oholler@xxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > to my understanding of the standard, the status 2 > shall be used to set the recording device into a state, > in which a recording can start immediately > (e.g. power up the harddisk). > The recording itself shall start on status 4. > In my special case I now have advertisments at the beginning > of the recording, which were not recorded when status 2 > was not used. Many stations set "running status 4" a few seconds *after* the actual start of the broadcast, so I think it's better to have some stuff recorded before it than to miss the beginning. Klaus