Tascam 2488neo owner manual Copying songs, Erasing unneeded audio data from songs

7 − Recorder

Copying songs

As well as copying songs, so that you can work on another version of them, you can also use this menu item as a tool to back up songs to another partition (you can also back up to CD-R or personal computer, but this is a separate process).

1Press the MENU key to open the MENU screen.

Use the cursor keys to select the SONG item, and then press the YES/ENTER key.

2At the SONG menu, use the cursor keys to high- light the COPY option. Press YES/ENTER.

3Select the song or songs to be copied using the dial to highlight the songs and the INSERT key to place a check mark beside them.

If you select a song for copying by accident, use the DELETE key to deselect it.

4When all the songs to be copied have been marked, press the YES/ENTER key. A list of all the partitions available currently is shown.

5Use the dial to select the partition to which the selection will be copied, and press YES/ENTER.

6The 2488neo asks you if you are sure that you want to make the copy. Press YES/ENTER to continue with the operation, and NO/EXIT to cancel.

CAUTION

Copying a song may take some time. Be patient while the song is being copied, and take care not to power down the 2488neo in the middle of a copy operation.

NOTE

If you copy a song to the partition where it was origi- nally stored, it will be copied with the same title, so the list will contain two songs with the same title. If you want two copies of the same song on one parti- tion, you should rename one of the copies immedi- ately after the copy operation has been carried out.

When you make the selection for copying, only those songs in the currently-selected partition are listed. If you need to back up from many different partitions, you must select each partition in turn and then select the songs on the selected partition.

Erasing unneeded audio data from songs

In addition to audio data in the track and the “playlist,” songs may also contain “unused” audio data.

With the 2488neo, audio data is not erased when a track is overwritten, but remains on the hard disk.

Audio data that has been completely overwritten is

“unused.” The procedure below explains how to erase “unused” audio data.

As the illustration shows, if old audio data is not complete- ly overwritten by new audio data, it will not be erased.

New guitar solo over the old

Old guitar solo (will be deleted)

New guitar solo over the old

Old guitar solo (will not be deleted)

New guitar solo over the old

Old guitar solo (will not be deleted)

Unused audio data in virtual tracks that are not assigned to physical tracks can also be deleted (see “Virtual tracks” on page 66).

Use the following procedure to delete “unused” audio data and open more space on the hard disk. This operation can- not be undone.

1Press the MENU key to open the MENU screen.

Use the cursor keys to select the SONG item, and then press the YES/ENTER key.

2At the SONG menu, use the cursor keys to high- light the DELETE UNUSED option.

Press YES/ENTER.

3The 2488neo asks you if you are sure.

If you want to delete all the unused portions of the song, press YES/ENTER. If you have second thoughts, press NO/EXIT.

CAUTION

This operation completely erases unused audio data in the song and cannot be undone. You can back up the song to CD-R or a personal computer, before perform- ing this “cleanup” operation. If you change your mind later on, you can restore this backed up version.

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