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SubjectRe: [OT] copying minidisk (MD) tracks
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...

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Audin Malmin - amalmin@halcyon.com

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