Yamaha MD8 Manual Do Utilizador

Moving Songs

After renumbering the songs, the display will briefly show 

TOC Write

 to signal that the 

TOC is being updated.

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.

The display now shows 

Move X?

 (where “X” is the number of the selected song).

If the disc contains more than one blank, the display now reads 

Move to B1

.

The display now shows 

Move EXE?

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.