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In Reply to: RE: Stand alone hi-rez recorder? posted by barondla on October 17, 2014 at 09:03:04
The TASCAM DA-3000 can mark tracks for songs.
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John, your Oppo 105 will not automatically put track markers on Tascam-produced CDRs. At least if it's like my Tascam (CD-RW700). So each CDR is just one long track, if you don't insert the markers manually (or if it isn't possible after the fact, with the DA-300)
The Oppo is the ONLY player that won't do this, IME. Except for other Oppo models like the BDP-83SE.
I queried Oppo about this, they agreed with me about the no-track-markers behavior, said they might consider adding it in firmware. Maybe in 6 months or so. I'm not holding my breath.
I'm not sure what you're referring to regarding the Oppo BDP-105. It is a player only and therefore does not insert track markers on anything. Furthermore, I have never played a CD-R in my Oppo BDP-105D. I don't think I've played a CD-R or CD in anything in well over a year since I ripped all my CDs and CD-Rs to my hard drive so they can be played using a music server or through the USB port of my Oppo BDP-105D. I began using a music server two years ago and now I have replaced it with an Oppo BDP-105D.
Surprisingly, I still have my old TASCAM CD-RW700 on a shelf in the garage, but I haven't used it to make a CD-R in close to 10-years since buying an Alesis Masterlink. I just replaced my Alesis Masterlink a couple of months ago with a TASCAM DA-3000 DSD recorder. It has a feature to insert track markers automatically during recording, but this feature is intermittent when recording vinyl because it looks for a specific level of silence in-between tracks and vinyl always seems to produce some noise. Therefore, when the threshold is set for marking vinyl, it also places markers in the quiet passages of music. Consequently, it is best to insert track markers manually or afterward during mastering.
I guess what you're telling me is that the Oppo BDP-105D does not recognize track markers inserted onto CD-Rs by your TASCAM CD-RW700. Is that what you're saying? I don't play CDs or CD-Rs anymore, so I really don't know. All my music is arranged so that each track is an individual file on my hard drive. Then there's a file folder containing each album.
Thanks,
John Elison
What I mean is that there's something in the Oppo --and Oppo freely admits this -- that overrides or ignores the Tascam's ability to automatically insert track markers when you instruct it to do so. Oppo clearly doesn't think this is important because there are apparently so few of us who still use stand-alone CDR recorders. Or something like that.
I know how iffy it is to try to use the Tascam to insert markers when recording vinyl and I've always inserted them manually, but it's always been simple and easy when recording CDs. Not with the Oppo as the player.
Yes, most, if not all of the new CD players and transports no longer send out track numbers on their S/PDIF digital outputs. Therefore, when you try to copy a CD to the TASCAM CD-RW700 using a digital connection, the CD-R copy will be one continuous file without track numbers. I fully understand. That is exactly what happened to me when I replace my Audio Alchemy DDS Pro transport with an April Music Stello CDT-100 transport. Furthermore, all my Blu-Ray disc players and DVD players had the same problem. That's when I quit using my TASCAM CD-RW700 to copy CDs.I began using my Alesis Masterlink for copying CDs and CD-Rs in addition to recording vinyl. However, now I use Exact Audio Copy (EAC) to rip my CDs and CD-Rs to my computer. I no longer deal with hard disc copies anymore. I play all my digital music from either an external USB hard drive or a USB flash drive. It took nearly two months to rip everything I owned, but it is much more convenient now. The only thing I use my new TASCAM DA-3000 for is to make digital copies of vinyl. Then I transfer the files to my computer for mastering and I play them from a USB flash drive in my Oppo BDP-105D.
Best regards,
John Elison
Edits: 11/06/14
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