RE: MD: Well I did it.
Flick your Sync Rec switch to the "ON" position. Yes, the optical output being constantly on is normal. If you're recording digitally, you shouldn't have to worry about the gain control as whatever bits it receives, it records. Adios, LarZ --- TAMA - The Strongest Name in Drums --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Neon John Sent: Saturday, 22 April 2000 17:43 To: Mini disc mailing list Subject:MD: Well I did it. The biggie. The Sony doesn't detect intersong spaces and lay down a mark in any mode. I have the WinAmp inter-song silence plugin and it's working. Using the optical interface, I've tried both manually recording and using sync record. Nadda. Records OK, just no track marks. What's the trick. I notice that the optical output of the sound card is on all the time. Is that normal? From what I've read in the archives and on The audio level to the recorder is low from all digital sources. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Well I did it.
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === as for the track seperation, dont use the plugin, i manually use a 2 to 4 second silent mp3, it's easy to make one yourself, if you dont know how e-mail me and i'll send em to ya. also as per the optical out and volume of it being a little low, i remember there is a registry key that allows you to bump it up a little bit, also if you cant find that at www.minidisc.org let me know and i'll try and find the url. hope that helps a little bit :P Later Matthew Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Neon John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mini disc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, April 22, 2000 3:46 AM Subject: MD: Well I did it. Hi guys. I was on here a few days ago asking about Sony players. Well I did it, I went hog-wild. I just received from Minidisco an MZ-R90, a spare battery and an Xtel Storm Platinum optical output sound card. I wasted most of the day playing with this stuff. OK, I'm won over. For once my membership in Procrastinator's Anonymous paid off. I waited long enough to buy an MP3 player that I (re) discovered MD. OK, I have some questions. I've been burning my MP3 music to MD all afternoon and I have some problems/questions. The biggie. The Sony doesn't detect intersong spaces and lay down a mark in any mode. I have the WinAmp inter-song silence plugin and it's working. Using the optical interface, I've tried both manually recording and using sync record. Nadda. Records OK, just no track marks. What's the trick. I notice that the optical output of the sound card is on all the time. Is that normal? From what I've read in the archives and on the MD boards, I get the notion that some optical devices turn the light off when not transmitting data. Could this be the root of my problem above? If I momentarily remove the fiber optic cable from the sound card, the MD recorder DOES write a track marker. The audio level to the recorder is low from all digital sources. MP3, RealAudio, CD player, etc. I have the SP/DIF slider on volume control wide open and yet I still have to run the manual gain on the MZ up all the way to get the VU meter to even occasionally bump 20 over. This is what sounds the best too. Left on auto gain, the playback audio at full volume is barely useable through my PortaPros. An interesting observation. This unit is claimed to have 40 seconds of anti-skip memory. IT seems to have a lot more. It sounds like it rips at least a song's worth of data into memory and then turns off the disc drive. The unit is totally silent for several minutes. This must be the trick that has let Sony get 16 hours of playback on the lipstick battery. I think I'm going to really like this little unit! BTW, I can't say enough nice about MiniDisco. Almost the cheapest price. I asked for email confirmation of my order and ship date independently of their mail robot. I got that. Then someone called to confirm the order right before shipping. Finally, it arrived right on time this morning, second day service just like I asked. John -- John De Armond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personal.bellsouth.net/~johngd/ Neon John's Custom Neon Cleveland, TN "Bendin' Glass 'n Passin' Gas" - 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: Well I did it.
I've had this problem too, and while having the songs blended together is nice for something like a DJ mix, its a minus not having track markers. I usually create my playlists in Real Jukebox, and between each track (unless it has a proper fade), I place recorded silence. I took one of my albums with secret tracks and I recorded 2 seconds of silence as an MP3. This adds two seconds on to the end of whatever song I'm recording, causing my deck to read it as time for a new track. (I have the MDS-S707, which uses two or three seconds bursts of silence as track spacers). -- NP: Brett Tyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] London Drugs, Comp. Dept. "My 98 is fly, I don't drive no junk" -Chuck D - Original Message - From: "Neon John" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mini disc mailing list" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 12:43 AM Subject: MD: Well I did it. The biggie. The Sony doesn't detect intersong spaces and lay down a mark in any mode. I have the WinAmp inter-song silence plugin and it's working. Using the optical interface, I've tried both manually recording and using sync record. Nadda. Records OK, just no track marks. What's the trick. John -- John De Armond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personal.bellsouth.net/~johngd/ Neon John's Custom Neon Cleveland, TN "Bendin' Glass 'n Passin' Gas" - 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: Well I did it.
Matt Wall wrote: === = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === as for the track seperation, dont use the plugin, i manually use a 2 to 4 second silent mp3, it's easy to make one yourself, if you dont know how e-mail me and i'll send em to ya. also as per the optical out and volume of it being a little low, i remember there is a registry key that allows you to bump it up a little bit, also if you cant find that at www.minidisc.org let me know and i'll try and find the url. hope that helps a little bit : Thanks for the offer, Matt. I assume one would make a silent MP3 file by activating the sound recorder with no input and then converting the .wav file to .mp3, right? I've tried manually pausing Winamp between selections to no avail. The player doesn't lay down a track mark even at the end of the play list when things go silent. Hmmm. John -- John De Armond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personal.bellsouth.net/~johngd/ Neon John's Custom Neon Cleveland, TN "Bendin' Glass 'n Passin' Gas" - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
