From: David W. Tamkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: MD: Using a Timer with Sony MDSJE530
>
> Brent asked,
>
> | How then, do they know to take a commercial break if there's nobody at
the
> | station to cut in the local commercials? If there's a beep or
something,
> | audible or not, wouldn't it get recorded too?
>
> Yes, and so will the commercials. The idea of an MD that can skip commer-
> cials while it records from radio was just an earlier poster's wish; it is
> not an actuality.
Not sure it's so much of a wish, it *could* be made possible. I have a Denon
tuner which has RDS and Radio-Text. You can set it to re-tune to the news
broadcasts and traffic information, and you can also search for specific
styles of music, skipping other radio stations. One of the things that
happens when commercials are broadcast is that the text display changes to
[Commercial] and all the indicator on the display that tells you the
broadcast genre switches off. It would surely be possible to latch onto this
information and have an MD pause during those periods, resulting in no
commercials being recorded.
I don't record from commercial radio much myself, but I do find it easier to
edit afterwards simply by splitting the tracks up and erasing the
commercials - I'm not quick enough on the pause button either! :o)
Magic
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