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

2000-03-08 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ralph Smeets wrote: > > > > has run for 3h33m CPU time. The total for ALL the other > > processes is about 3 > > > minutes. > > > > Hmm, > > > > what are you doing on that machine? > > As little as possible ? Reading/writing endless MD e

RE: MD: MD jukebox...

2000-03-08 Thread Simon Gardner
> I saw on "Tomorrow's World" (a UK science and technology > programme if you didn't know what it is) an item about music of > the future. Other than mentions of MP3, they also showed an MD > jukebox. It was about the same size as a traditional jukebox. You > put your MD in the machine, selected

MD: MD Adds.

2000-03-08 Thread Guy Churchill
http://headwize.com/articles/sony2_ess.htm Interesting Ad ... Not really to the point and may leave most people wondering "what is this all about?" Also interesting to note they used a young but more mature model for the shoot. (not some teenager). Cheers GC

Re: MD: Sony MDS-JB940 and Long-Play Mode

2000-03-08 Thread RMS
The other thing of intrest that site mentions is a 400 disc cd player. Might put off buying the 300 disc for a while in that case :) - Original Message - From: Daryl O. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:56 PM Subject: MD: Sony MDS-JB940 and Lo

RE: MD: Car MD

2000-03-08 Thread Ian Scott
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Dave Helgerson wrote: > won't special order anything. What I'd really like to get is a Pioneer that > would control my existing 6 disc CD changer and would fit right in where my > Pioneer cassette head is. Does anyone have any advice? Check out http://www.pioneerelectronic

MD: Aiwa F70 Urgent

2000-03-08 Thread Michael Jary
Hiya Urgent message - can someone please tell me asap haow to turn the beeps off on an aiwa f70 CHeers Mi-ul -- The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck will be the day they start making

Re: MD: Sony MDS-JB940 and Long-Play Mode

2000-03-08 Thread Magic
I think it records in Mono at half the standard ATRAC bitrate. (80 mins in Mono would be 160 mins - double that is 320 mins = 5hrs 20 mins). I wonder if that means you could use Long PLay to record 160 mins stereo. This would mean one 74 min disc could hold 148 mins of stereo in the same quality

Re: MD: DJ Minidiscs

2000-03-08 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Edmund William White wrote: > I own a Denon M2000R DJ minidisc recorder/player. I;ve been using > it for three months. Do you guys have any specific questions? Well what's it like? Is it worth the price? How hard/easy is it to mix with? Any problems? --- Rev Simo

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

2000-03-08 Thread Magic
From: Ralph Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 1:38 PM Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface > First: DSP cores normaly use SRAM. Ie, static RAM. This RAM normaly runs on the > core speed. Writing and reading to this type

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

2000-03-08 Thread Alan Dowds
Haha! Excellent - an employee of a MD manufacturing company telling us cool factual MD stuff on the list! Welcome Chee Soon. Any chance of a definitive answer for the Rat about ATRAC ASICs vs PIIIs and Athlons? And what about Aiwa's next generation of MD products? Cheers, Alan. -Original

Re: MD: List operation (was: DJ minidiscs)

2000-03-08 Thread Shawn Lin
Nick Perry wrote: > > FWIW, this has been discussed a few times in the past. I used to be of > the opion that Reply-to should be set to sender but the original > consensus was for reply-to to be set to the list. On reflection, it is > the right choice for this type of list. I have other lists wi

MD: DJ Minidiscs

2000-03-08 Thread Edmund William White
I own a Denon M2000R DJ minidisc recorder/player. I;ve been using it for three months. Do you guys have any specific questions? Edmund White [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the

RE: MD: Car MD

2000-03-08 Thread Dave Helgerson
I'm not having a lot of fun trying to find an MD player for my car. A couple of stores don't carry them because "they don't sell well." How can they sell well if you don't carry them?? Best Buy has one Sony model and won't special order anything. What I'd really like to get is a Pioneer that

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

2000-03-08 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "Magic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 08 Mar 2000 | Fair enough, however, modern DIMMs are much much faster than the RAM you | would find in the MD. The processor is also much much faster. If it takes me | 3 instructions to do what the ATRAC chip does in 1, that means I can do it | at the same s

Re: MD: MD jukebox...

2000-03-08 Thread Magic
The unit contains (AFAIK) an 8x writer in the unit. This means a 4 minute song (standard chart single length) would take 30 seconds to write to the disc. I *think* they do a direct copy with pre-encoded ATRAC data the same as a professional MD to MD copying unit would do. Now if they would just p

MD: Sony JB940 info...

2000-03-08 Thread Timothy P. Stockman
http://www.video-direct.com/news/preview3-7/mdsjb940.html Sony MegaStorage® CD Changer Control CD Text and Custom FileT Transfer from CD Via Control A-1 II Coaxial and Optical Digital Inputs and Outputs Long Play Mode - Captures up to 5 hours, 20 minutes of stereo music on a single 80-minute

Re: MD: List operation (was: DJ minidiscs)

2000-03-08 Thread Nick Perry
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 02:42:38PM -, Simon Gardner wrote: > > >> This is the only list I'm on which has this bug. > > > > > >It's not a bug, it'a a feature. :) FWIW, this has been discussed a few times in the past. I used to be of the opion that Reply-to should be set to sender but the orig

Re: MD: length limit on coax digital connection?

2000-03-08 Thread David W. Tamkin
Oops ... I saw Jim Coon's and Rick Woudenberg's responses but had missed Francisco Montilla's: M> I'm running it with 75 Ohm cable (the same that is used for video) M> for 15 meters with no problems. Then it ought to be OK at 20m (at least with video cable; even with ordinary audio cable

MD: MD jukebox...

2000-03-08 Thread alexclark
I saw on "Tomorrow's World" (a UK science and technology programme if you didn't know what it is) an item about music of the future. Other than mentions of MP3, they also showed an MD jukebox. It was about the same size as a traditional jukebox. You put your MD in the machine, selected the son

Re: MD: SB-Live Digi?

2000-03-08 Thread Edd Farmer
> A possible stroke of light though, I seem to recall somwhere back > a post about using the SB Live to get a digital output. Was that > true? >From what I've seen on their web-site, yeah, but I suggest that you (and possibly a few others here) check out this web-page here. Go to; http://www.a

Re: MD: length limit on coax digital connection?

2000-03-08 Thread David W. Tamkin
Jim wrote, C> It shouldn't be a problem. Get the TV lead in stuff, and maybe look for a C> better quality.. compare losses if you can and get the one that has the C> least loss. and Rick wrote, W> I don't think good coax of the right impedence (or optical cable!) W> should give any problems a

Re: MD: Aiwa F70 Urgent

2000-03-08 Thread Edward Foster
Hold DISP for 3 seconds (in stop mode). when "CLOCK SET" is displayed, press MODE. "BEEP ON" will be displayed. Press enter and "BEEP OFF" will be displayed. press STOP. eD - To stop getting this list send a message containing just

MD: "Roswell" Star is an MD User

2000-03-08 Thread Daryl O.
A photograph in an article in the April issue of Movieline reveals that one of "Roswell"'s resident aliens, Jason Behr, enjoys the otherworldly features of the revolutionary minidisc format. The article discusses Behr's bachelor pad and includes a photograph of his home stereo setup. Lying on t

Re: MD: Mono

2000-03-08 Thread Magic
From: James Caran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: MiniDisk List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:37 AM Subject: MD: Mono > > Here I am again, getting all my MD issues out at once while I have a > little net time... :) > > I have heard many people mention about recording in mono to

RE: MD: Mono

2000-03-08 Thread Simon Gardner
> I have heard many people mention about recording in mono to double > the time on an MD. What is the command on an MZR-55? (I assume they > have one somewhere cause it isn't in the manual...) Danke... Get to the place you want to start recording (end search or scan through the tracks)

MD: Mono

2000-03-08 Thread James Caran
Here I am again, getting all my MD issues out at once while I have a little net time... :) I have heard many people mention about recording in mono to double the time on an MD. What is the command on an MZR-55? (I assume they have one somewhere cause it isn't in the manual...) Danke.

Re: MD: DJ MD's - Really....

2000-03-08 Thread Rodney Peterson
In regards to my posting on that thread, I'm just looking for CD or MD copies of the European 12" Vinyl 7 track single of "Genie In A Bottle" by Christina Aguilera-it is impossibe to find, I've been looking for weeks. Usually stuff like this can be found with a minimum of effort. When I play MD'

Re: MD: Aiwa F70 Urgent

2000-03-08 Thread Michael Jary
Hiya Thanks for the messages - I've got the manual but not with me and I was using the MD for sound effects and I didn't want the beep Cheers Mi-ul -- The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck

Re: MD: SB-Live Digi?

2000-03-08 Thread James Caran
Jim, First off, thanks for the advice... My card is coming out of a relatively new gateway with an SBLive! card, and the reason I don't know much about it is because it isn't mine, I can't seem to find any other info on it in the device manager, I don't know what is actually comi

Re: MD: Aiwa F70 Urgent

2000-03-08 Thread Edmund Wong
> Urgent message - can someone please tell me asap haow to turn the beeps > off on an aiwa f70 Here, straight off the AM-F70 manual available on minidisc.org: 1. Put your unit in stop mode 2. Press MODE 3. Press ENTER. 4. Press STOP. If you still need help, consult this image: http://www.minid

Re: MD: Aiwa F70 Urgent

2000-03-08 Thread Edmund Wong
Oops, missed a step. The proper directions are: 1. Put your unit in stop mode 2. Hold DISP for 3 seceonds 3. Press MODE 4. Press ENTER. 5. Press STOP. Sorry. - Ed. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the wor

MD: Sony MDS-JB940 and Long-Play Mode

2000-03-08 Thread Daryl O.
I've just accessed the link from the community page to Video Direct Distributors' page regarding the new Sony MDS-JB940, and one feature particularly piqued my interest: a long-play mode that "[c]aptures up to 5 hours, 20 minutes of stereo music on a single 80-minute MiniDisc." Does anyone know

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

2000-03-08 Thread Simon Barnes
Ralph Smeets wrote: > > has run for 3h33m CPU time. The total for ALL the other > processes is about 3 > > minutes. > > Hmm, > > what are you doing on that machine? As little as possible ? Reading/writing endless MD emails ? > to. Add to that that most 'deamo

Re: MD: Actually about DJ minidiscs

2000-03-08 Thread Rodney Peterson
I'm looking for the FULL length remixes of Christina Aguilera's "Genie In A Bottle" on disc, perferrably CD, but a digital MD copy is acceptable. I have the remix EDITS, but have yet been unable to find the disc equivalent of the 7 track European 12 inch vinyl single. If anyone has this, please l

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

2000-03-08 Thread Magic
From: Simon Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 12:16 PM Subject: RE: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface > Rick was not assuming, he was asserting, that the ASIC contains a DSP core > to execute the ATRAC algorithm. And I further ass

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

2000-03-08 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Simon Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 12:16 PM > Subject: RE: MD: Sony's new Internet Audio Recording Interface > > > Rick was not assuming, he was asserting, that the ASIC contains a DSP core > > to execu

MD: Actually about DJ minidiscs

2000-03-08 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Dodge wrote: > Now about those DJ MD's... > > I wanna know more about them Well since noone has commented I presume noone has any experience with them. I'll check 'em out and report back what I can find out. --- Rev Simon Rumble The Roman Rule: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MD: Sony MZ-R55 remote oddness

2000-03-08 Thread Jeff
My MZ-R55 remote just went nuts. Ithas worked perfectly for about two months. Now, however, it only produces sound on the left side of my headphones. When I plug my headphones into the MD directly they work fine. And, when I use DC power (IE, plug it into the wall) the remote is fine.

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

2000-03-08 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Rat rit: > > > You make the assumption that the ATRAC ASIC in your R55 > > is doing math the > > same way your PIII does math, which is not the case. For > > its one task, the > > R55 is more powerful than your PIII. > > Rick was not assuming,

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

2000-03-08 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ralph Smeets wrote: > > > > I thinks the PC has a performance problem due to the > > 'enormous' overhead of the > > OS and the fact that most encoders are programmed in C. > > Most of the overhead of an OS is associated with input/output through > mult

Re: MD: SB-Live Digi?

2000-03-08 Thread J. Coon
I have the Hoontech daughter board. I think it was about $37 by the time I got it shipped into the country. http://www.votronelectronics.com/hoontech/sbio3.htm www.votronelectronics.com http://www.hoontech.com/ http://www.votronelectronics.com/dist1.htm http://www.votronelectronics.com/hoonte

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

2000-03-08 Thread Simon Barnes
Ralph Smeets wrote: > I thinks the PC has a performance problem due to the > 'enormous' overhead of the > OS and the fact that most encoders are programmed in C. Most of the overhead of an OS is associated with input/output through multiple layers of device drivers/protocol s

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

2000-03-08 Thread Simon Barnes
Rat rit: > You make the assumption that the ATRAC ASIC in your R55 > is doing math the > same way your PIII does math, which is not the case. For > its one task, the > R55 is more powerful than your PIII. Rick was not assuming, he was asserting, that the ASIC contains a

MD: DJ minidiscs - cut the crap !

2000-03-08 Thread Dodge
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === If you put something in the subject line, isn't that what the mail is supposed to be about ? Cut the crap with that maillist-stuff... This is a good list, and don't let anyb

MD: toslink module

2000-03-08 Thread Shawn R. Lin
If anyone wants one, I have one left $10. -- Shawn Lin http://www2.cybercities.com/g/gmwbodycars/ __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html --

RE: MD: No more

2000-03-08 Thread Simon Barnes
Bill (via Rick) wrote: (about stereo magazines) > and the writers think they have to amuse and entertain you. Amuse, entertain and INFORM, please. simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the wor

RE: MD: DJ minidiscs

2000-03-08 Thread Simon Barnes
Dan Frakes wrote: (about auto-reply-to-MDL) > For the other 1 out of ten messages, it only takes a > second to look at > the "To" field before you press "send." Yeah, right. That ranks under easy things I will NEVER remember to do. This is a non-trivial problem. The point is,

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

2000-03-08 Thread Ralph Smeets
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > (Sorry I