Re: MD: Which soundcard for Minidiscs
Jeff Medin : I am going to get a new computer very soon. What is the "most compatible" sound board for use with (optical I/O) minidisc work. (Maybe MP3 down the road) But for now, it's mainly making compilation MD's from CD's. I went for an Soundblaster Live! Platinum. It has an expansion box which fits in a spare disk bay and allows front access to digital SPDIF (RCA), optical, analogue aux2 (RCA) and MIDI (DIN), all both in and out, as well as a microphone and headphone socket. There's also the usual line in/out, CD and mic sockets on the card too. It works very well and comes with loads of applications including one called Minidic Center which allows you to compile 'albums' of tracks (e.g. your mp3s) then 'burn' it to MD. It will insert 5 seconds (configurable) between each track to allow the MD to create track marks. It installs a task bar called Creative Launcher. I have it set to autohide at the other side of the screen from the Windows task bar. I find it useful to have easy access to the volume and recording levels. I wanted the ease and flexibility of all the ins/outs at the front of the computer and the guaranteed 'compatibility' that comes with the Soundblaster, particularly since I only run NT4. I've been quite happy with it. I also plan on getting the Sony MD PC2 Computer MD package. I would like to get something that will allow full digital in and out without going analog at all. Is this possible? I should think so. I can do that with my MDS-J520 deck. Usual disclaimer: my fortunes are in no way connected to Creative Labs or any of their products, worse luck. It's the other way around! John - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: first impressions of MZR90
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Jim wrote: Simon Barnes wrote: Jim wrote: Not a chance, unless you just want to go to a topless pup. Hold on there, I did specify persons, not animals. I meant Pub, but to each his own. I knew that. s. (I've even watched some Brit sitcoms on PBS And these are supposed to have any resemblence to real life ? I think not. Now you tell me. Just as my understanding of American culture is based on Seinfeld and Friends. simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: first impressions of MZR90
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Gaz wrote: quoting me: following our discussions last summer, I was disappointed to find that now I have a portable minidisc, persons of the gender(s) to which I am attracted obstinately refuse to throw themselves at me. Since you say gender(s) Simon, I have found that minidiscs along with most geeky hi-tech stuff tends to be a male orientated thing. I have a few lady friends who are gadget freaks but it is generally male. I think your male friends to whom you are attracted are more likely to share your gadget/minidisc love. Unfortunately, that set is empty. I was being PC rather than bisexual. simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: labels
do many people actually use the labels (other than the narrow, edge ones) ? All I do is label my cases with the narrow labels to give the name of the mix or album(s) on the disc. I just have to make sure the right disk goes back in its case. Ehren __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: labels
Martin Schiff wrote: Read my lips. BIFOCALS. I can read and write the edge labels easily, but not without my glasses [grin]. I suppose I may have to succumb eventually, but I use contacts, and I understand bifocal contacts are WAY expensive. Also, I spend a lot of time on my mountain bike offroad, and I'm concerned that my peripheral vision of the track would suffer. Take two sets of lenses ? The whole point of contacts is fit and forget. simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: first impressions of MZR90
Jim I wrote a lot of silly stuff, to which Joanne replied: Clipping the remote in full view should help attrac the girls too. Makes them a little curious, and sometimes the shape can really turn them on, if you know what I mean. Yeah right, you must have a really strange idea of what us girls think. Actually, this is all in the realms of fantasy. simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: labels
Just get a pair of reading glasses to wear when you need them. You can still wear your contacts. I know what you mean. I practice martial arts, and the glasses do sometimes get in the way. However, I can't see without them, and my astigmatism is not corrected very well with contacts. -- Martin - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MD chargers for home use?
The Sony "car" 6 disk MD player MDX-65 will relay play across all 6 disks. need a Sony Head unit or Unilink controller though. That's something that looked odd to me, and that seems to be in the Sony's stupid-non-practical-non-consumer-thinking that stigmates the minidisc format since its born. Why there aren't any multi-MD home chargers? I haven't seen any stand-alone (seperates) ones, but there are several bookshelf systems that have 3 slots, maybe there are some that have more than that? -- Simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Which soundcard for Minidiscs
I went for an Soundblaster Live! Platinum. It has an expansion box which fits in a spare disk bay and allows front access to digital SPDIF (RCA), optical, analogue aux2 (RCA) and MIDI (DIN), all both in and out, as well as a microphone and headphone socket. There's also the usual line in/out, CD and mic sockets on the card too. Note that the US version of the Live! Platinum comes with the "Live Drive 1" and does NOT have optical input/output. The US version contains only coaxial input and output. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: first impressions of MZR90
Simon Barnes wrote:: Simon Barnes wrote: Jim wrote: s. (I've even watched some Brit sitcoms on PBS And these are supposed to have any resemblence to real life ? I think not. Now you tell me. Just as my understanding of American culture is based on Seinfeld and Friends. I guess I'll have to rethink some stuff then. I thought Jerry and his friends were excerpts from real life. 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: Mailing List Format
I get the digest version of this list (all messages as attachments in one
message), and I want to know if anyone else find it a bit annoying that a
string of hyphens is used to separate messages? No, there's nothing wrong
with that in itself, but within messages, people replying to others will
have a similar string in their "Original Message" section.
For example:
// begin example:
- -Original Message-
From: Lynch, Jason JD
Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2000 9:56
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: MD: DIY Battery Box?
I agree!
- -Original Message-
From: Lynch, Jason JD
Sent: Thursday, 10 February 2000 9:56
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: MD: DIY Battery Box?
Do you agree?
// end example.
Do you see what I'm trying to say here? The original post looks like a
new post, until you scrutinize it some. In the digest, all messages are
running together, and I just think that perhaps it would be functionally
better to divide each MDL message with equal signs, so such confusion
wouldn't occur, and so that reading speed is increaed.
And you know what else? ("What?") Some people regularly do not snip
enough of the original message their quoting and have the following
footer:
// being example.
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// end example.
. . . actually in the body of their message. I keep thinking it's the end
of the digest! Everybody please snip heartily.
And since I'm not a roll, those long signatures are really annoying.
(Quick personal gripe.)
I thank you for listening. Just looking out for a better MD environment.
J. C. R. Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Re: MD: Mailing List Format
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:34:35AM -0600, J. C. R. Davis wrote: I get the digest version of this list (all messages as attachments in one message), and I want to know if anyone else find it a bit annoying that a string of hyphens is used to separate messages? No, there's nothing wrong with that in itself, but within messages, people replying to others will have a similar string in their "Original Message" section. Believe it or not it is a standard. You could try the MIME digests. Nick -- Nick Perry | LONDON N1, UK | MiniDisc Community Pages | http://www.amulation.co.uk/ | http://www.minidisc.org/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Labels
I haven't tried labeling the spine yet...too small. I considered using colored discs to keep track of what type of music was on the disc, but decided it would be too cumbersome. What I do is print a label using a Word Processor and an Avery label sheet. I put the disc title on it...rarely anything more...I might list the performers if it is a Broadway show, or a small jazz group (e.g. one of the many incarnations of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers). In printing, I color code the label. I print the labels for jazz discs in blue, Christmas music is green, Classical music is black, rock is brown. I don't label the outer case because I rarely get the discs back in the case from which they originally came. Trying to do that would be too stressful for me. Anyway, I hope that this suggestion helps. It's much easier than using coloured discs. James __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MZ-R90 and shock protection
I think it's rather that the motor spin-up time is slower. Motor speed itself would not seem to have a direct relation to power consumption. On the Sharp MD-MT831 the top end motor RPM (400-1350rpm) is actually higher than on mainstream units (400-900rpm), I've always assumed this was to save power since you can read faster and the amount of time you need to run the motor is less. Ahh, but the Sharp has the power saving mode. Remember that the power saving mode will fill the buffer and stop the disc (and thus motor) until the 40 seconds are almost over and then start filling it again. The Sony doesn't have such a feature and then I assume will constantly be filling the buffer (much like the Sharp when power saving is turned off) Won't this affect shock protection? I would imagine that this would cause the shock buffer to fill more slowly. Anybody know how to monitor the MZ-R90's shock buffer? I did have my MZ-R90 mute on me once while on a Nordic-track. That's never happened with my MZ-R50 (same Nordic-track, same pocket). Was this near the beginning of playing? I'm curious. If the motor spin up was slower, then it would still affect shock buffer filling near the beginning of playing, right? Since the disc is spinning fast enough to be read from, but is still slower than peak... - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: HiSpace skips - part 2
Thanks Simon and PrinceGaz for the original answers regardnig the HiSpaces. I figured that it was one bad disk, and recorded another - but this disk has problems as well! I recorded it, listened to it in my player right afterwards, and it sounded fine. Then, I listened to it again today and got significant gaps in the audio, around 2 seconds long, twice. My wife then tries it in hers, gets gaps in the music, but in a different section than in my player. We were both moving when these gaps occurred, so we figured that we were causing the skips each time. We're both curious, so we try it again at home in her player - gaps again, in a different section yet - while the player is sitting still. I note the time of the interruptions, throw it in my player, jump to that space, and no problems. Both of the units are new-ish portables, purchased in December and January (a Sony R37 and Sharp 301). I've not experienced this problem with any other discs, recording from whatever source. The randomness of the errors baffles me. Anyone have any ideas as to what's up? best regards, Bob === Robert Torres posgraduado en Sociología de desarrollo Ph.D. Candidate - Development Sociology Cornell University - EEUU C/Violant d'Hongria Reina d'Arago, 165, 1-3 08014 Barcelona - SPAIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.torres.cx === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD kewlness
At 13:54 -0500 10/2/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Barnes wrote: Dear All, following our discussions last summer, I was disappointed to find that now I have a portable minidisc, persons of the gender(s) to which I am attracted obstinately refuse to throw themselves at me. Perhaps I should hold the MD in full view and kinda sashay down the street to make my new coolness more evident. Don't forget to: - Turn up the volume all the way to share with everyone. - Talk to others in a loud voice, even though you can't hear them. - Sing bits of the songs you are listening to now then. - A few dance steps are in order. Isn't this the script for the new sony commercial? Couldn't resist... Bob === Robert Torres posgraduado en Sociología de desarrollo Ph.D. Candidate - Development Sociology Cornell University - EEUU C/Violant d'Hongria Reina d'Arago, 165, 1-3 08014 Barcelona - SPAIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.torres.cx === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Home recording
I want to use a minidisc to make recordings a four piece acoustic group I'm in. I already have a quality microphone, and I'm looking for a minidisc that meets two main criteria ... (1) it should have digital out so that I can transfer the music to my PC for editting and cutting CDs without needing to go through the rather ordinary A/D converter of my soundcard, and (2) the minidisc should allow manual setting of levels (I hate the way portable recording devices insist on setting their own levels dynamically!) Any suggestions? Ian Champ __ ()_o___o_o_o_o_o_o_) [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: HiSpace skips - part 2
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === you should try a shake test: plug in the ac and hit record and shake shake shake. the do the same with partially used rechargeable bats. then do the same with new alkalines. brynmore Thanks Simon and PrinceGaz for the original answers regardnig the HiSpaces. I figured that it was one bad disk, and recorded another - but this disk has problems as well! I recorded it, listened to it in my player right afterwards, and it sounded fine. Then, I listened to it again today and got significant gaps in the audio, around 2 seconds long, twice. My wife then tries it in hers, gets gaps in the music, but in a different section than in my player. We were both moving when these gaps occurred, so we figured that we were causing the skips each time. We're both curious, so we try it again at home in her player - gaps again, in a different section yet - while the player is sitting still. I note the time of the interruptions, throw it in my player, jump to that space, and no problems. Both of the units are new-ish portables, purchased in December and January (a Sony R37 and Sharp 301). I've not experienced this problem with any other discs, recording from whatever source. The randomness of the errors baffles me. Anyone have any ideas as to what's up? best regards, Bob === Robert Torres posgraduado en Sociolog a de desarrollo Ph.D. Candidate - Development Sociology Cornell University - EEUU C/Violant d'Hongria Reina d'Arago, 165, 1-3 08014 Barcelona - SPAIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.torres.cx === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: first impressions of MZR90
My degree is a masters in electronic and computer systems engineering, but I was more intrigued about the appiled (sic) computing! Apologies for being facetious. Ian Joanne Harrod BSc Appiled Computing (Now I'm an offical geek) - 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: MD Kewlness
Man, everywhere I go, people point and shout and carry on. I just can not dodge the attention. I know the reason, too. You'd think people had never seen a MiniDisc recorder before. It's all because I carry a MiniDisc recorder..and a shotgun. (Based on a premise by Charles Cozart) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD kewlness
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget to: - Turn up the volume all the way to share with everyone. - Talk to others in a loud voice, even though you can't hear them. - Sing bits of the songs you are listening to now then. - A few dance steps are in order. If you are gonna sing some of it, you should play someting they might recognize. Some how, I don't think you singing along with an opera in Italian or German would quite get it if you trying to impress someone that doesn't speak those languages. (Those Elvis Presley songs might date you too.) -- 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: MD Kewlness
Hi. You might be surprised how many people outside of Japan have no idea what a mini disc is. I meet many people who, when I mention MD, claim they know what I am talking about. But it soon becomes obvious they haven't a clue. Mini discs are never going to main stream outside of Japan. Don't ask my why. I could only offer guesses. I got into MD with Sony's MZ-1 (important to note that although many people put in "R" in there, the model number does not have an "R" in it. Just MZ-1). That portable did have a few nice features that were deleted from newer units. Like a digital optical output. Regards, Larry Rodney Peterson wrote: Man, everywhere I go, people point and shout and carry on. I just can not dodge the attention. I know the reason, too. You'd think people had never seen a MiniDisc recorder before. It's all because I carry a MiniDisc recorder..and a shotgun. (Based on a premise by Charles Cozart) - 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: Home recording
If you want digital out, you have to go with a deck. However, most of them don't have mike inputs, so you will need a preamp too, unless you can find one with a mike input. Are you gonna record in stereo or mono? I see you only mentioned one mike and didn't say what it was. Ian Champ wrote: I want to use a minidisc to make recordings a four piece acoustic group I'm in. I already have a quality microphone, and I'm looking for a minidisc that meets two main criteria ... (1) it should have digital out so that I can transfer the music to my PC for editting and cutting CDs without needing to go through the rather ordinary A/D converter of my soundcard, and (2) the minidisc should allow manual setting of levels (I hate the way portable recording devices insist on setting their own levels dynamically!) Any suggestions? Ian Champ __ ()_o___o_o_o_o_o_o_) [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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]
