John Chrapowicki wrote,
| Presumably this means that if you have just recorded, say, three tracks
| sequentially on the disc, and then you 'delete' the middle one, then
| pressing REC (without using ES) will continue recording from the end of the
| third one.
Not on my MZ-R3. After the second track was erased, it would start playing
the track after the one you had deleted. If you stopped it then and pressed
REC without ES, you'd overwrite from however far into the that track you had
let it play before stopping it. If you delete the last track, it starts
playing the last remaining track, so again, if you pressed STOP, omitted ES,
and then pressed REC, you'd be overwriting the track that had preceded the
one you erased.
| If this is the case, then does this mean that the recording
| continues sequentially and NEVER returns to use the free space formed by
| deleting the 2nd track?
I'd guess not: that rather (when you do press ES) it follows the logical
sequence of which clusters to use next. I've recorded to the physical end
of a disc on the R3 (my only unit with manual ES) and it does reuse available
space from deletions after that, per the spec, almost.
| You say it's only porties with "manual" ES, that can do what you described
| above, but surely non-Sony portables can do PLAY-PAUSE-REC-UNPAUSE (like the
| decks), which would produce a similar result?
That will work on Sharp portables, so people who own them have said. How-
ever, the Aiwa AM-F70 cannot overwrite at all; normally one can get around
that by recording, deleting, resequencing, but if you have a hacked disc and
need to overwrite to preserve the extra capacity, the F70 is not the recorder
to use.
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