Date:         Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:51:24 -0700
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Subject:      Re: Storing Mini-Discs
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Too True!

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
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On Oct 13, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Tom Fine wrote:

> MD's got a big strike against it: the proprietary perceptual encoding. 
> So
> only MD equipment can read and decode it. How many MD players have been
> built and sold and how many will be around in 50 years, and of those, 
> how
> many will work?
>
> Newest version of MD will record WAV files, which is a Good Thing but I
> think the data pack is tighter. I'd never archive to a format that 
> needs
> both hardware and decoding software to play it and is obscure enough 
> that
> the players are far from ubiquitous in their heyday.
>
> One man's opinion, YMMV, etc.
>