Alpine CDA-118M - Manual (Page 18)

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Quick Search
You can search a song from all songs in the iPhone/iPod without
selecting an album, artist, etc.
1
Press and hold / ENTER for at least 2 seconds to
activate the Quick Search mode.
2
Turn the Rotary encoder to select a desired song.
The selected song is played back immediately.
• This function is effective only when Quick Search is ON, refer to
“Setting the Quick Search ON and OFF” (page 8).
• While in the search mode, if you press , or no operation is
performed for 10 seconds, the search mode is canceled.
• If many songs are in iPhone/iPod, it takes time to search for songs.
• This function is inactive during repeat (
) playback.
Percent Skip Function
The unit is provided with a percent skip function for effective searching.
In Playlist/Artist/Album/Podcast/Audiobook/Genre/Composer/Song
mode, you can quickly target any song.
If there are 100 songs in your iPhone/iPod, they are divided into 10
groups using percentages (shown below).
* You can select to show a percentage of the total stored songs, in 10%
steps.
1
In the search mode, press FUNC./SETUP
repeatedly to choose the percent skip mode.
Alphabet skip function Percent skip function
Normal search mode Alphabet skip function
2
Turn the Rotary encoder, and then press or
.
Each press of the to the right will jump 10%, 20% and
100% in ascending order.
Each press of the to the left will jump 100%, 90% and
10% in descending order.
• When the total number of list is less than 10, it will be skipped one by
one.
Alphabet Skip Function
The default skip mode is alphabetic. Use this function to skip to the next
number, symbol or letter (for example from A to B, B to C).
You can skip in reverse order such as B to A by pressing
.
1
In the search mode, press FUNC./SETUP to
alphabet skip mode.
Alphabet skip function Percent skip function
Normal search mode Alphabet skip function
2
Turn the Rotary encoder and then press or
.
A list is skipped to the next page or next number, symbol or
letter.
• If the or is pressed and held, the display continuously
changes.
• Titles are listed alphabetically, and can be skipped every 200 titles. If
there are fewer than 200 titles, titles beginning with the next
alphabetical character are selected.
Up/Down Function
If you select an album and press and hold /ENTER in the search
mode, this album will be played back repeatedly. To go to the previous
or next Album, use the Up/Down function.
1
Press and hold / ENTER for at least 2 seconds to
activate the Direct Up/Down mode.
2
Turn the Rotary encoder to select the desired
Playlist/Artist/Album/Genre/Composer.
• This function is effective only when Quick Search is OFF, refer to
“Setting the Quick Search ON and OFF” (page 8).
• If the song search mode was used to select a song, this function is
inactive.
• If an album is selected during an artist search, the Up/Down function
can be used to play other albums by that artist.
• If you listen to an episode from a selected podcast or audiobook, the
episode can be changed by this operation.
• This function is inactive during shuffle ( ) playback.
• This function is available in USB AUDIO mode.
Search Position Memory
During iPhone/iPod playback, you can quickly return to the last-
selected hierarchy level in the search mode.
1
Press .
The hierarchy you selected last in the search mode is
displayed.
Number of
song
All 100 songs
%
10th
song
20th
song
... 50th
song
... 80th
song
... 100th
song
10 %
20 %
...
50 %
...
80 %
...
100 %