Dan Dugan wrote:
> Walt wrote,
>
>
>>I prefer not to call the process downloading. It's no different than
>>transferring from analog tape. You play the sound on the DAT while
>>recording it in the iMac. At realtime (1X). It's just another form of
>>sound recording.
>
>
> It is different in that there is no generation loss; DAT to
> workstation software transfer done digitally should be bit-perfect.
>
> If I was going to call it a load, I'd say it's an upload, from a
> peripheral to a host. But I'd prefer to call it a transfer. A data
> file is being transferred from one storage medium to another.
> Different formats, same data.
Mostly I don't like downloading as a term, because that implies a higher
speed transfer, or at least a choice of speeds. It confuses people.
I'm happy to call it a transfer, or realtime transfer.
And certainly agree it will be virtually unmodified. Though in reality
from DAT recorded at 48khz to aiff or audio CD at 44khz there is a
digital resampling involved. So, not bit perfect.
Walt
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