Does the size of the music buffer vary from player to player?
Yes. Modern MD machines (ca. 1997/98 and later) feature a 40-second read-ahead buffer (MDLP machines store 80 seconds in LP2 mode and 160 seconds in LP4 mode), but earlier machines only offered 10, and some of the first offered only 3 seconds of memory, such as the first production run of Sony MZ-1 portable MD recorders and the Aiwa AMD-100.
Yes. Modern MD machines (ca. 1997/98 and later) feature a 40-second read-ahead buffer (MDLP machines store 80 seconds in LP2 mode and 160 seconds in LP4 mode), but earlier machines only offered 10, and some of the first offered only 3 seconds of memory, such as the first production run of Sony MZ-1 portable MD recorders and the Aiwa AMD-100. • Does MD have any special editing features for recording? Yes. The MD format stores data like hard-disk or floppy-disk drives in computers. The TOC contains a list of starting/ending positions and names for each track, like the directory in computers. Tracks can be erased, divided, combined, moved [or just “swapped” on some early models] and named like the files in computers. For example, after recording 11 5-minute tracks on a 60-minute MD, 55 minutes are used and 5 minutes remain. If the user decides to erase track #8, the TOC gets updated, and now 50 minutes are used by 10 tracks and 10 minutes remain. If the user now decides to make a 7 minu
