How To View The Display; Playback; Searching For A Desired Song/Title - Alpine iDA-X305S Quick Reference Manual

How to View the Display

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1 Mode display
2 Song title/Episode title/Audiobook title
3 Artist title/Podcast title
4 Album title/Release date
5 Artwork screen
6 Elapsed time
7 Remaining time for playing
8 Calendar/Time
• When playback time reaches 100 minutes, "00'00" is displayed.

Playback

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Press SOURCE to switch to the iPod mode.
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Press or to select the desired song.
Return to the beginning of the current song:
Press .
Fast backward:
Press and hold .
Advance to the beginning of the next song:
Press .
Fast forward:
Press and hold .
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To pause playback, press
Pressing / again will resume playback.
• If a song is playing on the iPod/iPhone when it is connected to the
iDA-X305S, it will continue playing after the connection.
• Podcasts or audiobooks may have several chapters. The chapters can
be changed by pressing or
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Searching for a desired Song/Title

An iPod/iPhone can contain thousands of songs. The unit for this reason
can make various searches using the search function as shown below.
Using the Playlist/Artist/Album/Podcast/Audiobook/Genre/Composer/
Song search mode's individual hierarchy, you can narrow down your
search as shown in the table below.
Hierarchy 1 Hierarchy 2
Playlists Songs
Artists Albums
Albums Songs
Podcasts Episodes
Audiobooks —
Genres Artists
Composers Albums
Songs —
• You can select your preferred search mode. Refer to "iPod/iPhone
Search Mode Setting" (page 26).
• For example, if the selected artist has only one album, the song
search mode is selected immediately, skipping the album search
mode.
For example: Searching by Artist name
The following example explains how an ARTIST search is
performed. Another search mode can be used for the same
operation, although the hierarchy differs.
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Press /ENTER to activate the Menu Select mode.
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Rotate the Double Action encoder to select
"Artists", and then press
The artist search mode is activated and an artist name is
displayed.
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Rotate the Double Action encoder to select the
desired Artist, and then press
The album search mode is activated and an album name is
displayed.
Pressing and holding /ENTER for at least 2 seconds will
play back all songs of the selected artist.
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Rotate the Double Action encoder to select an
album, and then press
The song search mode is activated and a song name is
displayed.
Pressing and holding /ENTER for at least 2 seconds will
play back all songs of the selected album.
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Rotate the Double Action encoder to select a
song and press /ENTER.
The selected song is played back.
Hierarchy 3 Hierarchy 4
— —
Songs —
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— —
— —
Albums Songs
Songs —
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/ENTER.
/ENTER.
/ENTER.
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