Re: (idm) MP3 from a turntable...

From Andrew Hime
Sent Thu, May 28th 1998, 19:52

> > Jon, you're kidding right?
> > Maybe it's true...someone told me the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary.
> > 
> > How could this device *work*?  I have a sophomore knowledge of electronics
> > and I could'nt figger this out.
> >
> > Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 09:21:26 -0700 (PDT)
> > 
> > > actually, i just read that someone has developed a big 12" round thing
> > > that fits on a turntable and sends signals to a specially modified MP3
> > > player and can scratch accurately to a millisecond.
> 
> Actually Peter, some guy in Europe has done this.  I didn't save
> the article (it went straight to my "eh whatever" bin), but apparently
> it is something real.  He hooks up turntables & mixer to a AtoD convertor,
> plugs the digital stream into a BeOS computer, which has software that
> interprets the signal coming off of the vinyl.

If you're using an actual Be Box, don't they have the Geek Port, which
is analog?