Recording Help Needed For My Mds-je330

[xantica]

I have a pc with the soundblaster audigy 2 plat card and a sony MDS-JE330 deck, I want to record from the pc to the md and use the synch on the je330, but I cannot figure out how to do this,

anyone know ?

I want to put both my cd's and other stuff to md and ber able to walk away and leave it recording and nothave to worry about track seperation or numbering.

Why does GOD make the easy things so hard

[MDX-400]

I want to record from the pc to the md and use the synch on the je330, but I cannot figure out how to do this,

anyone know ?

Well this is actually one of the quirks of MD decks. For some strange reason Sony portables will always automatically sync the beginning of a recording--as soon as the playback device starts the MD starts recording. However decks do not do this for some strange reason! If your deck has the "Music Sync" feature then you can use that to start the recording, but there is a problem with that because that automatically activates two other features, "Smart Space" and another one (I think it was Auto Space) which are kinda undesirable in most recording situations. Don't ask me why Sony made it that way but it is a gripe of many deck owners.

I want to put both my cd's and other stuff to md and ber able to walk away and leave it recording and nothave to worry about track seperation or numbering.

Hmm this one is a touchy issue. You can't do this unless you use 2 to 3 second silences between tracks that are playing back on the PC. There are two ways to accomplish this--either use a program that can insert variable pauses between tracks when playing back or put a "spacer" file of dead silence of about 2.5s between each item on the playlist. If you do that and the T.Mark option on the deck is set to Line Sync. (T.Mark LSyn) and then set the Line Sync. to about -50dB, then you'll get the tracks separated properly.

If you are trying to get gapless playback on the MD then there is no way to do this from a PC automatically (unless you use a Xitel DG-2 and WMP 8 or *earlier* and set the DG-2 to discrete mode). If you want to do that you pretty much have to sit there and track mark manually when songs end or go back and divide at the proper points.

Why does GOD make the easy things so hard

I wouldn't say it is God that is making these things hard, but more of a combination of Sony's strange strategy on deck recording and also the fact that PCs cannot output track marks over an S/PDIF stream. Furthermore, there are things a *LOT* worse than having to record an MD in an inconvenient manner.