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"Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor" wrote:
> Marc Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> >
> > it probably can, but Firewire has all of the stuff in place. but
> > then again so do USB CD-R's
> >
> > its probably a bit different going to solid state MP3 players since
> > all your doing is dumping a file, here you would need to turn the
> > mp3 audio into a viable digital source(like the PCLink or Xitel
> > stuff does through sound card type api's) then the digital source
> > goes into the MD player which converts it to ATRAC and writes it to
> > disc.
>
> Sorry, I was assuming (as with the Sony MDS-LSA1), that it was to be
> ATRAC data flowing over the link. In this case, existing USB drivers
> and components that transport 44.1khz 16bit PCM data would do equally
> well transporting ATRAC1 at up to 4.8x realtime and ATRAC3 at up to
> ~20x realtime -- probably limited by MD drive write speed in any case.
> (This means that a 5 minute LP4 song download could be done in some 15
> seconds!).
Just what is the audio signal that the USB port puts out? Or is it
hardware dependent? I had a digital Xitel that I returned because it
could not constantly stream. But it seemed to me that if it did work any
audio that I played on my computer, regardless of the format would be
converted to optical PCM.
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