What about the portable hard-disk style recorders
with multi-gig drives? These kind of things
seem like they'd be ripe to take over...
- cutups
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From: "Adam Piontek" <adam@damek.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:46 AM
Subject: [idm] Re: [idm-m] OT : minidisc advice
quoted 52 lines --- Greg Clow <greg@stainedproductions.com> wrote:
> --- Greg Clow <greg@stainedproductions.com> wrote:
> > Personally, I love my portable MiniDisc. I bought it
> > a couple of years ago
> > to replace both a failing CD Walkman and a failing
> > tape deck, and haven't
> > regretted it in the least. I record MP3s and vinyl
> > to it for portable
> > listening, and sometimes use it during DJ sets to
> > play with on-the-fly
> > loops and such.
>
> I think MD is very useful for people involved in music
> making. However, mine is quickly gathering dust on
> the shelf. I bought it for n5MD releases, and that's
> all I've used it for. (I'd be willing to sell it,
> except now that I own a couple of MDs, I need it if I
> ever want to play or copy them again.)
>
> The thing is, if you have a ton of music (or in my
> case, all of my music) in MP3 format, it's much more
> convenient to burn 3 or 4 CD-RW discs at 8x than to
> sit around recording audio to your MD player.
>
> So I think the usefulness of MD is highly dependent on
> what technology you already use. I guess if you're
> used to MD and don't have a CD-RW drive or don't use
> your computer much for audio-related activities, it
> could be worth it. I like the idea of shuffling audio
> without pauses between the tracks.
>
> Anyway, I'd say, go for it if you really intend to
> start using the format, or if you make music and need
> something for recording and sampling. It really is a
> high quality replacement for cassette in that respect.
>
> But if you can already do everything you need, as far
> as music and audio go, to and don't really see
> yourself starting to do more, don't bother.
>
> .adam
>
>
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