thanks!! so there is currently no way to move regular MD
files on regular MD disks to another medium without
decompressing them? for too many days now I've been making
MP3s from about 40 MDs recorded on my recently visited
island (Global Islands Project)-- I USB-record the files to
Mac and then export to MP3 at 128 and 48kbps-- this takes
almost 3 hours per disc! -- wish there was a faster way-- is
making a 48kbps mp3 from the 128kbps-mp3 much worse than
making it from the MD-AIFF file? is an mp3 of a CD
appreciably better quality than an mp3 of a regular-MD-file
of a CD?
/:b
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, stoatwizard wrote:
> > Why is there no software available to directly play MD
> > recordings? or is there? or am I very confused? /:b
>
> Evil control freakery by Sony. MD was introduced about 10 years after
> CD. Despite the fact that home taping didn't kill music in the 1970s,
> Sony thought 'What a good idea if we cripple our digital recordig
> format so people can't copy their compressed copies of uncompressed
> CDs'. Digital recording was so terrifying for them in the hands of
> the proletariat despite that fact the the original MD (not HiMD) had
> inherent generation loss built in due to inbuilt compression. So they
> used a proprietary disc and data format, keeping it closed and not
> letting anybody else make the software by keeping the details secret.
> A hardware form of DRM.
>
> We can only thank our lucky stars that CD was invented in a more
> innocent age where people were trying to improve signal quality
> rather than control what you do in your own home with stuff you've
> bought. It seems that all other media have to go through the DRM-
> hacker cat and mouse game. Not enough people were interested in
> hacking Minidisc so you still have to use Sony software to access the
> digital data. This policy probably stiffed the adoption of MD as the
> defacto consumer digital recording medium and will hasten its demise
> when somebody learns how to make a CF recorder for $150 with low-
> noise mic preamps to match HiMD.
>
> The only correct use for that Sony software IMO is to get the data
> off the MD into something you can play with anything. However, if you
> really want to play your compressed omg files in something else
> without expanding them, and if they don't have Sony's DRM (ie you
> have recorded them yourself on a HiMD recorder not via the digital
> input and are using SS3.4 or later)
>
> http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/ATRAC3
>
> seems to claim there is a winamp decoder. I've never pursued playing
> the .omg files in anythign else as I record uncompressed PCM. If you
> record compressed I guess keeping the compressed files and playing
> them in something less user-hostile that SonicStage might be
> attreactive.
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