Tony Antoniou wrote: (about changing the playback level of MDs on a track to
track basis)
>That would essentially require extra memory within the MD unit to store and
>manipulate the entire track before dumping it back to disc.
It could be done entirely within the existing buffer memory. The deck could
read the whole track to find the peak level, calculate the required gain
factor to normalise the data, then read, multiply and write in blocks the
size of the buffer. It would require nothing more than a revised firmware
routine, perhaps with some additional ROM to store the code.
The original suggestion though was to use the track name area of the TOC to
store a level factor for each track. This could be implemented in such a
way that the track name just contains a byte that is recognised and blanked
by a compatible deck, but displayed as a character in an incompatible deck.
The only consequence of playing a track-level encoded disc in an
incompatible player would be that the track levels are not matched and there
is an erroneous character in each track name.
-cb
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