From Kent Williams Sent Fri, May 14th 1999, 06:17
From Kent Williams Sent Fri, May 14th 1999, 06:17
Oval records are made substantially from sampling the sounds of damaged CDs. Different players skip differently -- my favorite player can take a 2 minute cantata and turn it into a hypnotic ambient track that lasts 1/2 hr. Your Orbital CD may be salvagable, or your player might be arsed. CD players can drift out of alignment, after which it will intermittently either skip or do that endless silent seek thing. I've heard you can polish out scratches in CD's and rescue them, though I've never been motivated enough to try and rescue one. Funny thing -- I have never mourned a CD gone bad, but I cry like a baby if a favorite vinyl record stops playing. On Thu, 13 May 1999, Moonlight wrote: > [please excuse my chatty mood] > > I've got a CD in right now (orbital, In Sides) and apparently it's > scratched because it's skipping. But i'm listening to the skip and it's > very irregular and cool. The skip is between beats, but it keeps shifting > some and catching a bit of the beat after it here and there. Yeah, it > sounds kindof like Pan sonic. Anyways, does anyone know what it is about > CDs that lets them skip so cool like this at times but at other times > they'll just loose track and spend most of the time scanning for thier > place? Has anyone written essays about this? Is there any way that i can > scratch promo CDs that i may not like (or other cheap things i come across) > so they can do this instead of boring scanning all the time? > Or is it dependent on the player? > Thanks, i want to take some lemons of CDs and make sonic lemonade. (though > it sucks that my orbital CD is now shot) > > Is there any way that this is bad for my CD player? > > I know the next step the music industry is taking is towards DVD audio. > Anyway we can do this with that? Or better yet, that we can do this with > DVD video? > > np: 1/2 second of In Sides on a shifting loop. > > _________________________________ > Adam Roesch / xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx > Augsburg College / Minneapolis / MN / USA > > Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: > http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ > > "The only disease we need in our blood is love" TRICKY > >