Nightfall
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Re: Ridiculous
They aren't afraid of tape recorders. They are afraid of the direct inputs to the digital radio. XM Satellite Radio has a system you can hook to your PC. If you know where to look, you can purchase a output and go directly to your computer where you can record hours of digial quality music straight to your PC. I know some people who do this and use a music editing program to take the music they want and save it to mp3s.
Quite a nice little system I might add. 
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Steve
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They aren't afraid of tape recorders.
Isn't that what I said?
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Sonoma, CA | They were 20 years ago remember tape recorders were going to ruin the industry.... Cause the music execs to go on welfare.
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Captain_Avat
join:2001-09-06
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| "They were 20 years ago remember tape recorders were going to ruin the industry.... "
Try 35 years ago! I remember back in the 70's that the recording industry would strong-arm FM stations into not playing whole album sides to prevent people from taping their broadcast. Rumor had it that they pushed the whole talking over the intro and song endings too to foil any "bootleggers".(But I think that started back in the 50's). Back then FM, especially FM stereo was a real boon to music broadcasts. That along with ever improving recording technology more than made up for some of the loss in quality when taping. Not to mention while the audio quality of the music was pretty good most people had cheap tape players that masked most of the defects. |
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LordMalak
join:2003-07-02
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| said by Captain_Avat :
"They were 20 years ago remember tape recorders were going to ruin the industry.... "
Try 35 years ago! I remember back in the 70's that the recording industry would strong-arm FM stations into not playing whole album sides to prevent people from taping their broadcast. Rumor had it that they pushed the whole talking over the intro and song endings too to foil any "bootleggers".(But I think that started back in the 50's). Back then FM, especially FM stereo was a real boon to music broadcasts. That along with ever improving recording technology more than made up for some of the loss in quality when taping. Not to mention while the audio quality of the music was pretty good most people had cheap tape players that masked most of the defects.
Even if you use top notch professional analog recording gear, there's STILL loss of data, especially if you want to make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy... you get the idea. If properly encoded, a 10th generation MP3 copy will be truly identical to the original.
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P Ness
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said by Nightfall :
They aren't afraid of tape recorders. They are afraid of the direct inputs to the digital radio. XM Satellite Radio has a system you can hook to your PC. If you know where to look, you can purchase a output and go directly to your computer where you can record hours of digial quality music straight to your PC. I know some people who do this and use a music editing program to take the music they want and save it to mp3s.
Quite a nice little system I might add.
But the quality is no where near CD.....they cut down after 14k and its about 64k-86k tops....So i would not call this near digital quality
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Nightfall
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| said by P Ness :
said by Nightfall :
They aren't afraid of tape recorders. They are afraid of the direct inputs to the digital radio. XM Satellite Radio has a system you can hook to your PC. If you know where to look, you can purchase a output and go directly to your computer where you can record hours of digial quality music straight to your PC. I know some people who do this and use a music editing program to take the music they want and save it to mp3s.
Quite a nice little system I might add.
But the quality is no where near CD.....they cut down after 14k and its about 64k-86k tops....So i would not call this near digital quality
XM Satellite Radio broadcasts in 128k quality. That is the quality you get when you record straight to your PC using the PC XM setup. I don't know what other digital radio stations will be using, but I know XM.
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PliotronX
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Such is the nature of analog, true. However, there is generational loss with transcoding lossy-compressed content. When digital can be copied bit for bit it's the same as the original lossy-compressed content, but who are they kidding calling satellite radio CD-quality? I'd hate to hear what they call cassette quality. |
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