Hi, Ron!
It sounds to me like your recording did not insert any headings, or section breaks, as it went along. You either have to set things so that the pauses in the broadcasts are sufficient to be recognized as the pauses for phrases and sections or you need to put the headings in manually afterwards. I think the latter would be your best bet. You can't depend on silence of a consistent nature on a broadcast like that to do it automatically. As you listen or jump in time through the recording, insert headings. These break up the recording into sections. Now, that doesn't change the MP3 files yet. It only tells in the Daisy files how the player should break it up so you can go from section to section, or heading to heading. If these headings are placed where you want the tracks to be separated, each section should become an MP3 file when you put the title onto disk.
You could also hit the heading key manually while the recording is going on, if you're confident where these marks should be on the fly. This is what John was talking about. I think your safest method to insure accuracy, and so you can try things and change them if not right, is to do the section headings after the recording is finished. Once you know the sections will separate the shows into individual tracks, and in the right places, and that there are no extra headings you do not want, you can make a disk and see how the MP3 files turn out.
Using PRS's audio export also creates new files with all your editing the way you want. If you delete a piece you don't want, the Daisy files tell the PlexTalk to skip over them, but they are not deleted from your MP3 files yet. If you put things into a different order, the material in the MP3 files stays the same. The PlexTalk just skips around to the material in the order you edited to. Once you do an audio export in PRS, and I believe the same is true when making the disk with the PTR1, you get new MP3 files with everything in edited order and with deleted material gone. So, if you play the MP3 files directly in the edited material before making the audio export or CD, it won't sound right. Once you'd done the export or made the CD, you should be able to just play the MP3's, even without a Daisy player, and hear things the way you wanted them.
Hope this is clear, and you are successful.
TTFN, Marilyn
At 07:37 PM 3/7/2005 -0700, you wrote:
This is Ronald Staley in Colorado.
I too am a ptr1 user, using to store old radio broadcasts. The recorder does quite a nice job, for but one difficulty.
I am interested in putting mp3 files on disc and when I do two radio shows recording to mp3 and then to the disc, the machine does not break up the tracks.
I have been told it's what I have my machine set to, but I am not sure. Can someone send me the specks of exactly what to do.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
An example
I recorded two Mysterious Traveler shows onto flash card and then transferred to disc. I was told the shows would break up into tracks when transferring them to disc. Not only were there not tracks, but the disc machine did what it was not expected to do, place the shows into one catalog position. Though two separate tracks, the placement of the disc into a plextalk or victor or whatever mp3 player I used would have the shows be in one title and only one title.
I am perplexed by this because I want to make mp3 files onto disc and send them to a friend.
I find this to be quite vexing, and so marilyn or john or whomever is out there with some savy please send me the exact settings and tell me what I have done wrong.
Hope all of you folks out there have a nice happy new year.
Ron Staley
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