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- From: zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: MiniDisc is here!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.002911.29017@intacc.uucp>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 00:29:11 GMT
- References: <ibhan.724366214@husc10> <1gj1fqINNelu@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <1992Dec15.143059.9149@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec15.143059.9149@news.cs.brandeis.edu> weitzman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Adam J. Weitzman) writes:
- >
- A
- >(c) Let's say you have a DCC with some tunes you like on it. If you want to
- > record over one in the middle with a different song, you have to redo
- > the rest of the tape unless the times of the songs match up exactly. With
- > the MD, it's no problem at all, like recording a file onto a floppy disc.
- > You just delete the old one and put the new one in its place. Doesn't
- > matter how long it is (up to the total blank time of the disc, at any
- > rate).
-
- Hmmmm....... It's hard to believe that the audio on MDs would be kept in
- a truly random access location. Wouldn't it be like a CD, where you *can*
- randomly access any tune you like, but would have to wait out whatever
- the access time is for the player? (70ms or so????).
-
- However, I can imagine a clever use of the 3 second buffer being used to
- truly have random access recording & playback with NO access time delay.
-
- ANybody know anything about this???????????
-
- ferenc
-