Sony CDP-997 - Manual (Page 4)

Overview
Enjoy listening in various playing modes
You can select playing modes among the following:
Continuous play (page 10) - The entire disc is played once.
Shuffle play (page 16)
Delete play (page 17)
Repeat play (page 19)
Program play (page 20)
- Selections are played in a
random order.
- Selections of your choice are
played in the order you desire.
- Selections or portions are
played repeatedly.
- Selections are played in your
desired order.
Editing your own tapes
• You can start to play from the immediate beginning of a
selection. - Auto Cue (page 13)
• You can fade in or out the play when making your own
tape recording. - Fade in/Fade out (page 22)
• CUSTOM EDIT function
-You can program a pause separately on side A and
B. - Pause program (page 24)
-You can confirm the total playing time while choosing
the selections to be programmed. - Program edit (page
24)
-You can designate the playing order of up to 6 discs.
- Multi-disc program (page 26)
-The player can program selections automatically to fit in
a desired duration. - Time edit/Just edit (page 28)
-You can stop the play, fading out at the time desired.
- Time fade (page 30)
-The loudest portion of the disc will be determined and
played repeatedly. - Peak search (page 31)
Enjoy listening in various acoustic atmospheres
The DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR (DSP) lets you listen
to selections according to various acoustic atmospheres,
(page 14)
You can play a beginning of each selection
You can check the selections by scanning the beginning of
each selection in the disc. - Music scan play (page 18)
Making your disc custom-made - CUSTOM FILE
function
• You can store the optimum playback level of each disc in
the player’s memory. - Level file (page 33)
• You can assign a name to a disc, such as the title of the
disc or the date of purchase. - Disc memo (page 34)
• You can assign your own index point to any desired
position on a disc. - Custom index (page 36)
• You can store the programmed playing order for a disc.
- Program bank (page 38)
• You can keep your undesired selections in memory
- Delete bank (page 39)
• You can select and store specific acoustic surround
effects for an individual disc. - DSP file (page 40)
You can make 3-second blanks between selections
The blank space enables you to locate selections when
using a tape deck with the automatic selection search
function. - Auto space (page 31)
Easy-to-see display
The selection number, the playing time, the remaining time
are displayed by pressing the TIME/MEMO button.
In addition, you can change the desired display information
by selecting three patterns. Adjusting the brightness of the
display by selecting three patterns, (page 11)