Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Audio tape control? Message-ID: <59155@sun.uucp> Date: 7 Jul 88 17:05:57 GMT References: <6121@megaron.arizona.edu> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 24 In article <6121@megaron.arizona.edu> rogerh@arizona.edu (Roger Hayes) writes: ->Do you know of a way to control an audio tape from an Amiga program? I ->need precise repositioning and replay. [.... actual application edited out ...] ->I have thought of digitizing the recordings, but that would consume too ->much storage. In case we do digitize sections, it would be nice to be ->able to synchronize the digitized portions with the source tape. ->What combination of hardware and software would you recommend for this ->project? -> Roger Hayes This sort of thing crys out to be put on a Compact Digital Disk. Why? Because there are CD-ROM drives available that can position the heads accurately to anywhere on the disk. The disk can play back sections of any duration. And finally the media is robust so that you can be assured that 10 yrs from now it will still be available. The cost of mastering a CD is getting pretty reasonable to. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.