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Re: [ARSCLIST] Non-real time minidisc ripping
At 01:18 PM 2007-05-18, Jim Sam wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone have experience with non-real time ripping of
minidiscs? Standard MDs mostly; not so much HiMD. We're getting a
ton of minidiscs in soon, and I've been looking into the subject.
On a more micro level, I know that at least one company makes a
product to accomplish this, MD Studio:
http://www.esdl.co.uk/body/mdte/mdte.htm. I'm not so much worried
with the theory of ripping MDs as in practice. Has anyone seen
and/or worked with one of these? If so, any thoughts you could
share on how well it works? Importantly, does anyone know of
another product designed to rip MDs that doesn't involve real-time
playing? At this stage, I'm more worried about the efficiency of
systems than budget.
Hello, Jim,
I have sent several people -- and received only one feedback (and it
was positive) -- to the ESDL folks in the UK.
As far as I know, their system is the only one that will no
data-based ripping of minidiscs. Depending on how many you have,
however, building up a few digitization stations with inexpensive
SPDIF inputs and MD players with SPDIF outputs could get the job done
quickly. I would look at multiple workstations rather than a single
multi-channel workstation due to the difficulty of synchronizing the
clocks on the MD players.
Of course, making up a half dozen MD workstations would cost as much
or more than the ESDL package. On the other hand, the ESDL package
relies on an out-of-production (as I understand it) MD drive from
Sony. ESDL refurbs and modifies the drive and sells it as part of the
package (again as I currently understand what they are doing).
Even if you only set up one MD chain separate from your main
digitization chain, the real-time ingest could be done as a
background task in your main lab. That is how I do it, actually.
If you did two MDs per day as background, you could do 500 per year
with no real increase in workload.
How many do you have and I hope you've stopped making new ones.
Substitute compact-flash recorders for the MD recorders if the people
are still generating MDs. I think everyone will be happy you did. I
think you can pay for the CD recorders out of the labour savings <smile>!
Cheers,
Richard
Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
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