>
> Sony portable recorders segue smoothly in shuffle mode, but like the
E40,
> they will not stop after one cycle but will immediately start a second
shuf-
> fle cycle unless you stop them manually.
Even my old MZ-R2 gives non-stop shuffle play - 10 secs before the end
of the current track you can hear the optical block move to the next
random track to fill the buffer for continous playback.
>Sharp portable recorders (this is
> from their manuals, not from my personal experience) will play one
shuffle
> cycle and stop, but I don't know whether they segue smoothly or not.
I've
> posted that question and never gotten a straight answer.
My Sharp 701 in shuffle mode has three secs of silence between tracks
whilst it works out which track to play next :-(
>The whole point of the buffer is to read ahead and keep the music
flowing out
>smoothly during bumps and seeks. It's rather foolish not to use it for
the
>same purpose during shuffle seeks on some machines.
Agreed. Bad design if you ask me.....
GB
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