Inserting Multiple CD's

"Can I insert additional CD's while the first CD is playing?"

Nope. Hitting the LOAD button opens up the next available slot so you can insert a disc. The currently-playing CD is stopped while this actin takes place.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marvinh @ Jul 26 2007, 08:37 PM) [snapback]485862[/snapback]</div>

Don't ever be afraid to ask a question - we are here to learn from each other.

I know that multi-disk players have been in use for a number of years. It has been my experience that they will quit performing well without any apparent provocation. So I would load all of the CD's you want to listen to before you start playing any of them and I wouldn't try to load another CD while one is playing. Multi CD changers are wonderful for listening to hours of music without reloading. They just aren't particularly robust.

 

As KTPhil and TonyPSchaefer said, it will stop playback when you hit the eject button. However, one nice thing to note is that if you hold the EJECT or LOAD button for a couple seconds, it will remain in that mode and allow you to load or eject a series of discs consecutively.

In fact, many of the buttons in the Prius have an alternate function by holding it for a second...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sarge @ Jul 26 2007, 11:27 PM) [snapback]485927[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Jul 27 2007, 08:34 AM) [snapback]486036[/snapback]</div>

I second Tony's thanks, Sarge! Like Tony, I listen to a lot of audiobooks and am constantly loading a bunch of CDs at once and I never knew this.

Thanks again!!

 

*Duplicate Post*

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Jul 27 2007, 07:34 AM) [snapback]486036[/snapback]</div>

Psssst. Tony, this is in the owner's manual. How did you miss it?

 

You know, you'd think I'd learn to RTFM by now.

I've read enough here at PC to realize that the typical Toyota salesperson doesn't know a lot of the details about hte Prius and that they aren't exactly a reliable source of info. So in most cases checked up on any advice I got from my salesguy.

However, I didn't really think of the stereo as being a Prius stereo. The salesguy made a very specific point of telling me that I couldn't load multiple CD's at once. I had to push the load button once and then load one CD and repeat the process for each CD. He even went so far as to demonstrate it for me. I took him at his word on this one and believed that I couldn't feed multiple CD's in without pushing the LOAD button between each CD. He mentioned the same thing for eject.

You learn something new every day. Thanks Sarge.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Danny Hamilton @ Jul 27 2007, 10:43 AM) [snapback]486095[/snapback]</div>

No problem, guys. B) Though I can't take all the credit, I remember reading that in a post in a thread quite a while ago... though I can't remember who said it.

I have read the manual cover to cover and I don't remember reading it in there, though it is quite thick and may very well be... :huh:

 

This was one of the first things I remember after reading the manual. In fact, I went out to the car and tested it immediately to make sure!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marvinh @ Jul 27 2007, 11:33 AM) [snapback]486122[/snapback]</div>

Actually, what will happen when you insert the second CD is that the second CD will start playing (from the beginning, naturally). You have to switch back to the first CD to listen to it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sarge @ Jul 26 2007, 08:27 PM) [snapback]485927[/snapback]</div>

Yes, there are three sets of press & hold buttons I regularly use.

• EJECT and LOAD
  as already noted above
• next and previous track buttons on the steering wheel
  when pressed and held will go to next and previous disc
• RAND on the Audio display
  when pressed and held puts player in disc random mode, selecting tracks across all the discs, with D.RAND instead of RAND shown on the display