I've been thinking a bit more about the idea of having the CDROM drive play
the last few seconds of the preceding track to allow the MD recorder a
chance to lock up after a seek. The industry (especially video) name for
this is "pre-roll". Professional video tape editing equipment *always*
prerolls the tapes, so that they are running stable, at speed, locked to
each other, then it switches to record mode at the edit point. I used to
have a pair of JVC home VCRs that did this to produce clean, frame accurate
edits. (In the case of the MD recorder, it could be placed into
record-pause during pre-roll, since it will start recording instantly due to
its RAM buffer.)
Sony could make pre-roll an option (or even an adjustable parameter) in the
PC software. This would certainly fix the problems caused by the S/PDIF
drop-outs during seek, except for the track 1 or the CD. I know that the
Red Book standard mandates that the first 2 seconds of the CD are reserved
for the TOC and such, so in fact, it would be possible to pre-roll track 1
*if* the CDROM drive would allow it. The non-audio TOC data would make a
really loud noise, but the MD wouldn't start recording until the start of
the first track.
My personal preference, even if they couldn't figure out a way to pre-roll
track 1, would be to pre-roll after seeks to all other tracks. The way it
is right now, it glitches after a seek regardless of the track number. This
way, it would at least work properly for all tracks except track 1.
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