I went to record a tape from itunes onto my 5500 system. It's worked fine in the past but found tonight when I popped back after only an hour (on a 120 minute tape) it had finished the tape and stopped already which made me initially think it maybe just never started recording in the first place...
Anyway, I did it again so I could hear if it maybe auto-reversed too early and, lo and behold, it did and I heard the click after just less than 33 minutes. I thought it might be a tune with a long silence but when I relistened to the tape (I'd recorded it with the volume down so I could practice some piano), it had happened about 10 seconds from the end of Foot Tapper by the shadows.
I'm thinking then that the problem must either be the tape or the auro-reverse mechanism. I don't have any other tapes to test with and so I was wondering if anyone knows how the machine does it? I have a horrible presumption that it's a torque thing, that it means a belt is slipping, and that it's going to cost me a fair amount of money (if I take it to a dealer) or time (if I strip down the set myself). Has anybody had this problem themselves?
For now, I'm going to try getting it done from the previous silence in the track order and hope it works for now...