Gaz wrote a bunch of correct stuff, but then,
| If you really need to get every last scrap of space out of a disc, if
| copying tracks from eg. several CDs, by leaving the record session in
| pause mode instead of stopping it whenever you change the source disc
| will avoid the loss of a second or so each time.
No, that won't work; whenever you pause recording the recorder will jump to
the start of the next cluster, and when you release pause it will continue
from there. The only ways I can think of off-hand to get active tracks to
share a cluster are these:
1. to mark a track manually while recording;
2. to let a change in subcode bits mark a new track during recording from
digital input;
3. depending on the unit, to let sync mode mark a new track when sound re-
sumes after silence; or
4. to divide a track after recording.
In my experimentation with Sony's Smart Space, it starts the track after the
silence at the beginning of a cluster when it truncates a longer silence to
three seconds.
| Whenever the TOC is written to the MD, that will close the current cluster
| and lose any free space in it.
Yes.
Unavailable partial clusters (and unavailable runs shorter than six whole
clusters) are recovered when the track[s] using rest of the cluster is/are
deleted and the contiguous open space is at least six whole clusters.
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