Dan Frakes wrote,
| The thing that makes me worry about NetMD is that if the above is true (you
| need software to do the conversion), MiniDisc will become platform-dependent.
How would that make MiniDisc platform-dependent? Are you predicting that
people who use other OSes will stop all MD
Joep asked,
| I'v got an sony minidisc d-365 and an sony MD-recorder MZ-R37.
| My discman has got an optical output, but i doesn't seem to work.
| When i connect my optical cable to my discman i don't get any signal, i
| don't see any bright light ! Is this normal.
| The manual says that is
| Hmm, still not quite there mate,
Howlette, your condescension is inappropriate. Even if you were right and I
wrong, it would still be rude. Talking down at someone when you're wrong and
the other person is right -- as is the case here -- is even worse.
| its that its on MiniDisc, so it
John Salomone wrote,
| Ok gang, what's the deal here? I've bootlegged several shows recently using
| my Aiwa AM-F70 and my Core Sound mics and battery box. I use the line-in
| setting since I have the powered mics. I guess this constitutes a digital
| input then?
No, it's analog, unless you
Richard Lang asked,
| One question (and maybe I'm the ony one wondering this): what *is*
| emphasis. It sounds interesting. What does it do?
I once asked the same question on this mailing list. The explanation, as I
understood it, was that early ADCs were not good at representing higher
| from what i understood(and its fairly rudimentary) there is RAM in the
| device which holds xseconds of sounds ...
Well, yes, Marc, that's the read-ahead I was talking about.
The impression I get of G-protection is that it's supposed to be a faster way
of getting the head back into position
Richard Lang wrote,
| It looks like Sony are using G-protection *instead* of
| the time buffer, rather than as supplemental to the time buffer.
Seems to me no form of shock protection can work without a time buffer.
G-protection, per the blurb on Video Direct's site, seems to be an improved
Upon reading this from Timothy Stockman,
S I've found no way, using the CDROM's S/PDIF output to dub the first
S track first track of a CD without clipping the beginning...
I had the same reaction as Steve Corey:
C Put your CD player on Repeat All tracks (if it has such a function),
C so
Matt asked,
| all right this also has probably been discussed, but for those of us who use
| outhouse express (aka outlook express) what do we need to put our settings
| at so this group can actually see what we are posting?
What Gaz said, plus be sure to uncheck the silly "always reply to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked,
| This is a bit off topic ...
Not really.
| Also. are there optical "Y" Adapters so that I can
| connect 2 S/PDIF sources to one mini-disc recorder?
Recoton has a 3-to-1 TOSlink switcher that can operate in either direction
(as an input selector or as an output
Peter Ravn wrote,
| I have just observed that the shuffle repeat track order is always the same
| on the same disc!
Try it on a different disc with the same number of tracks. I had a Sony
portable CD player (E33 maybe?) like that: for any given total number of
tracks it would always use the
Josh wrote,
| I am interested in this too (and the 900 is too pricey for me as well),
| but I am also curious as to if there are any MDLP Decks that can do this?
Sony's MDLP decks cannot; like other Sony MD decks, they stick a moment of
silence between each two tracks in shuffle mode, though
Robin wrote,
| I've no idea what the American equivalent of the RPI is,
That would be the CPI (Consumer Price Index).
| but guess it would be more-or-less unthinkable that minidiscs would
| appear on it.
Sigh. Indeed it would.
Mike wrote,
: Another option, of course, is to use a different ISP...but I'm biased.
Fully agreed.
Jim wrote,
I checked out the AOL link and I can't find anything about setting up
AOL 6.0 so it doesn't send HTML. I know of several people that went
back to a previous version of AOL
Steve Corey wrote,
| If you record one track on a MD all the way through, then you have a TOC
| that spans the whole disc. Record a few discs like that.
|
| Now go to a show and start recording with one of those discs. At about
| 60 min into the show, you realize the band is in one of those
Thanks to Peter, Timothy, and Chad for clearing it up for me.
Speaking of SRCs, Peter told [EMAIL PROTECTED],
J your recorder probably can already convert from 48kHz, but not 96kHz. this
J is built into almost every model i can think of.
My MZ-R3 has no SRC and requires 44.1-kHz input, but it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested to Sharon,
| The last part, is burning the final product. I recommend getting a program
| called CDWAVE. It's shareware and you should be able to download it easily.
There's a redirector to it at http://www.cdwave.com.
Matt Wall asked,
| anyway if
| anyone can answer why you would want to put mp3's on a minidisc for storage
| instead of atrac on a medium that can hold a little more (dont get me wrong
| i love the md format and use it for exercising all the time, plus on my home
| stero too) anyway hopefully
Jim Coon wrote,
If it is like all the other Sony units I've had, you plug in the remote,
and the head phones unplug from the remote and you plug the new head
phones in where the Sony haed phones went. One caveat though, the older
Sonys used a proprietary headphone jack so Ihad to get an
Bob Norton posted as follows, putting my name onto text actually written by
Don Capps:
| "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| Now, I am aware that converting an MP3 back into a .wav file produces a
| VERY
| large file similar in size, if not exactly the same size as the original
|
John Small wrote,
The other timers I have seen (tho I have not looked in several years) are
in the $100 range.
I started to answer,
| Radio Shack, when I looked, had a 24-hour, 1-event timer for $24.95 and a
| 7-day, 6-event timer for $29.95. I bought two of the latter for the two
| decks
When I asked,
Otherwise, would anyone else be able to switch the disc for you?
John answered,
| My wife ... but I'd be asking for a domestic dispute! g
Switching discs some time during the day you're gone is too much to ask?
Sounds as though you're already deep in a domestic dispute over
Ken Clinger told us,
| For what it's worth, JR has Minidisc as its "Tech Tip of the Week".
| http://www.jandr.com/templates/promos/newsletter/techtips200107.tem
| Interestingly, only one (of three) of the tips has to do with using MD to
| record music.
And the first one -- to use it as an
Mike Burger wrote,
| If, hypothetically, time was not of the essence, Peter Forrest and Art
| Munson, also subscribers of this list, have them anywhere from
| $1.10-1.35/per disc. I believe that there are minimum quantities necessary
| to gain the price, but the quantities are not
Michael Burger wrote,
| IBM made a tool. The Nazis were the ones who used the tool for their
| purposes.
The news is that IBM found out what those purposes were yet continued to deal
with the Third Reich. If that turns out to be true, you have to acknowledge
that it makes a difference.
Keith Whitfield asked,
| Does such a product exsist that allows me to transmit the output of the MD
| to a normal radio (UK fm frequency) I want to tune it into the car radio. I
| can build Fm transmitters but 1) there not allowed 2) the frequency
| responce is a bit low (not much good for
John Small wrote,
| BTW, can you play back the 940 non-LP MD's on a prior generation player and
| get the same quality benefits?
First, it's not a matter of LP or SP discs, but of LP or SP tracks; tracks
recorded in different modes can coexist on the same disc.
Generally, you'll get the
Larry wrote,
| As long as MD is big in Japan and there is an internet, there will always
| be a source of MD gear and blanks at competitive prices.
But what about repair and service? That is what concerns me.
For example, I just bought a JB940 by mail order, but the dealer is in the
US. I
Rat reiterated,
| I stand by my statement: you believe that you will hear a difference,
| therefore you hear a difference, even when there is none.
We all agree on that: the only bit of contention is whether the word "psycho-
acoustic" covers that. The word "psychosomatic" certainly does.
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