Sony ICD-MS1 - Manual (Page 64)

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About the minimum recording
unit
For recording a message or adding an index
or a folder, the time of the minimum
recording unit is needed.
Although the actual recording time of a
message may be less than that of the
minimum recording unit, the time of the
message is counted as a minimum recording
unit.
If the remaining recording time of the
inserted “Memory Stick“ is less than that of
the minimum recording unit, you cannot add
an index or a folder in the “Memory Stick“.
The minimum recording unit
Capacity of SP mode LP mode
the “Memory
Stick“
4 MB 2 seconds 4 seconds
8 MB 2 seconds 4 seconds
16 MB 4 seconds 8 seconds
32 MB 4 seconds 8 seconds
64 MB 4 seconds 8 seconds
About the maximum recording
time and the maximum number of
messages or folders
A “Memory Stick“ saves not only recorded
messages but also the information about
indexes and the number of folders. Therefore,
as the number of messages or folders
increases, the amount of memory in the
“Memory Stick“ decreases.
The maximum recording time and the
number of messages or folders varies
depending on this.
However, only in the case that you recorded
up to the maximum recording time, you can
add up to two indexes. This means you can
divide a message into three parts and delete
the unnecessary part in the message that was
recorded up to the maximum recording time.
System Limitations
There are some system limitations of the unit.
Troubles as mentioned below are not
malfunctions of the unit.
You cannot record messages up to the
maximum recording time.
•If you record messages in a mixture of SP
and LP modes, the recordable time varies
from the maximum SP mode recording
time to the maximum LP recording time.
•There may be other formatted data (for
example, images) in the inserted
“Memory Stick“.
•Due to the minimum recording unit, if the
length of each message cannot be divided
by the minimum recording unit, the
remaining recording time may decrease
by more than the total length of the
messages.
•The maximum recording time varies
depending on the number of folders or
messages.
You cannot add an index while recording/
playing a message.
•Remaining memory of the inserted
“Memory Stick“ is too short to add. If the
amount of remaining memory is shorter
than that of the minimum recording unit,
you cannot add an index.
•You cannot add an index in a folder
which has over 999 messages.
You cannot erase the index.
You cannot erase an index to combine
different recording mode (SP/LP)
messages.
You cannot add a folder.
Remaining memory of the inserted
“Memory Stick“ is too short to add. If the
amount of remaining memory is shorter
than that of the minimum recording unit,
you cannot add a folder.