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as for the track seperation, dont use the plugin, i manually use a 2 to 4
second silent mp3, it's easy to make one yourself, if you dont know how
e-mail me and i'll send em to ya. also as per the optical out and volume of
it being a little low, i remember there is a registry key that allows you to
bump it up a little bit, also if you cant find that at www.minidisc.org let
me know and i'll try and find the url. hope that helps a little bit :P
Later
Matthew Wall
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From: Neon John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mini disc mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, April 22, 2000 3:46 AM
Subject: MD: Well I did it.
>
>Hi guys. I was on here a few days ago asking about Sony players.
>Well I did it, I went hog-wild. I just received from Minidisco an
>MZ-R90, a spare battery and an Xtel Storm Platinum optical output
>sound card. I wasted most of the day playing with this stuff. OK,
>I'm won over. For once my membership in Procrastinator's Anonymous
>paid off. I waited long enough to buy an MP3 player that I (re)
>discovered MD.
>
>OK, I have some questions. I've been burning my MP3 music to MD all
>afternoon and I have some problems/questions.
>
>The biggie. The Sony doesn't detect intersong spaces and lay down a
>mark in any mode. I have the WinAmp inter-song silence plugin and
>it's working. Using the optical interface, I've tried both manually
>recording and using sync record. Nadda. Records OK, just no track
>marks. What's the trick.
>
>I notice that the optical output of the sound card is on all the
>time. Is that normal? From what I've read in the archives and on
>the MD boards, I get the notion that some optical devices turn the
>light off when not transmitting data. Could this be the root of my
>problem above? If I momentarily remove the fiber optic cable from
>the sound card, the MD recorder DOES write a track marker.
>
>The audio level to the recorder is low from all digital sources.
>MP3, RealAudio, CD player, etc. I have the SP/DIF slider on volume
>control wide open and yet I still have to run the manual gain on the
>MZ up all the way to get the VU meter to even occasionally bump 20
>over. This is what sounds the best too. Left on auto gain, the
>playback audio at full volume is barely useable through my
>PortaPros.
>
>An interesting observation. This unit is claimed to have 40 seconds
>of anti-skip memory. IT seems to have a lot more. It sounds like
>it rips at least a song's worth of data into memory and then turns
>off the disc drive. The unit is totally silent for several
>minutes. This must be the trick that has let Sony get 16 hours of
>playback on the lipstick battery.
>
>I think I'm going to really like this little unit!
>
>BTW, I can't say enough nice about MiniDisco. Almost the cheapest
>price. I asked for email confirmation of my order and ship date
>independently of their mail robot. I got that. Then someone called
>to confirm the order right before shipping. Finally, it arrived
>right on time this morning, second day service just like I asked.
>
>John
>--
>John De Armond
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>Neon John's Custom Neon
>Cleveland, TN
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