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> You can delete and reorder tracks and this new state is written back to the disc. There's nothing else that does this. This may be a naive question, but did
by aquova 4y ago
> You can delete and reorder tracks and this new state is written back to the disc. There's nothing else that does this.
This may be a naive question, but did they suffer from fragmentation? Reordering tracks via the TOC is a simple operation, but after adding and removing and re-adding songs, I would imagine the writer would need to eventually re-write the entire disc to fragmentation issues, or else have a very complex set of metadata.
- TheNewAndy 4y agoFrom memory, you could end up fragmenting things, and I think this would typically result in losing some of the capacity of a disk. I think people would do a disk to disk dub in these situations as a form of "defrag" operation. You could also get an 80 minute disk, put it in a recorder and get it to read it, then sneakily swap it with a 74 minute disk without letting the recorder's eject switch trip, then force a TOC write, and you would be able to upgrade a 74 minute disk to an 80 minute version.
- ace2358 4y agoThat’s so sick. I have been into minidisc for about 4 years and never knew this :)
- fleddr 4y agoI can't really say, at that age I had no idea what fragmentation means so any issues with it would not register. Statistically though, I imagine reordering to be the most frequent operation. Deletion should be rare since it's a purposeful decision to put the song on the disc in the first place. You might rarely delete one when you get tired of it.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoFragmentation is possible, but unlikely. You'd have to do a lot of cutting and deleting and reordering. And most tracks are reasonably long, so, this wasn't a huge issue.