Re: MD: Sony
You are correct. 'Sony' do monitor this list but they will not post to it, at least not on behalf of Sony... Most corporations have a strict 'no comment' policy on lists newsgroups. The only active corp that I know of is Panasonic on DV-L and that is only one person who actually participates - there are probably other Panasonic Sony employees who lurk It's a pity that Sony don't have a contributor to MD-L (and other lists) if only just to help with technical or sales queries - I think it would benefit them enormously - they need to loose their arrogant corporate image - IMHO, it really doesn't help them to be so unreachable and I know for a fact that their arrogance has cost them sales. If Sharp were really smart they would jump the gun on Sony and have an official presence here first. GB I would think that anyone working for Sony would have been expressly told not to speak on behalf of the company without it being an official press release, which is why I doubt anyone at Sony reading this will reply on behalf of Sony. Magic - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: How to tell Sony
Jim Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would tend to doubt that anyone at Sony bothers to look at this digest, else someone would've spoke up by now... we still do not know ,to this day, whether Sony knows how much most of us hate and despise End Search, and probably don't know or care that they really blew it when they didn't put a keyboard jack on their deck that copies CDs at 4X speed. It would be so nice to be able to get a message to someone at Sony who knows and cares, but that's assuming such a person even exists. The best way to tell Sony what you want is to write it on a "customer's voise card". A "customer's voise card" is enclosed in the box of Sony products, at least in Japan. There, you are asked several questions about who you are, and what you like, or what magazines you subscribe etc. And at the bottom you are asked how you like the unit. I'm sure the data is passed to some division and processed in order to improve products and marketing. And it's far better way to let Sony know what you want than just write here. Things are very simple. A company listen to their customers(who PAID MONEY) better than other people (who might pay or who will never pay). And they are afraid of loosing their customers. So if you really want to have ES removed, write on the "customer's voise card" how it trashed your recording and why you don't want to buy any more Sony recorder. If enough numbers of Sony recorder owners write to Sony, they at least realize how people hate it. Is the card enclosed in US or EU mdels ? Even if not in US or EU models, those who buy/bought japanese domestic models should have a card. Hope this helps to improve all MiniDisc products. Regards. Takeshi SASAKI - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MP3's
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === Hey...how is everybody? I have a little concernI am new to the MP3 = world, and am really interested in gathering a big collection.I want = to know if any of you are willing to sell their large mp3 collections to = me...on CDvia post, or dhl or somethingplease write back = soon...Basil PS: I am talking in hundreds or even thousands of mp3s === MIME part removed : text/html; === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: How to mark tracks when recording digitally from a soundcard?
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Eric Woudenberg wrote: Hi, I have got a Aureal Vortex 2 SuperQuad Soundcard (with SPDIF output), and a Sony MZR50 Minidisc (with SPDIF input). There is no problem with the recording(from Computer to MD), but there will be only one track on the disc. If I make the recording with a CD deck, or MD deck (from CD/MD deck to MD) there will be so many tracks on the MD, how many there were on the source CD/MD. I mean there must be a signal, which "say: here is the end of this track". The Support of the Aureal an the Sony couldn't help me.(perhaps somebody can give me a programm, that support this function.) Right, S/PDIF carries track number information along with the digital audio. When an MD deck senses a change in track number, it marks a new track. I don't know of any way of making track marks when digitally recording from a PC, but I'm forwarding your note to the MD mailing list in the hope that someone there can help. I use a similar setup, transferring digitally via S/PDIF from my computer to the MD, and the simplest way of marking tracks is to insert a couple of silence seconds between them. If you're transferring MP3, You can either use a 2 second silence mp3 file (available on sites listed on the MP3 Handling section of minidisc.org) or make your mp3 player to issue a 2 second pause between reproduction. If you're recording different audio files, create a 2 second silence audio file and play them between tracks, that's it. Nevertheless, I'd check the MD manual first to see if the auto-track-marking feature is enabled, and works via the S/PDIF input. Mine is a MDS-JA20ES and works as expected, I guess this is pretty common to all MD's... Greets, *---(*)---**-- Francisco J. Montilla System Network administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc: pukkaSevilleSpain INSFLUG (LiNUX) Coordinator: www.insflug.org - ftp.insflug.org - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: How to mark tracks when recording digitally from a soundcard?
Right, S/PDIF carries track number information along with the digital audio. When an MD deck senses a change in track number, it marks a new track. I don't know of any way of making track marks when digitally recording from a PC, but I'm forwarding your note to the MD mailing list in the hope that someone there can help. Your best bet is to rely on the autotrackmark function of your deck. You do not mention what you are recording. If you are playing MP3s, you can use the Soritong MP3 player (http://www.sorinara.com/) or the Winamp pause plugin (http://students.washington.edu/llin/toslink.html, scroll to the bottom). A pause of 2-3 seconds will make most portable units start a new track. Not sure about decks, though - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MP3's
Download Napster and you can get all you want free. go to http://www.dogpile.com and enter napster in the dialog box and click on fetch. follow the links Basil Fakhry wrote: === The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === Hey...how is everybody? I have a little concernI am new to the MP3 = world, and am really interested in gathering a big collection.I want = to know if any of you are willing to sell their large mp3 collections to = me...on CDvia post, or dhl or somethingplease write back = soon...Basil PS: I am talking in hundreds or even thousands of mp3s === MIME part removed : text/html; === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD2 products?
Hitachi announced a DVD camcorder at CES. However, I wouldn't get my hopes up. Consider: Hitachi, along with RCA and ProScan, market an $8000 16:9 61" HDTV which includes a built in HDTV tuner. However, it has NO component inputs. Add to this, this HDTV was a year later getting to market than first announced, and still they had not fixed the problem of no component inputs. Forget about watching progressive scan DVD on this HDTV, you can't even watch a normal DVD through component inputs. Considering component inputs can be found on many TV's in the $700 range, this is inexcusable. Also, Hitachi and Toshiba were recently found by a consumer electronics manufacturers marketing asscociation to be selling HDTV's that weren't really HDTV's. The problem? On standard 4:3 sets, the 16:9 portion of the image only contains a large fraction of the number of pixels needed to view true HDTV. The others are included in the black bars above and below the image. A few 4:3 HDTV's, such as the Sony XBR300 line, "collapse" all the pixels into the 16:9 image, leaving the black bars "dead" and the 16:9 image with enough pixels to qualify as true HDTV. So Hitach's forthcoming DVD camcorder should be met with much skepticism. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?
Martin Schiff wrote: Larry, I believe you are correct, because this problem just bit me in the butt. I made original recordings to MD with microphones, and when I try to transfer them to the computer using a Hoontech soundcard with Yamaha drivers (which implement SCMS) it will not copy. If you made a recording to MD with microphones, it is an analog recording, and it will allow a digital copy to be made from it. However, if you make a digital copy of the MD to another MD, the SCMS bits will be set to not allow another digital copy to be made. -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Funny in-song searching on JE-510
My 510 did it too. Miguel Gomez-Zapata wrote: Hi I had a 510 two years ago and i had the same problem... I think this is a problem only with the 510.. From: J. C. R. Davis Is this something that just happens on the 510, or is it a Sony MD thing? -- Miguel I. Gomez-Zapata Computer Engineer Student Wright State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.migoz.com - - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: OT: Victor Bouch's autoresponder
Something tells me I don't want to get a prepackaged message every time I send a message to the list, as I am undoubtedly going to after I send this one. Victor Bouch apparantly went on a holiday and setup an autoresponder to all incoming messages. Which means that anybody who posts to this list will get one. We can: a) ignore them b) deal with it ourselves or c) temporarily remove him from the list until he gets back. Suggestions? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?
"J. Coon" wrote: If you made a recording to MD with microphones, it is an analog recording, and it will allow a digital copy to be made from it. However, if you make a digital copy of the MD to another MD, the SCMS bits will be set to not allow another digital copy to be made. That's absolutely correct, Jim. And it is wrong that you should not be able to make a digital copy of a copy of your own music. Suppose you decided to record some sessions that you band made. You should not be limited by SCMS. But the question that I have is this. Since ATRAC is a lossy technique, would you start to notice the degradation in sound quality on the first copy (second generation) MD? Or would it go undetected to the human ear for several copies of copies?? Because I do not have an MD recorder that is capable of defeating SCMS there is no way that I can test this theory myself. Has anyone ever experimented with this?? I know that Eric W. has a recorder that can bypass SCMS. Regards, Larry - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: SLINK cool application (Semi-OT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With all the talk of cool applications for SLink, this came to mind. I have a huge database of CDs in CATraxx(awesome CD collection DB) and it would be really cool if I could control a few 300 disc changers from inside CATraxx. If you can put up with an access database then have a look at http://www.nirvis.com/ - the slink-e and CDJ will do what you want Even cooler is if CompilationMaker could control the changers and a MD deck! Someone has writen a program (Minidisc Manager) that does just that. I'm thinking that it would be a much better product then the Escient boxes(basically a computer with a S-Link port and a modem, that calls up a server and downloads CDDB info about your CDs, designed for custom home installs) and way more flexible! As far as interfacing with S-Link, I'm willing to bet that the serial port converter box behaves identically to the S-Link port on the back of my Sony Digital Studio PC, and is totally passive. A while ago I found a program that controlled a CD changer using S-Link that just talked S-Link out the serial port, and it was able to control my changer. There is a program that talks slink out the printer port, but its too timing critical to trust to windows. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Mono Pre-recorded MDs?
Graham Baker wrote, | I don't think you will find any pre-recorded md's like this - the md market | is aimed at youth and the market would be way too small to cater to | 'oldies'. That isn't necessarily so. I've seen recordings from the 1960s on premastered MD, back to a time when mono was not yet deprecated, carrying music that few of today's young care for. I've also seen a lot of classical music on MD, and while it likely is recent performances recorded in stereo, classical music is far from youth-oriented. Likewise, I've seen quite a bit of easy-listening on premastered MD. The one problem is that usually they are MD editions of issues also out on CD, so they contain no more music than the CD does, and extra space is not needed. Could two mono CDs be put onto one premastered MD? Yes, but is anyone doing it? I would expect not. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: OT: Victor Bouch's autoresponder
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Edmund Wong wrote: Hi, Something tells me I don't want to get a prepackaged message every time I send a message to the list, as I am undoubtedly going to after I send this one. Victor Bouch apparantly went on a holiday and setup an autoresponder to all incoming messages. Which means that anybody who posts to this list will get one. I noticed this yesterday, and have emailed a couple hours ago the alternative contact that the email mentions, telling him politely to try to fix it. Let see what happens... greets, *---(*)---**-- Francisco J. Montilla System Network administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc: pukkaSevilleSpain INSFLUG (LiNUX) Coordinator: www.insflug.org - ftp.insflug.org - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: timer lever on Sony decks (was and another thing_
Jim Gray wrote, | I guess I'm gonna have to try that timer thing, so can we assume that | when you press "timer' on your Sony deck, it puts into an Eprom (or | whatever) a command to start recording when power comes back on? You don't press it; you leave a switch lever at that setting. When the power comes back on, the boot-up routines in ROM check the position of that lever: record, off, or play. | Why couldn't they just explain this in the manual? Because they can't write manuals to save their lives. The timer functions are described HORRIBLY. When I got my first deck with the facility I could not make any sense out of the instructions on how to use it; I figured it out by guesswork. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: How to mark tracks when recording digitally from a soundcard?
A two second pause (I use the Unreal player which inserts it automatically) works fine with my Sharp MD-R2 deck and a digital connection. -- Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Edmund Wong Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: How to mark tracks when recording digitally from a soundcard? Right, S/PDIF carries track number information along with the digital audio. When an MD deck senses a change in track number, it marks a new track. I don't know of any way of making track marks when digitally recording from a PC, but I'm forwarding your note to the MD mailing list in the hope that someone there can help. Your best bet is to rely on the autotrackmark function of your deck. You do not mention what you are recording. If you are playing MP3s, you can use the Soritong MP3 player (http://www.sorinara.com/) or the Winamp pause plugin (http://students.washington.edu/llin/toslink.html, scroll to the bottom). A pause of 2-3 seconds will make most portable units start a new track. Not sure about decks, though - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?
Then the only thing I can figure is that Yamaha has implemented SCMS backwards. I was able to copy a pre-recorded MD with no problem, but not my original material. -- Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Coon Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!? Martin Schiff wrote: Larry, I believe you are correct, because this problem just bit me in the butt. I made original recordings to MD with microphones, and when I try to transfer them to the computer using a Hoontech soundcard with Yamaha drivers (which implement SCMS) it will not copy. If you made a recording to MD with microphones, it is an analog recording, and it will allow a digital copy to be made from it. However, if you make a digital copy of the MD to another MD, the SCMS bits will be set to not allow another digital copy to be made. -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: How to mark tracks when recording digitally from a soundcard?
NO NO NO NO NO NO, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP, SORRY ABOUT MY LITTLE RANT BUT EVERYONE SEEMS TO SAY WELL USING A 2SECOND MARKER WORKS, BUT THIS IS ONLY A HALF-BAKED SOLUTION. BEING A DJ I KNOW HOW FRUSTRATING THIS CAN BE, HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD OF MIXED CDS! NO 2 SECOND MARKER IS GOING TO WORK FOR THAT BECAUSE DAH IT SPLITS THE MUSIC UP WHICH ON A MIXED CD (I.E. NO GAPS BETWEEN TRACKS ONLY MARKERS) THIS WILL NOT WORK, AND IF YOU PUT IN 2 SECOND GAPS IT RUINS THE MUSIC. HOW CAN I TRANSFER DIGITALLY WITHOUT RUINING THE MIXED MUSIC(NO 2 SECOND GAPS), AND INSERTING TRACK MARKERS? I have got a Aureal Vortex 2 SuperQuad Soundcard (with SPDIF output), and a Sony MZR50 Minidisc (with SPDIF input). There is no problem with the recording(from Computer to MD), but there will be only one track on the disc. If I make the recording with a CD deck, or MD deck (from CD/MD deck to MD) there will be so many tracks on the MD, how many there were on the source CD/MD. I mean there must be a signal, which "say: here is the end of this track". The Support of the Aureal an the Sony couldn't help me.(perhaps somebody can give me a programm, that support this function.) Right, S/PDIF carries track number information along with the digital audio. When an MD deck senses a change in track number, it marks a new track. I don't know of any way of making track marks when digitally recording from a PC, but I'm forwarding your note to the MD mailing list in the hope that someone there can help. To anyone who offers suggestions, please also cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: How to mark tracks when recording digitally from a soundcard?
IS ONLY A HALF-BAKED SOLUTION. BEING A DJ I KNOW HOW FRUSTRATING THIS CAN
BE, HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD OF MIXED CDS! NO 2 SECOND MARKER IS GOING TO
WORK FOR THAT BECAUSE DAH IT SPLITS THE MUSIC UP WHICH ON A MIXED CD
(I.E. NO GAPS BETWEEN TRACKS ONLY MARKERS) THIS WILL NOT WORK, AND IF YOU
PUT IN 2 SECOND GAPS IT RUINS THE MUSIC. HOW CAN I TRANSFER DIGITALLY
WITHOUT RUINING THE MIXED MUSIC(NO 2 SECOND GAPS), AND INSERTING TRACK
MARKERS?
We don't care if you rant, but if you do rant, don't shout. Please.
That aside, you have to appreciate the technical side of this. Current
consumer sound cards will not send track marks because a sound card is only
designed to take the input from the application and pump it out to a format
other equipment will understand. No sound card will know the difference
between a music track to the sound of rockets whooshing past you in Quake.
That's not the job of the sound card.
Most current drivers are designed to pump out only the "essential" bits to
an S/PDIF stream - the sound data. A notable exception is the newer Yamaha
YMF744 drivers, which will also transmit SCMS. Of course, if a sound card
is able to transmit SCMS bits it will probably be able to transmit track
marks. However, this will probably involve writing directly to the sound
chipset (writing track marks to the sound device will probably NOT work) -
which is not a good thing to do unless if you're a driver. So this will
probably mean modification of the drivers.
Yamaha, Aureal, and Creative will probably not give up the specs to their
flagship chipsets without a fight - or at least a messy NDA (which usually
involves ). The most likely candidate for this kind of development
would be the Trident 4DWave chipsets, as they ARE willing to give away the
specs without any messy legal stuff. However, you either need a) driver
source or b) to rewrite the drivers.
Interestingly, the easiest way you would do any of this would be to
implement it under Linux. Aureal and Creative have open source Linux
drivers (although they have no specs and Aureal uses a weird abstraction
layer), and Trident 4Dwave drivers exist for the ALSA project. Potentially
you can create a device under /dev/snd in ALSA which, when written to, will
create track marks?
(This is conceptual stuff, guys. Don't flame me.)
Barring that, the best you can do is to look at the track times on the
playlist and fastforward in pause mode (relatively quick) to that point and
mark a track. Sorry.
That or you can beg
{Aureal|Creative|Yamaha|Xitel|Trident|Guillemot|TurtleBeach|Videologic|Hoontech|insert_sound_chipset_or_card_manufacturer_or_reseller,_vendor_,or_supplier_name_here}
for drivers that insert trackmarks.
- Ed.
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Re: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?
Larry Sherry wrote, S If I remember correctly it is the MD recorder that adds the SCMS. No. An S/PDIF signal has SCMS bits in it. Whatever generates the signal generates those bits. The recorder decides what to do about them. John Graham wrote, G OK, I think I understand better now. G If I make an analogue recording to my hard disk it has no SCMS bits set, G or is classed as 'unlimited digital copy'. Er, no. Depending on your ripping software, usually it will be stored, regardless of whether the connection from your MD player to your hard disk was analog or digital, in some format that has no SCMS information at all, like .wav or .mp3. If later your soundcard generates S/PDIF output from it to record to CDR or MD, the soundcard will have to think of some way to set the SCMS bits in the outgoing S/PDIF stream. G If I make the same analogue recording to my MD the SCMS bit is set to G 'digital copy once'. Yes. An analog signal converted by the MD recorder's own ADC will be recorded as SCMS-penultimate. G What surprised me was that the 'unlimited digital copy' from was G preserved when subsequently copying between MDs. That's why we call it that. If it weren't preserved, it wouldn't be unlimited. G Why shouldn't someone be allowed to make multiple digital copies of their G own analogue sourced material? Unfortunately, the machinery has no way to tell who holds the copyright on the material. Analog input can also be used for other people's works. G What's missing of course is a genuine MD to MD copy, faster than realtime G with track and/or disk name data sent. There are units that do that. Back to Larry: S Yes it is true that the computer does not set SCMS. Correct. The soundcard does when it generates an S/PDIF signal to send to the MD or CDR recorder. S But I'm still pretty sure that it is the recorder and not the source that S encodes the signal. No, the soundcard does, or if you're going straight between two audio units without using a computer, the source unit does. If it doesn't encode a signal, then what the heck is passing between the two units? S So in the case of a CD writer, there will be no problem with SCMS. Yes, there will, if the signal's SCMS bits are set to `final' and the CD writer complies with SCMS. S But the consumer MD recorders are all designed to add SCMS. Consumer MD recorders are designed to comply with SCMS. The only time they "add" it is when the internal ADC receives analog input and converts it to digital for recording on the MD; it lays it down as SCMS-penultimate data. S Think about it. I did. You did too, but you went about it inside out. S If the source encoded the SCMS, you would not be able to make a digital S copy in the first place. But you can make one original. Sorry, Larry, but you're wrong there too. The source does encode SCMS bits, but it sets them to allow one generation of digital recording. S That's because the SCMS is added as the first MD is being "burned". No, it's because the recorder sees incoming SCMS bits that are set to penul- timate, so it lays down an SCMS-final track. When that track is played, it generates an SCMS-final digital signal, which consumer-grade recorders will not copy. If the recorder did it all, and the information were not there in the signal, how could the recorder tell when the signal was coming from a premastered MD, or an MD track recorded from an analog signal, and know to lay down an SCMS-final recording, or when the signal was coming from an MD track recorded from a digital source and know not to copy? How could it know when to mark the copy for unlimited recopying, if the information is not already there in the source? S But the question that I have is this. Since ATRAC is a lossy technique, S would you start to notice the degradation in sound quality on the first S copy (second generation) MD? Or would it go undetected to the human ear S for several copies of copies?? If you re-ATRAC an already ATRACked recording, most of what is lost in the second compression is what was extrapolated during the decompression, so successive ATRACkings have even less effect than the first. S Has anyone ever experimented with this?? I know that Eric W. has a S recorder that can bypass SCMS. I once took some SCMS-unlimited material and copied it by digital transfer out to the thirteenth generation. I could not tell the difference between the thirteenth and the first. Some people have said that it takes twenty generations before a difference is apparent. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: defeating scms possible on some machines was Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?
What is it about what I hear on the minidiscorg site about scms that makes this certain kind of resister put into the remote input that some how pops up a menu that lets you shut off scms? Why did the companies make this feature built-in, just for this purpose, or does the resister specifically have something to do with it that the companies never knew. Brent Harding Watch ads for over $20 per hour! Visit this site to join ad vision! http://www.bepaid.com/users.rhtml?REFID=10160429 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: How to mark tracks when recording digitally from a soundcard?
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Jeremy A. Rosengren wrote: Hi, Certainly, ranting about it in such a manner will not cause the answer to suddenly appear, as if the list community was holding back information. certainly... NO NO NO NO NO NO, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP, SORRY ABOUT MY LITTLE RANT BUT EVERYONE SEEMS TO SAY WELL USING A 2SECOND MARKER WORKS, BUT THIS IS ONLY A HALF-BAKED SOLUTION. BEING A DJ I KNOW HOW FRUSTRATING THIS CAN BE, HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD OF MIXED CDS! NO 2 SECOND MARKER IS GOING TO WORK FOR THAT BECAUSE DAH IT SPLITS THE MUSIC UP WHICH ON A MIXED CD (I.E. NO GAPS BETWEEN TRACKS ONLY MARKERS) THIS WILL NOT WORK, AND IF YOU PUT IN 2 SECOND GAPS IT RUINS THE MUSIC. HOW CAN I TRANSFER DIGITALLY WITHOUT RUINING THE MIXED MUSIC(NO 2 SECOND GAPS), AND INSERTING TRACK MARKERS? first of all, please don't write all in caps, this gives us the feeling as if you were shouting. As pointed on a recent post, no soundcard is going to send track marks for you. Maybe the easiest solution for this, if as mine, your MD can put gaps between music by pressing record while recording, will be building or buying a IR device (dirty cheap), teaching it what the record IR code is, and run a program that sends a record command while recording to insert gaps properly. You can even use it to tittle tracks... If anybody knows how to programa Winamp plugin, such kind of little program will be very surely very useful... You have several pointers for this on the minidisc page. greets and relax, *---(*)---**-- Francisco J. Montilla System Network administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc: pukkaSevilleSpain INSFLUG (LiNUX) Coordinator: www.insflug.org - ftp.insflug.org - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: digital output,sorry about my rant! READ
Hi lads, Right sorry about my little rant but, i already have a hifi with a digital output on it(buring cd-rs although a great idea it makes it expensive, and cd-rws not many suport these), and if i could find out more about how the Drivers-soundcard-digitaloutput work then i could hack a solution but as yet their dosnt seem to be enough infomation about it. The other thing that baffles me is that when i use my hifis cd player it transfers the track markers etc but not if i do it via Digital output on CD-RW-soundcard-digital optical out, surely that must be easy todo if my hifi can do it, maybe ill now go and have a rant at creative. the other option is to create something which goes like this, Software plugin for winamp which sends record funtion(record is what splits the tracks up for me on my sharp minidisc) via USB port to my minidisk using the remote plugin that way i wont have to sit there for ages pressing record (the plugin could do it for me). I already sit their for hours fast forwarding though the tracks to split em up!!! thanxs for the sugestions ne how,,, Cheers, DJ_Hope - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: how to mark tracks ...
Ah, the age-old question. It comes up all the time. It appears from the existence of the problem and from other things I have tried in the past that there is no such thing as "sending a track mark." There appears to be no code in S/PDIF that says, "new track NOW!" Track mark positions are inferred, as Rick said, from such things as changes in the track number bits, or the SCMS status, or the sampling rate, or per- haps the source medium ID, or by transitions from out-of-track to in-track. If software to generate S/PDIF from computer audio files would deal with those indicators, it could be done. For example, if you set it to play fifteen .wav files at once, and it sent 1 as the track number during the first one, 2 during the second, and so forth, then there would always be a change of source track number for each change of source file, and the recorder would be able to mark tracks. Or if the software sensed the proximity of the end of the file and set the in-track bit to out-of-track for the last several seconds, that should do it as well. If any of those methods could be tried and shown to work, then there wouldn't be any need for interspersing silence, which, as our loud DJ friend said, would ruin recordings of mixes. (You could always delete the silences later, but that's a royal pain to get exactly right.) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: cheap MD carrying case
Hi, I found some days ago on a 724 kind of store a dirty cheap, and cool (translucid colors), pen intended carrying case that happens to fit exactly 8 MDs, with jacket. Take a look at http://www.foldermate.com/pop12.html, I spent on it the tremendous amount of 295 pesetas (about $1.5). :) Take a look at http://www.foldermate.com/pop12.html, model 849. greets, *---(*)---**-- Francisco J. Montilla System Network administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc: pukkaSevilleSpain INSFLUG (LiNUX) Coordinator: www.insflug.org - ftp.insflug.org - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MZ-R55 to KEYBOARD???
Is there any way to hook up my sony Mz-R55 to my keyborad to name the songs??? Thanks, Frank - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: defeating scms possible on some machines was Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?
What is it about what I hear on the minidiscorg site about scms that makes this certain kind of resister put into the remote input that some how pops up a menu that lets you shut off scms? Why did the companies make this feature built-in, just for this purpose, or does the resister specifically have something to do with it that the companies never knew. This worked on early revisions of the Sony MZ-R50. As far as I know, it was part of the test proceedures for them - it involved using a tool that slotted in the remote slot. I'm pretty sure Sony knew about it - although once the end users found out about it, they removed it to avoid any legal complications. -- Simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: defeating scms possible on some machines was Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Are there still md recorders that do stuff like that? What purpose was it that sony wanted this in, but found out they should remove it? Isn't scms stuff usually found in test mode somewhere? At 10:41 PM 2/5/00 -, you wrote: What is it about what I hear on the minidiscorg site about scms that makes this certain kind of resister put into the remote input that some how pops up a menu that lets you shut off scms? Why did the companies make this feature built-in, just for this purpose, or does the resister specifically have something to do with it that the companies never knew. This worked on early revisions of the Sony MZ-R50. As far as I know, it was part of the test proceedures for them - it involved using a tool that slotted in the remote slot. I'm pretty sure Sony knew about it - although once the end users found out about it, they removed it to avoid any legal complications. -- Simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brent Harding Watch ads for over $20 per hour! Visit this site to join ad vision! http://www.bepaid.com/users.rhtml?REFID=10160429 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: digital output,sorry about my rant! READ
IF you can find a way to control the signalling to your MD I could assist on the WinAmp plug-in side as I am currently working on a titler for my R55 which uses WinAmp. Side note : If anyone knows how to send messages between applications in C++ could they please tell me how as I need to send a message to my VB titling program from WinAmp. :o) Magic -- "Creativity is more a birthright than an acquisition, and the power of sound is wisdom and understanding applied to the power of vibration." Location : Portsmouth, England, UK Homepage : http://www.mattnet.freeserve.co.uk EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: DJ_HOPE ON DOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 9:28 PM Subject: MD: digital output,sorry about my rant! READ Hi lads, Right sorry about my little rant but, i already have a hifi with a digital output on it(buring cd-rs although a great idea it makes it expensive, and cd-rws not many suport these), and if i could find out more about how the Drivers-soundcard-digitaloutput work then i could hack a solution but as yet their dosnt seem to be enough infomation about it. The other thing that baffles me is that when i use my hifis cd player it transfers the track markers etc but not if i do it via Digital output on CD-RW-soundcard-digital optical out, surely that must be easy todo if my hifi can do it, maybe ill now go and have a rant at creative. the other option is to create something which goes like this, Software plugin for winamp which sends record funtion(record is what splits the tracks up for me on my sharp minidisc) via USB port to my minidisk using the remote plugin that way i wont have to sit there for ages pressing record (the plugin could do it for me). I already sit their for hours fast forwarding though the tracks to split em up!!! thanxs for the sugestions ne how,,, Cheers, DJ_Hope - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: SBlive with Hoontech DB III on Win 2000
Hi, Sorry if this mail is irrelevant but I am in great need... I have a Sound Blaster Live! with a Hoontech SB DB III. On Windows 98 the optical out was working perfectly. When I installed Windows 2000 it stopped working. Of course in Windows 2000 i haven't installed the LiveWare software but the card seems to be working fine in anything else. Does anybody know what do i have to do to be able to use my optical out in Windows 2000 ? Thanx in advance, Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: How to tell Sony
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I think I sent the card in before I realized the trouble with End Search. I wonder if they have an eamil address? Takeshi Sasaki wrote: Jim Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would tend to doubt that anyone at Sony bothers to look at this digest, else someone would've spoke up by now... we still do not know ,to this day, whether Sony knows how much most of us hate and despise End Search, and probably don't know or care that they really blew it when they didn't put a keyboard jack on their deck that copies CDs at 4X speed. It would be so nice to be able to get a message to someone at Sony who knows and cares, but that's assuming such a person even exists. The best way to tell Sony what you want is to write it on a "customer's voise card". A "customer's voise card" is enclosed in the box of Sony products, at least in Japan. There, you are asked several questions about who you are, and what you like, or what magazines you subscribe etc. And at the bottom you are asked how you like the unit. I'm sure the data is passed to some division and processed in order to improve products and marketing. And it's far better way to let Sony know what you want than just write here. Things are very simple. A company listen to their customers(who PAID MONEY) better than other people (who might pay or who will never pay). And they are afraid of loosing their customers. So if you really want to have ES removed, write on the "customer's voise card" how it trashed your recording and why you don't want to buy any more Sony recorder. If enough numbers of Sony recorder owners write to Sony, they at least realize how people hate it. Is the card enclosed in US or EU mdels ? Even if not in US or EU models, those who buy/bought japanese domestic models should have a card. Hope this helps to improve all MiniDisc products. Regards. Takeshi SASAKI - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
