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are you from austin? i saw you on amn the other
night and really enjoyed your fripesq compositions. very cool. i live here in
austin and perform often. i do a 'looping extravaganza show' where i loop my
vocals and guitar through a rang. it's pretty neat. i will be playing at ruta
maya this sunday during sxsw from noon to 2pm. it is a free show case. if you
can, come by and say hi.
peace
jimmy george
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:17
AM
Subject: Re: MD Issues contd.
Oh, I don't know about that. I believe MD's only hold
140MB of data, which would translate to about fourteen minutes of CD-quality
stereo soun, so there's no way it was going to be the threat to CD sales that
CD-R's and mp3 later became. I think it's more likely that
MD was conceived as a replacement for cassettes with most of the features
people enjoyed from CDs rather than a compression scheme was added in to keep
the RIAA out of the poorhouse.
I do remember a story that the
initial length of CDs was based upon what it would take to fit Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony [sometimes regarded as the greatest piece of music ever] on one
disk.
TH
From:
Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com
Reply-To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001
10:50:35 -0500
To:
Loopers-Delight-d@loopers-delight.com
Subject:
Loopers-Delight-d Digest V01 #152
Isn't it possible
that the same old "they'll steal from us!" credo was put
into effect,
such that perhaps if the unit was capable of only recording 68
minutes,
but had CD-quality sound, it wouldn't be allowed into the
US
(according to all-too-familiar RIAA scare tactics used in the past
on every
other recording medium introduced since the Compact Cassette)?
Perhaps Sony
blanched and actually believed their paranoid
rantings, not thinking that
anyone in the US would jump
to their defence.
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