Hi Jaap,
Sorry for the delay in replying to your offer to try and repair some of
my damaged MDs.
I am indeed very interested in having some of these MDs repaired. Not
that the content is so important (only bird recordings) but some were, I
know, good recordings.
Where do you live ?
I have already replied to Aaron as well, and I may send him a MD in the
near future, just to try and have it repaired.
Strange, though, that my Portadisc would do that so regularly.
Particularly as, besides that problem, it works really well ! I
regularly record school concerts, and I have no problem at all. But what
I have noticed is that this will happen when I get ready to record
another track on a disk on which the TOC has already been written. In
one occasion, I had the impression that it happened because I had stop
recording mode and then gone back to it too quickly... But that is of
course not a very scientific observation.
Best regards from Brussels,
Dominique
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Jaap de Jong
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:57 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Damaged MiniDiscs
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> --- In "Dominique Laloux"
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> > I have several MDs that have been damaged. In some cases, the first
> 1 or 2
> > tracks are unreadable, in other cases, more tracks are unreadable.
> All were
> > recorded with a Portadisc. It looks like the problem is with the
> Table of
> > Content
> > Does anyone know about a more affordable service somewhere in the
> world ?
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> Hi Dominique,
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> You could try to find somebody with a Tascam MD-801R. At my
> radiostation we used to recover data for reporters who brought in nice
> material which unfortunately did not 'seem' to exist anymore. In about
> 75 percent however we could recover most of the recordings and even
> more ancient material which was erased before. Also be aware that some
> recorders don't take some brands of discs. The life-span of discs, or
> say the re-recording cycle, is likely to differ as well.
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> I might be able to have your disc(s) recovered at low (or no) cost,
> however, as I mentioned, there is a limited degree of success.
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> Good luck!
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> Jaap
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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