Tascam MD-CD1 Owner's Manual

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7 – CD and MD Playback—Random playback30 TASCAM MD-CD1 Owner’s ManualNOTERight after STOP, if the number of the track to be addedis input, and the ENT/YES key is pressed, the track willbe added to the end of the program.To add a track to the program by front panel operation,use the MULTI JOG dial to select the track number, thenpress the ENTER key.Program limitationsWith an MD, if the Group mode is on, programs thatinclude more than one group cannot be created.With MP3 discs, if the Directory mode is on, pro-grams that include more than one directory cannot becreated.The same track may be repeated in a program.When 99 CD tracks CD (or 25 MD tracks) areentered into a program, if you attempt to add a track,“PGM Full!” will be displayed, and no more trackscan be added.Saving program dataWhen program playback has finished, or when theSTOP key is pressed, and the deck stops, the programdata is retained.When the power is turned off, the Program playbackmode remains on, but the program data is deleted.When the deck is stopped, pressing the STOP keywill delete the program data.When the deck is stopped, pressing the P.MODE keywill cancel the Program mode and delete the programdata.When the PLAY key is pressed but there is no pro-gram data, “PGM Empty!” will be displayed, and thedeck will not operate.Random playbackIn this mode, the deck will play back all the tracks onthe disc in completely random order, regardless oftrack number.1 During stop mode, press the P.MODE key onthe remote control until “RANDOM” is indi-cated on the display.NOTEYou can also use the “PLAY MODE?” option in the PLAYsub-menu of the MD and CD menus to set the RandomPlayback mode.2 Press the PLAY key and Random playbackwill begin.NOTEEven when the power is turned off, the deck willremain in RANDOM mode.Time display switchingDuring MD or audio CD playback (or playbackstandby), when the TIME key on either the frontpanel or the remote control is pressed, the time dis-play will switch through several modes in the follow-ing order.Elapsed track time (no display light indication)Remaining track time (REMAIN is lit in the display)Elapsed disc time (TOTAL is lit in the display)Remaining disc time (TOTAL and REMAIN are lit inthe display)NOTEDuring MD playback, the remaining disc time indica-tion, as with CD, shows the playback time remaininguntil the end of the disc. Please note that this may dif-fer from the remaining time indicated when recordingthe MD.When stopped, the total recording time is shown,regardless of the status of the TOTAL and REMAIN indi-cators.When playing an MP3 disc, elapsed track time is alwaysdisplayed, and the TIME key does not operate.For details on time display during recording and record-ing standby on an MD deck, please refer to “Checkingremaining MD time” on page 40.Even when the power is turned off, the time displaymode setting is retained.