Before Recording, About the Track Mark

CD-R/CD-RW

RECORDING

BEFORE RECORDING

NOTE

•Never turn the unit off by pressing POWER or disconnecting the AC cord during the recording process.

Doing so even by accident or power failure damages the disc and it may no longer be restored.

(To restore a damaged CD-RW, see "ERASING RECORDINGS ON A CD-RW" on page 24.)

•Do not turn the unit off when a disc is loaded on the disc tray.

•The shortest possible length of recording is standardized to 4 seconds. So, you cannot terminate recording before the first 4 seconds are up. During this interval, pressing s or a has no effect.

•Additional recordings are added in sequence to the end of the last track if the remaining time on the disc is long enough.

•Up to 99 tracks can be recorded on a single disc.

•Do not tilt the unit with a disc loaded. Doing so may cause malfunction.

•During recording with MANUAL.F or AUTO.F(RW), a cannot be used.

•A CD-R/RW disc, which is recorded with a personal computer or other equipment than this unit, may not be able to be played or recorded with this unit.

•Digital dubbing cannot be performed to a CD-R/RW disc from another disc recorded in digital due to the SCMS standard. If you accidentally start this restricted digital dubbing, "CAN'T COPY" is displayed.

AUTO FINALIZING AND MANUAL FINALIZING

Auto finalizing recording

Auto finalizing recording automatically finalizes* a CD-RW right after recording is completed, and it is applicable only to CD-RW. AUTO.F(RW) is the button for the auto finalizing recording.

*See "FINALIZATION" on page 23.

Manual finalizing recording

Manual finalizing recording only records but does not finalize a disc, and it is applicable to both a CD-R and CD-RW. MANUAL.F is the button for the manual finalizing recording.

NOTE

A finalized CD-R or CD-RW cannot be recorded on.

ABOUT THE TRACK MARK

You can easily select the desired tracks by registering track marks during recording.

Choose the appropriate method to register track marks.

AUTO MARK FUNCTION

When recording from a CD onto a CD-RW using AUTO.F(RW)

The track mark information recorded on the CD is copied as it is.

	CD		2nd track	3rd track	4th track
	CD-R

Recording (		)	2nd track	3rd track	4th track
Recording (	or	)	2nd track	3rd track	4th track
	CD-RW

: track mark

When recording from a CD onto a CD-R or CD-RW using

MANUAL.F

A track mark is registered automatically when a sound signal is input after a blank section lasting more than 2 seconds.

Blank

Sound source

	CD-R
Recording (	CD-R	)	2nd track	3rd track	4th track
Recording (	or	)	2nd track	3rd track	4th track
	CD-RW

			: track mark

MANUAL MARK FUNCTION

Regardless of the source to be recorded and the button used to start recording, you can record track mark information anytime you want by pressing ENTER/ILLUMINATION on the main unit (or ENTER on the remote control).

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XR-MR5 specifications

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Aiwa XR-MR5 manual Before Recording, About the Track Mark, Auto Finalizing and Manual Finalizing

Models: XR-MR5