RE: MD: MD and MP3 technologies are merging / titling
| Why should I have to title my MD tracks when the titles have already been | entered and uploaded by someone else in CDDB? 1. The tracks on the MD may not be exactly the set and sequence of an album listed on the CDDB. 2. The tracks may not yet be listed in the CDDB. 3. The person who provided the titles to the CDDB may have made mistakes in information or in typing. (The titles shown on the CD case may even be wrong and mislead the typist. I have a couple CDs like this.) 4. The person who provided the titles to the CDDB may have entered them in a format that differs from your preference in some varying or unpredictable fashion, such that the editing changes cannot be pre-coded into your title transfering software. 5. You might have made your own mix or edit, or your own microphone recording, or your own computer-composed tune, so the track couldn't possibly be in the CDDB. That's a good, helpful list of points. Titling of MD mixes is not solved by CDDB, but I use CDDB-downloaded titles automatically when I create an MP3 CD. This titles appear in my Rio Volt player, though I did not type them in anywhere. Poor ID3 tagging (typos, wrong titles, no titles, capitalization, poor conventions for artist/filename/directory structure) is a perrennial annoyance and an issue for hi-fi/archival MP3 CD traders. MD titling is such an undeveloped technology that these issues have barely arisen; it would be a nice improvement to get *any* electronic titling, rather than the common track 18. There are major problems with MP3 hi-fi album trades: gaps inserted by the player between live tracks; glitches; artifacts/poor compression; various titling problems. When I buy a CD (with only $0.25 going to the artist, by the way), I feel stupid for not acquiring the album via MP3 CDR trade. When I do MP3 CDR trades, I feel stupid for not simply ordering the CD online (to save time and get guaranteed high quality). When I do MD trades, I can only feel stupid for wasting time -- quality is almost guaranteed to be high, if the copy is from a pressed CD. | MD does titling in the most stupid, boneheaded, manual, tedious, | time-consuming way possible. Apparently, Mr. Hoffman, you have only a portable MD recorder and don't know how titling is on decks with full remotes, let alone on a deck with keyboard input. I find titling on portables to be as bad as you say, but it's not the only way to title a MiniDisc. I am referring to my Sony home deck with dedicated letter buttons -- so tedious and time-consuming that I quickly gave up titling MDs; and portables are even more difficult and time-consuming for entering titles. The former is very tedious, the latter utterly ludicrous (though better than nothing). A keyboard port solves one complaint, CDDB downloading of titling solves another, and inherent preservation of titling across digital copies would solve another. Thus there are several improvements needed in MD titling before it can begin to compete with the superior ergonomics of MP3 titling. | MDs are a dead-end for trades and each time you do copy an MD you lose the | titling ... There are ways to transfer titles from MD to MD. For example, many Sharp portable recorders have the Name Stamp feature that copies the disc name and all track titles from any recordable MD to any other with the same number of tracks, and the Sony MDS-W1 dual MD deck can copy titles between discs. If the tracks are at the same addresses, in many machines one can clone the entire TOC, titles and all. It's good that companies are going beyond the MD standard to help MD titling catch up with MP3 titling (which is inherently preserved via ID3 tagging). I'm glad MP3 is putting the heat on MD and inspiring it to work toward better titling approaches. I hope such improvements become standard and continue; I hope that the best features of MP3 and MD are combined across the industry. Yes, another layer of ATRACking is introduced (unless you have pro-grade equipment that can transfer bit-for-bit in the ATRAC domain). In normal personal copying you won't have too many generations and the effect will be negligible, but it is a drawback for trading. -- Michael Hoffman http://www.amptone.com/audio - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD and MP3 technologies are merging / titling
wouldn't this be dependant on the label that the arist used and the contract they got from that label? -- When I buy a CD (with only $0.25 going to the artist, by the way) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD and MP3 technologies are merging / titling
Of course, but it's still probably a high average. :) --- Mike Lastucka, B. Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sites.netscape.net/element5/ 2048 bit DH 0x16DC15CD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: MD and MP3 technologies are merging / titling Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 11:58:10 -0700 wouldn't this be dependant on the label that the arist used and the contract they got from that label? -- When I buy a CD (with only $0.25 going to the artist, by the way) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MD and MP3 technologies are merging
Michael Hoffman wrote: Your points will not be valid for very long at all. We're about to be hit by a tidal wave of MP3-capable CD players and related combinations of technologies and features. Mike Lastucka wrote: Which is fine for people who like to cart around what I consider to be bulky players. MD units for me are far more discrete, imho. What are you talking about? What are your unexamined assumptions? Have some vision, some imagination. Do I need to post a list of links to innovative new combinations of technology in the latest products? Evidently you need a concrete visual proof of the crossover that is happening between MD and MP3 features and behaviors, to let go of the cliche clouds of connotations of what MD is and what MP3 is. http://www.musicmatch.com/download/radiomx_intro.htm ~~128 stereo Kbps (ATRAC3?) internet radio (I'm listening now). No interruptions, just brief station IDs, start of songs do a 1-second fade-in, can skip about 10 songs before you must wait or switch stations to skip some more songs. A hint of the future. I consider 128 Kbps stereo typical FM-quality. http://www.realnetworks.com/company/pressroom/pr/00/sony.html - RealNetworks plans to integrate support for Sony music technologies into RealJukebox, including ATRAC3, its sound compression format, as well as OpenMG copyright protection technology, the Sony Memory Stick and its portable audio players such as Memory Stick Walkman and VAIO Music Clip. This enhancement to RealJukebox is expected to ship in the Summer of 2000, and is to be designed for use with OpenMG on PCs to comply with SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) requirements for copyright management. Both RealNetworks and Sony are active members of SDMI. RealNetworks also expects to provide integrated support for Sony's ATRAC3 codec technology, which will enable consumers to download and play ATRAC3-encoded music on PCs, as well as downloading such music to Sony's portable audio players packaged with OpenMG, like Memory Stick Walkman and VAIO Music Clip. Initially, RealNetworks and Sony plan to develop a version of RealJukebox for Windows 98 and 2000. Mini CD-R blanks ($0.68 US) http://www.yesbuy.net/cd-r-3--mini-cdr.html Mini CD-R blanks ($0.68 US) http://www.meritline.com/50pcsminicdr.html http://cdr4less.com/cgi-bin/smart_cart.cgi?keywords=mini%20cdr http://www.supermediastore.com/10pacmincdrb.html Mini-CD-RW: Mini CDRW blanks ($2 US, compare to regular CDRW blanks) http://cdr4less.com/cgi-bin/smart_cart.cgi?keywords=cd-rw - Not compatible with Sony Mavica CD1000 Camera. Fully ReWritable up to 1,000 times -- Silver top Mini CD-RW, in spindles (cases available separately), holds 21 minutes audio [CDDA] or 180MB of data, measures 80 mm (8cm or 3.25) round. Fits in small center depression in the tray of most CDR burners and CD-ROM players. Freecom Beatman Mini-CDR player with MP3 decoding http://www.freecom.com/ecCategory_one.asp?ID=8009type=DRIVE%5FIN Philips Expanium 401 MP3 Mini-CD-R player http://www.tecchannel.de/news/20010503/thema20010503-4303.html More hits: http://www.google.com/search?q=expanium+401 http://www.getasia.com.sg/getasia%5CGetAsiaCachePublish.nsf/Content/251DEF92E1 3C7A0248256A4D001E3376?Opendocument - Philips EXP 401 MP3-CD portable delivers over three hours of compressed MP3, UDF or AAC audio from single disc. Philips is boosting its eXpandium MP3-CD player features by shrinking the CD player itself - with a CD portable specifically designed to play 8cm (3-inch) CDs which can contain over three hours of compressed digital audio in formats like MP3, UDF or AAC. Due September 2001. MP3-CD playback (32-320 Kbps including Variable Bit Rate); 8cm CD compatibility (Audio CD, CD-R, CD-RW); Onboard decoders: CDDA, MP3, UDF or AAC. Samsung MCD-MP8 MP3 Mini-CD-R player http://www.tecchannel.de/news/20010704/thema20010704-4783.html - 180 und 230 MByte Daten. Die CDs können herkömmliche CD-Brenner beschreiben, und sie sind im Vergleich zu Flash-Medien sehr billig. Beim Direktversender Pearl, der ebenfalls einen Mini-CD-Player von Q-Sonic (289 Mark) anbietet, kostet das Medium zum Beispiel 2,30 Mark. Der Samsung Yepp wiegt 165 Gramm und misst 113 x 100 x 29 Millimeter. Er ist mit den üblichen Features wie etwa Zwischenspeicherung zum Schutz vor Erschütterung ausgestattet. Vorerst kommt der Player in Korea auf den Markt und kostet dort 193 US-Dollar. PC World July 5 2001 - Samsung Adds [Mini] CDs to Yepp MP3 Players http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,54484,00.asp - Samsung Electronics doesn't want you to have to choose between size and song storage capacity in your MP3 player. On Tuesday, the company launched the latest member of its Yepp line of MP3 digital music players, aimed at offering a compromise between some of the most desired aspects in these devices. While small size and light weight are desirable in MP3 players, they often limit memory capacity and new memory cards can cost as much
Re: MD: MD and MP3 technologies are merging / titling
Thanks to Michael Hoffman for the links to 8-cm CDRWs for sale at cdr4less.com and yesbuy.com. I'd never yet heard of those companies and had not seen 8-cm CDRWs for sale before. On cdr4less.com's home audio CDR page they perpetuate the myth (repeated to me last week by a Circuit City employee) that home audio CDRs do not work in burners; I hope that isn't an indication of their competence, because it certainly is tempting to get a spindle of 8-cm CDRWs from them. | But what Earth still lacks is an external Mini-CDRW (8-cm only) burner. | It will be at least 5 minutes more before there is such a thing. It | should include headphone output and bass boost, and built-in MP3 | decoding. I think there might be a confusion of terms here. To me a burner is a computer peripheral, and an external burner is one that connects by cable to a USB, parallel, or Firewire port on the computer instead of needing to be installed inside the case. What you're saying there, Michael, doesn't seem to make sense about external burners but could about a portable component recorder. One obstacle is such a device would be required to use only consumer audio discs, and 8-cm consumer audio CDRs don't seem to be available yet. The 8-cm rings in the trays of today's CD recorders (again, folks, I'm talking about audio components, not about computer peripherals) go to waste because there are no 8-cm consumer audio CDRs to record on nor to trick the machines into recording onto 8-cm data CDRs. I wonder if it's possible to swap-trick a CD recorder with a 12-cm consumer audio CDR into recording onto an 8-cm [data] CDR, as long as the music fits? Michael has also written, | Why should I have to title my MD tracks when the titles have already been | entered and uploaded by someone else in CDDB? 1. The tracks on the MD may not be exactly the set and sequence of an album listed on the CDDB. 2. The tracks may not yet be listed in the CDDB. 3. The person who provided the titles to the CDDB may have made mistakes in information or in typing. 4. The person who provided the titles to the CDDB may have entered them in a format that differs from your preference in some varying or unpredictable fashion, such that the editing changes cannot be pre-coded into your title transfering software. 5. You might have made your own mix or edit, or your own microphone recording, or your own computer-composed tune, so the track couldn't possibly be in the CDDB. | MD does titling in the most stupid, boneheaded, manual, tedious, | time-consuming way possible. Apparently, Mr. Hoffman, you have only a portable MD recorder and don't know how titling is on decks with full remotes, let alone on a deck with keyboard input. I find titling on portables to be as bad as you say, but it's not the only way to title a MiniDisc. | MDs are a dead-end for trades and each time you do copy an MD you lose the | titling ... There are ways to transfer titles from MD to MD. For example, many Sharp portable recorders have the Name Stamp feature that copies the disc name and all track titles from any recordable MD to any other with the same number of tracks, and the Sony MDS-W1 dual MD deck can copy titles between discs. If the tracks are at the same addresses, in many machines one can clone the entire TOC, titles and all. | ... and introduce another generation of lossy compression -- unlike MP3s. Yes, another layer of ATRACking is introduced (unless you have pro-grade equipment that can transfer bit-for-bit in the ATRAC domain). In normal personal copying you won't have too many generations and the effect will be negligible, but it is a drawback for trading. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD and MP3 technologies are merging / titling
David W. Tamkin wrote: I think there might be a confusion of terms here. To me a burner is a computer peripheral, and an external burner is one that connects by cable to a USB, parallel, or Firewire port on the computer instead of needing to be installed inside the case. I'm pretty sure that the term burner is just a slang term possibly coined by someone in the recording industry because they thought that it sounded cool. Technically any device that is capable of creating a CD with something on it from a blank CD could be called a burner. I'm not sure and I'd have to check with my daughter, but there may be professional equipment capable of making or burning an audio CD from a digital source such as a DAT independent of the need for a computer. But I don't think that I have ever seen a manufacture use the term burner either on the box it came in or on the unit itself. CD Writer also really can't be used generically because it is a trademark name of HP's drive. Even CNET has copped out listing them as CDR/CDRW drives. It doesn't make sense. They should have been called CD writable and CD re-writable. In one the R stands for Recordable, in the other it stands for Re followed by Writable. I would have named them CDWR and CDW thus keeping the term writable constant. Also in computer terms, one never records to a drive. You write to it. It is only in audio that the term recordable is used. Lawrence - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD and MP3 technologies are merging / titling
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I think the term burner came because of using a laser to physically burn the digital information in to the disk, although I believe that only applies to certain devices, technically, although that's what everyone seems to call them. At 04:01 PM 8/5/01 -0400, you wrote: David W. Tamkin wrote: I think there might be a confusion of terms here. To me a burner is a computer peripheral, and an external burner is one that connects by cable to a USB, parallel, or Firewire port on the computer instead of needing to be installed inside the case. I'm pretty sure that the term burner is just a slang term possibly coined by someone in the recording industry because they thought that it sounded cool. Technically any device that is capable of creating a CD with something on it from a blank CD could be called a burner. I'm not sure and I'd have to check with my daughter, but there may be professional equipment capable of making or burning an audio CD from a digital source such as a DAT independent of the need for a computer. But I don't think that I have ever seen a manufacture use the term burner either on the box it came in or on the unit itself. CD Writer also really can't be used generically because it is a trademark name of HP's drive. Even CNET has copped out listing them as CDR/CDRW drives. It doesn't make sense. They should have been called CD writable and CD re-writable. In one the R stands for Recordable, in the other it stands for Re followed by Writable. I would have named them CDWR and CDW thus keeping the term writable constant. Also in computer terms, one never records to a drive. You write to it. It is only in audio that the term recordable is used. Lawrence - 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]
MD: MD to mp3
Is it possible to convert songs recorded on MDs to mp3s? If so, does anyone know how? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD to mp3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to convert songs recorded on MDs to mp3s? If so, does anyone know how? You need a deck with digital out and a sound card with digital in. Once you get the files on to your hard drive they can be converted into any type of sound file. There are probably software programs that will allow you to to convert on the fly as you are transferring the files to your computer. LAS - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD to mp3
DOes anyone know where to get these software programs? In a message dated 7/28/01 2:49:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: Re: MD: MD to mp3 Date: 7/28/01 2:49:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (las) Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to convert songs recorded on MDs to mp3s? If so, does anyone know how? You need a deck with digital out and a sound card with digital in. Once you get the files on to your hard drive they can be converted into any type of sound file. There are probably software programs that will allow you to to convert on the fly as you are transferring the files to your computer. LAS - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Headers Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from rly-zc04.mx.aol.com (rly-zc04.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.4]) by air-zc03.mail.aol.com (v79.27) with ESMTP id MAILINZC35-0728054927; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 05:49:27 -0400 Received: from shep.pendragon.co.uk ([128.242.197.200]) by rly-zc04.mx.aol.com (v79.20) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINZC44-0728054920; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 05:49:20 -0400 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by shep.pendragon.co.uk (8.9.3/(AWH/norelay)) with SMTP id KAA06270; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:46:55 +0100 (BST) Received: by shep.pendragon.co.uk (bulk_mailer v1.13); Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:46:52 +0100 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by shep.pendragon.co.uk (8.9.3/(AWH/norelay)) id KAA06250; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:46:50 +0100 (BST) Received: from bean.epix.net (bean.epix.net [199.224.64.57]) by sun01375.dn.net (8.9.3/(AWH/norelay)) with ESMTP id KAA06243 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:46:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from epix.net (svcr-94ppp79.epix.net [199.224.94.79]) by bean.epix.net (8.10.1/8.10.1/2001032601/PL) with ESMTP id f6S9mtO29226 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 05:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 06:03:23 -0400 From: las [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: MD to mp3 References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-Sender: las [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: http://www.amulation.com/md-l/mdlfaq.html, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=help List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: http://www.amulation.com/md-l-archive/, ftp://ftp.amulation.com/pub/majordomo/md-l.archive/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=index - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD to mp3
You need a deck with digital out and a sound card with digital in. Once you get the files on to your hard drive they can be converted into any type of sound file. You don't *need* digital I/O; you could record it like you would an LP or cassette, via your soundcard's line in. For example, I record cassette to MD at the home stereo system, then take the MD recorder (a R700) to my computer and record from it, to ultimately transfer the cassette to CD. (For some relatives whose new car has a CD player and no cassette deck.) It's a lot easier than disconnecting, transporting, and reconnecting the cassette deck each time. I have a Hercules Game Theater XP sound card that works nicely for it, too, with front-panel RCA jacks on the external rack for the line input, and the A/D conversion done in the rack instead of in the electrically noisy PC. Plug: http://us.hercules.com/products/product.php3?id=17 for info. Oh, and it has digital outs and ins, both optical and coaxial. Of course, keeping the signal digital is always best, but not always practical. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\ http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD to mp3
Yes. I recorded my band's concert on MD, fed the analog signal into my computer sound card and saved it as a *.wav file. I used the sound editing program that came with my CD burning sofware (Nero 5.5) to shorten the times between songs and burned a CD. The same program will convert *.wav files to MP3 and burn it to CD, too. Nero: http://www.ahead.de If you just want some sound conversion programs, try TUCOWS, a treasure trove of shareware software: http://tucows.tierranet.com/mmedia/audiocon95.html Good luck! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:57 AM Subject: MD: MD to mp3 Is it possible to convert songs recorded on MDs to mp3s? If so, does anyone know how? - 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 to mp3
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === With Nero, can you break a wav file into pieces so the whole cd runs smoothly without any bumps or anything? (No breaks when a track changes). I'm using Cakewalk Homestudio and its terrible. I need a new program. Anyone know anything about Pro Tools? Also, ANYONE KNOW OF ANY GOOD SMALL MIC CASES (specifically the soundpro cardiod premium's)? At 07:41 AM 7/28/01 -0700, you wrote: Yes. I recorded my band's concert on MD, fed the analog signal into my computer sound card and saved it as a *.wav file. I used the sound editing program that came with my CD burning sofware (Nero 5.5) to shorten the times between songs and burned a CD. The same program will convert *.wav files to MP3 and burn it to CD, too. Nero: http://www.ahead.de If you just want some sound conversion programs, try TUCOWS, a treasure trove of shareware software: http://tucows.tierranet.com/mmedia/audiocon95.html Good luck! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:57 AM Subject: MD: MD to mp3 Is it possible to convert songs recorded on MDs to mp3s? If so, does anyone know how? - 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]
Re: MD: MD to mp3
Stilson Snow wrote: Yes. I recorded my band's concert on MD, fed the analog signal into my computer sound card and saved it as a *.wav file. I used the sound editing program that came with my CD burning sofware (Nero 5.5) to shorten the times between songs and burned a CD. The same program will convert *.wav files to MP3 and burn it to CD, too. It's too bad that they don't make a recorder or player with a direct ATRAC out that could be fed into a USB port and then have software that could read ATRAC files and would either a: convert the ATRAC files into wav or MP3 or b: give you the ability to work directly with the ATRAC files. Imagine if you could upload an MD from your recorder and then manipulate the tracks by being able to add titles and even sonic enhancements. LAS - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MD on MP3.com
As the subject states, there is references (links) to MD equip on MP3.com. See http://hardware.mp3.com/hardware/ Looks like even the MP3 people consider MD archival for MP3's as a viable option. CheersGC - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MD to MP3? what programs?
What is the best program to use to convert a recording I made on my Minidisc to an MP3 file? -- 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: MD to MP3? what programs?
As a Macintosh user, I found a little program called Coaster at http://www.download.com. You can record with the line input of your computer you plugged to the line-out of your MD recorder. I just had to set the line-in level to avoid clipping. When I finish, the file is saved in AIFF. After that, it's possible to encode it in MP3. This is how I've been able to make a MP3 of Final Fantasy Irish jig. J. Coon a écrit: What is the best program to use to convert a recording I made on my Minidisc to an MP3 file? -- 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] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD survival, MP3, Internet, etc
Hi guys, This MD vs MP3 thread just isn't gonna stop! I can't decide which post to reply directly from, so I'll just post my thoughts. Until Flash memory prices drop *DRAMatically*, undercutting DRAM memory prices massively, tiny portable MP3 players are strictly a geeks' gadget. These portable HD MP3 players are strange beasts-- I originally thought any impact to a hard-disk could cause a head crash but with laptops having 2.5" drives everywhere thought they could survive minor drops. I'm not talking about a 3 foot fall to a pavement, but surely they could survive the average jog [and with buffer memory minimise skips]. I personally feel MD is currently the best portable storage media for music thanks to the work put into optimising the ATRAC algorithm, largely by Sony. A 40-sec anti-shock memory will prevent playback interuption under most usage situations, but hey, given how MP3 porties have a lot more memory, they could easily give an MD 120-sec memory for a tiny cost which should cover most situations. Okay-- if you keep changing tracks, reading all that in advance will increase current drain but it could be switchable like on many portable CD players. As for internet access in europe, most of us have to pay by the minute for our phone call in Britain at present, but the situation is changing rapidly. Once we had to pay a monthly charge (say ukp15) and a local-rate call (roughly ukp1 per hour). Then a provider abolished the monthly charge and the rest were forced to follow, sort of a domino effect. Now the major telephone providers in Britain are being forced to introduce free-call access but with a monthly charge again. I've heard my provider [Telewest] will allow unlimited 24x7 access for ukp10/month. I just wonder how long it will be until the monthly charge drops and access is completely free :-) And finally I'll say most of you under-estimate how much peeps know about MiniDisc, at least here in the UK. Most guys I've talked to in their twenties or late teens have at the very least heard of it, though many have yet to buy into the format. Some sort of digi-link to a computer is essential, I think to persuade PC owners to go MD rather than MP3. Thats my 2 groats worth! Cheers, PrinceGaz -- "if it harms none, do what you will" Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://website.lineone.net/~princegaz/ ICQ: 36892193 Earn a minimum of $20 per hour by watching ads on the net! Visit http://www.bepaid.com/users.rhtml?REFID=10164669 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MD and MP3
Does anyone know how this new MD/MP3 package from Sharp works. They make it sound as if one could record a data stream of MP3 data and decode it using the MD as a "memory" source like a CDR. My take is that it will allow you to hood your PC to your md and do standard analog recording of live streams etc. Just my thoughts JV - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
