Hi. If I remember correctly it is the MD recorder that adds the SCMS. If
that is correct, then either you have a one of a kind recorder or the copy is
not true digital.
That's about all I can think of.
I still don't see the point in wanting to make a digital copy of an MD that
was, say, digitally copied from a CD. Don't forget every time that you make a
copy it goes through a compression/expansion cycle.
You can make an exact clone of a CD using a CD burner. That's because there
is no compression. If the discs are of high enough quality and you are using
a high quality CD writer, you should be able to make and copy of a copy of a
copy, and so on. Each having the same quality as the original.
Because of ATRAC this can never be the case with MDs. That's one reason that
an MD recorder is not the best source to use if you are recording live music
and plan on making many copies from the original.
LAS
John Graham wrote:
> Here's a weird one. I make hard disk recordings off the radio (using
> LOOPREC) and then digital copy tracks to my MZ-R55 using the optical lead.
> A digital recording I's sure, at least 'DIGITAL' appears in the window in
> the MD during the copy.
>
> I'm then able to take that disk to my other MD deck and make ANOTHER
> digital copy of the track back to the MZ-R55 again, again over an optical
> lead. In fact I can do this over and over again.
>
> I've read sometime that the SCMS bit can be set to 'COPY UNLIMITED', could
> it be that the SBLive! is setting this condition?
>
> I tried it with other sound files, like the windows close .wav file, again
> I can digitally copy it between MD machines over and over.
>
> I checked all other modes of recording and SCMS seems to work as expected.
>
> I had understood that making a recording from a digital source would
> *always* set the SCMS copy status, thereafter allowing only one digital
> copy. This seems to break that rule.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> John
>
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