In class yesterday, I was using my trusty Sony MZ-R30 to record the lecture using a microphone I built into a 1/8" plug. The lithium-ion battery had plenty of power, the audio level meter showed that the recorder was getting a strong signal. I had set the unit to manual recording level and was recording in MONO. I set track marks (manually) every 15 minutes or so. When the teacher took a break after about 80 minutes of talking, I hit stop, expecting the unit to write to the TOC. Instead, the screen goes blank. All of what I recorded was gone. The disk showed nothing. When the class came back from the break, I recorded again. There were approximately 60 minutes left, and everything worked just fine. It wrote to the TOC and is now on the disk. The strange thing about this is that the last time I tried recording that class, it did the same thing. Only this time, I recorded the full 140 minutes in mono, but when I hit stop, It didn't write the TOC. My question: Is this a defective unit or a limitation of the R30? It has never given me any trouble recording in mono before, either from mic or line in. But these were the only times I had recorded over 75 minutes in mono without hitting stop to write the TOC before the 75 minute time period. Is there a buffer limitation that Sony knows about but hasn't told us? Thanks for your help. David -- David B. Fincher Assistant Professor Central Christian College of the Bible [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
