Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-06 Thread Barry Chapman
Thanks Dane. I'm certainly not an expert on the subject, so if you come up with something different, that's fine. I do remember some mention of the Harris system back in the 80s. Barry Chapman - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net To: PC Audio Discussion

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-06 Thread Dane Trethowan
Another system which was tried was called the Manovox system and sorry if my spelling's wrong. On 6 Apr 2014, at 5:56 pm, Barry Chapman ba...@bchapman.id.au wrote: Thanks Dane. I'm certainly not an expert on the subject, so if you come up with something different, that's fine. I do remember

Re: Stereo AM

2014-04-06 Thread Colin Howard
Greetings, I have absolutely no idea what system is being used in the files, DropBox link for which is below, all I can tell you it in the UK A.M stereo has never taken off, I am unaware what, if any serious experiments have been carried out over here. The archive file, link for which is below,

Odd behaviour of cd.

2014-04-06 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! This is so strange and i really do not understand it. I have a swedish audio book on cd here which i am trying to rip with cdex. When looking up info from freedb or musicbrainz it seems that its no problem. Evrything goes fine until the 14'th cd of 15. That cd can't be looked up because freedb

Re: CD Data And Information

2014-04-06 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Does anyone knows what itunes uses when ripping cd-s on the mac? /A 5 apr 2014 kl. 19:27 skrev Peter Scanlon sca...@tpg.com.au: Yes, I agree winamp is good and it uses Gracenote. -Original Message- From: Evan Reese Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:21 AM To: PC Audio Discussion

RE: CD Data And Information

2014-04-06 Thread Alexandra GrĂ¼nauer
That's because CDEx uses FreeCDDb as a default database, but with the additional programme Player it can read from the player.ini file and use Gracenote. Maybe there's a way of using Music Brains with CDEx? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On

RE: Odd behaviour of cd.

2014-04-06 Thread Alexandra GrĂ¼nauer
Hi Anders, have you tried reconnecting to the data base? Sometimes there is info which has do be deleted. Have you tried Gracenote? Another question: Do you use Music Brains with CDEx or is there another free way to access it and how? Thanks, Alexandra -Original Message- From: Pc-audio

RE: Stereo AM

2014-04-06 Thread Tom Kaufman
I think there was also something called Amax...anybody ever hear of that one? I think this is what WSM in Nashville, Tennessee was using at the time! Tom Kaufman -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Barry Chapman Sent: Saturday, April 05,

Another Set Top Box

2014-04-06 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! I heard about the new Chromecast Set Top Box from Google yesterday on the Let's Talk Tech show on Radio KFWB. There are some exciting developments in Set Top Boxes at this time, the new offering from Amazon is one and the Chromecast from Google could well be another, not to mention the

Re: Another Set Top Box

2014-04-06 Thread Brent Harding
How did you get XBMC to work? I thought it doesn't really have any kind of accessible interface to it. Did you have to just get sighted help and then control it with an app of some kind, or how does that work? The Chromecast seems neat though. I believe the device does do its own streaming in

Re: Another Set Top Box

2014-04-06 Thread Dane Trethowan
I've kept the list informed of my progress smile, I control XBMC using the XBMC controller App for IOS. On 7 Apr 2014, at 11:28 am, Brent Harding br...@hostany.net wrote: How did you get XBMC to work? I thought it doesn't really have any kind of accessible interface to it. Did you have to

Digital audio question

2014-04-06 Thread Donald L. Roberts
Though the system is obsolete, I still enjoy using my mini disc players. Until now, I have always made analog copies of material I wanted on mini disc. But I would like to know specifically which digital audio format is used when making a digital copy on to mini disc. I am aware of the

Re: Digital audio question

2014-04-06 Thread Dane Trethowan
I still use Minidisc but not all that often, as far as I'm aware all Minidisc players and recorders use the Attrac format developed for the Minidisc recorder in the beginning though the format has undergone some changes over 20 years. Even the Sony MD I have which connects to the computer and

Re: Digital audio question

2014-04-06 Thread Gary Schindler
Don, the system is called atrac, which stands for Audio Transform acoustics or something like that. it is near CD quality, 128 KBPS with a sampling rate of 32 kilobytes. - Original Message - From: Donald L. Roberts donald.robert...@gmail.com To: PC Audio Discussion List

Re: Digital audio question

2014-04-06 Thread Brent Harding
I imagine if you use the digital output jacks, it will send uncompressed digital audio as decoded from the Atrak on the disk. I'm not sure if the Minidisc players convert the sample rate to 44.1 khz when outputting digitally, or if the device at the other end has to support the 32 khz on the

questions about Radionomy

2014-04-06 Thread Mike Bernard
Hey everybody, I just found this free service online called Radionomy. Have any of you ever heard of it or used it? If so, I was just wondering, is it accessible? Is it something that a blind person could use? A friend of mine and I are producing radio shows in the form of podcasts and then he