MD: Help! How do I sync record?
Hi, I have a Hoontech SB DB III connected to my SB Live Platinum. From that I have a TOSLink optical audio cable connected to the optical in on my Sony MDS-SD1 home minidisc deck. I can not figure out how to get the MDS-SD1 to "sync" record. Currently, it only starts recording when I physically press the record button (on the MDS-SD1), and only stops when I press the stop button (on the MDS-SD1). Track marks *are* inserted using the 2-second Winamp plugin. So to record now I have to have to start the audio on my computer, then press record on the MDS-SD1, then wait around and press the stop button on the MDS-SD1 when the audio is done. Is it possible to "sync" record with my setup? So that the MDS-SD1 automatically starts recording when I start playing music on my computer and stops recording when I stop playing music on my computer? Thanks, Mo = Get the web on your handheld or cellphone for free! http://www.avantgo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MDLP- makes a good thing better!
Hi everyone! I asked JB HiFi about whether they have Sony MDS-JE640 MD decks in store and they told me that the moment they get these decks in store, they sell out very quickly. They even have told me that the local Sony distributors even have ran out of machines to supply as "general stock". I often suspect that the machines that are lingering in stores are the demonstrators which are used by those stores who won't sell display or demonstrator units to customers unless the unit is a superseded model. The reason that these MDLP-capable decks have sold out very quickly is because they offer MDLP abilities along with essential "presentation-audio" features like fade-start and fade-stop during playback; and "auto-pause" which stops the machine at the end of each track (very important for musical-accompaniment use, drama and the like). MDLP works hand-in-glove with MD's abilities in presentation audio because you can store the equivalent of five CDs; 6-8 vinyl LPs or at least 80 standard-length songs on one 80-minute MD when recorded in LP4. This amounts to lots of space saved in transporting and storing your "presentation-audio". I was told that a DJ could carry a small satchel full of music that would take up the equivalent of a car trunk full of vinyl stored in milk crates for example. MDLP will bring about the fact that this small satchel or gig bag will hold twice or four times the equivalent -- bring on the flexibility and variety for performances. With regards, Simon Mackay - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MDLP- makes a good thing better!
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === yes, but how does it sound? Can you edit it as closely as a regular MD? Simon Mackay wrote: and "auto-pause" which stops the machine at the end of each track (very important for musical-accompaniment use, drama and the like). MDLP works hand-in-glove with MD's abilities in presentation audio because you can store the equivalent of five CDs; 6-8 vinyl LPs or at least 80 standard-length songs on one 80-minute MD when recorded in LP4. This amounts to lots of space saved in transporting and storing your "presentation-audio". I was told that a DJ could carry a small satchel full of music that would take up the equivalent of a car trunk full of vinyl stored in milk crates for example. MDLP will bring about the fact that this small satchel or gig bag will hold twice or four times the equivalent -- bring on the flexibility and variety for performances. With regards, Simon Mackay - 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: MDLP- makes a good thing better!
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === At 12/8/00 8:27 AM, J. Coon wrote: yes, but how does it sound? Can you edit it as closely as a regular MD? Here's the relevant portion from a message I posted a little over two months ago: Last night I spent a couple of hours checking out the sound quality on my R900 and comparing it to my R50. To do this, I recorded "The throne room and end title" from the Star Wars suite digitally to a disc on the R50, then moved the disc to the R900 and recorded it again using standard stereo and LP2 modes. Then I listened to all 4 recordings through the R900 using my Sony NC10 earbuds. (The CD was played through the R900 with the R900 paused in record mode.) On a scale of 1-10 with the CD being placed at 10, this is how I would rank the sound quality of the various recordings: Recorded on R50: 9.5 R900 stereo: 9.8 R900 LP2: 9.2 I didn't specifically test the LP4 mode in this manner, but I have used it. I would probably rate it somewhere around 7.6. I should note that it took very, very careful listening with my eyes closed and as little outside noise as possible for me to be able to hear the differences between the 4 versions. I would say that under normal listening conditions there would be no detectable differences between the recordings. HTH. Ed "What the" Heckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--+ | The best things in life aren't things. | | -- Art Buchwald | +--+ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MDLP- makes a good thing better!
In the normal (SP) mode, you record 60, 74 and 80 minutes of stereo music. You also have a LP mode that doubles the record capacity but the sound is monaural not stereo. New MD products have normal mode, mono LP mode and MDLP. MDLP consists in two new modes: recordind durationx2 and x4 in STEREO! The "normal" or SP mode encodes music at 292 kbp/s. If you want to increase the recording time, your data must be more compressed. In LP2, data is encoded at 131 kbp/s. In LP4, at 66 kbp/s. You notice that LP2 isn't exactly the half of SP (292/2=146) and LP4 isn't the 1/4 of SP (292/4=73). The remaining bytes are used to allow backward compatibility. Non-MDLP products won't read MDLP tracks but will be able to edit them. In SP mode, you record in true stereo at 292 kbp/s= near-CD quality (maybe more but it's another debate). In LP2, you still record in stereo at 131 kbp/s = loss of quality In LP4, you record at 66 kbp/s in JOINT-STEREO. First, your bitrate is very low (encode a song in MP3 format at this bitrate and listen). Two, this is joint-stereo. To gain place, LP4 searches for similarities in the stereo channels and encode them in one step. AS a result, you will have a bad sound due to a big compression (66 kbp/s) and joint-stereo (the channels are mixed together). [EMAIL PROTECTED] a *crit : equivalent of a car trunk full of vinyl stored in milk crates for example. MDLP will bring about the fact that this small satchel or gig bag will hold twice or four times the equivalent -- bring on the flexibility and variety for performances. With regards, Simon Mackay Mmm I have some catching up to do this is the first time I heard of MDLP. How does it work exactly. different pitch smaller pits ?? Bryan http://bullets.gothic.ie - 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: MDLP- makes a good thing better!
Bryan asked, | Mmm I have some catching up to do this is the first time I heard of MDLP. | How does it work exactly. different pitch smaller pits ?? No. Best answer I can give is to refer you to the MDLP FAQ at http://www.minidisc.org/mdlpfaq.html. That explains most of it. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MDLP- makes a good thing better!
Jeanmougin wrote, | In the normal (SP) mode, you record 60, 74 and 80 minutes of stereo music. | You also have a LP mode that doubles the record capacity but the sound is | monaural not stereo. and | New MD products have normal mode, mono LP mode and MDLP. It is not a good idea to call the regular mono mode "LP". That not only con- fuses it with LP2 and LP4 but moreover it is misleading about the bit rate and misrepresentative of the way the mode is marked in the TOC. Furthermore, it implies that non-LP units wouldn't support regular mono, while in fact nearly all of them do. The regular mono mode is part of SP. It doubles the capacity by using two channels' space for one monaural channel at the same bit rate as SP stereo. SP mono could be called "EP"; it is the extended-play form of SP, just as LP4 is the extended-play form of LP. The regular-play counterparts are SP stereo and LP2, respectively, and their bit settings in the status word reflect that: bit 2 is on for SP and off for LP, while bit 1 is on for regular play and off for extended play. So, if pre-emphasis is off and thus bit 0 is off, the low byte of the status word will be 6 for SP stereo, 4 for SP mono, 2 for LP2, and 0 for LP4. (Bit 3 is always 0.) | You also have a LP mode that doubles the record capacity but the sound is | monaural not stereo. No, you also have an SP mono mode that doubles the recording capacity. | New MD products have normal mode, mono LP mode and MDLP. No, new MD products have SP stereo, SP mono, LP2, and LP4 modes. Mono is not LP. | The "normal" or SP mode encodes music at 292 kbp/s. SP mono is also at 292 kb/s; again, it should not be called "LP". - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Sony ATRAC3 software
In the 9/9 1999 entry of "News" on the minidisc.org site is a note: : Bryan Mo discovers Sony's ATRAC3 page featuring a downloadable player and song clips encoded at various bit rates (you can also register to get an encoder). Did anyone download this software? Going to the page now says "these contents are under construction" and there nothing available to download. If you saw this early on and got a copy, can you please send it to me? Thanks. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MDLP- makes a good thing better!
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I know in my area there's only a small amount to choose from in minidisc technology. My computer hard drive is too slow to edit audio with, it takes longer than real time to cut 5 seconds out of something, maybe up to 2 minutes. This was when I downloaded sound forge xp which I lost in a goof up that required a disk format, one of those where I had access to an ftp site for only a limited time before it expired. I'm sure disk speed has everything to do with it, but I can't find cheap extremely fast drives that can reduce the edit time. It's mostly what I find at best buy or circuit city that seems not to give many choices of what to get. My system won't hold the gigs of ram needed to record 3 or four hours at a time, as after 15 minutes things are starting to crash. Is there common to find recorders that record for a few hours on a disk, or that can change disks automatically for recording? At 07:58 PM 12/8/00 +1100, you wrote: Hi everyone! I asked JB HiFi about whether they have Sony MDS-JE640 MD decks in store and they told me that the moment they get these decks in store, they sell out very quickly. They even have told me that the local Sony distributors even have ran out of machines to supply as "general stock". I often suspect that the machines that are lingering in stores are the demonstrators which are used by those stores who won't sell display or demonstrator units to customers unless the unit is a superseded model. The reason that these MDLP-capable decks have sold out very quickly is because they offer MDLP abilities along with essential "presentation-audio" features like fade-start and fade-stop during playback; and "auto-pause" which stops the machine at the end of each track (very important for musical-accompaniment use, drama and the like). MDLP works hand-in-glove with MD's abilities in presentation audio because you can store the equivalent of five CDs; 6-8 vinyl LPs or at least 80 standard-length songs on one 80-minute MD when recorded in LP4. This amounts to lots of space saved in transporting and storing your "presentation-audio". I was told that a DJ could carry a small satchel full of music that would take up the equivalent of a car trunk full of vinyl stored in milk crates for example. MDLP will bring about the fact that this small satchel or gig bag will hold twice or four times the equivalent -- bring on the flexibility and variety for performances. With regards, Simon Mackay - 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: MDLP- makes a good thing better!
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Ed Heckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I listened to all 4 recordings through the R900 using my Sony NC10 earbuds. (The CD was played through the R900 with the R900 paused in record mode.) I should note that it took very, very careful listening with my eyes closed and as little outside noise as possible for me to be able to hear the differences between the 4 versions. I would say that under normal listening conditions there would be no detectable differences between the recordings. Thanks for that, Ed. Although I'd be interested to hear the same comparison with some high quality, non-earbud headphones. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sony ATRAC3 software
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I'd like to try this too, if the encoder was free, I'd like to play with it, compare it to mp3's I already have, if I like it good enough, and winamp had a pluggin, I'd switch to it. At 03:22 PM 12/8/00 -0800, you wrote: In the 9/9 1999 entry of "News" on the minidisc.org site is a note: : Bryan Mo discovers Sony's ATRAC3 page featuring a downloadable player and song clips encoded at various bit rates (you can also register to get an encoder). Did anyone download this software? Going to the page now says "these contents are under construction" and there nothing available to download. If you saw this early on and got a copy, can you please send it to me? Thanks. - 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: Sony ATRAC3 software
I dl'ed the player a long time ago and some samples, was too lazy or something at the time to register to get the encoder, it really wouldn't have mattered anyway because the player expired a while back. i still have it and if i set my computer's clock back a few years it appears to work. IMO it sounds pretty good (a lot better than mp3) but i really dont know what good a player is that you have to turn back your clock to get it to work. if there is sufficent requests for this thing and someone want's to put it up on thier web site along with the samples i got too i'd be happy to give it to them. Later Matt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Brent Harding" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:01 PM Subject: Re: MD: Sony ATRAC3 software === = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I'd like to try this too, if the encoder was free, I'd like to play with it, compare it to mp3's I already have, if I like it good enough, and winamp had a pluggin, I'd switch to it. At 03:22 PM 12/8/00 -0800, you wrote: In the 9/9 1999 entry of "News" on the minidisc.org site is a note: : Bryan Mo discovers Sony's ATRAC3 page featuring a downloadable player and song clips encoded at various bit rates (you can also register to get an encoder). Did anyone download this software? Going to the page now says "these contents are under construction" and there nothing available to download. If you saw this early on and got a copy, can you please send it to me? Thanks. - 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] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
