navigation system Acura TL 2007 Service Manual

Depending on where you drive, you
may experience reception problems.
Interf erence can be caused by any of
these conditions:Driving on the north side of a
large commercial truck on an
east/west road.
Driving in tunnels.
Driving on a road beside a vertical
wall, steep clif f , or hill to the south
of you.
Driving on the lower level of a
multi-tiered road.
Driving on a single lane road
alongside dense trees taller than
50 ft. (15 m) to the south of you. If you decide to purchase XM
satellite radio service, contact XM
Radio at, or at
1-800-852-9696. You will need to give
them your radio I.D. number and
your credit card number. To get your
radio I.D. number, turn the TUNE knob until ‘‘0’’ appears in the display.
Your I.D. will appear in the display.
There may be other geographic
situations that could af f ect XM radio
reception. Driving on the north side of an
east/west mountain road.
While waiting f or activation, make
sure your vehicle remains in an open
area with good reception. Once your
audio system is activated, you should
be able to listen to XM radio
broadcasts. XM Radio will continue
to send an activation signal to your
vehicle for at least 12 hours from the
activation request. If the service has
not been activated after 36 hours,
contact XM Radio.
If your XM Radio service has expired
or you purchased your vehicle f rom
a previous owner, you can listen to a
sampling of the broadcasts available
on XM Satellite Radio. With the
ignition switch in the ACCESSORY
(I) or ON (II) position, push the
power/volume knob to turn on the
audio system and press the XM
RADIO button. A variety of music
types and styles will play. After you’ve registered with XM
Radio, keep your audio system in the
Satellite Radio mode while you wait
f or activation. This should take about
30 minutes.As required by the FCC:
Changes or modif ications not expresslyapproved by the party responsible f orcompliance could void the user’sauthority to operate the equipment.
www.xmradio.com
Receiving Satellite Radio Service
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Operating the Disc Changer
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DISC SLOT
SEEK BUTTONS
SCAN BUTTON
RANDOM BUTTON
REPEAT BUTTON
DISC BUTTONDISP BUTTON
AM/FM BUTTON
DISC/TAPE BUTTON
LOAD BUTTON
PWR/VOL KNOB EJECT BUTTON
DISC BUTTON
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Your vehicle’s audio system has an
in-dash disc changer that holds up to
six discs. You operate this disc
changer with the same controls used
f or the radio. To operate the disc
changer, the ignition switch must be
in the ACCESSORY (I) or ON (II)
position.
CD
CD-R
DVD-A
DTS The disc changer can play these disc
formats:
‘‘DTS’’ and ‘‘DTS Digital Surround’’
are registered trademarks of Digital
Theater Systems, Inc. This audio system can also play
CD-Rs and CD-RWs compressed in
MP3 or WMA f ormats. When
playing a disc in MP3, you will see
‘‘MP3’’ in the display. In WMA
f ormat, ‘‘WMA’’ will appear in the
display. You can select up to 255
folders or tracks.
NOTE:
If a f ile on an MP3 or WMA disc is
protected by digital rights
management (DRM), the audio unit
displays FORMAT, and then skips to
the next f ile.
The specif ications of the compatible
MP3 f ile are:
The specif ications of the compatible
WMA f ile are:
Sampling f requency: 32/44.1/48
kHz
Bit rate: 48/64/80/96/128/160/
192 kbps
Compatible with variable bit rate
and multi-session.
Maximum layers (including
ROOT): 8 layers
Sampling f requency: 32/44.1/48
kHz (MPEG1)
16/22.05/24 kHz (MPEG2)
Bit rate: 32/40/48/56/64/80/96/
112/128/160/192/224/256/320
kbps (MPEG1), 8/16/24/32/40/
48/56/64/80/96/112/128/144/
160 kbps (MPEG2) Compatible with variable bit rate
and multi-session.
Maximum layers
(including ROOT): 8 layers
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TM
Do not use discs with adhesive labels.
The label can curl up and cause the
disc to jam in the unit.
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To load multiple discs in one
operation:
With the ignition switch in the
ACCESSORY (I) or ON (II)
position, press and hold the LOAD
button until you hear a beep and
see ‘‘LOAD’’ in the display, then
release the button.
Insert a disc into the slot. Insert it
only about half way; the drive will
pull it in the rest of the way.
When the ‘‘DISC LOAD’’ appears
in the display, insert the next disc
into the slot. To load a single disc:
Press and release the LOAD
button.
The disc number f or an empty
position is highlighted and the
green load indicator comes on.
When you see ‘‘LOAD’’ in the
display, insert the disc into the slot.
Insert it only about halfway; the
drive will pull it in the rest of the
way.
If you press the LOAD button while
a disc is playing, the system will stop
playing that disc and start the
loading sequence. It will then play
the disc just loaded.
Repeat this until all six positions
are loaded. The system will then
begin playing the last disc loaded. If you stop loading discs bef ore all
six positions are f illed, the system
will wait f or 15 seconds, stop the load
operation, and begin playing the last
disc loaded.
Select the disc changer by pressing
the DISC/TAPE button. The system
will begin playing the last selected
disc in the disc changer. You will see
the disc and track numbers
displayed.
To select a dif f erent disc when all six
positions are loaded, press the
corresponding number on the preset
buttons. You can also select a disc by
touching the appropriate disc icon (1
6).
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3. 2.
4. L oading Discs in the Changer Playing a Disc
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Each time you press the DISP button,
the display shows you the text data
on a disc, if the disc was recorded
with text data.
You can see the album, artist, and
track name in the display. If a disc is
recorded in MP3 or WMA, you can
see the f older and f ile name, and the
album, artist, and track tag.
With the f older name, you will see
the FOLDER indicator in the display.
The TRACK indicator is shown with
the file or track name.
The display shows up to about 16
characters of selected text data (the
foldername,filename,etc.).If the
text data has more than 16
characters, you will see the first 15
characters and the indicator in
the display. Press and hold the DISP
button until the next 16 characters
are shown. You will also see some text data
under these conditions:
When a new f older, f ile, or track is
selected.
When you change the audio mode
to play a disc with text data or in
MP3 or WMA.
When you insert a disc, and the
system begins to play.
When playing a CD-DA with text
data, the album and track name are
showninthedisplay.Withadiscin
MP3 or WMA, the display shows the
f older and f ile name. Use the SEEK or SEEK button
while a disc is playing to select
passages and change tracks (f iles in
MP3/WMA mode).
Each time you press and
release the SEEK button, the
player skips f orward to the
beginning of the next track (f ile in
MP3 or WMA). Press and release
the SEEK button to skip
backward to the beginning of the
current track. Press it again to skip
to the beginning of the previous
track.
T ext Dat a Display Funct ion T o Change or Select T racks/Files
SEEK
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In MP3 or WMA mode In MP3 or WMA mode
To
select a different folder, turn the
TUNE knob to move to the
beginning of the next f older. Turn
theknobtotherighttoskiptothe
next f older, and to the lef t to move to
the beginning of the current f older.
Turn it again to skip to the beginning
of the previous f older. Turning the
TUNE knob more than one click
skips several f olders at a time.
To continuously replay
a track (f iles in MP3 or WMA mode),
press and release the RPT button or
touch the REPEAT icon on the audio
screen. You will see RPT in the
display. Press and hold the RPT
button for 2 seconds to turn it off. This feature,
when activated, replays all f iles on
the selected f older in the order they
are compressed. To activate folder
repeat, press the RPT button twice.
You will see F-RPT in the display.
The system continuously replays the
current f older. To turn of f f older
repeat, press the RPT button for 2
seconds, or push it twice.
Each time you press and release the
RPT button, the mode changes f rom
f ile repeat to f older repeat, then to
normal playing. When you press
the RPT button three times, D-RPT
appears in the display, and the
system continuously replays the
current disc. To turn this f eature of f ,
press the RPT button or touch DISC
RPT again.
This f eature plays
the tracks within a disc (the f iles
within a f older in MP3 or WMA
mode) in random order. To activate
random play in CD-DA f ormat, press
and release the RDM button. In MP3
or WMA mode, press the RDM
button to activate random play within
a f older. You will see F-RDM in the
display. To return to normal play,
press the RPT button f or 2 seconds,
or push it twice.
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FOLDER SELECTION
REPEAT (TRACK/FILE
REPEAT) FOL DER-REPEA T
DISC REPEAT
RANDOM (Random within a
disc/f older)
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The scan f unction samples all tracks
(f iles in MP3 or WMA) on the disc in
the order they are recorded on the
disc. To activate scan, press the
SCAN button or touch the SCAN
icon on the audio screen. In MP3 or
WMA mode, press the SCAN button
repeatedly to select SCAN. You will
see SCAN in the display. You will get
a10secondsamplingof eachtrack/
f ile on the disc. Press the SCAN
button or touch the SCAN icon again
to get out of scan mode and play the
last track/f ile sampled.This
feature, when activated, samples the
f irst f ile of each f older on the disc.
To activate folder scan, press the
SCAN button twice. You will see
F-SCAN in the display.
The system plays the f irst f ile in the
f irst f older f or about 10 seconds. If
you do nothing, the system will then
play the f irst f iles in the remaining
f olders f or 10 seconds each. Af ter
playing the f irst f ile of the last f older,
the system plays normally.
To turn f older scan of f , press either
SEEK button, select a dif f erent
f older with the TUNE knob, or press
the SCAN button.
This
feature, when activated, plays all
f iles in each f older in random order.
To activate folder random, press the
RDM button twice. You will see F-
RDM in the display. The system will
then select and play f iles randomly.
This continues until you deactivate
f older random by pressing the RDM
button again, or by selecting a
dif f erent f older with the TUNE knob. SCA N (T RA CK /FIL E SCA N)
F-SCAN (FOLDER SCAN)
FOLDER-RANDOM
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If the disc was not recorded with text
data, only the track number is shown.
To scroll through the display, touch
the or icononthesideof
thedisplay.Togobacktothe
previous display, touch the Return
icon on the display.
Select the desired track/f ile by
touching the icon on the display. The
selected icon will be highlighted in
blue. The system begins to play the
selected track/f ile. With a disc in
MP3 or WMA, touch the f older icon
on the upper lef t of the screen to
move to the parent folder. The
current f older is highlighted in blue. To take the system out of disc mode,
press the AM/FM button, or insert a
tape in the tape player. To return to
disc mode, press the DISC/TAPE
button.
If you turn the system of f while a
disc is playing, either with the
power/volume knob or by turning
of f the ignition switch, the disc will
stay in the drive. When you turn the
system back on, the disc will begin
playing where it lef t of f .
You can also select a track/f ile
directly f rom a track list on the audio
display. Touch the TRACK LIST
icon. The track list menu appears on
the audio display.
When playing a CD recorded with
text data, each track name is shown
on the audio display. With a disc
recorded in MP3 or WMA, the f older
number and the location are also
displayed. Using a T rack L ist T o Stop Playing a Disc
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FOLDER ICONTRACK FILE ICON
FOLDER NUMBER RETURN ICON
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To remove the disc that is currently
playing, press the eject button. You
will see ‘‘EJECT’’ in the display.
When you remove the disc f rom the
slot, the system automatically begins
the load sequence so you can load
another disc in that position. If you
do not load another disc within 15
seconds, the system selects the
previous mode (AM, FM1, FM2,
tape, or XM Radio).
If you do not remove the disc f rom
the slot, the system will reload the
disc af ter 15 seconds and put the
disc changer in pause mode. To
begin playing the disc, press the disc
button.To remove a different disc from the
changer,firstselectitbypressing
the corresponding number on the
preset button or touching the
appropriate disc icon on the audio
display. When that disc begins
playing, press the eject button.
When you press the eject button
while listening to the radio, or with
the audio system turned of f , the disc
that was last selected is ejected.
Af ter that disc is ejected, pressing
the eject button again will eject the
next disc in numerical order. By
doing this six times, you can remove
all the discs f rom the changer.
To eject one disc, press and release
the eject button. You can also eject discs when the
ignition switch is of f :
To eject all discs, press and hold the
eject button until the system beeps.
Removing Discs f rom the
Changer
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The ignition switch must be in the
ACCESSORY (I) or the ON (II)
position. Make sure the open side of
thetapeisfacingright,theninsert
thetapemostof thewayintotheslot.
Thesystemwillpullthetapeinthe
rest of the way and begin to play it.
Thetapedirectionindicatorinthe
display comes on to show you which
side of the tape is playing. Theindicates the side you inserted
upward is now playing. If you want to
play the other side, press the PLAY/
PROG (preset 2) button or touch the or icon. When the player
reaches the end of the tape, it will
automatically reverse direction and
play the other side.
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Playing a T ape
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REWIND BUTTON AM/FM
BUTTON
DISC/TAPE
BUTTON PWR/VOL
KNOB REPEAT
BUTTON
FAST FORWARD
BUTTON
PLAY/PROGRAM
BUTTON DOLBY BUTTONEJECT BUTTON SEEK BUTTONS
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