maggior;332125 Wrote: > I would imagine he is referring to Hi-MD, which supported > recording/playing uncompressed WAV files.
Yes, that's certainly a possibility. I'd definitely want to test it (somehow), though. It'd be a waste to create full-sized WAV or FLAC files that only contained what ATRAC left behind. maggior;332125 Wrote: > It's a dead format at this point - Sony no longer makes them (perhaps > they still make a professional model) and the discs are no longer > manufactured. Are you sure about that? I think Sony is still making a single expensive portable model...or maybe there's still some old stock out there. I haven't seen blank discs in stores in quite a while, but they're easily mail-ordered. maggior;332125 Wrote: > It was a great format, but it was too late to the game. Even the first-generation models beat the pants off analog cassettes. I sure wish Sony had marketed it better. When MD appeared, it was infinitely easier to deal with than the extremely expensive and extremely fussy computer equipment necessary to make CDs. I loved being able to archive vinyl by getting the levels right, letting everything record, then going back and neatly topping and tailing and creating track marks...but I never even knew that was possible until I bought one of the damned things. Sony just ran ads saying "I can record on a disc!" and never said a word about how advanced the editing capabilities were. -- atrocity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51395 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
