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Title: Dealing with side 2
Post by: wallewek on March 18, 2026, 12:31:42 AM
I read the help docs, but couldn't see what I need to know about this.

VS does a really great job continuing recording of side 2 of LPs, but if you take too long to flip and drop the needle, it times out waiting and you need to click Record before you drop the needle, or it will cut off the start of side 2.  Am I missing something, and/or is there a way to extend that timeout?

Pursuant to that, I had this cutoff occur with and album I was recording yesterday, and I figured I could just re-record that first track and patch it in. But no, it appears there's no way in VS to do that, so can I just delete that side 2 recording and re-record it?  Or is there a better way I'm overlooking?

Thanks for all the help!
Title: Re: Dealing with side 2
Post by: wallewek on March 18, 2026, 05:19:18 PM
I think I've answered my own question for the first part, at least.

I deleted all the tracks from side 2 of the first recording, and also all the second recording (nominally just side 2 track 1).  Now I'm re-recording side 2 as part of the second album.  My theory is that it will merge with the first recording. 
Title: Re: Dealing with side 2
Post by: wallewek on March 18, 2026, 05:51:37 PM
Well, that mostly worked, but when I scanned for track breaks, after it found the proper tracks, it seemed to go nuts and create a whole lot of empty track breaks.  I hit Esc stop the break creation loop and used Del to delete the bogus ones, and after that all seems fine.

So the only remaining question is about starting side 2 cleanly -- who waits for who?