What sound card do you have that has an optical plug on it?
Nahum
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From: Nic Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 September 1999 14:46
To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: re: Decoding GIF's in New Zealand
I tried to send this before, but no dice:
> I agree, MiniDisk is great!, it saves me carting in heaps of cds to work
> each monday and then! back to home on friday.
Me too. I've taken to getting a CD (legally, of course), MP3ing it at
256K (128K sounds awfull), then recording that to MD via my sound card
which has an optical digital out - and my MD has an optical in....
> But I can't attach it to my PC and stick files on it....yet.
MD-Data. They had them for a while, but it failed 'cos it couldn't write
audio, and noone really wanted it back then. Until ZIP came along (which
is about the worst format anyone could possibly want, tho its a
'standard' now)
> I've been meaning to write something that saves files out the line out
plug
> and then later can load them from the line in plug. Means that I would
have
> cheap rewriteable 650+ mb disks to backup to. (And it would not make my
> computer unusable when writing to them!)
Not really - music on an MD is compressed about 4.6:1 using a lossy
scheme, ala MP3 (but a lot better quality), so you dont really want to
back up on it. A 74min disk will hold about 120meg....
> Anyone know of software that does this already?
MD-Data drives are about it, I think....
Nahum Wild wrote:
>
> Thats ok though, I can put 650mb of uncompressed data on it and the MD
> recorder will do the compression.
Its LOSSY compression tho.....
> It could be really handy, esp with my portable MD Recorder, for
transfering
> large files between computers that would otherwise not be connected. The
> only problem would be the speed.
and the fact that what comes in != what goes out.
> Plus if you were a security nut, who would think to look on a minidisk for
> computer data!
Unless you watched movies too much.... like, the matrix, maybe (what Neo
gives to the "White Rabbit" chick looks a lot like one) or Strange Days,
which is really coool.
N
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