Blackie_Chan Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 I've always been curious to know how it's done. Let's say, I had four files (let's call them A,B,C,D) on an MD, and it took up the whole MD. If I deleted files B and C, would the files be moved together so that the files A and D are right beside eachother? or would new files be places in between the files A and D? What are the technical details behind moving files on an MD? BTW, I have a N510 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 7, 2003 Report Share Posted November 7, 2003 New tracks would be placed between A and D. There is no technical advantage to moving tracks. It's just for convenience; to move tracks around rather than having to re-record them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted November 8, 2003 Report Share Posted November 8, 2003 i think the structure would kinda look like : original recording : A B C D after delete : A D record new files : A D B C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Not from what I've read. From what I've read, when you move or delete files, all the recorder does is goes to the TOC and changes or removes the reference points that tell the player where the track is. It doesn't actually touch the audio. Naturally, audio for which the TOC references have been removed just gets overwritten with new recorded audio. So if you have tracks A-B-C-D, and you remove B and C, you have A-_-_-D. Then when you record new tracks E and F, you end up with something like A-E-(part of F)-D-(another part of F). Are you familiar with disk fragmentation? That's what we have here. It can be bad for the player/recorder's head if you have a really fragmented disk. So, it's probably a good idea to plan how you want a disc laid out before you record it all. ... Similarly, moving tracks around leaves the disc contents as A-B-C-D, but you're altered the TOC to tell the player that they should be played in the order C-A-D-B, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 sorry i wasn't specific about the structure i stated above...what i meant was that it eventually becomes like the way you want it but the way it is recorded is the way that NRen2k5 has mentioned above...since the 2 songs A nd D remain in the same place on the MD just that the blanks spaces where the previous tracks were deleted are rewritten with the data of the new songs that you put in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maia Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 New tracks would be placed between A and D. That's BS. Track D will change it's position to number 2 and the rest will copy to the end or after the track u have selected (select the way u want in the menu)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAjEsTiC Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 i think what he means is that say that you have the 4 tracks orignially say A B C D, then you delete B and C, which leave you A - - D...A is the 1st track while D is the 2nd...but on the disc these 2 positions do NOT move but the TOC updates and D is recognised as track #2 instead of #4 originally...so when you record another two tracks say of similar lengths to the ones deleted then the structure (on disc) would be A E F D but the MD's TOC will recognise these tracks in the following sequence : Track #1 : A, Track #2 : D, Track #3 : E, Track #4 : F... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted November 12, 2003 Report Share Posted November 12, 2003 Exactly. Didn't anybody ever think, that for a portable player with a barebones CPU, 3 seconds to move a 5MB track is a little fast? (Listen to your MD recorder's tracking when you have it erase or move a track.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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