MD: Going Out of Business

Well if you bought anything from Mercata, like I have, keep your fingers crossed that it does not break down for a while. They are going out of business. I have a feeling that "Iderive", which I believe is a related company may be in the same shape. I have not been able to access their

Re: MD: Successful cloning on Sony MZ-R55 ?

When I wrote, | Cloning is the right solution, but you won't find instructions for doing it | on an R55. Sean followed up, | Well, the only person I know has a Sony MZ-R90/91 (can't remember now) | Does cloning work on those? Or is cloning a total NONO on all Sony | protables? No, sorry,

MD: whether MD is high quality (was Sony E500 vs. E700 vs. E900)

Steve Corey wrote, | I only object when someone says that MD is high quality recording, when it | is middle quality recording. That's a subjective call, based on what scale one uses and where one draws the demarcations. MD is not maximum quality nor top quality, because ATRAC is lossy. But

MD: Analogue track markers

=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === For those people recording MP3s to MD using analogue connections, it = seems a lot of people use winamp plugins etc. to create 6 second gaps = for automatic track marking. I

Re: MD: MD

Anthony Lalande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's all subjective. Cassettes are low-end, because of their low signal-to-noise ratios (I think; I'm not an expert in this sort of thing), but they were high end once. So were vinyl records and Victorolas. I don't think cassettes were *ever*

Re: MD: MD

Um... is there such a thing as "lossless" compression? I don't think so... I think "lossy compression" is redundant ;) Lossless compression is what people generally call programs like WinZip. When you compress a file with WinZip, it takes up less space and when you decompress it you get

RE: MD: md-l-digest V2 #854

Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:34:04 -0500 From: "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MD: Roland UA-30 external Laptop Sound card It has come to my attention that some people have laptop computers that they want to connect to a Minidisc recorder. Some of the computers lack a decent sound

MD: does the JE640 mdlp deck have date/time stamp?

hi all for anybody who has the new sony JE640 mdlp deck, could someone tell me if it has date/time stamp? i'm trying to decide between a 640 and a 940 but i want date/time stamp... thanks luke _ Get Your Private, Free

Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #854

Pretty much correct. Something to note: the ATRAC specification has never changed, but the sophistication of implementations has. The older versions all used fixed point arithmetic, because the readily available DSPs were all fixed point. Newer machines actually use floating point DSPs, at

Re: MD: MD

* Dave Kimmel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 11 Jan 2001 | ATRAC is lossy because it does NOT return the same data after | decompression that it was given for compression. ATRAC throws out | information in order to make it easier to compress the data, therefore the | compression and decompression

MD: ATRAC loseless compression techniques...

Lossless compression is what people generally call programs like WinZip. When you compress a file with WinZip, it takes up less space and when you decompress it you get the exact same data that you compressed. In other words, it doesn't lose any data in the compression and decompression

Re: MD: MD

I don't think cassettes were *ever* considered "high-end." When they were introduced, the quality of reel-to-reel tape was vastly superior... just hard to take with you on a jog ;) Cassettes were introduced as a portable, but lower-quality, music source. You're right. Regardless of the

Re: MD: lossless compression

| | | Anthony Lalande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think it's all subjective. Cassettes are low-end, because of their | low signal-to-noise ratios (I think; I'm not an expert in this sort | of thing), but they were high end once. So were vinyl records and | Victorolas. Dan Frakes wrote, |

Re: MD: ATRAC loseless compression techniques...

Does any loseless compression algorithm require the entire set of data for read access before it begins compression? If you wanted to encode audio with a loseless compression, could you do it in real-time or would you need to wait until the entire recording is complete, and then compress

MD: MZ-R900 SCMS defeat

Eric and the folks on the MD-L, I while ago I figured out a way to bypass the SCMS on the R900 by means of a glitch... I just put up the procedure at the following URL: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~youn/R900_SCMS.html This is also linked from my R900 review page which is at: