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  3. What Are You Listening To Right Now?

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    20 hours ago, Ternaugh said:

     

    Techmoan's video hit my queue this morning, which is where I got the information about the alternate codecs for LP2 and LP4 with Web MiniDisc Pro. That led me to the manual page for it, where I discovered how to add groups. It works great with my MZ-N505 recorders, but I can't get Web MiniDisc Pro to see any of my HiMD units. I'd love to get one of them working, to be able to try that upload feature (my MZ-M100 should be able to upload like Techmoan's RH1, if I could get it to be seen by the software).

     

     

    Drat, and I don't own a Hi-MD device to test that out.  Web MiniDisc Pro should be able to see Hi-MD devices if those devices are in standard mode.  Sony's "newest" Windows driver for the MZ-M100 was released in 2007, and was aimed at Windows Vista.  Someone built a 64-bit driver for Hi-MD devices, but from what I've read it seems to be hit-or-miss, and the MZ-M100 isn't listed as a 'supported' device.  Though there are people in the comments who have mentioned the driver working with devices that aren't in the list.

     

    "Mr. Roboto" - Styx Icon - Audio CD - 2010 A&M Records:

     

  4. What Are You Listening To Right Now?

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    On 9/23/2022 at 5:26 PM, Ternaugh said:

    "The Secret" by Alan Parsons, from the album, From the New World (48kHz/24-bit FLAC file converted to ATRAC LP2 onto MD)

    Followed by: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Alan Parsons, from the album, The Secret (96kHz/24-bit FLAC file converted to ATRAC LP2 onto MD), both to test Web MiniDisc conversions. 

    So far, so good.

     

     

     

    I've just learned there are more options for working with NetMD devices, including Web MiniDisc Pro, which has a number of new features.
     

     

  5. What Are You Listening To Right Now?

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    1 hour ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

    Those two men Have held such burning, unquenchable hatred between them it's a wonder they could record a note, or that they didn't have backstage fisticuffs after each show.

    More success as a duo than in solo careers helped keep things going, I think.  Looking at the "Years Active" sidebar on Wikipedia helps illustrate that:
        
    1956–1958, 1963–1970, 1972, 1975–1977, 1981–1984, 1990, 1993, 2003–2005, and 2007–2010

     

    A great deal of amazing work has come out of stormy partnerships.

  7. Calling all lawyers--Supers and unique legal issues

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    For a game reference that's a bit long-in-the-tooth:  "The Superhero and the Legal System" - Adventurers Club - Issue # 12 - pp. 8–22 - Summer 1988

     

    It covered (briefly):

    • Precedent
    • Legal Sanction
      • Private Citizen
      • Vigilante
      • Special Deputy
    • The Legal Process
      • Determination of a Crime
      • Investigation
      • Arrest
      • Booking
      • Initial Appearance
      • Preliminary Hearing
      • Grand Jury or Information
      • Arraignment
      • Trial
        • Subpoena
        • Jury Duty
        • Testimony
        • Resolution
      • Sentencing
    • The Law and Secret IDs
      • Losing the Secret ID
      • Masks and Code-Names
      • Proving Identity
    • Special Problems
      • Liability
      • Heroes Using the Legal System
      • Disadvantages

     

     

  8. What Are You Listening To Right Now?

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    "The Hitchhiker" - The Mercury Summer Theater - 1946-06-21 - The 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century - CD version - Disc 16 Track 1

    This story appeared later on television (as "The Hitch-Hiker") as episode 16 from season one of The Twilight Zone (1960-01-22), and later still (again using "The Hitch-Hiker" title) as episode six in volume six of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas (early 2000's).

     

     

     

  16. What Are You Listening To Right Now?

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    On 9/23/2022 at 10:53 AM, Ternaugh said:

    New day, new experiment. Using Zadig + Web MiniDisc on my gaming rig, with an MZ-N505 worked. I don't think the driver that Zadig uses is fully compatible with Hi-MD, or it didn't like something on the old system. It handled FLAC to ATRAC LP2 conversion beautifully, and saves me the trouble of converting to an intermediate format. I had a brief hiccup trying to send additional tracks, but stopping and disconnecting/reconnecting the player fixed it (errors like this sometimes happened with the original software, so no big deal).

     

    Now playing "Dogs of War" by Pink Floyd, from the album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Updated and Remixed), from MiniDisc. 

     

    Ah, good, I'm glad you got that to work.  One major advantage of Web MiniDisc for me (and I have the App version installed on this machine) is editing track names.  So few CDs include CD-Text info these days, and editing on the CD/MD deck is done one character at a time.

     

    "Flirtin' with Disaster" - Molly Hatchet - track 26 (of 76) 70's-themed MiniDisc

     

    And my little battery-time playback rig:

     

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  17. What Are You Listening To Right Now?

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    4 hours ago, Ternaugh said:

     

    I couldn't get Web MiniDisc to read/write the discs correctly, so I went back to the Sony software. It might have been because I was using a HiMD recorder, though.

     

    It should work with HiMD devices, though I don't have one here.  While those pop up at reasonable prices now & then the 1GB discs seem to be rare & expensive.  

     

    If you tried it on the same machine that has the Sony software, that might be why, as it doesn't get along with the drivers recommended by Web MiniDisc.  From the wiki guide:
     

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    Please note that if you use SonicStage on the same PC, you will need to uninstall Zadig to connect your NetMD device to SonicStage(and vice-versa.)

     

    I didn't hit that problem myself since I use Web MiniDisc on a Win10 machine without SonicStage.  (Though I do have SonicStage installed on a WinXP machine.)  I was hoping that Web MiniDisc would work for you, as I've found it to be quite useful.

     

    And just now as I'm typing:
    "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye finished, and "Wild World" - Cat Stevens has started.
    Custom 70's music minidisc, tracks 07 & 08 (of 76)

  18. What Are You Listening To Right Now?

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    4 hours ago, Ternaugh said:

     

    My project last weekend was to see if I could get Sony Connect software to work on a computer running Windows 10 64-bit, so that I could move tracks to minidisc. Sony stopped developing the software sometime in 2006, so there's no Sony-provided drivers for any OS past XP 32-bit.

     

    I stumbled onto this site which made working with NetMD devices much easier under Win10:  Web MiniDisc - Brings NetMD Devices to the Web (brilli.me)  

     

    I have a MZ-NE410 that I bought as NOS (new old stock) and a MXD-D40 CD/MD deck.  I use the deck for pulling tracks from CD and NE410 for pulling files from PC.  The only trouble I've had using LP4 is if the source file from PC isn't decent quality to begin with—those often suffer during the conversion to ATRAC.

     

    The area I live in does 'peak pricing' for electricity from the beginning of June to the end of September during most of my work-from-home day, and being able to connect the NE410 to a self-powered speaker gives me an efficient way to have background audio playing without using more AC power.  (The speaker usually wants charging every other day of heavy use, but I can get at whole work-week out the one rechargeable AA in the NE410.)

     

    And since I'm posting here again:
    "Little Sister" - Concrete Blonde - Custom minidisc track 67 (of 74)

  20. Answers & Questions

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    Re: Answers & Questions

     

    A: Whatever you do' date=' DON'T LOOK BACK![/quote']

     

    (PC Investigator to fellow party member as those few still alive and sane 3.58 minutes into the game session a running away) Q: "Can you believe the Keeper wasn't bluffing about this being a crossover with 'Candyland'!?"

     

    A: Because he ran out of municiple property to throw at us.

  24. What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished?

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    Re: What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished?

     

    Discover's 20 Things You Didn't Know About Everything (2008) - This actually did include somethings I didn't know already, which made it worth its brief read time.

     

    The Encyclopedia of Demons & Deomonology (2009) by Rosemary Ellen Guiley.

     

    The very much misnamed Encyclopedia of the Undead: A Field Guide to the Creatures that Cannot Rest in Peace (2006) by Dr. Bob Curran. The book opens with a chapter on Vampires, which expands into some vampire-like creatures (and ever-present Vlad Tepes and Elizabeth Bathory stories). Chapter two is about werewolves and does not mention (oddly for a book on undead) a bit of folklore that a werewolf was doomed to become a vampire upon their demise. Chapter three is Voodoo and Zombies, and mostly covers famous and infamous past practitioners with a bit tacked on at the end to the effect of "oh yeah, zombies aren't actually dead guys." Chapter four is Ghouls and the Golem, which describes ghouls as more like primeval spirits or demons than undead..., and the golem is a contruct. Chapter five is 'The Terrors of HP Lovecraft', and while he does have some undead-types in various stories (Joseph Curwen and Dr. West's experiments come to mind), that isn't what the fiction was about. Nor is this chapter, really, though it does have some bits of history and folklore about that area of New England that Lovecraft probably knew about. The book essentially ends with Appendix: Miscellaneous Nightmares, briefly covering a few creatures from places other than Europe and the Middle East.

     

    (If I hadn't been reading this volume on a tablet computer, I'd've tossed it across the room a couple of times.)

  25. What Fiction Book (other than Science Fiction or Fantasy) have you recently finished?

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    Re: What Fiction Book (other than Science Fiction or Fantasy) have you recently finis

     

    Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe detective novels: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell My Lovely (1940), The High Window (1942), The Lady in the Lake (1943), The Little Sister (1949), The Long Goodbye (1953), and Playback (1958).

     

    And, if these actually fit into this topic (the first two Shadow pulp novels): The Living Shadow (1931), and Eyes of the Shadow (1931) - oops, haven't actually finished book 002 yet, though.

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