Re: MD: Cloning question.

2000-11-05 Thread David W. Tamkin
Jim coon wrote, | I frined sent me a disk that he was recording and as the battery was | giving out, he replaced the battery without stopping the unit so the TOC | could be written. He wants me to recover the recording. I have a Sony | 520 deck and a SOny R30 recorder. I have some

MD: Ask Slashdot: Is MiniDisc Dead?

2000-11-05 Thread Simon Gardner
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/04/2036216 I'm sure some people from here could write some coherent pro-MD posts to balance this out a bit :) -- Simon - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word

Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #802

2000-11-05 Thread JT
unit. He is using this as an example, and has not inferred that he supports doing this. That's correct. I was just using that as an example. I was not advocating any particular practice. Ok. Didn't think you did that, but who knows. -- JT

MD: MD Player $50.00, free shipping

2000-11-05 Thread Shawn Lin
The price is right... http://www.bestbuy.com/Detail.asp?m=58cat=61scat=248e=11000156 Now if they can only get the price of car audio and recorders similarly as reasonable. Shawn 1stUp.com - Free the Web

Re: MD: Cloning question (clarification)

2000-11-05 Thread David W. Tamkin
Jim Coon (whose capital C I managed to miss shifting on this new keyboard) asked if he needs to know whether the material is mono or stereo in advance before he starts to recover a disc for a friend. I answered, in part, | It certainly helps; ask your friend if you can get in touch with him.

Re: MD: Cloning question (clarification)

2000-11-05 Thread J. Coon
Dave, I just followed you instructions and I am listening to it now. I will wait till it gets to the end and mark the un used part and delete it. THanks for posting such great and easy to follow instructions. It worked like a champ the first time I tried it. "David W. Tamkin" wrote:

RE: MD: drop outs!!

2000-11-05 Thread Tony Antoniou
My guess? If you've been regularly using your MZ-R50 for a long time, worn-out optical block. But first thing I'd check is your optical cable, just to ensure there aren't any breaks, it's not being bent at too sharp an angle (i.e. past its critical angle), etc. Then assume the worst... Adios,

MD: Tuner-less car MD players

2000-11-05 Thread Simon Mackay
Hi everyone! Who remembers those cassette or 8-track tape players that were sold during the 60s and 70s, which were designed to be mounted under the dashboard of a car? A lot of these units didn't have a tuner and often played through a set of speakers that were often sold with the unit.

RE: MD: sony car decks

2000-11-05 Thread Tony Antoniou
Yes, but don't forget the timeline that all those 5 models have spanned across! A lot had changed when they got to the C7900 model, and for the better. Personally, I'm absolutely chuffed with my C8900 and wouldn't give it up for quids (unless someone offered me a C8970 for $100 as an upgrade to

MD: MiniDisc Weekly News for 5 November 2000

2000-11-05 Thread MiniDisc Community Pages Weekly News
MiniDisc Community Pages News for 30 October 2000 o Hot new find! Michael discovers a Japanese Sharp [1]press release for their new portable recording MD unit, the MD-MT77 (currently smallest in the world, MDLP-capable, USB connectable, flashy multicolored LED lights built in).

Re: MD: When Oh When.....

2000-11-05 Thread las
Alan Dowds wrote: I agree. I'm a journalist, and I love to use my 702 for interviews and note taking, but it's a pain to have to plug a mic in. Seems like in the past even the cheapest recording tape machines always had at least a cheap mono mic built-in. Surely it wouldn't take up much

MD: Idea's on the Sony MD-DX3, + Richersounds (UK) Internet Ordering + Attn: minidisc.org guy (Rick or whoever)

2000-11-05 Thread Peter Wood
Heya guys, Heh, again it's been to long since I last wrote or infact read the md-l group. Alas my education takes a lot out of my life. I'm looking at getting a minidisc deck and a cd deck for my hi-fi. I was originally looking at getting seperate units. But lack of space in my uni room, and

RE: MD: sony car decks

2000-11-05 Thread Tony Antoniou
Not that I'm familiar with the letter you mention, but I've had my MDX-C8900 now for almost 3 years and it has been an absolute dream. My only problem was a slightly dirty lens which would result in some of my MD's being spat back out with "Error" after trying to read it for a while. This

MD: Speeding

2000-11-05 Thread PrinceGaz
I've finally replaced my Creative Labs CD burner with a drive which actually works, the Ricoh MP9060A which can burn CD-R at up to 6x. My question is, assuming the PC can get the data to the drive quick enough to avoid under-runs (which it can) is there any disadvantage to burning at 6x (the

Re: MD: Tuner-less car MD players

2000-11-05 Thread las
Simon Mackay wrote: Hi everyone! Who remembers those cassette or 8-track tape players that were sold during the 60s and 70s, which were designed to be mounted under the dashboard of a car? A lot of these units didn't have a tuner and often played through a set of speakers that were often

Re: MD: Speeding

2000-11-05 Thread las
PrinceGaz wrote: is there any disadvantage to burning at 6x (the discs I have are rated for up to 8x burning) rather than 4x? I'd rather not go back to 2x burning but would a slightly slower than max speed; 4x rather than 6x give better more readable discs and be worth the extra six or so