Does MD have any special editing features for recording?
Yes. The MD format stores data like hard-disk or floppy-disk drives in computers. The TOC contains a list of starting/ending positions and names for each track, like the directory in computers. Tracks can be erased, divided, combined, moved [or just “swapped” on some early models] and named like the files in computers. For example, after recording 11 5-minute tracks on a 60-minute MD, 55 minutes are used and 5 minutes remain. If the user decides to erase track #8, the TOC gets updated, and now 50 minutes are used by 10 tracks and 10 minutes remain. If the user now decides to make a 7 minute recording, no problem. After pressing the rec. button, the MD recorder seeks the next “empty” spot on the medium (according to the TOC) and starts. The resulting track consists of two separate segments of audio material: five minutes at the end of the MD and two minutes out of the space where track #8 used to be. During playback of the 7 minute track, the read-ahead buffer keeps the audio material
Yes. The MD format stores data like hard-disk or floppy-disk drives in computers. The TOC contains a list of starting/ending positions and names for each track, like the directory in computers. Tracks can be erased, divided, combined, moved and named like the files on a computer’s hard disc. For example, after recording eleven 5-minute tracks on a 60-minute MD, 55 minutes are used up and 5 minutes remain. If the user decides to erase track 8, the TOC is updated, and now 50 minutes are used by 10 tracks and 10 minutes remain. If the user now decides to make a 7 minute recording, no problem. After pressing the record button, the MD recorder seeks the next ’empty’ spot on the medium (according to the TOC) and starts. The resulting track consists of 2 separate chunks of audio material, 5 minutes where track 8 used to be, and the last 2 minutes at the end of the MD. During playback of the 7 minute track, the read-ahead buffer keeps the audio material seamless while the mechanism jumps betwe
