROGRAM PLAY

Repeat All Tracks
To repeat all the tracks on a disc (or all pro-
grammed tracks) in order, press the Repeat but-
ton 

G twice while the disc is playing and note

that the Repeat Mode Indicators B will light
Repeat All. The disc will play all the way
through, until the Stop button 

KÓ is

pressed.

Repeat All Discs
When two discs are loaded and you want to
repeat all tracks on both discs in sequence con-
tinually, turn the Single mode on by pressing the
Single Play Select button 

6 on the remote

or the Dual/Single Play Select button ¸ on
the Front Panel (see "Dual-Play Mode", page
18). While any disc is playing, press the Repeat
button 

G until the Repeat Mode Indicators

B

will light Repeat All CD´s. The current disc

will play through to the end, then the second
disc will start and play through too, and this will
repeat continually until the Stop button for the
deck in play 

KÓ is pressed.

Any Repeat function may be cancelled at any
time by pressing the Repeat button 

G until all

Repeat Mode Indicators B go out. The
Repeat Function is also canceled when the Stop
button 

KÓ is pressed or the disc drawer is

opened.

Repeat A-B
The CDR 30 may be programmed to repeat any
section within a track, or a complete passage
that includes material from a series of consecu-
tive tracks.

To program the unit for A-B Repeat play, first
play the disc and locate the point where you
wish to begin the repeated section. At the start
point, press the A-B Repeat button 

F and

note that the Repeat Mode Indicator B will
show Repeat and a blinking A-. Let the disc
play or skip or search forward until the point at
which the section to be repeated will end. At that
end point, press the A-B Repeat button 

F

again and note that the Repeat Mode
Indicator A- B will stop blinking and will light
showing Repeat A-B.

The unit will immediately begin to play the
section you have programmed, and continually
repeat it.

Notes:
• The program material selected for A-B repeat

must be at least 3 seconds long.

• The repeat A-B feature does not function when

an MP3 disc is playing.

To resume normal play, press the A-B Repeat
button 

F again. The Repeat A-B Indicators

B

will go out, and the disc will continue playing

through to the end. Stopping the disc or opening
the disc drawer will automatically cancel the
Repeat A-B programming.

Random Play
The CDR 30 may be programmed to play all the
tracks on any disc in random order, playing each
track until the entire disc has been played.

To playback the tracks in a random sequence
from stop or play mode, press the Random Play
Button 

A, making certain that you have first

pressed the CDP

3 or CDR Select Button

P, as appropriate, so that the random com-
mand will be accepted by the proper deck. Once
the Random Play Button 

A is pressed, the

Random Indicator A will light and the CDR
30’s internal processor will select the tracks to be
played in random order and play through the
disc.

If one of the Next Track Buttons 

MÛ is

pressed during Random Play, the unit will move
to the next randomly selected track, not the next
track in numerical sequence. If the Random
Play Button 

A is pressed again, Random play

mode is canceled and the unit continues to play
in normal mode.

To stop a Random Play sequence, simply press
the Stop Button for the deck in play 

KÓ.

The Random Play mode is also canceled when a
disc drawer is opened by pressing one of the
Open/Close Buttons 

2Q6D.

Notes:
• Random play will not function in combination

with Program play, programmed tracks cannot
be played randomly.

• In Single mode, when two discs are loaded and

one is played through randomly, the CDR30
automatically will start to randomly play the
second disc through.

• In Play or Pause mode, the random function

can be combined with the Repeat All Tracks
or even the Repeat All Discs function (see
above). Then all titles of the current disc or
alternatingly of both discs will be played
through randomly, until the Random function is
stopped as decribed above.

Intro Scan Play is a feature of the CDR 30 
that allows you to quickly go through the con-
tents of a disc by automatically playing the first
10 seconds of each track.

To begin Intro Scan Play, press the Intro Scan
Button 

I for the deck containing the disc you

wish to hear. The deck will automatically go into
the Play mode, and will play the first 10 seconds
of each track on the disc in sequence, while the
Play Indicator 

›

L

starts to blink, until all

tracks are played or the Stop button for the deck
in play 

KÓ is pressed.

To hear the entire contents of a track while it 
is playing in the Intro Scan mode, press the Play
Button 

9( for the appropriate deck.