Deleting Tracts On Md

[yoods]

Howdy all,

New to this forum and using MD in general...I am sure this question has been answered before, but being a newbie to minidiscs, I need the help big time.

I bought a NZ-NH900 to record (through mic or line-in) my acoustic group at gigs and practices. I have done this recently with success. But now I am having a little problem taking out the dead space between tunes (removing the talking and all). I read in the manual how to delete the "dead" tracts (after I had T-marked the beginning and ending of tunes). Well I followed the instructions of how I understood them and deleted a tune tract I did not want to delete! So, before I experiment anymore with tract deletion can someone tell me the correct procedure?

What I did is when the player is on the tract I want to delete, that is when I tried to delete, and it took out the tract before (that I wanted!). So do you delete the tract you want by being in the next tract past it?

Any help and/or instruction on this matter would be much appreciated. I don't want to lose anymore irreplaceable recordings.

(P.S. Am I correct to assume that once a tract is deleted from a MD, it is pretty much gone? There is no recycle bin or whatever to recover a deleted tract is there?)

Thanks much for your help.

[ozpeter]

What format did you record in? There was a thread running here which said, if I recall correctly, that there is a bug affecting editing of Hi-SP recordings leading to inaccurate deletion of tracks.

The safest thing is perhaps to transfer the tracks to a PC, convert to wave files, and edit the wave files themselves using (if necessary) a freeware sound editing program such as Kristal or Audacity.

[yoods]

What format did you record in? There was a thread running here which said, if I recall correctly, that there is a bug affecting editing of Hi-SP recordings leading to inaccurate deletion of tracks.

The safest thing is perhaps to transfer the tracks to a PC, convert to wave files, and edit the wave files themselves using (if necessary) a freeware sound editing program such as Kristal or Audacity.

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I used the LP format.

[jadesmar]

I remove dead space from between tracks several times a day with no problems in HiSP. Here is my procedure:

1. Play the song or voice leading into the track. When this stops, press the track marker at the beginning of the dead space.

2. Fast forward to the end of the dead space, place a track marker here as well.

3. Reverse to beginning and play the track to verify that you are playing the track you want deleted.

4. Pause the track.

5. Hold down Nav/Menu

6. Scroll to edit.

7. Scroll to Erase

8. Press Ent (>') three times.

9. Dead space is now removed.

If all else fails, you can always download the entire track to your hard drive, convert it to wave and copy and paste vital sections of the entire track using your favourite wave editor to create new files.

[bjsilva]

Any help and/or instruction on this matter would be much appreciated. I don't want to lose anymore irreplaceable recordings.

It might be worthwhile to press stop before you do any erasing, so the system file will write. I was doing some editing once (fooling around with an unimportant recording) and had weird problems when I did a lot of operations without pressing stop. Maybe it's a bug, but now, to be safe, I press stop after most editing operations I do. Haven't had a problem again.

[Woodgnome]

My advice is to record in normal MD mode (LP2 / LP4) NOT Hi-MD mode.

There are suspected issues when deleteing tracks that the wrong bits get deleted (as you are experiening)/ It is a suspected software fault which I haven't yet been able to get confirmation from Sony on (although all the Nh-MD players have been taken off the shelves in my local Sony shop)