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BEFORE RECORDING

NOTE
•Never turn the unit off by pressing PO WER 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-R W , 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.

AUT O 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 recor ded on.
CD-R/CD-RW
RECORDING

ABOUT THE TRACK MARK

You can easily select the desired trac ks by registering track marks
during recording.
Choose the appropriate method to register track marks.

A UT O 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.

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.

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).
2nd track 3rd track 4th track
2nd track 3rd track 4th track
Recording ( )
CD-R
or
CD-RW
CD
2nd track 3rd track 4th track
Recording ( )
CD-R
or
CD-RW
Sound source
: track mark
: track mark
Blank