Re: MD: The Toslink CD-Rom Project, You beauty!
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Put your CD player on "Repeat All" tracks (if it has such a function), so after it plays the last track, it skips to the first track. If you just want the first track, start with the end of the last track, to get the pre-roll, record the first track, and then edit the MD. -steve Timothy Stockman wrote: > > I tried adding a TOSlink to by Samsung SC140 CDROM. It worked, sort of. > The problem is that on most CDROM drives (this one included) the S/PDIF > header does not output a vaild signal unless the drive is actually playing. > (Normal audio CD players output a valid "0" signal when not playing.) > The MD recorder does not acquire lock until a short time after a valid > signal is present, requiring one to "pre-roll" the CD, playing the last few > seconds of the previous track before starting recording on the MD. > I've found no way, using the CDROM's S/PDIF output to dub the first > track first track of a CD without cliping the beginning... > > - > 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: The Toslink CD-Rom Project, You beauty!
I tried adding a TOSlink to by Samsung SC140 CDROM. It worked, sort of. The problem is that on most CDROM drives (this one included) the S/PDIF header does not output a vaild signal unless the drive is actually playing. (Normal audio CD players output a valid "0" signal when not playing.) The MD recorder does not acquire lock until a short time after a valid signal is present, requiring one to "pre-roll" the CD, playing the last few seconds of the previous track before starting recording on the MD. I've found no way, using the CDROM's S/PDIF output to dub the first track first track of a CD without cliping the beginning... - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: The Toslink CD-Rom Project, You beauty!
This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net --- I got my components to do my cd-rom to minidisc unit, and finally, about 4 hours later i got done (although I did spend and hour and a half at my grandma's for dinner, so its really about 2 hours and a half). I had got all the components together, yet it wouldn't work at all. I was a little peeved at this point, thinking that my curse of the Electronic Products lesson (it works for others, but never seems to for me, or at least not until the week before the deadline for my circuit anyway) had returned, but a while later I near enough gave up and was about to go online and ask when I decided to have a look at the datasheet for the TOTX176, and realised, as usual, that a supply voltage cannot travel through a ground pin very well, in other words, the module was the wrong way round. I soon fixed this, tried it, and (as the subject says) YOU BEAUTY! It aint perfect, but for a first shot, with the only previous experience being a couple of flashing LED circuits and a money counter (my coursework circuit for Electronic Products). I am proud of it, and while may be only a prototype so far (I may decide to start building and selling them if the demand is enough), it works, and thats all that matters to me. I will take a few pictures and do a site soon, but for the moment, just imagine what toslink module pointing in the wrong direction, 2 resistors, a capacitor, a few wires, and a bit of dodgy soldering looks like :-) -- 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/ -- - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
