MD: Armband case?

2001-10-08 Thread Jarvie, James


On the topic of MD cases, I have been looking all over for an armband case to use 
while commuting with my Kenwood DMC-J7R.  So far, I have not been successful in 
finding one.  

Any suggestions?  Thanks.



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RE: MD: MD Sony PC-Link w/ Mac

2001-10-08 Thread Michael Johnson


Eric  Eduardo, and other Mac folks,

I have  a Mac G4 and have used the Xitel PC Link unit that came with the
Sony MZR70.
As with many things Macintosh, you plug it in and it works. 
I plugged in the Xitel to my Keyboard and that was it. I had my audio stream
out
The Mac should sense the USB out and should just start feeding audio
automatically.

Have you downloaded iTunes yet from apple.com? It's a great little mp3
organizer, ripper, and converter.

Michael Johnson
KQED-FM
San Francisco
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Re: MD: Armband case?

2001-10-08 Thread Matt Wall


Please check this url, i have one and it does work
http://www.planetminidisc.com/amdmoveit.html


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 On the topic of MD cases, I have been looking all over for an armband case
to use while commuting with my Kenwood DMC-J7R.  So far, I have not been
successful in finding one.

 Any suggestions?  Thanks.



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RE: MD: USB Audio Devices - Griffin iMic Adapter

2001-10-08 Thread Michael Johnson


 I wrong or is the Griffin iMic Adapter a cheap device to do the
reverse (audio to USB)? Anyone has experience with this one?
Alexandre

Alexandre,

You are right. The iMic ( about US$35.00 ) does the opposite, but you must
have System 9.04
or better to have it work properly. If you want to use it for Pro Tools,
then you must have
System 9.1 or better, as the Apple Audio Extension will have the updated USB
drivers.

If you're using the iMic  with the iBook, there have been some internal USB
power distribution problems 
that have caused some clicks in recording into the iBook, but Apple is
fixing this problem, and should 
service your iBook to upgrade this problem.

The iMic is a great little device. Worth every penny. There's software to
control it as well. 
The program is handy but you don't have to have it for the iMic Adapter to
work. Good Luck

Michael Johnson
KQED, 88.5 FM
San Francisco
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re: MD: Armband case?

2001-10-08 Thread macdef


Jarvie, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the topic of MD cases, I have been looking all over for an armband
case to use while commuting with my Kenwood DMC-J7R. So far, I have
not been successful in finding one.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Radio Shack has one on sale for $5.99 -- Product #42-265. It's intended for
a two-way radio, but it works very well for MD.

http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLGcategory%5Fname=;
product%5Fid=42%2D265

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RE: MD: MD Sony PC-Link w/ Mac

2001-10-08 Thread macdef


Michael Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Michael Johnson
 KQED-FM
 San Francisco

Hey, KQED! ;)

Michael, do you use MD at all at work? Just curious about MD's penetration
at KQED.

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Re: MD: MD Sony PC-Link w/ Mac

2001-10-08 Thread Eduardo H. Martinez-Hasembank


on 10/8/01 2:12 PM, Michael Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I have  a Mac G4 and have used the Xitel PC Link unit that came with the
 Sony MZR70.
 As with many things Macintosh, you plug it in and it works.
 I plugged in the Xitel to my Keyboard and that was it. I had my audio stream
 out
 The Mac should sense the USB out and should just start feeding audio
 automatically.

Thanks for this info. It is certainly reassuring.

Rgds,

Eduardo H. Martinez-Hasembank
Holos Media
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Re: MD: USB Audio Devices (Griffin iMic)

2001-10-08 Thread Mark Ligtenstein


Am I wrong or is the Griffin iMic Adapter a cheap device to do the
reverse (audio to USB)? Anyone has experience with this one?


I have a Griffin iMic connected to my iMac. In fact it has the same 
functionality as the Xitel AN1 but also has audio in. I use the audio 
out to connect my iMac to my stereo and the audio in to make 
recordings from a cassette  deck. (I have no more inlets on my 
receiver left) or my portable MD recorder. In fact I can route the 
sound from the cassette through the iMic to my stereo system. You 
have to experiment with the settings, but then the iMic is a great 
little device and sounds much better than the normal output of the 
iMac. It may not be as clean as true digital throughput, but this 
solution is a lot cheaper than long TOS-link cable and a digital 
converter. For me it's good enough for playing mp3's on my stereo 
system and a lot cheaper than buying extra speakers. Hope this 
answers your question.

iMark
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MD: MD to Old PowerBook

2001-10-08 Thread Alexandre Enkerli


From: macdef [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Your best bet is to hook a mini-to-mini cable from your R37 to the audio-in
jack on the 5300, and use the program Coaster to do the recording (you can
find Coaster on http://www.versiontracker.com/). Experiment with the
levels in Coaster until you get it right, then record the audio to disc. You
can have Coaster save your audio as AIFF files (the Mac counterpart to
wav files on Windows, for burning to CD). Then just burn them to a CD.

That's basically what I'm doing. It's just that a somewhat better sound-in
option for the PB would help. Still, after some tests, I was relieved to
see that this setup doesn't introduce any noise.

Thanks for the reply!
Alex

Alex Enkerli
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Indiana University


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MD: MZ-R700 and MD first impressions

2001-10-08 Thread Brian Lalor


Well, I've had my first ever MD player/recorder for a few days now.  I was
in a pretty big hurry to get it my hands for a looong motorcycle trip I
took this past weekend and I wanted the tunes to keep me company.  That
didn't work out so well, unfortunately.  Not enough volume, and the
speakers I bought for my helmet pressed against my ears causing pretty
intense pain.  Next up is a pair of those Koss in-ear types.

Anyway, I'm fairly impressed with the technology and the device itself.
I'm not much of an audiophile, and I don't find the compression of LP4 to
be offensive, but it is noticable with the headphones that came with the
unit and another cheap ($30) pair of Sony headphones I have at work (which
also crush my head; do I just have sensitive ears?).  I'm primarily
recording MP3s I've previously encoded using grip and bladeenc under
Linux.  I'm encoding the MP3s at 160kbps, which I think is a pretty good
compromise between space and quality.  I'm using the Xitel DG2 under
RedHat Linux 7.1 with very good results.  I was pleaseantly surprised to
find that the mixer functions do nothing at all, so I don't have to worry
about having them set any one way and can record at work and at home
without that inconvenience.

XMMS does an excellent job decoding the MP3s, and even without the two
second gap, the recorder inserts trackmarks.  That seems kind of strange,
from what I've read here, but I'm not really complaining.  What I've
discovered, in editing the mix I made earlier today, is that the
trackmarks aren't exact; I'll likely go back to a 1 or 2 second pause,
although that seems to introduce double trackmarks pretty reliably...
(Anyone found a cure for that particular pain?)

As far as the player goes, I've actually got kind of mixed feelings in
some respects.  It is very small and light and I think I only got it to
skip while squashing it between my GPS and some other hard bits in my
tankbag yesterday.  I'm not even sure it *was* skipping; I think I may
have reached the end of the disc. :-)  Some of the things that bug me,
however, are the length of time it takes to jump between tracks (the seek
time seems rather long).  The button interface is less than thorougly
intuitive; labelling tracks is a sufficient pain in the butt that I doubt
I'll bother, unless I can pick up one of those parallel port titlers
cheap.  The other thing that bothers me is that I have yet to find a way
to return to the first track on a disc without repeatedly hitting the 
button.  Is there a way to do that?

Can someone explain the difference between recording with sync on vs.
off?  The recorder automatically locks into sync mode when I plug the
optical lead into the Xitel box.  I can't really figure what that gives
me, but I *do* realize it takes away the option for setting the recording
level myself...

Thanks in advance for any advice you can send my way; this is an awsome
group!

B

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