>> I am not
>> impressed. Xitel today offers no advantage over an analog connection
>
>No D/A and A/D I would've thought......
This is a false pseudo-advantage. My analog-connected tests between my
portable and home deck proved that lossy compression is vastly more important
than A/D and D/A conversion, with my gear. After 5 generations of copies, all
the problems were due to lossy compression, not the analog connection.
>>(plus
>> the trackmarks malfunction sometimes). You are too forgiving -- have you
>> tried to trade 30 albums at a time on MD versus MP3 -- when including
>titles?
>> Titling is one of the biggest glaring flaws of MD versus MP3.
>
>With a keyboard connected to my deck, I find this a no-brainer, and just as
>fast as titling MP3's (and a lot faster than titling them after they have
>been encoded)
Your "solution" is irrelevant for the many people without a keyboard input for
their deck. My MD home deck is typical in that it has no keyboard input. All
MP3 computers inherently have keyboard input *and* full CDDB utilization,
which I mentioned but you conveniently neglected to acknowledge.
WHAT ABOUT CDDB? Your MD keyboarding solution can't take advantage of it.
You have to type titles yet again for every copy of the MD you produce. I
don't even have to type the titles 1 time, when trading 10 copies of an album,
if the titles are in CDDB.
>> MD does titling in the most stupid, boneheaded, manual, tedious,
>> time-consuming way possible.
>
>No, portables do it in the most time consuming way, but even that is a
>no-brainer thanks to the mironics interface (www.mironics.com)
If you are fortunate enough to have that nonstandard benefit of micronics, so
have an MD system that goes beyond the standard set of MD features, this is
still too much unnecessary trouble to be called "no-brainer" -- all this
repeated typing may be easier than with classic MD systems, but it's still
more trouble than MP3, which simply automatically preserves ID3 info across
copies, and utilizes CDDB too so you don't have to type anything, at all.
>>MP3 titling is a godsend and puts MD titling to
>> shame. I found that it was easier to trade 30 titled MP3 albums (on CD-R)
>in
>> one shot than to trade just 5 titled albums on MD.
>
>Did you really, well, isn't that what confirms everything, how easy YOU
>found it.....
Not just me; I'm talking about everyone who uses CDDB, copies MP3s, and
produces titled MDs without the benefit of your solution which goes beyond the
classic inherent MD features. Automatic titling is inherent in MP3 but not in
MD.
>You blame md's mistakes on what one portable can do
No, I'm speaking about my home MD deck as well. You act like all home MD
decks have always had keyboard input. Most do not, so your "solution" is not
usable for most MD deck owners and MD portable owners.
>, yet I have yet to see a
>valid point that applies to ALL minidisc hardware, thus turning your
>argument not into MD inferior to MP3, but MZ-R900 to Computer, defeating the
>whole purpose in the first place.
>
>Sorry if someone has already said all this, but it needed to be said.
MD home decks that lack keyboard input are inferior to MP3s as far as titling.
I no longer bother titling MDs at all -- it's too damned hard, tedious, and
time-consuming, on my home MD deck (Sony name-brand) as well as my MD
portable.
-- Michael Hoffman
http://www.amptone.com/audio
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