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- From: daniel@nstn.ns.ca (Daniel MacKay)
- Subject: Re: DAT, DCC and MD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.181520.19544@nstn.ns.ca>
- Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
- References: <C15ozr.C3F@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1993Jan22.024858.11634@e2big.mko.dec.com> <30048@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:15:20 GMT
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- In <30048@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
- >I've not yet been able to play with a MD, but it shouldn't have any
- >of these problems.
-
- Right- while you're recording, splitting, merging, swapping and deleting
- tracks on your MD, you're editing an NVRAM copy of the directory. When
- you hit <STOP> or you play past the end of the last track, it writes it
- out. Track numbers of course have absolutely no relation to how the tracks
- are stored on the disk and are mostly irrelevant anyway since you title
- tracks (only with 16 characters of ALLCAPS, ugh).
-
- Annoyance: when you split a labelled track, both tracks *should* get the
- label. But they don't- the first track gets the label, the second track
- gets none. When you splice two tracks, you lose the second label. The
- names do follow the tracks properly when you're changing their default
- playing order i.e. the track numbers, of course.
-
- The magic is when you use the << <rewind> button. It happily backs up past
- the beginning of the current track to the end of the previous track in
- default playing order, no matter where on the disk that is- it's got some
- fairly good smarts for deciding what data it's going to need in the next
- few seconds.
- --
- Daniel MacKay daniel@nstn.ns.ca
- Homo habilis Nova Scotia, Canada
-