[ILUG-Social] Re: [ILUG] O/T: How can you limit the number of replays on a CD?

[David Neary]

kevin lyda wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 04:02:39PM +0100, Eamonn Shinners wrote:
> > PC. Presumably, as was mentioned already, they come with some form of
> > player / secret file combo.
> 
> so you play it on a windows pc, connect the sound out jack to the sound
> in jack and run recording software on the sound in jack.  mp3 the result.
> mail it to all your friends.
> 
> is there any particular reason why the music industry is so
> clue-deficient?  is there some environmental cause; do amplifiers give
> off some em field that disables rational thought?

I'll admit that I'm not a sound person in general (apart from
having a niceish hifi & liking music), but wouldn't 
      codec        DAC       jack       ADC        codec
format----->digital--->analog---->analog--->digital----->mp3

result in a fairly appreciable amount of signal loss? I suppose
if listening to music with an SNR of under 30 is your thing, fire
ahead... 

Sure, there are ways of getting it into a digital form. But
there's no guarantee that the end result will be worth listening
to :)

Dave.

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       David Neary,
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