--Boundary-02=_FCfw+XmLLUDmAV9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline Hi, this is my first posting to this list; I'm a professional musician=20 (organist) and avid Linux user from the Netherlands. I want to make good quality recordings with lightweight equipment and to=20 further process the recordings on my Linux desktop PC. Currently I own a DCC recorder, but there are no DCC tapes available=20 anymore. I have some tapes, but they are starting to show problems. So I'm in the market for some new equipment. I researched quite a lot and=20 I think there are the following possiblities: 1. Minidisc recording. consumer minidisc recorders are very compact which is good. But they=20 almost never have a digital out. Some have USB, but will not function as=20 an USB-Audio device under Linux (AFAIK, all use the proprietairy NetMD=20 protocol, which is partially reverse engineered, see:=20 http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/freemd.en.html). so to use most consumer market MD recorders it looks like I have to have a= =20 good audio interface to record the sound from MD to my PC (and still have=20 it D->A and A->D converted in the process.) A professional MD recorder which looks very good (the HHB PORTADISC=20 MDP500, see: http://www.hhb.co.uk/000/int.htm) has an USB interface that=20 if I understand correctly just manifests itself as an usb audio device=20 under Windows, and should thus also work with ALSA (?) so with that recorder I could once record the sound and futher process it=20 fully digitally. The price is around EUR 1600,=3D which is quite a lot. My= =20 main concern would be the availability of MD's. 2. Harddisk/flashcard/cd-rw recorders. It seems these are very expensive now. 3. A laptop with a good (external?) audio interface (M-audio USB?) Just Linux on it and arecord -f cd full_concert.wav :-) My question is: What equipment do other people use? Would the HHB MDP500= =20 be a good choice? Will MD stay for another decade? I think it is=20 important that open standards are used (I feel more confident with usb=20 audio than e.g. NetMD) thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts :) regards, Wilbert Berendsen =2D-=20 Wilbert Berendsen (http://www.xs4all.nl/~wbsoft/) "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandi --Boundary-02=_FCfw+XmLLUDmAV9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+wfCFx+vk367Vl7wRAuWAAJ9C76yCmVE4IzluWFaKxsu9swM7owCfWMg6 hKW9ssLmfxrex83VjEIbugw= =i+Vj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_FCfw+XmLLUDmAV9--
