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(idm) Gescom Mini Disc

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1998-06-13 23:33Christopher Fahey (idm) Gescom Mini Disc
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1998-06-13 23:33Christopher Fahey> It sounds like the Gescom boys have physically placed the > tracks in a random-type orde
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(idm) Gescom Mini Disc
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quoted 6 lines It sounds like the Gescom boys have physically placed the> It sounds like the Gescom boys have physically placed the > tracks in a random-type order on the disc (rather than > recording them on the disc straight through in a contiguous > fashion, i.e. 3 follows 2 follows 1, etc.). You can get the same > sound/motion of the playback head if you use random play or > move tracks around.
Let me try to understand this: Mini Discs have some kind of encoding on them which tells the playermachine the sequence the tracks are to be played? And Gescom constructed this sequence in such a way that the head has to move a lot between songs? That's cool. I assume there are only a few tracks on the MD, but it would be even cooler if there were about a thousand tracks on the MD, forcing the playermachine to whirr and shit all the time. That would be dope. -Cf ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - c h r i s t ø p h e r f ª h e y . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ chris@raremedium.com 2 1 2 - 6 3 4 - 6 9 5 0 x 2 5 8 http://www.raremedium.com - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - . _ . - ' ^ ' - .
1998-06-14 00:54marmoset@mail.mich.comOn Sat, 13 Jun 1998 19:33:57 -0400 chris@raremedium.com (Christopher Fahey) wrote: >Let me
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On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 19:33:57 -0400 chris@raremedium.com (Christopher Fahey) wrote:
quoted 4 lines Let me try to understand this: Mini Discs have some kind of encoding on them>Let me try to understand this: Mini Discs have some kind of encoding on them >which tells the playermachine the sequence the tracks are to be played? And >Gescom constructed this sequence in such a way that the head has to move a >lot between songs?
OK, I'm going to give you a drastic oversimplification, but I'm lazy and facile and have places to go, so it'll have to do. ;) Recordable minidiscs are random access devices, like hard drives. As such, they store data in blocks and keep track of the location of blocks of data (in this case ATRAC encoded sound) in a central index. The practical upshot of this is that a single musical recording can be spread all over an MD (in the same way that a large file on your hard drive can be in noncontiguous sectors all over the platters) You can achieve fragmentation on a recordable minidisc the same way you do on a hard drive -- by doing lots of saving and deleting and editing. Minidisc recorders make this particularly easy, since you can divide and combine bits of various songs right from the front panel. Mastering from a disc like this would give you the effect Gescom seem to have acheived. BTW, I take it this means the Gescom MD has actually been released. Does anyone know of an online shop that has it in stock?
quoted 1 line That's cool.>That's cool.
Sure is. :) -d.w.