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- From: kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Interesting function on an old Dennon CD player
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:43:50 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- In article <1992Nov18.085446.18282@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> pn002b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (peter christopher norton) writes:
- >I was wondering, audiophiles, about a C.D. player that I bought a long time
- >ago from a friend who was moving away....
- >
- >The interesting feature is an "Index" button, which I haven't been able to
- >figure out... meaning I lost the manual soon after I got it home.
- >Otherwise, I've been in love with it for the past few years, but if there's
- >something useful that I can do with it, please tell me.
-
- The "index" function was originally meant to be on all CD players,
- as I am to understand it. The main purpose was convinience on long tracks.
- There are some works of music which are long and continious, some
- symphanies, etc. Instead of breaking these into seperate tracks, they were
- supposed to be indexed by the movements. That is: Tracks are for seperate
- peices of music or songs, and Indexes were for movements within a single
- piece. However, very very few CD's were ever made with indexing. My father
- owns an older Denon with the index feature. I believe he only has one CD
- with indexing.
-
- So now, if you have a long track (10-70 min), and if you want to
- listen to only part of it, you have to fast forward it, instead of just
- skipping indexes. I have found that on my CD players, ( both Denon's) that I
- can 'pause' it first, then the fast forward in inaudable, but about four
- times as fast.
-
- HTH.
-
- Sigh, why didn't they put that and title readouts on CD players and
- CD's are beyond me.
-