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I have an R30 and I record in mono a lot. I have not experianced this
problem.
David Fincher wrote:
> 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
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> David B. Fincher
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> Central Christian College of the Bible
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