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RIDGELINE : RT, RTS, and RTL
Honda Music Link
User's Guide
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Contents Honda Music Link ........................................................3 What's Included ............................................................4 What You Need ..............................................................5 Using Music Link Without Honda TTS ........................6 Getting Started Quickly Connecting Your iPod ....................................................6 Disconnecting Your iPod ..............................................6 Using the Audio System Contr
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Table of Contents Honda Music Link Designed specifically for Honda vehicles, Honda Music To get the most out of Music Link, first install the ® ® Link allows you to play music from your Apple iPod on Honda TTS software application provided on the Honda your vehicle's audio system. Music Link connects your Music Link CD. (See Using Music Link With Honda iPod directly to your vehicle's audio system for the best TTS.) Honda TTS is an optional software that installs on sound-quality results. (It
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Table of Contents What's Included Your Honda Music Link kit includes a dealer-installed Music Link cable located in your vehicle's glove box, a Quick Reference Guide to get you started quickly, and a Honda Music Link CD. 4
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Table of Contents What You Need ® • iPod: 4th generation or later iPod, iPod mini , iPod U2 ® ® Special Edition , or iPod nano . (See right.) Music Link ® cannot be used with iPod shuffle . Make sure your iPod has been updated with the latest firmware from Apple. Visit www.apple.com/ipod/ download for more information. NOTE: Use the USB 2.0 or FireWire cable that came with your iPod or iPod mini to ensure proper operation. • Mac: OS X 10.3 or later 2nd-generation iPod 3rd-generation iPod 1st
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Getting Started Quickly Table of Contents Using Music Link Without Honda TTS Connecting Your iPod Disconnecting Your iPod Make sure your iPod is in music mode (not photo To disconnect the iPod, squeeze both sides of the Music mode). Then, find the Music Link cable installed inside Link cable connector, and unplug the cable. You can the glove box, and plug it into the dock connector port connect and disconnect your iPod while the audio on the bottom of the iPod. When the Music Link cable is sy
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Getting Started Quickly Table of Contents Using Music Link Without Honda TTS (Continued) Using the Audio System Controls Audio System Controls NOTE: It may Music Link allows you to use the buttons on your audio take up to 10 system to control iPod functions. There are two ways* seconds to to listen to music: You can shuffle all albums or shuffle activate a play all songs. Selecting disc number 5 on your audio system mode. corresponds to the shuffle all albums play mode, while selecting disc n
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Getting Started Quickly Table of Contents Using Music Link Without Honda TTS (Continued) Playing Music Pressing and holding the SEEK/SKIP ( ) button will 1. Connect the iPod (see page 6), turn the ignition not skip to the previously played album. Music Link switch to the ON (II) or ACC (I) position, and turn on continues to shuffle albums in random order whether the audio system. you press and hold the forward ( ) or backward ( ) SEEK/SKIP button. 2. Press the XM/AUX or CD/AUX button to selec
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS To get the most out of Music Link, first install the Honda Info Tags TTS software application provided on the Honda Music Each song on your iPod and in iTunes Link CD. This optional software installs on the Mac or PC has a set of "info tags" attached to it, you use with your iPod. It creates voice prompts to help like Name, Artist, Album, Year, etc. you find music on your iPod, and it allows you to shuffle (below left). You can edit these in
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Before Installing Honda TTS Uninstalling Honda TTS Before you install Honda TTS on your computer, make To uninstall Honda TTS on a Mac: sure you: 1. Go to System Preference/Login Items. • Install iTunes 4.9 or later (available for download at 2. Delete Honda Helper. www.apple.com/itunes/download). 3. Reboot. • Set your iPod to synchronize manually. (Go to Edit/Preferences, click on the iPod tab, and select To uninstall Honda TTS on
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Running Honda TTS If, upon connecting your iPod, you have not made any Once installed, Honda TTS automatically launches every changes to the music on the iPod, click the Cancel time you connect your iPod to your computer. To run button on the Honda TTS update screen. Honda TTS, connect your iPod to your computer. To NOTE: If, after connecting your iPod and launching update (and create TTS files) for the music on your iPod, Honda TT
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Text-To-Speech Settings PC You can change and adjust the text-to-speech settings 1. Open the Control Panel for TTS files (voice prompts) that Honda TTS creates. from the Start menu. Modifying the system voice and the voice speed may 2. Select Speech or help improve intelligibility. Sounds, Speech, and Audio. Mac 1. Go to Finder/System Preferences. 3. Click on the Text to Speech tab. 2. Select the Speech icon. 4. Select the voice 3.
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Connecting Your iPod Disconnecting Your iPod Make sure your iPod is in music mode (not photo To disconnect the iPod, squeeze both sides of the Music mode). Then, find the Music Link cable installed inside Link cable connector, and unplug the cable. You can the glove box, and plug it into the dock connector port connect and disconnect your iPod while the audio located on the bottom of the iPod. When the Music Link system is on or of
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Audio System Controls Using the Audio System Controls NOTE: It may Music Link allows you to use the buttons on your audio take up to 10 system to control iPod functions. There are six play seconds to modes/categories, or six ways to listen to music. Each activate a play disc number (1–6) corresponds with a play mode/ mode/category. category in Music Link. For example, selecting disc NOTE: The buttons number 1 on your audio system c
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Playing Music – Music Link announces the names of the playlists 1. Connect the iPod (see page 13), turn the ignition that begin with the selected letter. Press and release switch to the ON (II) or ACC (I) position, and turn on the SEEK/SKIP ( ) button immediately after hearing the audio system. the desired playlist name. Music Link begins playing the first song in the selected playlist. 2. Press the XM/AUX or CD/AUX button to selec
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Selecting a Play Mode/Category (Cont.) • To search genres, select Disc 4, then press and hold either SEEK/SKIP button ( or ) for at least 1 full • To search albums, select Disc 3, then press and hold second. Music Link announces the first letter of each either SEEK/SKIP button ( or ) for at least 1 full genre. second. Music Link announces the first letter of each album. – Press and release the SEEK/SKIP ( ) button immediately after
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Table of Contents Using Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Selecting a Play Mode/Category (Cont.) • To shuffle all songs in random order, select Disc 6, then press and hold either SEEK/SKIP button ( or ) • To shuffle the albums on your iPod in random order, for at least 1 full second. After selecting Disc 6, press select Disc 5, then press and hold either SEEK/SKIP and release the SEEK/SKIP button to skip to the next button ( or ) for at least 1 full second. song ( ) or to the beginning of
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Table of Contents Tips Audio System Controls Tag Info • RDM and A.SEL/RDM Buttons: Push the RDM or • Song Titles: Music Link does not search the music on A.SEL/RDM button on the audio system to shuffle all an iPod by song name; it only searches music by songs within the selected category/play mode. For artist, album, genre, and playlist name. example, if you select and play a playlist (Disc 1) and • Music Link does not recognize punctuation then press the RDM or A.SEL/RDM button, Music Link (
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Table of Contents Tips (Continued) iTunes Settings • Do not name your playlists "Podcasts." Doing so may cause undesirable effects during searches • For best results, set your iPod to synchronize because iPod uses this name for podcasting. manually. (Go to Edit, then Preferences, click on the iPod tab and select "Manually manage songs and • Keeping the TTS files (playlists that begin with playlists".) If you select "Automatically update all songs ZZZTTS) in iTunes makes Honda TTS updates and
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Table of Contents Support For more information about Honda Music Link and Honda TTS, including FAQs, visit http://automobiles.honda.com. For additional support, call Honda Automobile Customer Service at 1-800-999-1009, Monday thru Friday, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. (PST). Honda TTS Software Updates Check out http://automobiles.honda.com to download the most recent Honda TTS software and software updates. 20
