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- From: tlai@cs.toronto.edu (Tony Wen Hsun Lai)
- Subject: Re: MiniDisc is here!
- Message-ID: <92Dec29.170026est.47991@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- References: <ibhan.724366214@husc10> <1gj1fqINNelu@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <1992Dec15.143059.9149@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec29.002911.29017@intacc.uucp>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 22:00:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.002911.29017@intacc.uucp> zerobeat@intacc.uucp (Ferenc Szabo) writes:
- >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???????????
-
- Um, I remember reading somewhere that an MD player does use its 10 second
- buffer so that audio is continuous during playback. There were some
- articles on MD in recent issues of _Audio_ and _Stereophile_, but I don't
- have them with me.
-