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Follow-up. For the MZ-S1 at least, recording with an optical cable from my Mac G5 overrides that auto track mark feature (after 2 seconds of silence). The recording mimics the tracks on the source CD. For what it's worth, although I was able to get 'Simple Burner' to launch in Virtual PC on my mac, and although I have the correct driver for the MZ-S1, the MD was only occasionally recognized, and when I tried to initiate a recording, the Simple Burner program would always crash. Thanks for all the suggestions.

Yeah.......tried that. On my MZ-S1 I just get the auto track marks, plus the programmed marks. I'm off today in search of an optical cable. Correct me, anyone, if I'm wrong, but I think I need a cable with Toslink one end for my Mac G5, and mini-optical on the other. My manual identifies this cable as 'POC-15AB' - is this a proprietary Sony cable? Thanks to everyone for their input.

I'm trying to record spoken word from a CD on my mac - can't use Net Md - with a patch cord. The MZ-S1 records fine using this method - but because there are frequent pauses in the spoken material exceeding 2 seconds, tracks max out at 254 after about 30 minutes of recording. I can't find anything in the manual that allows me to disable auto track marking. Does anyone have a simple workaround for this problem? Thanks