Joe wrote,
| I have a sony je510 and sony mz-e44 portable player.
| Tonight while playing some punk rock
| in my e44 the song was sped up super fast.
| I was kinda into it! but that's kinda messed up.
That can happen when a track recorded in mono but an error in saving the TOC
(or a deliberate change to the TOC) marks it as stereo data. It plays back
at double speed. Likewise, misflagging stereo data as mono will make a track
play back at half-speed.
I came across it a few years ago when suddenly the total recorded time on a
disc dropped by 1:03 but the available space did not increase. Surely
enough, a 2:06 monaural track was playing back at double speed and not
lighting the "mono" indicator any more. I goofed around with it a little
and found that one could change the speed by screwing around with the TOC.
(Some units, like the Aiwa AM-F70, have double-speed playback built in as an
intentional feature. I believe the MZ-E44 does not; if I'm right that rules
out your having accidentally engaged double-speed playback.)
| It hasn't really touched my je510 (which is
| victim to the auto turn on bug PLUS a loud
| weird clicking noise) in a while, so I don't know
| what could've caused it at all.
If that track has played properly since the last time the disc has been
written to, perhaps the player misread the mono/stereo flag in the track's
TOC entry. If this was the first time you've played that track since the
last time the TOC was saved, it could have been the recorder's error.
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