[reply posted only to MD-L and not to MDUK]
Martin Clinton asked,
| My Dad is going to borrow a 'Music' CD-R of a Bing Crosby album, which he
| wants to copy onto MD using his MXD-D3. Now if I've got this right, the
| original was a CD, copied onto 'music' CD-R on a Traxdata home hi-fi deck.
| Therefore the CD-R will have SCMS on it to prevent another digital copy?
Of course it will have SCMS on it; the question is how the SCMS bits will be
set, and that depends on some additional factors.
First, perhaps the dubbing from the original CD to the CDR was an analog
transfer. If that's the case, the CDR's tracks would be SCMS-penultimate,
and SCMS would allow digital copying from the CDR to an MD.
Second, Martin said "if I've got this right," so I take it he isn't positive
that the CDR was written on a standalone CD recorder (which would obey SCMS.)
If it was burned on a computer, its SCMS setting would be whatever the burn-
ing software decided or let the user select; the CDR tracks could be SCMS-
unlimited, in which case there should be no further interference from SCMS.
The only way to know for sure is to try copying it digitally and seeing if
SCMS stops you.
Now, I don't know what the MXD-D3 does if you tell it to make a 4x copy of
SCMS-final CD tracks to MD. Does it fall back to analog on its own? Does it
refuse to record? A look through the manual on the MDCP doesn't seem to say.
| If so, he'll need to do an analogue copy....if this is the case, will the
| analogue copy have track marks etc. or will my Dad need to do this himself
| afterwards?
My guess is that it will get tracks marked. The manual says nothing to the
contrary, and I know that on my MDS-W1, when the MD SYNC function encounters
SCMS-final source tracks and falls back to analog, the track marks are still
made on the copy and the track titles are still duplicated.
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