Recording Archived Songs to a CD. Yamaha MCX-2000

Recording Archived Songs to a CD

As long as you’re keeping PCM song data in the MCX-2000 internal hard drive (factory setting), you can create an original music CD based on a playlist or an album from your music archive at any time. It’s another great feature the MCX-2000 delivers as your music collection center.

According to your selection, the MCX-2000 shows a dialog box, where you can search for the desired album or playlist in the same manner you search for a song in the music archive.

When Album is selected

1 From the Recording menu screen (page 66), select Create

an original CD for the following screen.

Songs in the selected album or playlist

2 According to message shown in yellow, set a blank CD-R/

RW disc for audio recording on the tray, with its label side facing up. Use the OPEN/CLOSE button on the remote control for tray operations. When the MCX-2000 recognize it as an appropriate recordable disc, the yellow screen message changes to “Audio CD-R/RW present”.

n The MCX-2000 continues showing the same messages above until you set an appropriate disc. In addition, unlike when you duplicate an

audio CD (page 72), the MCX-2000 doesn’t let you initialize a CD-RW

disc that’s already recorded.

n When the selected album or playlist contains an MP3-only song

(because you selected NOT to keep its PCM song data or deleted it using relevant Submenu commands), the MCX-2000 shows an alert message and discards your selection.

3 Specify a playlist or an album you want to record onto the disc, by selecting either Album or Playlist from the

Submenu.

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4 A list of songs will be shown in white (only when “Ready to record” is shown). If you want, edit the album title and/or artist name for the CD you’re going to create using the following two commands from the Submenu.

6 When the CD recording process is finished, the

MCX-2000 shows the following dialog box, asking what you want to do next.

Either command opens the character palette. So, you can type necessary text characters using the palette, or using a

PS/2 keyboard connected to the MCX-2000 front panel

(page 75).

5 When you’re ready, start recording by selecting the relevant command from the Submenu. The MCX-2000 writes the songs at 4x speed.

Open CD screen: Select this to finish the process, and

open the CD song list screen (page 52) to confirm a list of

songs on a music CD you’ve just created.

Create another CD-R/RW: Select this if you want to make another CD. The MCX-2000 automatically opens the tray and lets you repeat the above procedure from step 3.

Exit this screen: Select this to finish the process.

n If you cancel the process or exit the operation screen before proceeding to step 5, you may see songs selected in the last session the next time you open this screen. You can clear them by selecting

Clear content from the Submenu. You can easily replace songs by selecting another playlist or album using the Select content command from the Submenu (as in step 3 above).

n Archived songs are analog recorded onto a CD-R/RW disc.

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