Re: MD: Nude Ex

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Rudie
Anyone know where I can get a pair of those great Nude Ex earbuds with a NORMAL SIZED LONG CORD instead of the annoying short cord that minidisc users love so dearly. Don't all the short-cord versions also include a one-meter extension? I got a pair of short-cord MDR-63s, and it included the

Re: MD: Net MD

2001-09-26 Thread Richard Rudie
Had a trawl round Sony Japan and found a page full of Net MD gear. Hmm... maybe the MDS-NT1 is one of the Net MD drives that other article referred to. I was picturing something more like a Zip drive. (I don't mean in data-storage, because we all know Sony bungled that chance, but in that it's

Re: MD: recent addition to the world of MD

2001-09-06 Thread Richard Rudie
i guess i'll round this out with a query of some sort. are there any R700 owners on the list? what are your opinions on this model? Yeah! R700 owners rise up! Fight the power, or something! I love my 700; I caress it and er, uh, I mean, I take it all over to listen to or at least advocate

Re: MD: Portable storage?

2001-09-05 Thread Richard Rudie
I've answered my own question: An ordinary plastic box for 3x5 notecards makes an almost-perfect case for 26 MDs (without cases). It cost me a big $1.02 including tax. And it's just about as compact as a 26-MD case could be; it's only slightly bigger than if I just had them in a stack. Makes me

Re: MD: MD-Ports

2001-08-21 Thread Richard Rudie
(meaning you can get Windoze bings and such as well as the music). In Winamp at least, you can choose the output device it uses: open the Preferences window (Ctrl+P is the quickest way), click on Plugins- Output, double-click on the waveOut plugin, and choose USB Audio Device for output.

Re: MD: POLL: How many of you will buy/upgrade to the MZ-R909?

2001-08-20 Thread Richard Rudie
I am taking this poll because I'm curious to know how many people will buy, upgrade to or pass on the MZ-R909. Pass---my R700 does what I want, and I'm not going to be looking at buying anything new until if and when Net MD arrives. 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\

Re: MD: too much of a good thing: a drawback of MDLP

2001-08-18 Thread Richard Rudie
It's nice to put loads of music and lots of tracks onto a single MD. But ... there isn't enough titling space! The 255 seven-character cells just don't cover it. I ran into the same problem, putting three soundtracks to the Dracula/ Castlevania games on one MD. It ended up being 104

Re: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate

2001-08-07 Thread Richard Rudie
This is because Win ME and 2k have no direct access to the serial port, thus meaning the program will not work, and in your case, screw up the system. The Mironics interface uses the parallel port, not the serial port, but WinME/2K don't have direct access to that, either. The Mironics

Re: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate

2001-08-06 Thread Richard Rudie
No, portables do it in the most time consuming way, but even that is a no-brainer thanks to the mironics interface (www.mironics.com) Unless it FUBARs your system I ordered the Mironics setup and it didn't work, and when next I rebooted, Windows 2000 was completely forqued, with an

Re: MD: Recording onto PC MP3 from MD

2001-08-03 Thread Richard Rudie
I've looked at that web page. It looks like there are only cheap(ish) cables for recording from MP3 to MD. The options for going from MD to MP3 all seem to be a lot more expensive, unless I go for another soundcard. The cheap way to go from MD to PC is with a 1/8 to 1/8 miniplug cable,

Re: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate

2001-08-03 Thread Richard Rudie
Yes, I found that fairly to-the-point computer peripheral too. This addresses most of my gripes about MD. MD sucks compared to MP3 in that MD is totally not computer-literate. Well, of course MP3 is computer-literate: as you quote, MP3 is a computer peripheral. If you want to do anything

Re: MD: Recording onto PC MP3 from MD

2001-07-31 Thread Richard Rudie
I'd like to know how it is possible to digitally record from a MD to an MP3 file. (Not from MP3 to MD). I've got a Sony MZR-90 and JE520 deck. I've also got a PC with a firewire connection. The JE520 has an optical digital out, doesn't it? Then you'd need a soundcard with an optical

MD: Zits cartoon

2001-07-31 Thread Richard Rudie
As many of you probably know, there's a strip from the comic Zits on the MDCP: http://www.minidisc.org/zits_md_cartoon.gif I felt a sudden urge to update the strip for MDLP. Anyone interested can find it here: http://rsquared.firest0rm.org/zits_md_cartoon2.gif 2 [) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |\

Re: MD: First Mini-CD player available - Beatman

2001-07-31 Thread Richard Rudie
Michael Hoffman wrote: Comments please? My initial take is that mini-CD players will eclipse portable CD players, portable MP3 players, portable cassette players, and portable MiniDisc players. I always thought that the main appeal of the MP3-CD players was that you could also play your

Re: MD: MD to mp3

2001-07-28 Thread Richard Rudie
You need a deck with digital out and a sound card with digital in. Once you get the files on to your hard drive they can be converted into any type of sound file. You don't *need* digital I/O; you could record it like you would an LP or cassette, via your soundcard's line in. For example,

Re: MD: New Sony MZ-R909 with Type R DSP

2001-07-28 Thread Richard Rudie
Sony really burns my ass anyway!!! They are constantly coming out with products that they already have replacements for, but wait to release. Yeah... Sony makes a fuss about NetMD and then releases a new portable without it? I suppose that'll be the MZ-R910, which will of course come out

Re: MD: New Sony MZ-R909 with Type R DSP

2001-07-28 Thread Richard Rudie
las wrote: Richard Rudie wrote: Yeah... Sony makes a fuss about NetMD and then releases a new portable without it? I suppose that'll be the MZ-R910, which will of course come out immediately after you buy a R909. Anyone hear when NetMD might show up in actual products

Re: MD: MD random silent tracks

2001-07-21 Thread Richard Rudie
And it seems to put a blank trackmark after every song...lasts a second, maybe even shorter. I have the same problem recording via the Xitel DG2 that came with my MZ-R700DPC. An almost-zero-length silent track gets stuck in between almost all of the songs in my Winamp playlist. It happens

Re: MD: Sony MZ-R700DPC

2001-06-17 Thread Richard Rudie
David Fincher wrote: I have a lipstick remote (MZ-R35) from the EP-11 that has LCD readout which I would like to use. However, I'm not interested in causing a recorder malfunction. I'm not encouraging anyone on the list to damage their unit, but I thought some of you may have tried this by

Re: MD: Which is the best dual Mini Disc / CD Player

2001-06-15 Thread Richard Rudie
the 700's have a normal sized AA rechargable and can take standard AA's. I think of this as a bonus i just pull out a spare AA i carry around and stick it in. I'll agree heartily to this: I work at a grocery store, and one of my jobs is 'Scan Coordinator,' which entails working

Re: MD: Which is the best dual Mini Disc / CD Player

2001-06-14 Thread Richard Rudie
As for the portable, from everything I have read, the Sony 900 sounds like it is great. The 700 has almost as many features (both are MDLP units) and I believe only lacks things like back lighting of one section. Most of the features are the same. I have a MZ-R700DPC, and the only

Re: MD: Headphones

2001-06-11 Thread Richard Rudie
Mike Lastucka suggested: Might have something to do with the fact that they effectively seal your canal up. :) Maybe in your case this causes issues with balance or something, causing some sort of vertigo. *shrug* I get it with the non-canal-sealing folding headphones that came with a

Re: MD: Headphones

2001-06-10 Thread Richard Rudie
Tim Pitman posted: I've just purchased a Sony MZR-900 and would like to buy some better earphones for it. I'd really like some that are comfortable, and with good sound. And Mike Lastucka replied: I picked up a pair of Sony MDR-EX70SLs, those nude ex ones. They're amazing. The things

Re: MD: Sony MZ-R900DPC in stock at etronics.com

2001-05-31 Thread Richard Rudie
Greg Schwabacher supplied us with: http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?stk_code=sonmzr900dpcr David W. Tamkin noted: The picture on that page shows a deeper brick color for the 900DPC than the painfully vivid reds in other photographs of it on the web. ... If the real color of the red

Re: MD: RF Car MD Changer?

2000-11-17 Thread Richard Rudie
The factory cassette/cd in dash player is double-sized, and there are controls mounted on the steering wheel. I don't want to change the appearance of the dash or lose the functionality of the steering wheel controls, but for the last two years I have been anticipating installing an MD

Re: MD: New to the List with a few Mini-disk related questions...

2000-10-28 Thread Richard Rudie
Doesn't sound like I will try out the MDLP junk. I would rather see them come up with some form MP3 decoding built into mini-disk players as previously stated. I used to hope for something like that, too. Something like a Diamond Rio, but using a MiniDisc as its storage medium? That'd kick

MD: New MD-using product?

2000-10-23 Thread Richard Rudie
I had an idea, and this seems like a good list to air it in. Some time ago I got a Sony cordless-phone-and-answering-machine unit. The answering machine is digital, and its sound fidelity isn't great, so I'm inferring that it uses some kind of audio compression to save memory. My grandfather is