skyther

DivX/XviD are more or less codecs used by end users to rip and encode existing material; from a commercial standpoint it's nowhere near as widely used as H.26x which does provide noticably better quality at equal bitrates, and most players will decode both AAC and MP3 tracks used in either container formats. At higher bitrates there isn't much of a difference between MP3 and AAC, but for low bitrates ~64k-128k the difference is as clear as night and day, which is particularly useful if you're after decent quality stereo audio for rips to share on the Internet or for use on mobile devices, for eg. At the moment MP3 is still by far more popular due to the fact that it already has an established presence among users and the devices that support the format can be found just about anywhere, but in the long run I dare say AAC will more than likely take over. DivX/XviD are more or less codecs used by end users to rip and encode existing material; from a commercial standpoint it's nowhere near as widely used as H.26x which does provide noticably better quality at equal bitrates, and most players will decode both AAC and MP3 tracks used in either container formats. At higher bitrates

Heh it's cool, just thought that looked familiar. Someone gave me an R50 last year, it's in pretty good condition 'cept the battery's on it's last legs and I don't use it much at all heh.

Technically yes, but in a related issue there are slight audible differences between grades and brands of CD-Rs used which seem to imply that error correction and hence interpolation play a much bigger role in transports so I'd be tempted to say there might possibly be a minute difference between normal MDs and Hi-MDs, not that I have done proper comparisons between the two.

Guitarfxr... i swear that was my old avatar i made 4 years ago There are much better options for recording other than iPods... o.O

Bwahahaha, I recently killed my CPU. RIP s939 Venice 3000+ I took off the IHS some time last year and the CPU ran fine until I decided to give it a good rebuild, and while slapping back on the ol' Thermalright I cracked the core by accident. Tried to glue the IHS back and tried to RMA it but they found out ROFL. No dramas though, thanks to AM2 a replacement Venice will set me back like AUD120 which is basically stuff all.

Hmmmm.. sup guys What ad are y'all talking about? Anyway, where's Chris nowadays?

So now everyone's jumping on the Squeezebox/Soundbridge/AirTunes+AE bandwagon eh?

Shhhhh.

Been a while since I bought anything audio related.

Shouldn't this be in 'phones?

This is evolution at work. Thou shalt not interfere. It's not the end, there'll be something else that utilizes minature rewritable optical media soon enough. As long as there's demand and it's profitable enough for someone to make it, it will happen. Sure it won't be called Minidisc, but who cares? MD is old technology, it'll be phased out sooner or later if not now. I bet none of you would buy a car with a design that dates back to 15 years, would you?

I think those times are for playback via the stand speakers.

Joined this sad place (now run by a dork by the name of kurisu =P) when MD.org forums first started, but somehow my first account here got lost through all the transitions.

What does any of this have to do with the context of the thread? We're talking about a BUG, which is completely different from something that was intentionally left out. This is a genuine screwup that Sony made. Obviously if they made an effort to beta-test their products before releasing it into the market we wouldn't be having this problem. So people are paying 300 bucks to be Sony's guinea pigs, how about that? What if I'm recording a bootleg and I want to title the tracks before I forget the names? Having a alphabet set that's missing M N O wouldn't be very convenient, would it?

1280x800 widescreen.