disk drop outs ?

[Nate A]

Hi All...so I have a 74 min. disk I recorded some MP3's on via analogue from my comp (which is all I can to at the moment)

the disk was bought used and erased. recorded in SP mode.

I was listening to the songs as they recorded, they played out fine. I believe they played fine too for the first few playbacks at work...then sections of songs droped out, silence for random ammounts of time.

when it happend I checked my 'phones to see if they were connected right and for broken cable...all fine there.

ya think this disk is past it's sell by date or something ? the plastic shell of the disk is slightly scratched/hazy...but it came to me that way.

I work in a metal shop with alot of abrasive dust in he air, but I keep the discs in a case in my toolbox when the're not in the player. I also taped up the ports I don't use at work (mic, mic power, dc in)

my unit is a Sony MZ NHF800.

thanks for your thoughts.

[ZosoIV]

I've had dropouts on certain discs, but always in the same place (even when recorded over). A few of my 1GB Hi-MD discs also have this problem. If it's a random thing, you might want to clean the player's lens with a cleaning disk or a cotton swab dipped in alcohol.

[Nate A]

well, hmm, at first it seemed like it was just 2 songs. I thought it may have been that I stoped recording w/ the unit in my hand, and maybe it got jarred some while writing onto the disk. thenit seemed to get worse and spread to 3-4 songs.

I re recorded the songs and deleted the original recordings and I still seem to have a bad spot there.

other discs seem fine...1g disk has been fine, 74 and 80 min. discs recorded in HiMD mode. I'm pritty shure all my discs are used so no idea how much (doubt it's been a million re records yet =p)

if it's just the disk...no big deal, it just cost $1