Mini Disk Vs MP3's Sound Quality For Backing Tracks?

[Olsson]

Hello
I have a question about the American Audio Player. Does it start at the beginning of the file or at the beginning of the music. We have tried other players and they have started at the beginning of the music. The BT starts with 3 to 6 clicks, and when the player starts at the beginning of the music it is very difficult to here the first click, or worse, You don´t here the first click. The file in a standard CD has 2+0,25 sek silence in the begining of the file, and if the player don´t play that, then it can be trouble. We have tried Numark, Gemeni and Swissonic and non of them have started at the begining of the file. The answer has been that they are made for DJ:s and they want the music start when they press the buttom, with no silens first. A home CD player starts at the beginning of the file.
/Bertil

[rocky]

The player has a feature / setting to automatically pause at the end of each track and display the name of the next track, ready to hit the start button. This is a most useful feature as you progress through the set list. If there is any other product out there that can perform the same function but much smaller I would be pleased to hear about it.

When I first wanted to scale down from a MiniDisc that was my exact worry, because you can not do without autopause on a live situation. My setlist looks like this on my iPod Nano:
Song Name
.........
Song Name
.........
Song Name
.........

The ......... is actually a 5 minute silent track, which in theory acts like an autopause. The benefit of this over using iPod over minidisc player is that you can cue up a track mid song. I had to previously use 2 minidisc players in rack because sometimes any pause in a performance (especially the slowies) caused people to sit down.

What a clever idea. I will look at this option more closely.
Out of interest,what happens after 5mins? does it sit in pause? Or,after you have played you final track said goodnight and then 5 minutes later a backing track starts up?

I asume when you 'cue up a tune' that it sits in pause until you hit play?

All I need now is a third hand to cue up while in full performance mode. If only I was a woman, they can multitask.

Roger

[geoff1711]

Chris and I use both, the mini disc probably sounds a bit warmer, but I've been using MP3 on my disco for about 6 years now, sure you can hear a slight difference when you play a CD but nobody out front would notice.

But quality wise mini discs do it well and the machines are probably a bit more like tape recorders to operate and for a set recorded onto a disc perhaps that much easier to operate if you stick with the set running order, if however you need to search for tracks quickly use a laptop with a disco programme, you can have them playing either on auto following a play list or track by track.

There also some controllers for iPod with similar functions, the more you pay the more functions you'll get.

The Fender G-Dec 3 also does it well and you could use just the library for live and the amp plus library for small gigs or home practise - it's a wonderful machine!

Geoff