Re: MD: . MD-Sony complaints
Which was exactly my arguement, availability, thats why MiniDisc's aren't as popular as CD's, prerecorded ones are in the majority hard to find, and you find an average consumer who wants to wait up to 80 minutes to listen to some music on their portable. Um... do MP3's just magically appear out of thin air? ;) Seriously, though. You still have to rip/encode MP3s at some point, then transfer them. Not real-time but definitely not a trivial undertaking. (That said, there are 4x CD-MD recorders which basically eliminate the - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: . MD-Sony complaints
This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --- Theres such thing as buying a cd full, lending cd's full, downloading with broadband, its something that happens quite often, I know, I have done the first two very often, although i dont anymore, no one has anything I like, Iced Earth and Pantera dont seem to do well over here anyway. -- Stuart Howlette There are many questions in life, but is the right answer only correct because the majority believe in it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minidisc.sphosting.com http://minidisc.sphosting.com/personal/ -- - Original Message - From: Dan Frakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MDList [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:44 PM Subject: Re: MD: . MD-Sony complaints Which was exactly my arguement, availability, thats why MiniDisc's aren't as popular as CD's, prerecorded ones are in the majority hard to find, and you find an average consumer who wants to wait up to 80 minutes to listen to some music on their portable. Um... do MP3's just magically appear out of thin air? ;) Seriously, though. You still have to rip/encode MP3s at some point, then transfer them. Not real-time but definitely not a trivial undertaking. (That said, there are 4x CD-MD recorders which basically eliminate the - 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: . MD-Sony complaints
Um... do MP3's just magically appear out of thin air? ;) Sh!t Yeah ... we all *know* MP3's are free music put out by the record companies. grin Seriously, though. You still have to rip/encode MP3s at some point, then transfer them. Not real-time but definitely not a trivial undertaking. (That said, there are 4x CD-MD recorders which basically eliminate the Actually with Audiograbber you can rip directly from the CD and encode on the fly. With a P4 this takes about 10-15 minutes, using my 12X CD-RW 8 odd minutes to burn a full CD or about 2 minutes to burn 1 album of MP3's (slightly slower if onto CDRW at 10X - when you can find 10X CDRW's). It's so much simpler then the early days and command line ripping and mp3 encoding (who remembers those times?). MD's biggest error was not to allow faster then real time transfers, even DCC had a computer link so you could dump raw DDC data to PC (the DCC-175 I think was the model) - they had software to play it back. Even if there was a physical MD limit due to the need to apply heat at the correct temperature for recording ... 2X-4X transfer would have been better then nothing. I know there is a CD-MD deck, but I'm talking MD to MD, MD to PC or PC to MD. Gimme a USB port on all MD portables and decks ... then watch the MD take off. Cheers GuyC PS: My opening line ... I *was* kidding. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: . MD-Sony complaints
Which was exactly my arguement, availability, thats why MiniDisc's aren't as popular as CD's, prerecorded ones are in the majority hard to find, and you find an average consumer who wants to wait up to 80 minutes to listen to some music on their portable This is true too. If Sony would introduce 4-8X combo CD-player MD recorder at cheap prices, it might ignite a minidisc fire. But they probably think that might lessen their brand name. But I think it would be a good start and might up sales of their upper-level models as well. I showed my MD player to an old boss at work once, and the first question he asked was if you could buy pre-recorded music. Sony needs to either price this medium low enough for teenagers to buy, or get better pre-recorder MD coverage. Older people are usually too busy to take on another format, one that's pretty much blank digital tape at that. In other news, I was cleaning out some boxes the other day and found an old magazine with a DCC advert in it. haha. MD has a lot of life in it still. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
