Royle Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Preferable one that will work under linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananatree Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Sony has it's code locked up extremely tight. Which may explain why the software acts like it does. I have seen some progress with the Mac end of NetMD, however I don't belive anyone is trying to do anything with porting Sonicstage to anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 You won't see this realised until one of the following happens: * Someone decides to risk the legal wrath of one of the world's biggest corporations, reverse-engineers their protocols/encryption, and releases the results as either public domain, GPL'd open source, freeware, or shareware * Someone liscenses the necessary software components and/or protocol and encryption info from Sony [which would cost money] and then releases the resulting software as above [which would incur a rather large loss on their part] * Sony decides out of the goodness of their hearts to publicly release enough information on how their protocols/encryption/codecs etc. work that someone can put together an alternative, released same as above Basically, the only chance I see of there being a free alternative to SS is if someone does the first option, which would surely land them in court for patent/copyright infringement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 You are forgetting a fourth possibility: Linux gains enough marketshare to break the Microsoft monopoly on the desktop. Let's see how many antitrust lawsuits are necessary to achieve this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 The only thing you can employ at the moment is a device like the Xitel DG2, which can only transfer in real-time. You employ this with the appropriate drivers and have success. You could also try vmware with Simple Burner, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwakrz Posted October 23, 2004 Report Share Posted October 23, 2004 VMware works with Hi-MD to a point. It cannot gain exclusive access to your CD drive and on my system it can only just read at 0.1x speed (yes 10 times slower than real time). I have not tried it with a USB drive connected directly into VMware, VMware can only see one USB device at a time however so Simple Burner will not work with a USB CD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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