Sony HCD-GX8800 Operating Instructions - Page 31

Speakers Sound comes from only one channel or unbalanced left and right volume. • Check the speaker connection and speaker placement. Sound lacks bass. • Check that the speaker's + and - terminals are connected correctly. CD Player The disc tray does not open and "LOCKED" appears on the front panel display. • Contact your Sony dealer or local authorized Sony service facility. The disc tray does not close. • The disc is not placed properly. The CD does not play. • The disc is not lying flat in the disc tray. • The disc is dirty. • The disc is inserted label side down. • Moisture condensation has built up. Remove the disc and leave the system turned on for about an hour until the moisture evaporates. Disc access takes a longer time. • Set "CD POWER ON" by CD power manage function (page 15). Playback does not start from the first track. • The player is in Program Play or Shuffle Play mode. Press PLAY MODE repeatedly until "1 DISC", "ALBM" or "ALL DISCS" appears. MP3 audio track cannot be played back. • Recording was not performed according to the ISO 9660 level 1, level 2, or Joliet in the expansion format. • The MP3 audio track does not have the extension ".MP3". • The data is not stored in MP3 format. • The discs containing tracks other than MPEG 1, 2 and 2.5 Audio Layer-3 files cannot be played back. MP3 audio tracks take a longer time to playback than others. • After the unit reads all tracks on the disc, playback may take more time than usual if - the number of albums or tracks on the disc is very large. - the album and track organization structure is very complex. The album title, track title, and ID3 tag do not appear correctly. • Use a disc that conforms with ISO 9660 level 1, level 2, or Joliet in the expansion format. • The ID3 tag is not version 1 or version 2. The album title, track title, ID3 tag and the CD TEXT characters do not appear properly. • The character code that can be displayed by this unit are as follows. - Upper cases (A to Z) - Lower cases (a to z) - Numbers (0 to 9) - Symbols Other characters may not be displayed correctly. continued Troubleshooting 31GB MHC-GN800 4-244-569-11 (1)