On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Jeffrey D. Scorsone wrote:
> Yeah,
> I like end search
> Personally I think its a great feature....
wierdo!
> Those players treat MD just like it was an audio tape in that
> where ever you leave off, is where you pick back up, playing or
> recording. End search moves you to the end of all tracks to start
> recording at fresh blank space. Otherwise you'll record over previously
> recorded material.
On more sensible designs (eg Sharp portables, *Sony* decks etc), if you
want to overwrite you move to the place where you want to start and pause
the recorder there; then press record. This is a far more intuitive
method of overwriting.
I have a Sony deck, and I very nearly erased a disc when I borrowed my
friends R30 because I (obviously quite stupidly) assumed it would work
similarly to my deck.
If you ask the people on this list, you will find that the mindset held by
minidisc users is more like a computer disk rather than an audio tape
(spit!), in that most people if they want to overwrite something will
erase other tracks first to make space. This way you get more control
over what gets erased.
> Some people see this as a bad thing (that you can record over stuff)
> others (like myself) think its good, because it give you more options.
The *only* option that end search gives you which is not on other machines
is to quickly skip to the end of the last track in playback mode. This is
actually quite handy (say to edit the end off of a live recording), but is
nowhere near worth the pain and suffering caused by End Search!
--
Tom Wheeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
research scientist, sowerby research centre, british aerospace
direct line, tel: 0117 936 8471. fax: 0117 936 3733 (confirm)
"Trying is the first step towards failure" -- Homer J. Simpson
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