steve glencross and sueme on groovetech tonight.

[karitek]

i think between 10pm -12 am GMT...www.groovetech.com

[c s]

cool! i already watched sueme and jason there a few months ago, it's nice to be able not just to listen but also to watch the djs play.

[karitek]

oops...not thinking straight...its on tomorrow nite, same times.

[tsr_robban]

thanx for the tip!
i will listen to this for sure.

[c s]

Originally posted by karitek
oops...not thinking straight...its on tomorrow nite, same times.

yeah i had it running in the background for a while and wondered when this ultra-mild music would stop, well, in the end it didn't stop at all... ;)

[c s]

...anyway i didn't see/hear them yesterday either...

[old skool]

All these mixes and stuff that get played on Groovetech, Radio 1 (Breezeblock etc) and the like... can they be downloaded and burnt onto cd or summat ?

Cos 1. I can't see meself giving it loads sat at my pc when I've spent all day on one and 2. I'm normally in bobies by 22:30 these days !

[Sheridan]

you can record real audio and mp3 sets onto a minidisc player really easy. if you get the ones that have the usb pc connect to them. I have done that a few times.

[c s]

Originally posted by Sheridan
minidisc player really easy. if you get the ones that have the usb pc connect to them

that's interesting, i didn't know there were usb minidisc players. are they expensive? are they dumping the music faster than realtime? can you also store data on md?? that would be cool...

[Mirsha]

Get Total Recorder, a program which directly copies the sound going through your soundcard, to copy stuff in the Real format.

[c s]

actually sbox vcr would be first choice, as recommended previously here.

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by c s


that's interesting, i didn't know there were usb minidisc players. are they expensive? are they dumping the music faster than realtime? can you also store data on md?? that would be cool...

my minidisc that I got cost around $250 I think. I might have gotten it for a bit less. it came with a "pc connect" box. a small grey box that has a usb cord on one side, and on the other is a fiber optic connect. so you simply plug the usb into your computer and into the box. then connect the minidisc to the box via the fiber optic cable which it comes with. as soon as you press play on your mp3 player, real audio, or any other audio player no matter what format and press record on the MD the info is transfered to the MD. the music is dumped in real time and no you can't store actual data on the MD. they aren't designed that way. but they still pose a usefull way to keep your favorite dj sets, etc. from the internet on a compact player. also there is no programs you need to use in order to run it off your computer. it is strictly plug and play. any 4 year old could do it. hope this help.

[c s]

so this "pc connect" box is kind of a sound card to windows, with a sound card driver of its own? i mean at least the box itself cannot grab the audio streaming to my sound card from the outside without software, no? and the digital/optical converter only works in one direction?

it's a shame it can't store data as well - that would be a cool universal solution!

[Sheridan]

well I have never tried it in reverse. but you can easily take the headphone out jack and use a converter to let say rca cables and drop that into your sound card and record what you have on the MD into sound forge, peak, or whatever sound app you have that can record.
I don't think that it was designed to go in a reverse fashion from the pc connect. all the pc connect does is recognize what audio file format you playing on your pc. mp3, real audio, wav, aiff. it recognizes all audio file formats that are used. unless the file format is really new. it may not recognize ogg vorbis but it very well may.
that is why I bought that instead of an mp3 player. because I can put any file on it.
so when you were talking about getting audio that is coming into sound card were you refering to recording music you had made yourself?
it may be able to record what you are playing off sound forge for instance or cubase. I will need to go and look at my manual and see what it says about that.

[c s]

well actually it shouldn't matter if audio is played by some media player program or by a sequencer or by a wave editor i thought. i wondered how "the box" manages to grab that data via usb.

[Sheridan]

that is a good question. I am not 100% in the know regarding the technical side of it. I was looking at the manual to see about it going in reverse like you asked (it doesn't). but all it had in the manual regarding the use of the pc connect is setting it up on your computer. when you plug it in to your comp you do need to go through about 3 steps of placing drivers on your comp. I had forgotten about that as it has been a long time since I used it for that purpose. so the drivers allow the the audio to be sent out via the usb. but one thing it said was you can record using any 'jukebox' application. like winamp, itunes, etc. I think I will try and see if it will record audio out of an audio editing/mixing application.