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FIT FIT Sport
Honda Music Link
User's Guide
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Contents Honda Music Link ........................................................3 What's Included ............................................................4 What You Need ..............................................................5 Using Honda Music Link Without Honda TTS ............6 Getting Started Quickly Connecting Your iPod ....................................................6 Disconnecting Your iPod ..............................................6 Identifying 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 Honda Music Link, first install ® ® Link allows you to play music from your Apple iPod on the Honda TTS software application provided on the your vehicle's audio system. Honda Music Link connects Honda Music Link CD-ROM. (See Using Honda Music your iPod directly to your vehicle's audio system for the Link With Honda TTS.) Honda TTS is an optional best sound-quality results. (It does
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Table of Contents What's Included Your Honda Music Link kit includes a dealer-installed Honda 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-ROM (for use on a personal computer). 4
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Table of Contents What You Need • iPod: 4th-generation or later iPod, (including iPod ® ® video and iPod nano ), and iPod mini . (See right.) ® Honda 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 10.3.9 or 10.4.7 2nd-generation iPod 3rd-generation i
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Getting Started Quickly Table of Contents Using Honda 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 mode). Then, find the Honda Music Link cable installed Honda Music Link cable connector, and unplug the inside the glove box, and plug it into the dock connector cable. You can connect and disconnect your iPod while port on the bottom of the iPod. When the Honda Music th
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Getting Started Quickly Table of Contents Using Honda Music Link Without Honda TTS (Continued) Audio System Controls Identifying the Audio System Controls for Honda Music Link Use the audio system buttons (shown in blue; see right) to play music from your iPod, once it's connected to Honda Music Link. Note that Honda factory-installed audio systems vary from model to model and may have slightly different button names for the same function. Using the Audio System Controls Honda Music Link allo
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Getting Started Quickly Table of Contents Using Honda 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. Honda Music switch to the ON (II) or ACC (I) position, and turn on Link continues to shuffle albums in random order the audio system. whether you press and hold the forward ( ) or backward ( ) SEEK/SKIP button. 2. Press the AUX button to select
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Table of Contents Using Honda Music Link With Honda TTS To get the most out of Honda Music Link, first install the Info Tags Honda TTS software application provided on the Honda Each song on your iPod and in iTunes Music Link CD-ROM. This optional software installs on has a set of "info tags" attached to it, the Mac or PC you use with your iPod. It creates voice like Name, Artist, Album, Year, etc. prompts to help you find music on your iPod, and it (below left). You can edit these info all
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Table of Contents Using Honda 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 6.0.4 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 Hond
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Table of Contents Using Honda 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, Hond
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Table of Contents Using Honda 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 vo
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Table of Contents Using Honda 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 mode). Then, find the Honda Music Link cable installed Honda Music Link cable connector, and unplug the inside the glove box, and plug it into the dock connector cable. You can connect and disconnect your iPod while port located on the bottom of the iPod. When the Honda the audio syste
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Table of Contents Using Honda Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Audio System Controls Identifying the Audio System Controls for Honda Music Link Use the audio system buttons (shown in blue; see right) to play music from your iPod, once it's connected to Honda Music Link. Note that Honda factory-installed audio systems vary from model to model and may have slightly different button names for the same function. Using the Audio System Controls (Fit Sport shown) Honda Music Link allows you to
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Table of Contents Using Honda Music Link With Honda TTS (Continued) Playing Music – Honda Music Link announces the names of the 1. Connect the iPod (see page 13), turn the ignition playlists that begin with the selected letter. Press switch to the ON (II) or ACC (I) position, and turn on and release the SEEK/SKIP ( ) button immediately after hearing the desired playlist name. Honda Music the audio system. Link begins playing the first song in the selected 2. Press the AUX button to select Hon
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Table of Contents Using Honda 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. Honda Music Link announces the first letter either SEEK/SKIP button ( or ) for at least 1 full of each genre. second. Honda Music Link announces the first letter of each album. – Press and release the SEEK/SKIP ( ) button
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Table of Contents Using Honda 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 beginn
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Table of Contents Tips Audio System Controls Display Info • RDM Button: Press the RDM button (Preset 2) on the Honda Music Link does not display iPod information (like audio system to shuffle all songs within the selected song titles or artist names) on the audio system display. category/play mode. For example, if you select and play a playlist (Disc 1) and then press the RDM Tag Info button, Honda Music Link will shuffle all songs within • Song Titles: Honda Music Link does not search the th
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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, go online to http://musiclink.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 Visit http://musiclink.honda.com to download the most recent Honda TTS software and software updates. 20
