> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:41:48 -0500
> From: Timothy Stockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> FLAME ON:
> Sony (or other MD manufacturer) could address all of these
> problems by introducing a recorder with NATIVE USB support
> (not a computer connection add-on adapter). This would give us
> the all-important missing item: data flow control.
I pretty much agree, but there's more to it than that. Track marks,
index marks, karaoke lyrics, any other auxiliary information that might be
embedded in S/PDIF data stream are all discarded by most sound cards. We
need to see this stuff
preserved. The USB Audio spec has no provision for transferring auxiliary
data along with an audio stream. The spec needs to be extended here.
But really, all of that is a piss-poor solution to the problem; even if you
get perfect transfers, you're forced to do them in real time. What we really
really need is MD-Data drives that can rip audio, the same way CD-R/RW
drives do, and at 40x speed.
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
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