5 - Recording CDs?Basic recording
Playing back tracks
Although an unfinalized disc cannot be played back Use the MULTI DIAL control or the SKIP keys to
on an ordinary CD player, the CC-222 can play back select a track for playback.
tracks that have been recorded.
Time display while recording
While a recordable disc is being played back, the When in record or record ready mode, repeated
four time display modes available in normal play-presses of the DISPLAY key cycle between display-
back as described in , ?Time display modes?: TOTAL, ing the remaining time left for recording on the disc
TOTAL REMAIN, track REMAIN and elapsed track time.(TOTAL REMAIN) and the elapsed time of the track cur-
rently being recorded (no indicator lit).
However, during recording there are fewer options
available (obviously, the unit cannot see into the When playback is stopped at the start of a recordable
future and know how much time remains of the track disc, there are only two options available: TOTAL (the
which is being currently recorded!).total time recorded so far on the disc) and TOTAL
REMAIN (the total time available on the disc for further
recording).
Manual track division
It is possible to divide the recording into tracks ?on NOTE
the fly? while recording.
According to the ?Red Book? (the specification for
While recording is taking place, press the RECORD audio CDs), a track cannot be less than four seconds in
length, and there can be a maximum of 99 tracks on an
key. The current track number is incremented by one.audio CD. Bear these limitations in mind when adding
For details of automatic track division while record-
track divisions.
ing, see ?Automatic track division? on page 31.
Restricting the number of tracks
When making a recording using the CC-222, it is words, if 8 tracks have already been recorded on the
possible to restrict the number of tracks that may be disc, the maximum value that can be set here is 91
recorded at one time. This applies whether the tracks (91+8=99). If 49 tracks have already been recorded
are being divided manually, as described above on the disc, the maximum value that can be set here
(?Manual track division? on page 26) or being is 50 (49+50=99).
divided automatically (?Automatic track division? on Every time a track division is made, the number
page 31).
shown at the right of the display goes down by one.
At any time within record or record ready mode, turn When the number shown is 1, and a track division is
the MULTI DIAL control or use the SKIP keys. made, the display shows PMA Writing and the
This sets the number of remaining tracks, as shown unit enters stop mode.
to the right of the time display. The maximum num-The number of remaining tracks can be changed dur-
ber here is limited by the standard limit of 99 tracks, ing recording using the MULTI DIAL control.
and the number of tracks currently recorded. In other
Full disc
If recording a long program, and the number of the unit starts a fade-out over a few seconds (the dis-
tracks has not been restricted, when there is no space play shows FADE OUT).
remaining on the disc for recording, as shown by the
When the fade-out has finished, the display shows
time display (see ?Time display while recording? on Disc Full!! for a few seconds, and the unit
page 26), just before the end of the disc is reached,
then goes into stop mode (the display shows PMA
Writing).
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