SACD to PC audio

*I think* some of the Sony Vaios would play them...NT, posted on March 13, 2015 at 06:22:25**
rlw Audiophile Posts: 3347 Location: Near West Palm Bch, FL Joined: August 29, 2006	* -RW-

Play them?, posted on March 13, 2015 at 07:25:14
Kal Rubinson Reviewer Posts: 12436 Location: New York Joined: June 5, 2002	Sure but it cannot rip them.

I guess it's a matter of semantics..., posted on March 13, 2015 at 09:42:54
rlw Audiophile Posts: 3347 Location: Near West Palm Bch, FL Joined: August 29, 2006	I read it as he wanted to be able to play them back using a PC and you saw it as he wants to rip them onto his PC. Your original post was correct if he wants to rip them. Or, he could scour some of the usual sites and find pre-ripped copies just awaiting a download. That's what I do and it sure does save a ton of time and hassle... -RW-

RE: I guess it's a matter of semantics..., posted on March 13, 2015 at 13:31:23
Kal Rubinson Reviewer Posts: 12436 Location: New York Joined: June 5, 2002	I guess so. I took my inference from the word "load."

RE: SACD to PC audio, posted on March 13, 2015 at 14:43:48
fantja Audiophile Posts: 15524 Location: Alabama Joined: September 11, 2010	You beat me (no pun) to it, Kal.

RE: I guess it's a matter of semantics..., posted on March 26, 2015 at 05:30:40
Rpower Audiophile Posts: 280 Location: Northeast Georgia Joined: October 27, 2000	What are the usual sites you use?

If you don't mind skirting copyright..., posted on March 29, 2015 at 15:28:24
rlw Audiophile Posts: 3347 Location: Near West Palm Bch, FL Joined: August 29, 2006	Check out: https://kickass.to/ - most anything you want can be found there... -RW-

copyright only applies to written word/language -t, posted on April 2, 2015 at 07:40:49
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RE: copyright only applies to written word/language -t, posted on April 2, 2015 at 08:07:26
rick_m Audiophile Posts: 6230 Location: Oregon Joined: August 11, 2005	I don't think so, it must be broader than that as we used to always copyright-mark PCB's. Rick

RE: patent -t, posted on April 2, 2015 at 19:01:25
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RE: patent -t, posted on April 2, 2015 at 20:25:32

rick_m
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While I admire terseness, there's such a thing as too much of a good thing. Are you saying that PCB's should be patented rather than copyrighted?

I just did what the lawyers said and for what they charge they MUST be right... Naturally sometimes it's both: patented technique implemented on a copyrighted board. I've also read in trade journals that you should claim copyright to the layout and it only takes a minute to type it on in the CAD era.

Rick

RE: patent -t, posted on April 3, 2015 at 10:00:47

Sordidman
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My apologies if I was being terse...

The subject of the exploitation & propaganda by the major labels is quite a sensitive subject as I (and my friends) are the direct recipients of a "failed industry." The term "copyright" as it applies to music is fraught with absurdity. IMO, unauthorized downloading of facsimile's of music recordings, (especially shite MP3s) that may or may not be "owned" by anyone is problematic at best. (Especially considering that {especially in the past}, songwriters benefited greatly from unauthorized downloading).

The term copyright cannot in any way be applicable to music recordings, and their distribution. Indeed "Re-distribution" is not really "bad," - compared to plagiarism. The greatest enemy to pop music groups has always been that group's label.

I also have friends who are intellectual property lawyers who've been so kind as to attempt to educate me on numerous occasions. Schematic or printed designs are considered copyright-able, on the way to patents or other types of "legal protections" in the IP area.

Again, I apologize as my knowledge here is a bit limited, I also didn't want to stray too far away from music, and music royalty IP.

Cheers,

"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"

RE: patent -t, posted on April 3, 2015 at 15:48:00

rick_m
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"I apologize as my knowledge here is a bit limited, I also didn't want to stray too far away from music, and music royalty IP."

Well, you prolly have a lot better grasp of the issues for electronics than I do for music. Like most things the rich or unethical have an edge.

But the systems do work some of the time and that's better than nothing. A lot of having them work is playing fairly. For hinstance, back in the early 70's I worked for a smallish outfit, maybe 120 folks or so but it was an old place and had a slough of different products. Once a year RCA would show up to figure out how much we owed them. They owned patent rights to almost everything you could imagine, stuff like Hartly and Colpitts oscillators, various implementations of amplifiers and on and on so we had to pay a royality for each instance. On the other hand the royaltys were tiny for each instance so they would just go through our products to update their data from the previous year and we'd pay them a few thousand buck royalty.

Now the nasty side of patents is where they try to, say, destroy your business rather than just share in the gains to the amount that their invention contributed to it...

Rick

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