Re: MD: MD to CDR

2000-03-15 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, J Coon wrote:

Hi,

> I know there must be several ways to do this, but I don't find any links
> to it on the MD community web page.   Every so often, people ask how to
> do this, 'cause they recorded something with their portable and want to
> share it with some that aren't enlightened.  Is there a web page I can
> point them to for the options on how to do it?  It seems there is plenty
> on going the other way, but to make these things more useful to
> musicians, they need a way to record on  MD, and then copy it to a CD to
> give or sell to a potential market for their music.

This is how I'd do it. A easier choice for musicians maybe to feed
the MD to a CDR standalone recorder. But if you're concerned about
perfection, you'd better:

- have a MD deck with digital out. They're almost cheaper than
portables...

- have a soundcard with digital in.

- Use a wave editor to transfer the MD contents to sound files,
recording digitally.

- Enhance it, by using normalization, and maybe some expansion or
compression, or even denoising, although the best way is always to have
good recorded material. 

- Toast it.

If the MD deck has a control bus (eg. S-link) and you're going to
that on a regular basis, it could be worth to implement some automation,
in order to record to different files, and maybe generate CD-Text entries
using the MD title and track labels. 

If you're interested on this, and do Linux, check
jukebox-control.sourceforge.net, as almost all the process mentioned
previously could be automated easily with some scripting with the aid of
tools like brec, sox, cdrdao etc... and the perl S-Link library
functionality that is being implemented.

That's all!

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MD: MD to CDR

2000-03-14 Thread J Coon


I know there must be several ways to do this, but I don't find any links
to it on the MD community web page.   Every so often, people ask how to
do this, 'cause they recorded something with their portable and want to
share it with some that aren't enlightened.  Is there a web page I can
point them to for the options on how to do it?  It seems there is plenty
on going the other way, but to make these things more useful to
musicians, they need a way to record on  MD, and then copy it to a CD to
give or sell to a potential market for their music.
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