From Marc Weidenbaum Sent Fri, Jun 11th 1999, 18:04
From Marc Weidenbaum Sent Fri, Jun 11th 1999, 18:04
That opportunity certainly would have saved everyone a couple hundred bucks on MiniDisc players. Commercial interests aside, I'm not sure why they didn't just make it available as a series of MP3s. I've seen bootlegs on the web, but that's a whole other story. -M On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Bob Weisend wrote: > Marc Weidenbaum <xxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > > The idea is that because of the nature of the minidisc technology, there > > is no pause between tracks (as there is on a traditional CD). Therefore, > > if you play the Gescom minidisc on "Random," it will flow in an > > unpredictable manner, and the little snippets will start to appear in > > pairings and sequences that, although unplanned in their specificity, > > will illuminate each other in a manner that a normal recording does not. > > On my Sony Discman, you can achieve the same result by having ESP on in > shuffle mode. Since ESP buffers 10-20 seconds of music, it will reach the > end of a track before the song ends. It will cue up the next track while > the first one continues, and when the first one finishes, the next one > starts up immediately. This technique works great when dubbing a > selection of tracks from a continuous mix; if the CD was indexed properly > (say, at the end of a 4x4 beat sequence), the tracks run together > seamlessly. > > - Bob Weisend > - xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx > >