In response to Jerry's questions about 160-minute MDs, two answers have been,
| You can play a standard MD on an LP recorder, but can not play an LP MD on
| a standard recorder/player.
and
: Mono discs with play in vitually every MD player ever made. LP2 and LP4
: will only play in a handful of new models.
Shorthands are useful for those who are familiar with a topic, but they can
mislead novices, and it is a poor idea to use them in explaining the basics.
There are no such things as "mono discs" nor "LP MDs." There are mono tracks
and LP tracks. A single disc can accommodate an assortment of tracks in va-
rious modes; their modes will be indicated in the Table of Contents (or the
TOC as we commonly call it) and any unit will adjust accordingly on playback.
Second, saying that non-LP MD units "cannot" or "do not" or "will not" play
MDLP tracks is too terse. If you try to play an MDLP track in a machine that
doesn't understand MDLP, it will play as silence. Certainly that qualifies
as "not playing," but "not playing" can mean a lot other things as well. The
unit will not stick at the start of the track, report an error, eject the
disc (unless you stop play and eject it), blow up, emit smoke, nor spring up
and bonk you in the head; rather, it just mistakes the MDLP data for a silent
recording.
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