Moving Songs 65
MD8—Owner’s Manual
4. Press [ENTER] to renumber the songs.
After renumbering the songs, the display will briefly show TOC Write to signal that the
TOC is being updated.
Moving Songs
The Song Move function allows you to move a song to a blank area. Doing so means that
you create a blank area on disc that can be used for adding material to the previous song.
Song Move also helps you reorganize the blanks on a disc. If the first item on a disc is a blank
area, it can indeed be selected using the SONG SEARCH [ ] and [ ] buttons, yet it will
not be the first item that appears on the display when you press one of these buttons.
To get a clearer idea of how the material is organized on disc, you may want to use the Disc
Info function (see page 61).
Here is what happens when you use the Song Move operation:
In other words: the selected blank area and song are swapped. To create a blank after Song
1 (so that you can add a few choruses, etc.), do the opposite, i.e., move Song 3 in the second
example to the Blank 1 position.
1. Press [EDIT] to call up the Edit menu.
2. Use the DATA dial to select the Song Move function.
The display now shows Move X? (where “X” is the number of the selected song).
3. Press the [ENTER] button.
If the disc contains more than one blank, the display now reads Move to B1 .
4. Use the DATA dial to select the blank you want to move the selected song
to.
5. Press [ENTER] again.
The display now shows Move EXE?
6. Press [ENTER] once more to move the song to the new position.
Press the [EXIT] button to cancel.
After moving the song, the MD8 automatically updates the TOC (Writing TOC) and
jumps to the beginning of this song.
Note: On the MD8, songs are recorded contiguously (i.e., there are no gaps between them).
Other MD recorders, however, may record songs non-contiguously (i.e., scattered across
a disc). In this case, songs cannot be renumbered.
Note: Moving a song that’s only a few seconds in length may not extend the blank area.
This is a limitation of the MD disc format.
Note: Though you can also select “*”, this effectively means nothing has been selected so
that the Song Move function cannot be executed.
Before Song Move
After Song Move
Song 1 Blank 1 Song 2 Song 3 Blank 2
Song 1 Song 2
Song 3 Blank 1