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Re: Re: Marantz PMD650

Subject: Re: Re: Marantz PMD650
From: Aaron Ximm <>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:18:28 -0700 (PDT)
> I welcome a TOC update while recording.  I lost a days work this
> spring from a battery discharge while recording.  I am guilty for not

In case you still have that disk unrecorded (unlikely I know!)...

...the Sony data-drive (MDH-10) based system I use from EDL (linked from
my 'gear I use' page...) has a facility to scan MDs and rip all of the
audio data on them, TOC or no ~ not unlike recovering data on a harddrive.
It will construct a new TOC for you too I believe.

If the disk was blank to begin with, I would assume the results would
usually be a mostly coherent file with perhaps some non-linearities that
with luck could be identified and remedied in an audio editor... a
thankless task perhaps (like repairing digital overs...) but in some cases
better than nothing!

If I had known I was goint to have this system when I was traveling I
could have saved some excellent recordings that I sadly recorded over,
under similar circumstances ~ I had a portable consumer deck with an
external, screw-on battery back;  the contacts got dirty and bent and
dropped contact a few times...

I think EDL does data-recovery consulting themselves;  else, you'd need to
invest in their system... or impose on a friend who had.

Best,

 aaron

  
  http://www.quietamerican.org



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