Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-06 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Edmund Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 06 Mar 2000 | Bleem! does, in fact, emulate the MIPS CPU directly. Well, no: URL:http://207.71.8.31/about/FAQ.html There is no emulation of the MIPS R3000A in Bleem!. | It's the only way you can run code for another CPU architecture. And the | 33mhz

Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-06 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Eric Woudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 06 Mar 2000 | On what do you base this statement? My understanding of ATRAC (based | upon looking at an ATRAC decoder) is that the computational demands of | encoding ATRAC are similar to those for MP3. I would expect a software | ATRAC encoder to run

Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-06 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* Stories [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 06 Mar 2000 | Do you mean Compressing or Decompressing? Encoding. It is technically not compressing. | If your talking about compression, what software do you use? LAME. | because theres a HUGE variation between different products. | My PIII-500 quite

Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-06 Thread Andrew Hobgood
If that were the case, then you would be able to encode MP3 streams that sound as good as ATRAC 4 (which they do not) in real time on your desktop (which you cannot at this time). As I mentioned previously, a Pentium II running at 400MHz is capable of turning SPDIF into 128Kbps MP3 in real

Re: MD: ever-lasting discs

2000-03-06 Thread Fendral
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Umm I think Ive gotten over a few hundred on

Re: MD: Sony's 'new' internet USB whatever = *** CRAP ***

2000-03-06 Thread Aileen Chen
on 3/6/2000 08:30 PM, Peter Pan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This "new" sh*t is making me angry... what the h*ll would *WE* need with snip Man, what's with the random swearing? I dunno about you, but all that just gets annoying after a while. P.S. I agree with what he said, minus all the

MD: Slightly-OT: Listening to mono recording and headaches....

2000-03-06 Thread Peter Wood
Heya Guys, Geez, it's been a while since I last posted. I've got a small question to those wize and in the know people out there ;). I have a Sharp 722 and I love it (this is besides the point and just to let MD have a mention ;). I record some minidisc's in mono so that I can get twice as

Re: MD: Sound Cards w/ Optical Output

2000-03-06 Thread goobster
Hoontech makes great low-cost Yamaha clones with the optical out. You'll come to love the friendly red laser instead of the boring coax. m. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: MD: Sony USB 2nd try?

2000-03-06 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * "Magic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 05 Mar 2000 | Absolutely! And for the same money (£45) you can get the VideoLogic Sonic | Vortex 2 which has the best digital output of any consumer grade sound card. At an exchange rate of about $4US/Pound, that comes out

RE: MD: HDTV Network Programming NOW IN YOUR AREA

2000-03-06 Thread Simon Barnes
A "CaliforniaRod" wrote, a whole lot of dull stuff about HDTV, presumably not the same CaliforniaRod who wrote: No one here cares about anything other than the topic at hand in regards to this list. simon - To stop getting this

RE: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-06 Thread Simon Barnes
The Stainless Steel Rat wrote: because FFTs are much more complex than simple things like addition and multiplication. I suppose FFT's ARE fairly complex, although they are implemented as a load of additions and multiplications. I would estimate the ASIC in any MD

Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-06 Thread Edmund Wong
On what do you base this statement? My understanding of ATRAC (based upon looking at an ATRAC decoder) is that the computational demands of encoding ATRAC are similar to those for MP3. I would expect a software ATRAC encoder to run about as fast as an MP3 encoder. On that note, remember the

Re: MD: Sound Cards w/ Optical Output

2000-03-06 Thread Edmund Wong
... optical out. You'll come to love the friendly red laser instead of the boring coax. That's not a laser. If it were, you would be able to point an optical cable at a wall across the room and still get a nice dot. Optical simply uses red light. - Ed.

MD: Soundcards and MD recording

2000-03-06 Thread Rick Kellerman
I have a question regarding using a soundcard to record from my CDROM to my MD(Sony MZ-R30, AIWA FM70). I am looking at either the SB Live Platinum(I have a coax to optical box, so outputs not an issue) or the Turtle Beach Montego II w/digital out daughterboard. My question is, will either

Re: MD: Sony USB 2nd try?

2000-03-06 Thread Timothy P. Stockman
Here's an interesting thought. If someone *does* buy the Sony USB adapter, could they pry it open and let me know the numbers on the chips. Might be that the codec chip has an S/PDIF output pin (fairly likely with modern codecs). Its less likely to have and S/PDIF input pin. If Sony has used

MD: ever-lasting discs

2000-03-06 Thread John S. McLachlan
I've got 30 Memorex discs I have picked up from Best Buy 2 months ago and they have work great. A couple of them I have already recorded over 20x and not a single problem. OK all you MD die-hards. What's the most someone has re-recorded an MD? They're supposed to have 10K rewrites or

Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-06 Thread Stories
A Pentium II at 400MHz can manage to convert to MPEG-I Layer III at 128Kbps in real time. It cannot handle significantly higher bitrates in real time. Do you mean Compressing or Decompressing? If your talking about compression, what software do you use? because theres a HUGE variation between

MD: sony MXDD3

2000-03-06 Thread Martha Fischer
does anyone have this unit? comments? thanks, martha [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MD: Odp: Sound Cards w/ Optical Output

2000-03-06 Thread Maciej Rutkowski
: If it were, you would be able to point an optical cable at a wall across : the room and still get a nice dot. And it would be possible to send sound data to a your friend next door :) - To stop getting this list send a message

Re: MD: Soundcards and MD recording

2000-03-06 Thread Ian Scott
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Rick Kellerman wrote: Montego II w/digital out daughterboard. My question is, will either card while hooked up via a digital cable still sync and automatically mark each track, or will I have to manually insert track marks? Generally, no. If your MD recorder can do

Re: MD: Odp: Sound Cards w/ Optical Output

2000-03-06 Thread jds
Funny you should ask this, I actually worked out what I needed to build an entire optical network (for computers) in my house doing somehting much like this (and actually putting in come cool patterns via mirrors) Possible? yes Practical? no Into possibility... with the redled that's sending

MD: MZ-R37

2000-03-06 Thread Dan Hergott
Hi I have a MZ-R37. I was wondering if the remote from a MZ-R50 or MZ-R55 would work? Would it give me the display readout and the full functions of the remote for MZ-R37? It would be nice to have a remote that displayed the letters while tittleing the disc's tracks. Any info you can give

Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface

2000-03-06 Thread Magic
From: Stories [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 2:18 PM Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface A Pentium II at 400MHz can manage to convert to MPEG-I Layer III at 128Kbps in real time. It cannot handle significantly higher bitrates

Re: MD: ever-lasting discs

2000-03-06 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, John S. McLachlan wrote: Hi, I've got 30 Memorex discs I have picked up from Best Buy 2 months ago and they have work great. A couple of them I have already recorded over 20x and not a single problem. OK all you MD die-hards. What's the most someone has

Re: MD: Arita Blanks??

2000-03-06 Thread Dan Hergott
I have only used these discs. Haven't had a problem yet. Dan "Lynch, Jason JD" wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anybody here has heard-of/seen/used Arita brand MD blanks before? I picked up a box of 5 at a computer market here in Australia pretty cheap... they seem to work OK. Anyone

Re: MD: ever-lasting discs

2000-03-06 Thread David W. Tamkin
John McLachlan wrote, | OK all you MD die-hards. What's the most someone has re-recorded an | MD? They're supposed to have 10K rewrites or something, right? 1M, actually. | Well, I've never done more than erase some songs and replace, far | fewer than the 20 this gentleman has. I have