> Another veeery useful feature, if you have a Sony charger, is PC
> control of it. I was very dissapointed when discovered that
> deck chargers
> doesn't have the custom file capability available on almost every car
> charger; IMHO, on home systems this is even worst, taking into account
> that their CD capacity is several times larger.
>
> I mean, you title a position on the CD caroussel, not the CD
> itself. When
> you replace it, the position remains titled; the exception are CD-TEXT
> CDs, but I have seen only 3 of them in my whole life, and oh-no,
> they're not text copyable to MD.
I agree with this too. The Sony MD Editor 2 software that came with the
MDS-PC2 does allow you to control Sony changers (that support S-Link of
course) for the purpose of copying to MD. I have two changers (a 200-disc
and 300-disc) but I have not tried the feature yet (my computer is not in
the same room as my stereo and I don't feel like moving my changers).
However, I am pretty sure that if you have a Control-A1II compatible MD deck
and CD player that it will copy the CD-TEXT info onto the MD during a copy.
Again, I haven't tried it yet (because I don't have very many CD-TEXT
encoded CD's) but I think that it is possible.
> Did you see the S-Link resources listed on
> http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~orn/jukebox/ or
> http://www.brian-patti.com/s-link/ ? They're a good starting point
> about Slink in general there are some pointers to the sony interface
> also...
>
Yeah... I had seen these. There is a lot of pertinent information on most
of these pages but the that information is incomplete. I definitely will be
referring to these pages in the initial stages of my development.
When I first got the idea to do this project, I setup up a port monitor and
ran the MD Editor 2 program and received the results I expected. A lot of
the commands sent via the interface were similar (if not exact) to commands
listed on the S-Link pages that I had seen. I just need to sit down and
figure out exactly what all of the commands are.
> It will be also great if you later share the info you discover
> with the community; I see the minidisc community much like
> the OpenSource
> one, with the exception on S-Link programming/hardware :)
If all goes well, I intend to do exactly this. What I would like to do is
build libraries that others can use to write software to interface via
S-Link... similar to what Nirvis is doing but without the hardware (I am not
much of a hardware design person... just software) and without cost to the
end user.
Dustin Norman
Software Engineer
NuMega Lab
Compuware Corporation
http://www.compuware.com/numega
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