Simon Mackay asked,
| I read in the online manual for the Sony MDS-W1 that; if you do a
| "one-push-start" copy of an MD; the unit will route the signal via the
| analogue bus if the source disc is an SCMS-final recording.
If you're talking about the MD SYNC function -- and I guess you must be if
you bring up which bus the W1 will choose -- the choice of bus will be made
anew with each track. If you have some final tracks and some penultimate
tracks, MD SYNC will route the SCMS-penultimate data over the digital bus and
the SCMS-final data over the analog bus.
| In this mode; will the copy lose the track marks and titles present in the
| SCMS-final recording during this mode?
No. Track titles will be copied (but not the disc name) and, while I
wouldn't say "it preserves the track marks" I would say that the W1 notes
track transitions and does mark tracks on the copy. So you do get both track
marks and track titles.
There is one bug in MD SYNC: recopyable copied data (SCMS-unlimited mode E)
will be transfered over the analog bus. (Recopyable original data [SCMS-un-
limited mode C] will be copied via the digital bus; thanks to Jim Resinger
for checking that out.) If you just set the target drive to record from the
other drive over the digital bus and play the source on the source drive,
SCMS-unlimited-E tracks are copied digitally and of course tracks are marked.
Titles are not copied, but you can copy them one at a time with the Disc-to-
Disc Name Copy function.
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