Digital audio disc player including apparatus for finding the beginning of a recorded audio signal

摘要

An apparatus for playing information recorded on a disc in substantially circular tracks on the latter includes a device for rotating the disc; a pickup for reproducing the information recorded on the disc; a tracking control circuit for adjusting the tracking position of the pickup in forward and reverse transverse directions with respect to the tracks; and a circuit operative through the tracking control circuit for selectively establishing a slow-playback mode and a reverse slow-playback mode in each of which, after the pickup reproduces a respective first predetermined number of the tracks while moving in the forward transverse direction, the tracking position of the pickup is moved in the reverse transverse direction a respective second predetermined integral number of tracks, the second predetermined number of tracks being less than twice the first predetermined number of tracks.