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.