Hi Richard, I'm responding to MD-L as well. richard conte writes: >I have a minidisc walkman and a home stereo minidisk deck. Both Sony. I reco >rd from the radio on to my minidisk with the stereo deck. I make titles for t >he songs on the tracks I recorded. Then I took my optical cable and hooked it > to my MD walkman and recorded digitally. the tracks and audio were copied, b >ut the song titles I made were not transfered. Why is that? Thanks for the nice question, I've added it to the Newbie FAQ (even though in fact it's a pretty mature question): http://www.minidisc.org/very_faq.html#q15 I recorded from the radio to MD, titled the tracks, and then digitally copied that MD from my home deck to my portable MD recorder. The audio and track marks were copied, but the track titles I made were not. Why is that? The S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Audio Interface) standard used by consumer audio gear such as Minidisc, DAT and CD equipment carries audio samples for the left and right channels (at 32, 44.1, or 48 khz, and up to 24 bits wide) as well as several status bits (e.g. copyright and track information). Although in theory it would be possible for consumer S/PDIF to carry track title information (there are unused bits in the data stream [in fact in S/PDIF "Professional" mode, ASCII information about the audio source and destination can be transferred]), carrying such information was not made a part of the consumer S/PDIF specification and hence no consumer equipment implements it. A brief HTML document and more complete PDF document give further details about the S/PDIF standard. Regards, Rick ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
