Re: tlug: Audio ripping/MP3

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "wile y" == Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com> writes:

    wile y> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:
    >> I'm recording my lectures on MD, and would like to move those
    >> to MP3 and store them in that format on CD.

    wile y> AFAIK you can't access the MD's digital bit.  This is an
    wile y> anti-piracy measure ... Sony didn't want people to be able

Sigh.

                   "Gone for monopolists, ev'ry one
                    Oh, when will they ever learn
                    Oh, when will they ever learn."

    wile y> to make perfect duplicates from an MD recording.  This is
    wile y> why recorders have a digital optical in jack, but no out
    wile y> jack.

Well, I got the distinct impression[1] that my Sharp portable MD's
digital/optical is two way, but that it's output in such a way that
you can't chain in digital; copies of the copy can (supposedly) only
be made via analog.  An acquaintance of mine told me that he acquired
one of the first portable MD recorders, and the instructions for the
copy-protect workaround were on the net 3 days later.  (No, he didn't
do the reverse-engineering himself, he's pretty good with a soldering
iron but I don't think his analytical training is up to that.)

Naturally, I declined his polite offer to build me one for cost of
parts (about 1500 yen in the nice box ;-).



Footnotes:
[1]  OTOH, the instruction booklet is in Japanese and not to hand at
the moment, and the advertising is deliberately obfuscated beyond
normal Japanese ambiguity (though not to the level of political
discourse), I could very easily be wrong.

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