Okay fine and I appreciate you looking this up in Wikipedia however not
everything on Wikipedia is accurate, I know someone else who is well informed
on this topic and - whilst I'm not disputing the standard used at all - I'm
curious to know where Motorolla comes into the picture in Australia, I
Hi Dane,
>From Wikipedia:
C-QUAM is the method of AM stereo broadcasting used in Canada, the United
States and most other countries. It was invented in 1977
by Norman Parker, Francis Hilbert and Yoshio Sakaie, and published in an IEEE
journal.
Using circuitry developed by Motorola, C-QUAM use
Now a question for you, is this the Motoroller standard? If so then yes, that's
the main one used in Australia.
On 6 Apr 2014, at 12:41 pm, Barry Chapman wrote:
> Yes, Australia used the C-QUAM standard for AM stereo.
>
> Barry Chapman
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Gary Schindle
That wasn't always the case, there was a battle in court at some point there
over what method was to be used, Sony was one of those company's that was
absolutely sick and tired of the whole "Method" argument so they made their own
systems whereby the user could either "Switch" methods depending
Yes, Australia used the C-QUAM standard for AM stereo.
Barry Chapman
- Original Message -
From: "Gary Schindler"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Stereo AM
Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system that was adopted in
th
Maybe the Melbourne station used SeQuam like the system that was adopted in
the states. Stereo separation was pretty decent and most of the big gun
radio stations in Pittsburgh broadcast in stereo 24 7. by the late 90's
stereo AM went buy the wayside like HD AM is pretty much done around here
n
I think I know the Sony Walkman Stereo AM Walkman you're referring to, its
easily identifiable by the very large band switch on the face of the radio, I
used to call that Walkman the "Biscuit Radio" as the band switch reminded me of
a chocolate biscuit/cookie .
The radio was okay though I thoug
I wasn't specifically referring to Bluetooth headsets here, the devices I spoke
of don't use Bluetooth and I can walk from one end of the house to the other
using these headsets.
I'm not sure about the Plantronics but the Logitech uses part of the 2.4GHZ
band and no! I've not seen any interfere
Well, other than Winamp, the only other ripper I tried was CDex. I've heard
that it uses Gracenotes as Winamp does, but it didn't tag up my files as
well as Winamp did.
Evan
- Original Message -
From: "Tom Kaufman"
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'"
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 4:42
Hello Evan and list: So are there any advantages with ripping with Winamp,
as opposed to other CD rippers such as Cdex, WMP and MP3 Ripper? BTW-I
installed MP3 Ripper a little while ago, but don't see how to make it give
title and artist and such! Besides, it still wouldn't rip the cut on the C
Someone please correct me if I am wrong about any of the following, but the
Pro version costs $20, and as far as I know the only benefits are that you
get unlimited ripping speed and mp3 ripping capability. If there are any
other benefits, I don't know about them.
Evan
- Original Message -
I had a Carver TX11 tuner that received AM stereo and also a Sony pocket
portable that did. There is no doubt that the current HD system on AM is
quieter and better sounding, but one has to have such a
perfect signal that I find it pretty annoying. In addition, stations that use
HD on AM have
Dane,
Are these actual RF or Bluetooth? I know that technically Bluetooth is RF, but
I looked for some of the older type of RF headphones a year or so ago that have
greater range than Bluetooth or similar types and
found it is getting harder to tell what one is getting when one reads the
pack
That's very surprising. Will save my $99 then. Thanks for this info.
At 01:31 PM 4/5/2014, you wrote:
The Verge did a review of the Fire TV from a general
perspective. From what I've read, the Voice Search feature works
wonderfully, but there's no auditory read out of the results i.e.
you'll
How much does the "pro" version of Winamp cost? And what other perks do you
get with the "pro" version of Winamp that you don't get with the "free"
version?
Tom Kaufman
-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter
Scanlon
Sent: Saturday, Apri
The Verge did a review of the Fire TV from a general perspective. From what
I've read, the Voice Search feature works wonderfully, but there's no
auditory read out of the results i.e. you'll need to know the title of the
movie for which you're looking. Music search is not yet available, but is
Hi Dane,
Thanks for that information. I didn't know that there was stereo am.
Could you please post the direct link because all I found via google was a
guy introducing a stereo am tuner, announcing that he would play it and then
stopping after a quite boring show of unwrapping the thing:
http://
Yes, and it costs very little.e.
-Original Message-
From: Tom Kaufman
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:51 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: CD Data And Information
I've never ripped CDs with Winamp! But don't you have to have the "pro"
version to do this anyway?
Tom Kaufma
Yes, I agree winamp is good and it uses Gracenote.
-Original Message-
From: Evan Reese
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 2:21 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: CD Data And Information
Most of the CDs I've ripped with Winamp are not ones you can find in
mainstream stores, but Win
Yep, that's how I used to do it back in the 80s, was a Teenager then and had no
buying power ., its a crewed way of doing it but it did work to an
extent.
Of course, that procedure you outlined very much depended on the method of
broadcasting Stereo AM.
On 6 Apr 2014, at 2:58 am, Evan Reese
In the 90s. WSM (Nashville, Tennessee) was in AM stereo; we had an AM stereo
system in the car (a Lincoln Town Car) I remember riding home from a gig and
would have the Grand Ole Opry on one night; if the station would come in
just right, the "stereo" would kick in; it sounded great! But my first
Right you are, but it's much better than FreeCDDB.
-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 10:10 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD
One could argue that Gracenote i
Back in the 80s when I was visiting my parents in California, there was a
stero AM station. But I didn't have any stereo AM receivers. But I did have
two portable radios. I discovered that if you tuned them just right, you
could get the stereo sound.
Evan
- Original Message -
From: "D
Hello,
I'm curious if anyone here knows if the new amazon Fire TV set top
box has any voice capability built in? Hoping Amazon incorporated
some of the voice features of the Kindle Fire into this new device.
I love my Apple TV box mainly for it has the Voice Over accessibility option.
I do h
Back to the glory days of radio .
Actually we do have one radio station in Australia to my knowledge that does
broadcast in AM Stereo to this day and that's 2CA Canberra, Here's a recording
I found on Youtube of a station in the U.S. though I'm not sure when the
content was actually aired, quit
Okay then; thanks, for my purposes, if I were to use Winamp as my CD Ripper,
I would need the pro version! Thanks for the info!
Tom Kaufman
-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan
Reese
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:17 PM
To: PC Audio
You don't have to have the Pro version to rip CDs, but there are some
restrictions. First, you can't rip to mp3, but you can rip to m4a, and some
other formats which I forget because I bought the Pro version a while back.
Second, the free version only lets you rip at 8x, whereas the Pro version
I've never ripped CDs with Winamp! But don't you have to have the "pro"
version to do this anyway?
Tom Kaufman
-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Evan
Reese
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 11:21 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re:
Most of the CDs I've ripped with Winamp are not ones you can find in
mainstream stores, but Winamp was able to find the info for them. Gracenotes
seems to know almost everything I throw at it, even obscure limited edition
electronic music CDs. It's very seldom it doesn't know what a CD is, and I
This unit is a set of headphones, and not a headset. There is no microphone.
earlier, john s, wrote:
John, I have this headset and like it. I wouldn't call it small but
it is light weight. We live in a house with aluminum siding and I
still get good reception, outside.
earlier, John Chile
The one you speak so highly of yourself, Exact Audio Copy.
On 5 Apr 2014, at 10:16 pm, Peter Scanlon wrote:
> They are orignals, but sold by bands at gigs or on sites.
> Which ripping program do you recommend for accuracy?
>
>
> -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan
> Sent: Saturday
They are orignals, but sold by bands at gigs or on sites.
Which ripping program do you recommend for accuracy?
-Original Message-
From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 9:46 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: CD Data And Information
Unless they're not original C
John, I have this headset and like it. I wouldn't call it small but
it is light weight. We live in a house with aluminum siding and I
still get good reception, outside.
earlier, John Chilelli, wrote:
Hi all,
I need a decent but smallish, lightweight, over the ear RF headset
for my reading.
Unless they're not original CD'S and have come from somewhere else in the form
of copies, that's why its important to have CD Ripping software that does
accurate copying, the CD should have a barcode on the back which you can read
with your scanner which in tern will bring up the information.
I
I think the reason I find that some of my CDs don't get found in the CD
Databases is that they are not usually things available in mainstream retail
stors.
-Original Message-
From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:53 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: CD Dat
Yep, I use my iPhone but there's no reason why you can't use something else,
I'm sure Barcode Reading pacages are available for Windows too.
On 5 Apr 2014, at 7:21 pm, Peter Scanlon wrote:
> can you explain that. How do you mena you look up the bar code? Do you use a
> device to do that?
>
>
can you explain that. How do you mena you look up the bar code? Do you use a
device to do that?
-Original Message-
From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 7:12 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: CD Data And Information
Sorry, forgot to mention in my last message ho
-Original Message-
From: Dane Trethowan
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 6:35 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Problem Ripping A CD
Gracenote is past history mate, there are other database services for CD
organisation around which do a better job.
Once upon a not so long
Sorry, forgot to mention in my last message how I get CD information, I just
look up the barcode on the back of the CD, from that I get the information and
I can manipulate as required, enter it into Music Brains or any other database,
enter it into my Ripper directly etc.
On 5 Apr 2014, at 7:0
One could argue that Gracenote is better than nothing, problems occur when
wrong information is entered say the artist or title of a track is spelt
wrongly, album name entered wrongly and so on and this happens all too readily
I'm afraid.
On 5 Apr 2014, at 7:04 pm, Alexandra Grünauer wrote:
>
Gracenote is still quite good, though, but thanks, Dane, for the hint. I'll
check out Music Brains.
Take care,
Alexandra
-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
Trethowan
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 9:35 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Ah! remembered the name of the Plantronics Wireless headset I have, the
Plantronics Audio 495.
On 5 Apr 2014, at 6:40 pm, Dane Trethowan wrote:
> Okay so what's the headset going to be used for, are you using it with a
> computer and something like Skype or will you be using it with a radio or
Okay so what's the headset going to be used for, are you using it with a
computer and something like Skype or will you be using it with a radio or
something else.
If looking for a Wireless Headset for your computer then the Logitech H600 is
worth a look, their's a nice Plantronics model which I
Gracenote is past history mate, there are other database services for CD
organisation around which do a better job.
Once upon a not so long ago, Gracenote was good because every CD entry made
into the database was checked but the Gracenote database wasn't free to use
like it is now thus no chec
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