Bruce explained,
| ... my CD-R doesn't handle 80 minute CD-Rs ...
That's unusual AFAIK. Are you sure it's your CDR hardware and not just your
burning software? In either case, nothing comparable applies to MD units:
they all handle 80-minute discs.
| If and when there is a mini-disk player
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
How do you figure that? 128-kbps MP3's take almost a meg per minute,
David, the problem is that Bruce is thinking in megs and computer files not
PCM. If the MD could store MP3 files and then further compress them through
ATRAC he would get the length of music that he
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Subject: Re: MD: "jumping to" eighty-minute discs
Larry wrote,
| David, t
I still have some 60 minutes discs
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
Bruce wrote,
| I am happy with 74 minute mini-disks but am curious as to what if anything
| out there is going on to dramatically increase playing time (hence the
| reason behind asking questions 1 and 5 earlier). I am
Bruce Preudhomme wrote:
Yes, you are both right! There is a lot I don't know about mini-disks and
haven't take the time to learn. I did assume that the data on mini-disks was
virtually uncompressed so that is why I mistakenly thought their capacity to
be the same as CDs. I should have thought
Bruce Preudhomme wrote:
Yes, you are both right! There is a lot I don't know about mini-disks and
haven't take the time to learn. I did assume that the data on mini-disks was
virtually uncompressed so that is why I mistakenly thought their capacity to
be the same as CDs. I should have thought
Well, I don't have anything against the 80 minute mini-disks, its just that
to me 74 vs. 80 minutes is maybe one more song. I have a system as explained
earlier where I copy my collections onto CD before cutting to mini-disks and
my CD-R doesn't handle 80 minute CD-Rs so it isn't worth buying a
