sony md walkman

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I've got a Sony MD Walkman (MZ-R70) which I carry around with me all the time for recording ideas on. It's great, way better than the cassette walkman I was using before. But there's a problem - sometimes it records tracks randomly instead of sequentially, and sometimes it records *over* previously recorded tracks. AAAAAGGHHHHH!

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
 
Didn't we do this already? :D

I SWEAR I've read this exact post, and from you, too! What happened to this thread?

weird.
 
I drink, so what you say is possible, but my understanding is that this is a thread I've been meaning to start for about three months and never got around to. Perhaps you've been picking up on my thoughtform for the last three months and imagined the event had already happened? :D
 
Try to using the "End Search" function to make sure it records where the data ends. If the display on my MD-deck says "Track 11" for example, and i push 'Rec', it'll ask 'Overwrite?'. I have to scroll till it says 'End', then push 'Rec' to get 'New Track' on the display.

How it affects the length of an MD disc (since it in some cases divides a recording into blocks and places them where space is available when you 're-record' a disc), i'm not sure of. Should be marginal if anything, though.

I recorded over stuff on the deck by mistake, i'm ok on the portable side so far. Knock on my head.

micmac
 
END SEARCH must be used

Micmac is right. On all* Sony portables before the MZ-R900/G750/R700/R500 series (starting in Fall 2000) you MUST HIT END SEARCH before recording, or you will record from wherever you previously left off playing. Sony (to the amazement of every MD user) tried to make their MD portables imitate the functionality of cassette tape. Sony's home MD decks and MD portables from other makers never had this problem though, they all automatically placed new recordings after existing ones. Suffice it to say that Sony finally came to their senses, and now all their portables can be set permanently by the user to record new audio at the end of the disc (the factory default is the old behavior however, watch out!).

*The MZ-1 portable, Sony's first MD unit, had automatic END SEARCH.
 
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