Re: [linux-minidisc] Project status

[Enrique Medina Gremaldos <quiqueiii@gmail.com>]

Hi!

My limited time. But I'm working on it.

Yeah, I guess I cannot help you there. I'll take a look at issues, maybe there is something I can help on.

PS: I've just seen this https://github.com/dcherednik/atracdenc

Enrique M.G.

El lun., 1 jun. 2020 a las 10:10, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>) escribió:

Hello!

On 6/1/20 1:19 AM, Enrique Medina Gremaldos wrote:
> Hi, I have been offline from minidisc news a couple of years. Now I have
> seen a small revival (Did I miss something important?) with minidiscday and
> reddit threads. So.. I decided to take a look at current project status.

One important change is that we have a Github project now:

> https://github.com/linux-minidisc

> Netmd is unable to download SP tracks yet. I did some PR back in the day
> triying to fix it but I havent had time to complete (mainly because I am
> not a usb guru). It seems there is an incoming PR from vueri that looks
> promising.

Merging the NetMD fixes is work-in-progress. The original author of these,
Thomas Arp, is currently not active in software development as he is busy
with other things in his personal life.

I have picked up his changes and I'm almost done cleaning them up. I will
try to get this done the following days. I was too busy with Debian stuff.

> I find this project critical for minidisc fans, because is the only open,
> portable and maintained software nowadays.

I agree.

> Sorry for the chat, lets go faster with direct questions.
>
> - Is this list the only communication mechanism the project have?

Yes.

> - What is currently blocking netmd to download wav/pcm tracks?

My limited time. But I'm working on it.

> - Back in the day, there was no way to encode a song with ATRAC using free
> software. Have this changed?

Not that I know of.

Adrian

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