SG 3030 - JBL Audio User Guide / Operation Manual. Page 14

Your JBL Soundgear system will play discs 
displaying the Compact Disc Digital Audio logo

. It will also play properly finalized CD-R

discs. JBL Soundgear is not able to play CD-RW,
DVD, Video CD, computer data discs, or any
other type of disc except CD or CD-R, as noted
above.

1. Press the CD Function button . 
2. Press the CD Open/Close button ‚ to 

open the disc compartment. 

3.  Load up to three discs with the label 

side up. Each tray is numbered 1, 2 or 3 
going counterclockwise around the 
carousel:
Playing one or two discs
Place discs on trays 1 and 2. 
Playing three discs
After placing two discs, press the 
Disc Skip button 

Ô to rotate the 

carousel. Place the next disc in tray 3. 
To load a 3-in. (8cm) disc, put it in 
the inner depression of the tray. Never 
place more than one disc at a time in 
any of the three tray positions.

4. Press the CD Open/Close button ‚ to 

close the disc compartment. 

5. Press the Play (or 

›

■ ■ on remote control) 

button c

^ to start play.

Play begins with the disc located on the left-
hand side of the carousel just before closing the
disc compartment, and proceeds counterclock-
wise around the carousel (in number order). All
discs are played once only. 
During playback, empty trays are skipped, and
JBL Soundgear proceeds counterclockwise to
the next tray. The numbered indicator of any
skipped tray will go out in the display 

b. 

The total number of audio tracks available on
the disc being played will be displayed at the
top of the display 

d. As each track finishes

playing, its corresponding number will go out.
When a disc has more than 16 tracks, the
“OVER” indicator 

e will light, and the track

number will appear only in the Information
Display

c.

Press the Stop/Reset button

*.

Press the CD Pause 

›

■ ■ button 

^. 

To resume play, press the CD Pause 

›

■ ■ but-

ton 

^ again, or press the Play button

c^. 

During play or in the Stop mode, press the Disc
Skip button 

Ô to proceed to the next disc

in order.
If the Disc Skip button 

Ô is pressed while

a disc is playing, JBL Soundgear will skip to the
next disc and start playing it. However, if the
Disc Skip button 

Ô is pressed while the

unit is stopped, it will rotate the disc tray to the
next disc, but it will NOT start playing.

Press one of the Disc Direct (Disc 1, 2 or 3)
buttons 

to start playing the disc in

that tray. After it plays through that disc, JBL
Soundgear will continue to the next disc in
order.  

Press the CD Open/Close button ‚ to open
the disc compartment. You can remove two
discs at a time. To remove the disc in the back
tray, press the Disc Skip button 

Ô to

rotate the disc carousel.

JBL Soundgear allows you to exchange two of
the discs in the carousel while the third disc is
playing. Simply open the disc compartment dur-
ing play by pressing the CD Open/Close but-
ton ‚, and remove or insert discs as described
above. The disc located on the left side will be
the next disc to be played after you close the
disc compartment. This operation is not avail-
able during programmed play. 

• Do not place more than one compact disc in
one disc tray at the same time.
• If, during CD play, the video image of a 
nearby television is distorted, or if static is
heard from a nearby radio, move JBL Soundgear
further away from the affected device.

You can search for a particular point in a track
during play by monitoring the high-speed cueing
sound, or by observing the CD counter in the
display 

c.

Press and hold the Reverse Search ■

‹‹ ‹‹

button §

& and release it at the desired

point.

Press and hold the Forward Search

›› ››

■

button §

( and release it at the desired

point.

To return to the beginning of the current track,
tap the Reverse Search  ■

‹‹ ‹‹ 

button

§& once.
To skip track(s) backward one by one, tap the
Reverse Search ■

‹‹ ‹‹ 

button §

&

repeatedly.
To skip track(s) forward one by one, tap the
Forward Search

›› ››

■ button §(

repeatedly.
REMEMBER – TAP the button §

& to

CHANGE tracks; but PRESS and HOLD the 
■

‹‹ ‹‹

›› ››

■ button §& to search 

WITHIN a track.

Press the Time button 

to show the time

remaining on the current disc 

cq. Press 

it again to return to a display of the time
elapsed 

c.