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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!oasys!curt
- From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Sony's CD advertising
- Message-ID: <25007@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 17:44:18 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.035637.20201@utdallas.edu> <18rc9tINN8lj@network.ucsd.edu>
- Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In rec.audio, mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel) writes:
- >And also, the tracks on MD's are allocated in a "filesystem", so that
- >you can rerecord over a previous track which had a different length
- >and not lose any music, or create any gaps. No other consumer medium
- >has ever done this.
-
- This is just too cool. Where did you hear this? Are you sure this is
- a feature of the MD? I've read a lot of articles about the MD and I've
- never seen this discussed. If this is true, then then DCC just got
- another nail in it's coffin.
-
- This should also mean that players (at least some day) could easily
- delete/renumber/re-order tracks with little problem.
-
- My DAT machine will let me re-record tracks, insert new tracks, add
- skip marks, and even renumber all the tracks (because after inserting
- they get out of sequence). But you are still limited to the amount
- of space available on the tape when you record over an old track.
-
- Imagine being able to record a collection of your favorite songs, and
- then be able to delete and add new songs over time without having
- to re-record the whole disk?
-
- DCC has the ability to encode text in the data so it displays when you
- play the songs. Until recently, I didn't think MD had this feature -
- which would be a big shame. I always felt this was something that
- should have been part of the CD standard. But I saw a picture of an MD
- player the other day and it included an LCD display that was showing
- the name of the song/album - so it looks like MD has this feature
- also.
-
- One day, we will have an affordable juke box type systems to store all
- our music. You just put the disks in, and it reads all the info off
- the disks. You get a nice menu that lists all the music and it can
- even cross reference the data and show it to you sorted by title, or
- musician, etc.
-
- Curt Welch
-