minidisk reader

[Nicholas Thieberger]

Dear Friends,

PARADISEC has installed a minidisk reader that is now available to
the research community. The Minidisk Transfer Editor
(http://www.esdl.co.uk/) captures digital data directly from the
minidisk and creates a wav file from that data. This software can
also capture textual track information from a minidisk.

The unit is based at the Department of Linguistics & Applied
Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Costing for its use is
negotiable, but indicative figures are given here:

http://www.paradisec.org.au/PDSC_Services.htm

At PARADISEC we strongly advocate that you do not use minidisks for
recording endangered language material as the compression used
results in the loss of part of the signal. Nevertheless, we recognise
that a number of minidisk users are out there, and we have invested
in this equipment in order to avoid taking the minidisk data back
through an analogue signal and redigitising it (which results in even
greater loss of quality).

Regards

Nick Thieberger

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Project Manager
PARADISEC
Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
http://paradisec.org.au


nicholas.thieberger at paradisec.org.au
Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010
Australia

Ph 61 (0)3 8344 5185