It's by The Inspiral Carpets. track called I Want You
HTH
dave
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From: Ornette Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:15 PM
Subject: MD: Sony MiniDisc advert circa 1996
Hello.
I am trying to get an ID for a song
UPGRADE
I don't have an MD deck, but I do have an MD portable. I previously had a
Sharp 831 but I was disappointed with the ATRAC artifacts the Sharp dsp was
giving me so I took it back to the store and exchanged it for a Sony R90 - I
personally believe the Sony ATRAC dsp is of a higher
Richer Sounds - local branches or call 0800 181 355 for free catalogue
etc(can't find URL)
Urm, how about
http://www.richersounds.co.uk
!
Alternatively, if you're out and about town and can't find a branch, Argos
are generally OK-ish (cheaper than Dixons, etc, anyway)
Dave
LameBatch should do the job ... it's a front end onto the lame
encoder/decoder and I'm pretty sure it can do this sort of thing. You'll
probably need to do it in two passes though, first time through converting
all the mp3s into .wav files and then reconverting the .wav files into the
correct
TO FIND:
Should the send and the return .WAV files be identical, since the
process is digital thoughout? If not, why not?
Of course not.
MiniDisc employs compression by perceptual encoding - that is:
1- the stuff you record on the MiniDisc is compressed and
2- the bits that are 'lost'
Hmmm I bought a five pack of Sony 80 min MDs for just 8.50 from Argos
MDs really are NOT expensive. Richer Sounds do them for like a pound each I
think, and maybe 1.40 for Sonys?
Worth a look.
Dave
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From: Alan Dowds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Why doesn't sony seem to be considering to make a MD
Drive for the home PC ? Don't you think that would be
nice ? For both recording and playing purposes... I
think this may be told a thousand times but i'm not
thinking the storage issue, it's just about music..
I've got my CD-RW for
Probably not, but you don't say how you originally recorded the material.
If it's a copy of a CD, with a compatible CD player with opticial digital
out, you can set the player to Sync and it will put the track marks in
exactly the right places using the track information in the SPDIF signal.
Probably not, but you don't say how you originally recorded the material.
If it's a copy of a CD, with a compatible CD player with opticial digital
out, you can set the player to Sync and it will put the track marks in
exactly the right places using the track information in the SPDIF signal.
Currently I press pause when it gets to
the right spot, then tarck-mark. Is there a better way?
Are you guys saying that the R900 (which seems to be top of the line right
now) doesn't have a simple track mark button? Good god.
No... read it again. He presses pause, then presses the
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As far as I know it's even less confusing...
Hey, anyone else seen this before, it's totally new on me.
D
http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/ss5/generic/mddisccamcorder/mddisccamco
rder/index.shtml
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To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word
Any one got any posts lying around on how to mod a Sony MZR90 to add a
backlight to the main unit display? No, I appreciate it isn't be easy, but
has someone been there / done this before? (I'd rather not be the first to
make the attempt just in case I inadvertantly write off an otehrwise
Hi. I just ordered my first Minidisc unit, a Sharp MT831! I'm quite
excited! *calms down* Anyway, I have a question about it's included
LiIon
battery ... is it available from anywhere besides Sharp Japan?
Well, you can certainly get them in the UK. I'm pretty sure every country
that
Other things to watch for...
You forgot:
o Try disabling any "motherboard / system monitor applications" - you know,
the kind that come with recent computers that check that your CPU isn't over
temperature, your CPU fans are still working at 5000RPM, etc...
o Try a different VIDEO card or
Because it's silly.
It's just as dumb as if your PC had an "End Search" button that you had to
press before saving any new files, otherwise it would overwrite your
existing files. MD is random access storing tracks much like a PC stores
files on a hard drive or floppy disk. It was
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put the y=20
Ah - I get it ... but why not just plug your headphone jack into the jack
socket in the remote instead of the jack socket on the unit?
Anyway - if you wanted to do this, you would need some kind of extension
adapter for the signal plugs on the remote. You could make your own but as
far as I'm
Just got back from a visit to an IBM convention. Perhaps some of you have
seen this, but they're about to debut, or have just debuted, a portable 1
1/2
inch square, 1/8" thin one-gigabyte portable "micro drive" that connects
to
all sorts of things. Pretty impressive little thing.
IBM
...I would contend
that MD has not
exactly met with mainstream acceptance either and that it is
not going to do
so in the future. Both items are at present a small niche
market in the
larger audio equipment marketplace compared to the sales of
CD players, DVD
players, and even
* A salesperson told me that you can listen to what you're recording using
headphones. That's a great feature. Is it true?
Of course it's true!
* I will need to download the audio to my computer for sync with visuals
and post-production tinkering. Is this possible? I have a relatively new
Check
http://www.hmce.gov.uk/public/info/int-shop.htm
Excerpt:
"Duty and VAT must be paid on all items imported into the United Kingdom,
e.g. goods bought over the Internet. The list below gives the duty and VAT
rates that will be charged on personal importations into the United Kingdom.
The
[snip]
Looking from a purely technical standpoint, ATRAC
beats MP3. ATRAC is fully reverse and forward compatible, and is
constantly
updated with new revisions. MP3 has been the same since the MPEG1 Audio
standard was made back in the late '80s.
--
Robert J. Lynn, Jr.
Brainbench Certified
Did you try turning the unit off, and taking the batteries out, and leaving
for 30 seconds to a minute, putting them back in and turning on? Failing
that, see if there is a 'reset to factory defaults' option in the service
menu (see minidisc.org for details on how to enter the service menu, I
Personally, I think buying anything that's more expensive than Radio Shack
Gold Interconnects is a waste of money... but that's just me. Many people
will tell you that buying $500 USD interconnects will make your system
"shine, with added detail, sparkle, soundstage, fidelity, bass, treble,
I'd second that report. Within a month:
o The silver coating on the remote buttons started to wear
o The black text printed onto the remote (e.g. the word 'Stop') was rubbed
off almost completely
o The silver paint used on the buttons on the main unit was flaking off
revealing an ugly,
I have just read all of that, and it was utterly pointless:
MD Data decks already exist and here is the very simple reason why:
ATRAC DATA IS DIGITAL
MiniDiscs simply store digital data
You can use the MiniDiscs themselves to store any kind of digital data you
like
You do NOT have to store
My MZ-R90 started playing up recently by skipping (jumping a lot and
cutting out - just like a scratched vinyl LP). Luckily it was still under
It has skipped on my a bit even when I am just walking.
My r-30 never did this and it did not have a fantastic 40 sec memory.
r-90 mechanical
I though Super Audio CDs had multiple layers, one of which was totally
compatible with current players? Which I suppose means SACDs effectively
have the music recorded on them twice, one layer dedicated for backwards
compatibility and the other encoded at 32bit 2MHz or something crazy.
Dave
How is the sound quality of those cassette adapters anyway. Isn't it true
that cassettes can only playback at 22000 samples per second - wouldn't
this
drastically affect the playback quality?
I've never heard that said (and it's not true, because cassettes are an
inherently analogue medium
I was always under the impression that if you turned the Sharp volume up to
30 the bass boost would cut off anyway. I've played Sharps at 30 with bass
boost set to 0,1,2,3 and not noticed any difference. Someone on this list
mentioned that the bass boost attenuates significantly beyond volume
From: "Stainless Steel Rat" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* "Dave Hooper" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 10 Nov 2000
| I am not! This is the only piece of Sony equipment which I own ...
which I
| have EVER owned!
Huh? Are you saying that the Sharp recorder was the very first M
| 1) The original CD
Played on what? Sony equipment?
G... are you trying to wind me up now, or what? "I DON'T OWN ANY SONY
EQUIPMENT EXCEPT MY NEW MZR90", which bit of that sentence don't you
understand? The original CD was played through a digital output (I have used
both a CD-ROM to
Hahaha.
That's a joke, right?
It's impossible to OBJECTIVELY say what 'sounds better' by definition.
Anyway, semantics aside, that wasn't my point, which was that the person who
said in conversation that MiniDisc is just lo-fi trash could simply have
stumbled across the same reports that I have
You are used to Sony equipment,
I am not! This is the only piece of Sony equipment which I own ... which I
have EVER owned!
[...snipped stuff about crappy Sony amp electronics and signalling
processing which is totally irrelevant...]
Sharp players with a good set of not Sony headphones, and
Do you remember my (admittedly hideously subjective) comment about how Sharp
ATRAC sounds very different to Sony ATRAC? Well, I recently listened to a
whole bunch of other Sharp MD players (7xx, 8xx) and decided they sounded
very very similar to my 831. Then I took my 831 back to the store in
y, November 09, 2000 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: MD: MD for recording sound for film?
* "Dave Hooper" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 09 Nov 2000
| Same setup, same hifi stuff, same headphones (same ears!).
Your state of mind has changed. You are happy to have a new toy in your
hands
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From: "Dan Frakes" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, but the problem is that all of the above is a CD vs. MD sound
comparison. I agree that MD doesn't sound as good as CD. However, your
original claim, to which I was responding, was that high-bitrate MP3
sounds better than
I'm not the only one !! I just did a quick search on altavista and came
up
with this:
http://minidisc.org/hearing_sharp_atrac.html
Although I did also find this as a kind of response
http://minidisc.org/hearing_sharp_atrac.html
Oops ... that second URL ought to be
What does this mean, and how do I test it?
I'm guessing 'monauralizing anomalies' means a tendancy for the ATRAC chip
to screw up the stereo imaging during compression by making the assumption
that the listener won't notice?
dave
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From: "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL
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From: "las" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: MD: Future of minidiscs
Sir you incorrectly state that an MP3 file will produce CD quality music.
The
quality of MP3 files can vary greatly. But one thing that
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From: "Charles Redell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: MD: sound quality difference in blanks?
I don't understand why there isn't a differnece in sound quality between
blanks (If that is really the case)? I mean, why are some
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Psychoaccoustics. You believe that there is a difference, therefore you
hear a difference even when there is none.
That isn't Psychoacoustics! Psychoacoustics is in fact the complete
opposite!
Psychoacoustics is used to trick the human ear into think that there
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;Eric Woudenberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Dave Hooper" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: Entering service mode on Sharp-MD MT 831
Very nice Dave, I've added it to the news. -Rick
"Dave Hooper" writes:
It's pret
I have a question for Windoze gurus. Can I turn off file locking on
a file? On occasion, I'd love to start playing the files I record
before the recording is finished but the file is locked until the
recording is finished.
As far as I know this cannot be done ... it's all down to the
Over here in Sunny England, MD is slowly but surely finding its feet. All
the Virgin Megastores and HMV stores have MD aisles, all the chains (Tandy,
Dixon, Comet, Currys, PC-World, Richer Sounds, John Lewis, Index, Argos,
etc) sell MD portables, MD systems and MD separates...
This would not
I find the Sharp 831 plays brilliantly but records badly ... but then again
my only experience of MD recorders is my Sharp 831
But I've played back discs recorded on standalone MD decks and they sound
FAR superior to anything I've recorded (by whatever means) on my 831 . :(
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I didn't realize you were recording digitally, using an optical cable.
What is your digital source? A tape deck with optical out?
At the moment I've tried only with the optical SPDIF output of my SB Live
Platinum Live Drive II . (It's the only optical SPDIF gear I have). The
input to the
H... Ok - so if I'm recording digitally, I still hear the same
artifacts. So that rules out the ADCs unless the Sharp has some kooky
DAC-ADC design on the digital input. Which I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
As for the guy who says 'get some better headphones' : The music I'm
recording *HAS*
Apologies if this has been covered.
Unit must be __unpowered__ : Battery removed AND power supply turned off.
Press hold SYNC/ENTER, PLAY/PAUSE and DISP buttons together.
Then connect power (turn on power supply or drop battery in and close
cover).
I haven't fully explored the
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