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Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 21:33:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kevin Maynes writes:
one-time performances. That small loss is the _only_ downside. And a small one
at that. Well, that and the fact that it's so hard to come by in North
America.

and that they're so bloody small.  what i'd love is a portable .mp3 player
that reads cd's.  ~600MB of .mp3 files will give me *hours* of continuous
music at a reasonable (for me) quality.

-Steven[1]

[1]who's got somewhere around 4GB[2] of his legally-purchased music on-line
for continuous, customized, personal use

[2]and more every day - love those cheap big disks.



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  Re: Ripping Vinyl to Digital
 
(...) It's been done. :) A company calling itself Pine is coming out with a critter they're naming the D'Music SM-200C, which can read MP3 audio from a CD. I've not checked it out further, but the information I've got lists their website as (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Keep in mind thought that MD's use ATRAC compression, which is a bit lossy. Most people won't notice any serious difference with most music, but some diehard audiophiles (the kind who'll spend $2K on an amplifier kit using vacuum tubes) have a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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