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To answer the original question, I believe the "grouping" area is so that
you can create tracks that are actually supersets of tracks. Playlists, in
other words.
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This feature comes in handy in the following situations:
1 - You record two or more albums to the one MD. You then use the Group
Function to organize the tracks so that you know which album the tracks
belong to - Tracks 1 - 10 belong to Album 1 for example while Tracks 11-20
belong to Album 2.
2 - You use MD for "presentation audio" like square-dance calling, praise
and worship music in a church, sound for theatre, background music for
fashion parades and other similar applications (you hook up the MD deck to a
PA amplifier and have it provide backing audio). You then use Group Function
to class tracks on the one MD according to the situation that they are meant
to be played in e.g. "slow music", "background music", audio for a
particular act in a play, etc.
3 - You make a compilation MD and you find that there are very special songs
that stand out from the pack. Then you don't want to dump the rest of the
tracks from the disc so you can hear the "favourites of favourites" alone.
Here, you can group those tracks in their own group so you can have a
"sub-playlist" with thos songs and be able to use the Repeat Group or
Shuffle Group function on suitably-equipped players to hear only those
tracks. This situation is the same if you wish to prevent the playback of
controversial songs that you recorded on an MD on Group-enabled communal MD
equipment - you only play the "desired tracks" group on the equipment.
Also, has anyone put up on the MDCP any manuals for Group-enabled MD
equipment? This can help people to understand how the function works and its
limitations, including compatibility with legacy MD gear such as the Sony
MDS-JE520 deck.
With regards,
Simon Mackay
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