How does the TOC cloning work on a accidental overwrite?

[megmeyer]

I recently recorded a concert. Half on one MD, second half on different MD. After letting someone listen to the beginning of the first MD, I must have accidentally hit the record button. I recorded for approximately 5 minutes. The original recording was 1 track, 52 or so minutes. After hitting stop, it now says it has 1 track, 53:?? long, and it is all dead silence.

Is there ANY chance that I can get that back? (At least the part after the first 5 minutes that I accidentally recorded?)

I have bought a Sharp player that has instructions for doing the TOC Cloning thing. I am just curious as to the chances that it will actually work.

Any insight, or help would be greatly appreciated.

Meg Meyer

PS - Does anyone other than me find it extremely odd that ANY recording device overwrites itself without asking? I could just as easily have done this on purpose, thinking I was adding to the MD, not overwriting the original track. Oh well, just a thought.

[Mystyler]

Let me guess, the offending unit was a Sony? Only Sony portables do that, it's called end search, and while it can be defeated on newer Sonys, I don't understand why they haven't eradicated it completely. To my knowledge, NO other brand does that - they all record from the next available blank portion.

If I understand your question, you can TOC clone and get back the everything BUT the five minutes you have accidentally recorded.

[MDX-400]

Let me guess, the offending unit was a Sony? Only Sony portables do that, it's called end search, and while it can be defeated on newer Sonys, I don't understand why they haven't eradicated it completely. To my knowledge, NO other brand does that - they all record from the next available blank portion.

If I understand your question, you can TOC clone and get back the everything BUT the five minutes you have accidentally recorded.

Strange that you should mention this because my Aiwa AM-F70 does not have any kind of end search (that is obvious I guess but wait till I get to the point...).

However the AM-F70 has no means to "record over" an existing portion of the MD. In fact I only found out this feature even existed when I got my JB920 deck a few months ago! Since it couldn't be done on the F70 (my only recorder up to that point) I didn't think it could be done.

Now the JB920 (and all the other Sony decks) don't have end-search either but they can "record over" a portion of a track/disc like you were using a tape recorder.

My AM-F70 can't do this at all though! I would imagine that end-search is still included on the portables for the reason that you can [not] use it in order to use the "record over" feature. Though since the decks don't have it and can do the record over, I guess they might as well eliminate it and have the record over done like it is on the decks.