Re: [linux-minidisc] implementing netmd support in the gui application

[Thomas Arp <manner.moe@gmx.de>]

Am 05.12.2012 22:36, schrieb Máximo Chicano Díaz:
> Hi Thomas,
Hi Máximo
> I would like to collaborate, but I don't know anything about
> programming :S Maybe I could do tests with my md-units?
People who wants to test our software and give response how it works are 
welcome to our community.

> And I have a couple of questions. When you do this implementation,
I think this will take some weeks, it is a lot of work and needs a lot 
of rearrangement in our source code.
All changes we make have to be tested before they will be committed to 
the main repository.
All i will do ist to implement the already tested transfer routines from 
our command line tool netmdcli. So, please test our command line tool first.
If it doesn't support what you expect the changes to our gui application 
will not support it, too.
> will we be able to transfer atrac songs to Md?
At this time only .wav files are supported for transferring to the md 
unit, atrac files have to be converted first.
This is a hardware limitation of minidisc devices, the md unit itself 
encodes them to atrac format, but this is the same transferring method 
sonicstage uses.
I think Michael can give more information.

>   And, if so, will be
> able to make trackmarks?I mean, I can do them in any track I record,
> but not in one I transfer using sonicstage, and I don't know if this
> is a limitation in hardware or just on sonicstage.
I think this is a limitation of the DRM system in Sony's atrac format. 
Tracks transferred via sonicstage are copyright protected.
So, editing these tracks are not allowed. If you convert them into .wav 
format first, and then using our software for transferring them to the 
md unit, it should be able to set trackmarks then. I didn't test this, 
if you want to do these tests, do them and please give response to us if 
it works or not. .
> Well, if I can do anything, just say it.
>
> TaliesinTaliesinbardwolf.
>
> "Un palmo de buen acero iguala al más alto noble con el más humilde siervo".
>
> El 05/12/2012, a las 17:24, Thomas Arp <manner.moe@gmx.de> escribió:
>
> > Hi,
> > i start working on the implementation of the the netmd protocol in our qhimdtransfer gui application.
> > If anyone else is still working on it, has any questions or suggestions, wants to help or anything else, please contact me.
> > It doesn´t make sense if many people are doing the same work independently of each other.
> >
> > Thomas
> >
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