Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:50:31 -0800 | From | Audin Malmin <> | Subject | Re: [OT] copying minidisk (MD) tracks |
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On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 02:13:18PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > A strange question just occurred in my brain, rather randomly - is it > possible to copy individual tracks from a minidisk (you know those modern > MD thingies) if your soundcard has a optical connector?
Aren't MDs around 10 years old now? Not terribly modern anymore...
If you're talking about a Toslink type of optical connector then I really doubt it. I don't think you can send anything other than the audio over the connection. So how would you seek?
> I am thinking about something along the lines of audiofs which lets you > mount audiocds and presents each track as a WAV file. Could one write a > similar minidiskfs? I.e. does soundcard allow access to the data in some > raw way at all?
If you just want to pull the decompressed audio off of a minidisk over a digital connection then all you need is a supported audio card with a digital input...hook the player to it and hit play... I don't think there is any way to get the compressed audio off of a minidisk.
Does sony still make MD data drives? I know at one point they were unable (by design) to read music MDs...but with the popularity of CD-R drives for burning CDDA I wouldn't be too surprised to see sony come out with newer MD data drives that could burn audio MDs...
-- Audin Malmin - amalmin@halcyon.com
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