John Small wrote,
| To be clear, I'm asking about a player only, not recorder. I have an
| MZ-R50 that I paid $465 for when it first hit the market three years ago.
| It has been wonderful. Now that I have a 940 deck with LP4 I want to use
| that for time shifting radio. So I need a player. Otherwise I'm taking
| 2-4 hours to copy the LP4 over to mono on the R50. That will work but it's
| is time consuming making the transfer.
| So I'm looking for a portable player. I have an E40 and most of the time a
| player is just fine and if I need portable recording I do have the R50.
Here's a thought.
You need to record more than 2h40m per session, I infer, or you could record
in SP mono on the 940 and play that in the R50 or the E40. You wouldn't need
an MDLP player in that case. But each session must be no longer than 5h20m,
or even LP4 wouldn't handle it on a single-disc unit like the 940, so what
you're recording must be longer than 2h40m but not no longer than 5h20m.
The question is this: does whatever you want to time-shift end within 5h20m
after you leave or after you go to sleep? If so, you could split the output
from the radio to both the R50 and the 940, start the R50 recording in [SP]
mono manually before you leave or before you go to sleep, set the timer for
the 940 to take over (also in SP mono) when the R50's disc is about to fill,
and get the recording in SP mono across two discs, which the R50 or the E40
could play with no problem.
Let's say you go to sleep at 11:00 PM and the program is on from midnight to
4 AM. You start the R50 recording in mono at 11, and it stops at 1:42 when
the disc is full; the timer starts the 940 recording at 1:40 and either stops
it at 4:05 (in case the show runs late or runs long) or lets the disc fill at
4:22. You get the whole show, some extra stuff you don't have to listen to,
and 1m58s overlap between the two discs. When you wake up, you put the first
disc into the 940, start to divide, set the rehearsal point increment to
minutes, divide at 58:00 (in case the show started early), and delete track 1.
That way you won't have to FF through everything that was on from 11 to mid-
night when you get your chance to listen.
If the program you're time-shifting ends more than 5h20 after you leave or go
to sleep, then that won't work. You'd need a second timer-operable deck and
a second timer to record that first disc, and for that cost you might as well
stick with your first plan and buy an MDLP portable player.
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