The audio system has a Radio Data System (RDS). RDS features are available for use only on FM stations that broadcast RDS information.
With RDS, the radio can do the following:
• | Seek to stations broadcasting the selected type of programming |
• | Receive announcements concerning local and national emergencies |
• | Display messages from radio stations |
• | Seek to stations with traffic announcements |
This system relies upon receiving specific information from these stations and will only work when the information is available. In rare cases, a radio station may broadcast incorrect information that will cause the radio features to work improperly. If this happens, contact the radio station.
While the radio is tuned to an RDS station, the station name or call letters will appear on the display. RDS stations may also provide the time of day, a program type (PTY) for current programming, and the name of the program being broadcast.
If your vehicle has XM™, XM™ is a satellite radio service that is based in the 48 contiguous United States and in Canada (if available). XM™ offers over 100 coast-to-coast channels including music, news, sports, talk, and children's programming. XM™ provides digital quality audio and text information that includes song title and artist name. A service fee is required in order to receive the XM™ service. For more information, contact XM™ at www.xmradio.com or call 1-800-852-XMXM (9696).
Up to 30 stations (six FM1, six FM2, and six AM, six XM1 and six XM2 (if equipped)), can be programmed on the six numbered pushbuttons, by performing the following steps:
To select and find a desired category perform the following:
If both category and traffic are on, the radio will search for stations with the selected category and traffic announcements.
If the radio cannot find the desired category, NONE will appear on the display and the radio will return to the last station you were listening to.
SCAN: Scan the stations within a category by performing the following:If both category and TRAF are on, the radio will scan for stations with the selected category and traffic announcements.
BAND (Alternate Frequency): Alternate frequency allows the radio to switch to a stronger station with the same category. To turn alternate frequency on, press and hold BAND for four seconds. AF ON will appear on the display. The radio may switch to stations with a stronger frequency. To turn alternate frequency off, press and hold BAND again for four seconds. AF OFF will appear on the display. The radio will not switch to other stations. This function does not apply for XM™ Satellite Radio Service.If any error occurs repeatedly or if an error cannot be corrected, contact your GM dealer. If the radio displays an error message, write it down and provide it to your GM dealer when reporting the problem.
Radio Display Message | Condition | Action Required |
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XL (Explicit Language Channels) | XL on the radio display, after the channel name, indicates content with explicit language. | These channels, or any others, can be blocked at a customer's request, by calling 1-800-852-XMXM (9696). |
Updating | Updating encryption code | The encryption code in the receiver is being updated, and no action is required. This process should take no longer than 30 seconds. |
No Signal | Loss of signal | The system is functioning correctly, but the vehicle is in a location that is blocking the XM™ signal. When you move into an open area, the signal should return. |
Loading XM | Acquiring channel audio (after 4 second delay) | The audio system is acquiring and processing audio and text data. No action is needed. This message should disappear shortly. |
CH Off Air | Channel not in service | This channel is not currently in service. Tune to another channel. |
CH Unavail | Channel no longer available | This previously assigned channel is no longer assigned. Tune to another station. If this station was one of the presets, choose another station for that preset button. |
No Info | Artist Name/Feature not available | No artist information is available at this time on this channel. The system is working properly. |
No Info | Song/Program Title not available | No song title information is available at this time on this channel. The system is working properly. |
No Info | Category Name not available | No category information is available at this time on this channel. The system is working properly. |
No Info | No Text/Informational message available | No text or informational messages are available at this time on this channel. The system is working properly. |
Not Found | No channel available for the chosen category | There are no channels available for the selected category. The system is working properly. |
XM Locked | Theft lock active | The XM™ receiver in the vehicle may have previously been in another vehicle. For security purposes, XM™ receivers cannot be swapped between vehicles. If this message is received after having your vehicle serviced, check with your GM dealer. |
Radio ID | Radio ID label (channel 0) | If tuned to channel 0, this message will alternate with the XM™ Radio eight digit radio ID label. This label is needed to activate the service. |
Unknown | Radio ID not known (should only be if hardware failure) | If this message is received when tuned to channel 0, there may be a receiver fault. Consult with your GM dealer. |
Chk XMRcvr | Hardware failure | If this message does not clear within a short period of time, your receiver may have a fault. Consult with your GM dealer. |
Insert a CD partway into the slot, label side up. The player will pull it in and the CD should begin playing.
If the ignition or radio is turned off with a CD in the player, it will stay in the player. When the ignition or radio is turned on, the CD will start playing where it stopped, if it was the last selected audio source.
When a CD is inserted, CD and the CD symbol will appear on the display. As each new track starts to play the track number will appear on the display.
The CD player can play the smaller 3 inch (8 cm) single CDs with an adapter ring. Full-size CDs and the smaller CDs are loaded in the same manner.
If playing a CD-R, the sound quality (and playback performance) may be reduced due to the CD-R quality, method of recording, the quality of the music that has been recorded, and the way the CD-R has been handled. For better playback performance when home burning audio discs, use brand named CD media showing the Compact Disc™, and a burn rate no faster than 12X.
There may be an increase in skipping, difficulty in finding tracks, and/or difficulty in loading and ejecting. If these problems occur, check the bottom surface of the CD. If the surface of the CD is damaged, such as cracked, broken, or scratched, the CD will not play properly. If the surface of the CD is soiled, see Care of Your CDs and DVDs for more information.
If there is no apparent damage, try a known good CD.
Do not add any label to a CD, it could get caught in the CD player. If a CD is recorded on a personal computer and a description label is needed, try labeling the top of the recorded CD with a marking pen instead.
Notice: If a label is added to a CD, or more than one CD is inserted into the slot at a time, or an attempt is made to play scratched or damaged CDs, the CD player could be damaged. While using the CD player, use only CDs in good condition without any label, load one CD at a time, and keep the CD player and the loading slot free of foreign materials, liquids, and debris.
If an error appears on the display, see "CD Messages" later in this section.
/ (Tune): Turn this knob to go to the next or previous track.If the ignition or radio is turned off, with a CD in the player, it will stay in the player. When the ignition or radio is turned on, the CD will start playing where it stopped, if it was the last selected audio source.
When a CD is inserted, the CD symbol will appear on the CD. As each new track starts to play, the track number will appear on the display.
The CD player can play the smaller 3 inch (8 cm) single CDs with an adapter ring. Full-size CDs and the smaller CDs are loaded in the same manner.
If playing a CD-R, the sound quality (and playback performance) may be reduced due to the CD-R quality, method of recording, the quality of the music that has been recorded, and the way the CD-R has been handled. For better playback performance when home burning audio discs, use brand named CD media showing the Compact Disc™, and a burn rate no faster than 12X.
There may be an increase in skipping, difficulty in finding tracks, and/or difficulty in loading and ejecting. If these problems occur, check the bottom surface of the CD. If the surface of the CD is damaged, such as cracked, broken, or scratched, the CD will not play properly. If the surface of the CD is soiled, see Care of Your CDs and DVDs for more information.
If there is no apparent damage, try a known good CD.
Do not add any label to a CD, it could get caught in the CD player. If a CD is recorded on a personal computer and a description label is needed, try labeling the top of the recorded CD with a marking pen instead.
Notice: If a label is added to a CD, or more than one CD is inserted into the slot at a time, or an attempt is made to play scratched or damaged CDs, the CD player could be damaged. While using the CD player, use only CDs in good condition without any label, load one CD at a time, and keep the CD player and the loading slot free of foreign materials, liquids, and debris.
If an error appears on the display, see "CD Messages" later in this section.
(Load): Press this button to load CDs into the CD player. This CD player will hold up to six CDs.To insert one CD, do the following:
To insert multiple CDs, do the following:
You will hear a beep and LOAD ALL DISC will appear on the display.
Once the CD is loaded, wait for INSERT CD # to appear on the display, then load the next CD. The CD player takes up to six CDs. Do not try to load more than six.
To load more than one CD but less than six, complete Steps 1 through 3. When finished loading CDs, press the load button to cancel the loading function. The radio will begin to play the last CD loaded.
If more than one CD has been loaded, a number for each CD will appear on the display.
For every CD loaded, a number will appear on the display. To play a specific CD press the numbered pushbutton that corresponds to the CD.
If an error appears on the display, see "CD Messages" later in this section.
(Eject): Press this button to eject CD(s).To eject the CD that is currently playing, press and release this button.
To eject multiple CDs, do the following:
You will hear a beep and EJECT ALL DISCS will appear on the display.
To stop ejecting the CDs, press the load or the eject button.
If the CD is not removed, after 25 seconds, the CD will be automatically pulled back into the player. If CD is pushed back into the player, before the 25 second time period is complete, the player will sense an error and will try to eject the CD several times before stopping.
Do not repeatedly press the eject button to eject a CD after you have tried to push it in manually. The player's 25-second eject timer will reset at each press of eject, causing the player to not eject the CD until the 25-second time period has elapsed.
/ (Tune): Turn this knob to go to the next or previous track.To use random, do one of the following:
• | To play the tracks on the CD you are listening to in random order, press and release this button until RANDOM DISC PLAY appears on the display. |
• | To play the tracks on all of the CDs that are loaded in random order, press and release this button until RANDOM ALL DISCS appears on the display. |
To turn off random play, press and release the RDM button until RANDOM OFF appears on the display
RPT (Repeat): Press this button to hear a track or an entire CD over again. To use repeat, do one of the following:• | To repeat a track, press and release this button until REPEAT appears on the display. |
• | To repeat an entire CD, press and release this button until REPEAT ONE DISC appears on the display. |
To turn off repeated play, press and release the RPT button until REPEAT OFF appears on the display
SEEK : Press the left arrow to go to the start of the current track, if more than ten seconds have played. Press the right arrow to go to the next track. If either arrow is held or pressed more than once, the player will continue moving backward or forward through the CD.If you burn your own MP3 disc on a personal computer:
• | Make sure the MP3 files are recorded on a CD-R disc. |
• | Do not mix standard audio and MP3 files on one disc. |
• | Make sure playlists have a .m3u or .wpl extension, other file extensions may not work. |
• | Files can be recorded with a variety of fixed or variable bit rates. Song title, artist name, and album will be available for display by the radio when recorded using ID3 tags version 1 and 2. |
• | Create a folder structure that makes it easy to find songs while driving. Organize songs by albums using one folder for each album. Each folder or album should contain 18 songs or less. |
• | Make sure to finalize the disc when burning an MP3 disc, using multiple sessions. It is usually better to burn the disc all at once. |
• | Do not use CD-RW discs. |
• | Do not use colored discs. |
The player will be able to read and play a maximum of 50 folders, 50 playlists, 10 sessions, and 255 files. Long file names, folder names, or playlist names may use more disc memory space than necessary. To conserve space on the disc, minimize the length of the file, folder or playlist names. You can also play an MP3 CD that was recorded using no file folders. The system can support up to 11 folders in depth, though, keep the depth of the folders to a minimum in order to keep down the complexity and confusion in trying to locate a particular folder during playback. If a CD contains more than the maximum of 50 folders, 50 playlists, 10 sessions, and 255 files the player will let you access and navigate up to the maximum, but all items over the maximum will be ignored.
The root directory will be treated as a folder. If the root directory has compressed audio files, the directory will be displayed as F1 ROOT. All files contained directly under the root directory will be accessed prior to any root directory folders. However, playlists (Px) will always be accessed before root folders or files.
If a root directory or a folder exists somewhere in the file structure that contains only folders/subfolders and no compressed files directly beneath them, the player will advance to the next folder in the file structure that contains compressed audio files and the empty folder will not be displayed or numbered.
When the CD contains only compressed files, the files will be located under the root folder. The next and previous folder functions will have no function on a CD that was recorded without folders or playlists. When displaying the name of the folder the radio will display ROOT.
When the CD contains only playlists and compressed audio files, but no folders, all files will be located under the root folder. The folder down and the folder up buttons will search playlists (Px) first and then go to the root folder. When the radio displays the name of the folder the radio will display ROOT.
Tracks will be played in the following order:
• | Play will begin from the first track in the first playlist and will continue sequentially through all tracks in each playlist. When the last track of the last playlist has been played, play will continue from the first track of the first playlist. |
• | If the CD does not contain any playlists, then play will begin from the first track under the root directory. When all tracks from the root directory have been played, play will continue from files according to their numerical listing. After playing the last track from the last folder, play will begin again at the first track of the first folder or root directory. |
When play enters a new folder, the display will not automatically show the new folder name unless you have chosen the folder mode as the default display. See the information button later in this section for more information. The new track name will appear on the display.
The song name that will be displayed will be the song name that is contained in the ID3 tag. If the song name is not present in the ID3 tag, then the radio will display the file name without the extension (such as .mp3) as the track name.
Track names longer than 32 characters or four pages will be shortened. The display will not show parts of words on the last page of text and the extension of the file name will not be displayed.
You can access preprogrammed playlists which were created by WinAmp™, MusicMatch™, or Real Jukebox™ software, however, you will not have editing capability. These playlists will be treated as special folders containing compressed audio song files.
Insert a CD partway into the slot, label side up. The player will pull it in, and READING will appear on the display. The CD should begin playing and the CD symbol will appear on the display.
If the ignition or radio is turned off with a CD in the player it will stay in the player. When the ignition or radio is turned on, the CD will start to play where it stopped, if it was the last selected audio source.
As each new track starts to play, the track number will appear on the display.
The CD player can play the smaller 3 inch (8 cm) single CDs with an adapter ring. Full-size CDs and the smaller CDs are loaded in the same manner.
If playing a CD-R, the sound quality (and playback performance) may be reduced due to the CD-R quality, method of recording, the quality of the music that has been recorded, and the way the CD-R has been handled. For better playback performance when home burning audio discs, use brand named CD media showing the Compact Disc™, and a burn rate no faster than 12X.
There may be an increase in skipping, difficulty in finding tracks, and/or difficulty in loading and ejecting. If these problems occur, check the bottom surface of the CD. If the surface of the CD is damaged, such as cracked, broken, or scratched, the CD will not play properly. If the surface of the CD is soiled, see Care of Your CDs and DVDs for more information.
If there is no apparent damage, try a known good CD.
Do not add any label to a CD, it could get caught in the CD player. If a CD is recorded on a personal computer and a description label is needed, try labeling the top of the recorded CD with a marking pen instead.
Notice: If a label is added to a CD, or more than one CD is inserted into the slot at a time, or an attempt is made to play scratched or damaged CDs, the CD player could be damaged. While using the CD player, use only CDs in good condition without any label, load one CD at a time, and keep the CD player and the loading slot free of foreign materials, liquids, and debris.
If an error appears on the display, see "CD Messages" later in this section.
/ (Tune): Turn this knob to go to the next or previous track.To use random, do one of the following:
• | To play the tracks on the CD you are listening to in random order, press and release this button until RANDOM DISC appears on the display. |
• | To play the tracks in the folder you are listening to in random order, press and release this button until RANDOM FOLDER appears on the display. |
• | To play the tracks on all of the CDs that are loaded in random order, press and release this button until RANDOM ALL appears on the display. |
To turn off random play, press and release the RDM button until RANDOM OFF appears on the display
RPT (Repeat): Press this button to hear a track, CD, or a folder over again. To use repeat, do one of the following:• | To repeat a track, press and release this button until REPEAT TRACK appears on the display. |
• | To repeat a CD, press and release this button until REPEAT DISC appears on the display. |
• | To repeat a folder, press and release this button until REPEAT FOLDER appears on the display. |
To turn off repeated play, press and release the RPT button until REPEAT OFF appears on the display
MUTE: Press this button to silence the system. Press this button again to turn the sound on. This button is not available on the Radio with Six-Disc CD.This feature is capable of saving 20 track selections. To save tracks into the song list feature, perform the following steps:
SONGLIST FULL will appear on the display if you try to save more than 20 selections.
To play the song list, press the song list button. The recorded tracks will begin to play in the order they were saved.
Seek through the song list by using the SEEK arrows. Seeking past the last saved track will return to the first saved track.
To delete tracks from the song list, perform the following steps:
After a track has been deleted, the remaining tracks are moved up the list. When another track is added to the song list, the track will be added to the end of the list.
To delete the entire song list, perform the following steps:
If a CD is ejected, and the song list contains saved tracks from that CD, those tracks are automatically deleted from the song list. Any tracks saved to the song list again are added to the bottom of the list.
To end song list mode, press the song list button. One beep will be heard and S-LIST will be removed from the display.
• | It is very hot. When the temperature returns to normal, the CD should play. |
• | You are driving on a very rough road. When the road becomes smoother, the CD should play. |
• | The CD is dirty, scratched, wet, or upside down. |
• | The air is very humid. If so, wait about an hour and try again. |
• | There may have been a problem while burning the CD. |
• | The label may be caught in the CD player. |
If the CD is not playing correctly, for any other reason, try a known good CD.
If any error occurs repeatedly or if an error cannot be corrected, contact your GM dealer. If the radio displays an error message, write it down and provide it to your GM dealer when reporting the problem.