Re: MD: compression
This is my point: CD-DA sampling makes the data smaller, and you can get the data back with negligible loss (at least that is what most people think). By your own definition, CD-DA is a form of compression. You stripped away my and someone elses original point, modern dat compression is strictly in the digital sense of the word, Analog data has no specific size, yes on a 60 min tape exactly 60 mins of audio wil go on, but if you speed up the tape less will go on, in a digital world no matter how much you speed up the bitstream still only the same data wil go in n bits. compression is a technique to fit data in a smaller number of bits. | ZIP is merely a bitwise reduction, it takes note of all data and try's to | remove all redundancy, ie merely a bitwise reduction... Well, no. ZIP transforms redundant data into a code. This is traditional data compression. ATRAC and MP3 remove what they perceive to be insignificant data. This is bitwise reduction. But that is compression too... in a matter of fact someones original statement is true, anything you'll do to make it smaller is a form of compression as long as you get the same or mostly the same back when you decode it again... So resampling at a lower rate for instance is not a compression as you don't get the original data back. ADC is not a compression as there is no way you can measure the size of a analog recording in bits. It is a conversion, you get something else back as what you put in hence ADC, Analog to Digital Conversion. JPEG is a compression too, and all it does in principle is leave a lot of color data out of the picture as the human eye is more sensitive to contrast and brightness then coloring. ATRAC does the same, but instead of leaving colordata out it leaves masked audio data out. Bye, Remko van der Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Titling from the PC with the MD-MT20
Hi Guys, I've been looking into this from the moment I got my MD-MT20. I want to make a little device to attach between PC parrallel port and MD remote port to title MD tracks with the PC. The thing is you need these keys to title: Edit, Display, Enter, | and | at least, and Bass, Vol+ and Vol- for extra functionality, well | and | are on the remote so that's no problem... I found that Display can also be used by using a custom found resistor value. The problem is that as far as I can find there is no resistor value for Edit and Enter, which makes titling by PC impossible 'cause you need to press enter to insert a character into a title. Now these are the resistor values I found, if anyone found any other resistor values, could you please inform me of them... FunctionRemoteTried Values Stop 6.8k6.8k |10k 10k |14k 15k Vol+ 19k 22k Vol- 25k 27k Bass 35k 47k Display 82k Mode 120k Idle 210k Bye, Remko van der Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MP3 -- Am I the only one that hates it so?
It always works. Trow some heavy anti arguments in the threath and you'll get som real answers. Until now, I've only heard of MP3 in "Yeah, let's download the song, collect as much music as possible... and last but not least, FOR FREE! Magic, I agree with you, there is something good about MP3. I've seen sites that let you download MP3 samples of CDs. And for 'distributing' audio using the internet it's offcourse a great media. But when it comes to MP3 players, things start to get blurry, I don't see the benefits off them. What does it realy bring? Well, in time memory will get cheaper, and it is then affordable to make an mp3 player with like 250 mb space so you can put in either a long time of music at relatively low quality, or you can put in like 74 minutes of cd quelity audio using some lossless compression scheme. then is starts getting interesting, and that'll only go further... and in time recording functions will come too... Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MORE QUESTIONS SORRY
Hey guyz...sorry, but I have a couple of more questions? I have just = bought a SOny mini disc recorder MZ-R55, and I want to record digitally = from the mp3s in my computer. How can I do it? what is the cheapest = solution? Do I have to buy a digital soundcard? What kind of outputs = must this soundcard have, toslink or coax? Which sound card would you = recommed..DO i need a toslink connector or something? Thank You. = Please explain as I am new to the Mini Disc world! Yes, you'd need a digital soundboard, but they vary, there are very cheap ones which have a very simple output, it looks like a jumper, it's only two pins sticking out of the board, this in essence is the coaxial out, but it is a different voltage, so you'd have to convert that to the right voltage with a simple converter. then there are the soundboards with an RCA digital output, this is simply coaxial output. the problem with these two is that you need to convert the coaxial signal into an optical one, since the mz-r55 can only receive digital signals optically. There are also soundboards with a optical digital output (ie TOSLINK), but there are only a few, and are expensive. So you can do several things: -Buy a very expensive soundboard with a TOSLINK transmitter. -Buy a less expensive soundboard with RCA digital output, and buy/build a converter that converts the coaxial signal into an optical one. -Buy a cheap to less expensive soundboard with a jumper header digital TTL level output, and buy/build a converter that converts the TTL level signal into an optical one. (there are very nice prebuild converters you can put in the back of your pc) Mind you that very cheap soundboards are not always truly digital, some convert to analog first, and then convert back to digital to provide the digital output... Hope this helps... Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Ripping CD's to MP3 ?
I know that this isn't probably the best place to ask this but hey you all do it ;) Anyone know if it's possible to extract a multitrack CD into one MP3 ? For example you have a "live" CD that all blends into one, but has track markers. I've tried using some CDtoMP3 programs but they seem to insist on seperating the tracks. Well, if you can't find a program, you can always rip the CD to WAV files, paste them together with something like cool edit, en then encode the complete WAV, it's a bit of a hassle but it works, can't say I know of a program that converts a whole cd to one MP3... Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: 240 V
Hi, I'm going to buy my first MD, a Sony Mz-R91 from Hong Kong for use in Australia. I'd like to know whether its better to buy the 110V japanese version or the slightly more expensive Hongkong version which is 220V. However australia uses 240V. is it ok to just get the 110V and use some converter to change it to 240V? Well, the 220 is actually designed to work with any voltage of 220 to 250V, that is because all former 220V countries are gradually increasing the voltage to a final 250V. The same thing is happening here in Holland. Actually, they're standardising on 230V, +/- 5% according to information available here in the UK, but as you say, a 220V transformer will work fine - they're made to quite wide tolerances. Nope, it's going to 250, but the current standard is 230.. And yes, you could also use a transformer to convert your 240V to 110V, the diiference is that you then have two transformers, one outside your md, 240 - 110, and one inside which converts from 110 to 12 or so. the point is that loss occurs in every transformation, although this is very little there still is some. and there'll be always some current flowing in the 240 - 110 converter unless you want to turn on/off the converter and md every time, so there's some loss to. Erm, the R-91 is a portable, is it not? I think it would be a tad bulky if it had a 110 to 12V transformer inside it :-) Oops, my mistake. Sorry, what's transformer loss? I don't think it's got a lot to do with powering an MD walkman... well, a transformer converts to magnetic and back, some of the magnatism 'escapes' there's no influence on your md, but there is some loss... If you go for the Japanese one, you'll end up with a brick-in-the-wall transformer which converts from 240-110, then the 110-DC transformer which comes with the Sony. You might also end up with a Japanese to Australian plug convertor if you buy your 240-110 adaptor in Japan, which is another thing sticking out of the wall. A mate of mine had this problem when he bought a Sharp 831 from Japan - he had UK-Euro240-110110-DC which caused no end of problems with dodgy connections, so I got him a 240V to 5V power supply and put the right DC plug on it for him. Yeah, with a protable that works just fine as long as you match current and power. You'd be much better off going for the Hong Kong version, for which you may or may not need a plug convertor - don't know what Hong Kong and Australian plugs look like... As, i said that'd be the simplest solution, and for a portable it is even more so. So all in all, you would be just fine using a japanese one and a converter, but buying a Hongkong version would be better. the only thing to consider is frequency, in europe we use 60 Hz in America they use 50 Hz, I don't know about other countries, and I don't know if the md is bothered by it... if it is you'd have to use a converter anyway. Sorry matey, wrong again. Europe is 50Hz, America is 60Hz. This won't affect the MD in any way, Got them confused.. Don't I feel foolish... since the 50/60Hz AC will be rectified to DC before it goes anywhere near the MD itself. The mains frequency only affects things like TVs and mains powered clocks which rely on the mains frequency as their timebase. Yep, indeed the portable wouldn't have any problems with that, a deck however could be using the ac frequency for something, very unlikely, but it could. As I say, you're better off in all aspects with the Hong Kong one :-) yep, it'd save a lot of hassle, especially with a portable, with a deck you could consider it since you only setup once and leave for the rest of time... Next time i really got to check what I'm writing... that was soo stupid... Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Titling with HP 48 series
On 12/15/99 2:01 PM, Ralph Smeets wrote: As a last note, I must say, the HP48 calculator series of Hewlet Packer are the best in the world. Why? You can title MDs with them. Wait! How? I have a 48G and would love to be able to do this! Let us in on the info, Ralph :-) I have an HP48G also, but what are the benefits of titling with it? After all, it has the same ABCD alpha layout and equally as small buttons as the remote that came with my JB920??? The benefit is that you title with a text editor on a MS-Doze machine. You feed the file with titles into a MS-Doze program and this program spits out a HP48 program that is sort of a macro which control the remote control program on the HP48. All you need to do is to download the HP48 program to you HP48, lign the HP48 IR port up with the IR receiver on the Sony deck and run the program. It sounds like a lot of hasle and I'm sure Martin Daneks? WinRemote works a lot easier, but it saves a lot of time doing the titling. Writing the tst file, passing it true the MS-Doze program and putting it on the HP48 doesn't take as much as time as titling with just the remote does! Hi Ralph (and the rest), It's unbelievable, i've got a HP48G too :-) Great little engenious device, of course i've upgraded the memory from 32k to 128k :-) But what I'd like to ask you all if there's some info out there on that titling stuff, is it possible to write such a program for the sharp... ie, can the sharp receive titling info via optical in? if so where would I be able to get the info on how I need to send the data Thanks to anyone who can help. Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Stupid Me
I meant remote control input instead of the optical in :-\ My mistake... Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MD to SB(value) transfer
The original argument: can't do it 'cause the porty doesn't have a digital out. I foolishly countered: Yes it does--the line out doubles as an optical-out. J. Coon fired back: I'm sorry, but I had one and the line out doubles as an OPTICAL IN, not an optical out. and then Remko van der Vossen added: No it doesn't, http://www.minidisc.org/mz-r30.html Aaaarrrgghhh! You're all right--I apologize profusly for knowing next to nothing! What I have got, though, is a Sony home unit that does allow such things as digital ports galore. Many, many apologies. I am going to take Martin's advice and look into Hoontech's add-on cards, though No prob, as long as it gets straightened out, so others don't get confused. Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD to SB(value) transfer
Really quick: I've got a PC with a soundBlaster value card in it. What is the easiest/best way to do digital transfers from my sony MZR-30 to the PC? not, your MZR30 doesn't have a digital out, (almost none of the portables have), the other way around is possible, you need a small converter to convert the coaxial signal coming from your SB to an optical signal, then connect the converter to your MZR30 with an optical cable. you can build a converter yourself for something like $10-$20, just look for a schematic on internet (www.minidisc.org) and build it yourself, or let someone with some electronics experience build it. BTW, it could be possible to modify your MZR30 so it is possible to make a custom digital output, but you'd have to ask for that, I wouldn't know. Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Converter
-Original Message- From: Eric Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 4:49 PM Subject: MD: Converter I want to go from S/PIDF to mini-plug in digital. Does anyone know how to do this? I have MZ-R50 and want to make some digital recordings. Eric Reality is Relative go to: http://www.stack.nl/~leon/spdif http://mason.gmu.edu/~gsopko/spdifttl.html Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Cheap TOSlink soundcard?
I realize that there are now several options $70 and up for a soundcard complete with optical out. But, is there a decent-quality soundcard under $50 with an optical out for MD recording from the PC? Buy a soundboard with a S/PDIF output, this is usually a 2 pin 'jumper' connection, then you'll have to buy some electrical components and build (or let someone else do that) a little converter, it requires less than 10 components. possibly even 1. There's enough info on cenverters on the net; http://www.stack.nl/~leon/spdif/ http://mason.gmu.edu/~gsopko/spdifttl.html are two very good ones. Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD data conversion Zip Drive Click of Death?
I'm on my 3rd zip drive (not problems with the drive) sold the first one to a friend (SCSI ZIP 100) Still using the second and third one one is a 100 the other is a new 250 never had a problem with any of them.. the one I sold my buddy is still using... The reports I read about the click of death, say that it was fixed within the first year of the drives production... Yep, It's only in certain drives, and if you buy an Iomage zip-drive, then they'll suply a new disk and/or drive whenever you encounter CoD, even if you're 5 years out of warenty, doesn't matter. I've got a 100Mb SCSI Zip, and 12 disks, haven't had a single problem with any of 'm. Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Recording 9hours!
hmm, I don't think so that it's s important to get an extra HD Drive for it. And I've already an AWE but a 64Gold which has a Coax Output. Yeah, but you can also record other stuff on it, and if you've got a good recording utility, you can encode the WAV to MP3 on the fly, I don't know of any program that can do this, but I know they Exist, and if the Encoder could proces at a rate of say around 70% (that's encode 7/10) of a minute per minute, you'd only need about 1/3 of the 5.5 Gig, and the drives aren't that expensive, here you can get a 6.5 Gig for around $150, now what's that, I'm sure you can afford that. We pay that much every two months on our phone bill. Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD data conversion
currently i am involved in a research project in my computer engineering studies to allow a home audio md unit (je510 initially... same process for others) to store data and audio on the same disc.. if this conversion was patented and fairly cheap, do you all feel there is a market for this? it would use the audio discs and pass data through the serial port at 150Kbps. single speed cd... there is also the possibility of speeding up the drive itself... like with using the new quad speed ones sound good? I don't think it would, there are already 250 MB ZIP disks, which are fearly cheap, and fast, and they're bigger in MB's than MD's too. I myself have a 100 MB ZIP Drive, and it works great, a lot of my friends have one too, and at school they've also got them. and it work's really fast 600 Kbyte to 1 Mbyte per second. the 250 is even faster. BTW, the serial port of a computer has a maximum speed of 115 Kbit per second, which comes to 11.5 Kbyte per second, so that won't really work, you'd have to create a ISA or PCI card for it to work at higher speeds. Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
