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:
quoted 22 lines Marc Weidenbaum <marc@disquiet.com> wrote:
> Marc Weidenbaum <marc@disquiet.com> 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
> - rweisend@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu
>
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