Minidisc Tricks and Tips: Etcetera
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Jake Ackman, Montreal Canada.
If you have a parrot, or a bird that repeats anything you say, and you don't want to spend hours training it, just record some choice phrases on to an MD, put long spaces in between (a couple of seconds at least), and then just set it on repeat-random. Leave it for an afternoon and by the time you get back, your bird will be reciting Shakespeare! -
(From something I recall reading long ago on the 'net. -eaw)
Record a poem onto your MD, put a track mark at the end of each line. Play it back in shuffle-play mode. -
- Keep a disk called telephone numbers and store people's names and telephone numbers as track titles. Sort them in the order you want by moving tracks around. If you have a microphone, record notes about the person or conversation. Be a little more tricky and record DTMF tones of the telephone number and let your MD do the dialing for you.
- Keep a second disk as voice memos. You don't need one of these restrictive memory-based voice organizers - simply add a small mic to your MD recorder and record notes on the go. Delete, move and title notes. In Mono mode your disc will hold twice the capacity - that's a lot of talking. Great for new years resolutions.
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Jeff Brown
A colleague of mine has recorded 25 minutes of silence followed by a selection of music on one disc. After a night shift he catches a train home. As the train leaves the station, he starts the disc playing. It takes 28 minutes to reach his station, so around three minutes before the train arrives at his destination, the music kicks in and if he's nodded off, wakes him up! Ed: Many MD players now have this feature since both trains and Minidisc equipment are so prevalent in Japan.
January 2000